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Albanese is the conservative who mugged the Liberals. Let’s hope he seizes the moment

Labor’s landslide success has opened up an opportunity for the government to advocate and implement more substantial and transformative policies than it might otherwise have been prepared to produce.

  • Shaun Carney

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New Labor Senators, Corinne Mulholland, Ellie Whiteaker, Charlotte Walker and Richard Dowling, at Parliament House in Canberra.

Australia’s youngest-ever senator goes back to school

Labor’s new crop of Senators are motivated to restore voters’ faith in major parties.

  • Mike Foley
Getting the band back together: ex-adviser Angela Pippos and former MP Zoe Daniel are hitting the speaking circuit.

No, Zoe Daniel has not exited the stage

The former teal independent MP is stepping out in a new direction as part of a double act.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
Treasurer Jim Chalmers, ACTU secretary Sally McManus.

Unions say index super tax hit to protect ordinary workers

Treasurer Jim Chalmers is under pressure from the union movement to overhaul his proposed hit on wealthy superannuation account holders.

  • Shane Wright
Former industry minister Ed Husic.

Union boss appointed to $15b government fund board without checks

The Australian National Audit Office found several issues with the National Reconstruction Fund Commission since its creation in 2023.

  • Olivia Ireland
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and US President Donald Trump have not met face to face.

Trump-Albanese meeting could happen in India

The prime minister has argued that Australia’s spending is more honest than NATO’s as he comes under pressure from the White House to put more dollars into defence.

  • James Massola
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Chris Bowen says it’s a “reasonable request” for Australians to have access to Australian gas.

Affordable fuel, no shortages: Bowen’s domestic reservation threat for gas industry

Peter Dutton shocked the industry by promising a domestic reservation scheme on massive LNG exporters. The Albanese government might deliver on his threat.

  • Mike Foley
Liberal leader Sussan Ley at the National Press Club.

It’s time, Sussan Ley: What Gough Whitlam can teach her about saving a lost party

Labor was reduced to a rump in 1966. Here’s how it came back to win the 1972 election.

  • George Brandis
Former Queensland minister Rod Welford, who served from 1989-2009, passed away on Saturday.

Former Queensland minister Rod Welford dies

Former Labor minister Rod Welford, who served in Queensland parliament during the Goss, Beattie and Bligh governments from 1989 to 2009, has died.

Dan Tehan

‘Trashing our economy’: Tehan maintains rage over Labor’s green agenda

The opposition’s new energy spokesman will attack the cost of Labor’s renewable energy goals, as the Coalition wrestles with a commitment to net zero.

  • Mike Foley

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