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Greg Brown is the Canberra Bureau chief. He previously spent five years covering federal politics for The Australian where he built a reputation as a newsbreaker consistently setting the national agenda.

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PropertyPolitics

NEWS2019ELECTION 16/5/2019. DAY 36Tanya Plibersek speaks before the Opposition Leader Bill Shorten addresses a vote for change rally at Bowman Hall in Blacktown, Sydney.

Real estate scare tactic exposed

Labor’s campaign over investors buying their ‘30th property’ has been vastly overstated.

Greg Brown

TributesPolitics

1986. Prime Minister Bob Hawke and Treasurer Paul Keating in the House of Representatives chamber at Parliament House before the 1986 budget speech. Picture: ALAN PORRITT

‘Courage to change’: Keating’s Hawke tribute

Paul Keating, a political partner and rival, led tributes for the late former Labor PM.

Greg Brown and Geoff Chambers

PM’S TRIBUTEPolitics

Prime Minister Bob Hawke speaking at an export summit organised by the SA Exporters' Association and the SA Chamber of Commerce at the Hotel Adelaide, North Adelaide, 13 Aug 1986.

‘He spoke to all Australians as one’

Scott Morrison says the late Bob Hawke was a “conviction politician who became a political legend”.

Greg Brown

exclusivePolitics

Senator Simon Birmingham is seen during an election debate at the South Australian Press Club, Adelaide, Wednesday, May 8, 2019. (AAP Image/David Mariuz) NO ARCHIVING

$14bn ‘black hole’ in wages vow

Simon Birmingham claims Labor’s childcare wages policy could have a $14bn ‘black hole’.

Greg Brown

Politics

BURNIE, AUSTRALIA - MAY 14: Deputy Labor Leader Tanya Plibersek arrives for a press conference at University of Tasmania Rural Clinical School in the seat of Braddon on May 14, 2019 in Burnie, Australia. The Australian federal election will be held on May 18, 2019. (Photo by Ryan Pierse/Getty Images)

Majority not assured: Plibersek

Deputy Labor leader Tanya Plibersek has conceded there could be a hung parliament.

Greg Brown and Richard Ferguson

EconomyPolitics

NAB group chief economist Alan Oster in Hobart for

Leaders told: ditch surplus

Economists and business leader have warned Scott Morrison and Bill Shorten over their respective economic visions.

Greg Brown and Ben Packham

Politics

Dr Cassandra Goldie from ACOSS with their Inequality study. ACOSS In partnership with UNSW Sydney, releases the findings of its Inequality in Australia 2018 report which highlights the stark disparity between the highest and lowest income earners. Picture: John Appleyard

Newstart hike of $75 ‘a priority’

The social services lobby says an immediate increase to Newstart is essential.

Greg Brown

blind recruitmentPolitics

NEWS2019ELECTION 13/5/2019. DAY 33Opposition Leader Bill Shorten is mobbed by school students while visiting St Joseph's Catholic College in East Gosford.Picture Kym Smith

Gender plan failed

Removing names from job applications to tackle gender bias backfired in a previous trial.

Greg Brown and Rosie Lewis

Politics

Australian Opposition Leader Bill Shorten kisses his wife Chloe after speaking at the 2019 ALP Final Week Rally at the Clocktower in Melbourne, Sunday, May 12, 2019. A Federal election will be held in Australian on Saturday May 18, 2019. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

‘Kiss climate action delay goodbye’

The Opposition Leader yesterday rallied supporters to use every minute of the remaining six days to win over voters.

ROSIE LEWIS

election 2019Politics

PERTH, AUSTRALIA - APRIL 17: Opposition Leader Bill Shorten watches Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen speak to the media during a visit to St John of God Midland Public hospital on April 17, 2019 in Perth, Australia. Labor today committed to spending $20 million on a 'Right to Trial' program giving blood cancer patients access to clinical trial drugs and therapies if elected. (Photo by Stefan Postles/Getty Images)

ALP to match deposit plan

Labor will match the Coalition’s first home deposit scheme, calling it a “desperate” attempt to try and relate to battlers.

Rosie Lewis

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