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Joe Kelly is The Australian’s Washington correspondent, covering news and politics from the US capital. He is an experienced political reporter, having previously been the masthead’s National Affairs Editor and Canberra bureau chief, having joined the parliamentary press gallery in 2010.

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CANBERRA, Australia - NewsWire Photos - August 21, 2024: Zali Steggall during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Coalition aims to blitz teal seats

Peter Dutton will launch an all-out assault to wrestle back seats lost to the teals and edge the Coalition closer to winning government.

Geoff Chambers and Joe Kelly

Housing Australia Future FundPolitics

02-08-2023 - Liberal Senator for NSW Andrew Bragg is seen at The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice: A Dialogue for Students event hosted by the Australian National University in Canberra. Picture: Martin Ollman / The Australian

Coalition sets sights on Cbus

A new Coalition bill is aimed at preventing the $10bn Housing Australia Future Fund from doing a business with Cbus Super because of its links with the CFMEU.

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CANBERRA, Australia - NewsWire Photos - July 3, 2024: Leader of the Australian Greens Adam Bandt during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Greens’ demands set table for talks on Labor flagship policy

Adam Bandt has set his price for passing Labor’s Future Made in Australia legislation, demanding that $1.5bn for the NT’s Middle Arm precinct be redirected to clean energy projects.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos AUGUST 6 , 2024: Reserve Bank Governor Michele Bullock delivers the RBA's Monetary Policy decision and Rates announcement. Picture: NewsWire / John Appleyard

RBA sticks to its guns: no rate cut before 2025

The RBA minutes contain a slapdown for financial markets pricing in a rate cut by the end of the year, as it’s revealed how close the board came to increasing the cash rate in August.

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‘Happy to comfort babies born alive after abortion’: midwife

A Queensland midwife has reflected on her experience of babies being left to die following an abortion, saying they should have the same right to care as any other human being.

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TOPSHOT - Indonesia's presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto gestures after he cast his ballot to vote in the countryâs presidential and legislative elections at a polling station in Bogor on February 14, 2024. Indonesians began voting for a new president on February 14 with Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto the frontrunner to lead Southeast Asia's biggest economy despite concerns over his human rights record. (Photo by Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP)

Prabowo to talk with PM, Marles

Indonesian Defence Minister and president-elect Prabowo Subianto will hold high-level talks in Canberra with Anthony Albanese and Richard Marles.

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CANBERRA, Australia - NewsWire Photos - August 19, 2024: Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Call for budget action as iron ore plunges

Business groups and economists are calling on Canberra to urgently address the structural budget deficit through spending restraint and tax reform.

Greg Brown and Joe Kelly

Jobs dataEconomics

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JULY 17, 2024: Commuters at Central station in Sydney. The Australian Bureau of Statistics, (ABS) releases it's latest job figures tomorrow. Picture: NewsWire / John Appleyard

Unemployment rises as participation rate jumps

Unemployment lifted to 4.2 per cent in July despite an extra 58,200 people finding work, with economists saying it further dimmed the chances of an RBA cut being delivered this year.

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TOPSHOT - US Senator from Ohio and 2024 Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance (R) gives a thumbs up as he shakes hands with US former President and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during the second day of the 2024 Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 16, 2024. Days after he survived an assassination attempt Donald Trump won formal nomination as the Republican presidential candidate and picked right-wing loyalist J.D. Vance for running mate, kicking off a triumphalist party convention in the wake of last weekend's failed assassination attempt. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP)

ACTU invokes ‘Trumpian dystopia’ in green agenda push

The ACTU says green industry policies are needed to stop coal communities from becoming hotbeds for an Australian version of the ‘politics of resentment’ being stoked by Donald Trump and JD Vance.

Joe Kelly and Jack Quail

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CANBERRA, Australia - NewsWire Photos - August 12, 2024: Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Labor Future tense amid bill impasse

Labor’s flagship Future Made in Australia bill faces a parliamentary impasse with the Coalition opposing the legislation and the Greens withholding their support.

Joe Kelly and Rosie Lewis

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