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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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’s ambassador to Australia is demanding Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton stand with Beijing against the ‘bullying’ of the White House’s tariff war.
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.
Anthony Albanese says Pope Francis will be mourned by Catholics and non-Catholics alike, as the world offers tributes to the late Holy Father.
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