Palestine hails PM’s stance on Israel
Palestine’s representatives in Australia have lauded comments by Anthony Albanese decrying Israel’s actions in Gaza.
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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.
‘Secrecy’ clouds non-NDIS disability help
A new system of services for people with milder disabilities no longer eligible for the NDIS is shrouded in secrecy and uncertainty, advocates say.
Taylor, Tehan, Paterson eye key roles in Ley’s top team
Sussan Ley and David Littleproud have agreed that the Nationals will receive six shadow cabinet spots on a Coalition frontbench that is expected to see Ms Ley’s Liberal rival, Angus Taylor, receive the foreign affairs or defence portfolio.
Liberals concerned over Taylor ‘demotion’ as Ley prepares to name shadow ministry
Conservative Liberals are raising concern with what position Sussan Ley will assign Angus Taylor in her shadow ministry, describing the job of opposition energy minister as an unacceptable ‘demotion’ for the most senior conservative in the party.
Sussan Ley ‘forceful and firm’ against Liberal concerns
Liberals have urged Sussan Ley against signing ‘blank cheque’ deals with the Nationals after agreeing in-principle to the junior party’s four policy demands ‘with caveats’ and giving her a green-light to resume negotiations with David Littleproud on re-forming the Coalition.
Baby come back: Liberals give Ley green light to patch up Coalition after days-long split; Bradfield dead level
The Liberals have given Sussan Ley the authority to reform the Coalition with the Nationals amid David Littleproud’s four non-negotiable demands; In Bradfield, teal Nicolette Boele and Liberal Gisele Kapterian are dead level as a recount looks likely.
A Little(proud) farce as Coalition ex-partners try to patch things up
Nationals leader David Littleproud was in the middle of handing out ‘shadow’ portfolios to his country party MPs when Sussan Ley summoned him to her office to discuss a civil war truce.
Coalition split paused: Ley in talks with Littleproud, puts shadow cabinet decision on ice
Nationals leader David Littleproud has confirmed a morning meeting with Sussan Ley, during which the pair agreed to delay announcing their respective frontbench line-ups as talks to revive the Coalition continue.
PM hints at hard line on staffing
Anthony Albanese says it is not reasonable that Liberals and the Nationals MPs should be given the ‘reward’ of more advisers after the collapse of the Coalition.
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