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Power bills set to soar up to 9pc; Butler rules out Healthscope bailout
Electricity prices are set to rise by between 1-9pc, the energy regulator says, with NSW worst hit. Mark Butler is adamant there will be no taxpayer-funded bailout for the collapsed private hospitals operator owned by an overseas private equity firm.
Conservatives eye more frontline roles as Ley grapples with new line-up
Liberal MPs agreed there would be ‘more jobs for everyone’ after the Coalition split, but time would tell how well they would take to traditional National roles like resources.
Ley faces pressure to dump net zero targets
Camps in both Coalition partyrooms are divided on whether to stick to net zero, as Sussan Ley says her leadership will be focused on smaller taxes, national security and better education.
Condolences for death of Sussan Ley’s mother days after historic win
Political figures have offered sympathy to Sussan Ley, telling the new Liberal leader ‘how proud’ her late mother, Angela Braybrooks, would have been. Ms Ley was with her in the last days after partyroom voted.
Husic and Dreyfus hang over PM’s PR coup of a cabinet swearing in
The message was clear at the second term Albanese ministry’s swearing in – this is a revitalised government focused on families. But we all know two people never made it to the swearing in – Edham Nurredin Husic and Mark Alfred Dreyfus.
Keating attacks Albanese for not saving Husic, Dreyfus
NSW Labor Right legend Paul Keating has lashed Anthony Albanese for allowing the Victorian Right to garner more power, saying the Prime Minister failed to make another ‘captain’s call’ to keep Ed Husic and Mark Dreyfus in the ministry.
Labor’s just the ticket for Bandt & co
An analysis of Labor’s how-to-vote cards shows there are only eight seats where the ALP is either not giving any preferences or putting the left-wing party below third spot.
China bid to ally with us against US ‘bully’
China’s ambassador to Australia is demanding Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton stand with Beijing against the ‘bullying’ of the White House’s tariff war.
PM preferences Israel-hating radical in his own seat
Anthony Albanese and almost all of the Labor frontbench have given their second preferences to the anti-Israel Greens despite multiple accusations of anti-Semitism against them.
Original URL: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/author/richard-ferguson