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Labor Senator Anthony Chisholm during Question Time in the Senate at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture by Sean Davey.

Factional deal puts ALP in Senate box seat

Labor has only two candidates nominating for its Queensland Senate ticket at the next federal election, with a backroom deal splitting the winnable spots between Left and Right factions.

Charlie Peel, David Tanner and Michael McKenna

LIVE: POLITICS NOWPolitics

Australian Army soldiers from Special Operations Task Group return to Multi-National Base Tarin Kowt, Uruzgan province, after another successful mission in southern Afghanistan in March 2011. *** Local Caption *** Australian Army soldiers from Special Operations Task Group (SOTG) are deployed to Uruzgan province in southern Afghanistan to conduct population-centric, security and counter-network operations alongside their Afghan National Security Forces partners against Taliban insurgents. SOTG comprises personnel from the Special Air Service Regiment, 1st and 2nd Commando Regiments, Incident Response Regiment, Special Operations Logistics Squadron and a variety of supporting units from the ADF. Picture: Department of Defence

Last Aussies to withdraw from Afghanistan

An emotional Scott Morrison has paid tribute to the 41 Australian soldiers who have died serving in the troubled nation.

Adeshola Ore and Nicholas Jensen

EconomyEconomics

PERTH, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 06: People are seen around Perth on February 06, 2021 in Perth, Australia. Western Australia's COVID-19 lockdown restrictions were lifted at 6pm on Friday after no new community coronavirus cases were recorded in the last week. Face masks will remain compulsory in public and at work for another eight days in Perth and Peel once the lockdown ends. The five-day lockdown introduced across the Perth, Peel and South West regions of Western Australia on Sunday 31 January following the discovery of a positive community COVID-19 case in a worker from a quarantine hotel facility. (Photo by Stefan Gosatti/Getty Images)

WA drives jobless rate way down

A booming West Australia economy has helped drive national unemployment down to 5.6 per cent, as the labour market notched its sixth consecutive month of jobs growth.

Patrick Commins

EconomyPolitics

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos APRIL, 14, 2021: A digital board at the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) is seen in Sydney. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Joel Carrett

A rebound for post-Covid ages

Consumer confidence is at a 12-year high, shares are trading at pre-pandemic levels and job ads are at their best levels in two decades.

Patrick Commins and David Tanner

analysisPolitics

Dam not to blame for this latest inundation

Warragamba Dam did not cause the flood engulfing communities in the Hawkesbury-Nepean Valley. An east coast low pressure system did.

David Tanner

Labor’s demiseCommentary

11/11/20: Alan Gray (older) and Phillip Onion at Weston Workers Club at Weston in the Lower Hunter Valley. Allan Gray is from Joel Fitzgibbon's electorate and summarises the type of voter whom Joel says the party has lost touch with. John Feder/The Australian.

Coal comfort? Not with pain in regions

The ALP’s shift to the left plays well in inner-city enclaves but in the Hunter many blue-collar acolytes have turned their backs on the party.

David Tanner and Greg Brown

Grace Collier

Bad news in store for bosses

The Coalition seems ready to adopt a policy that prohibits financial transactions between businesses and unions.

GRACE COLLIER

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