Kate Jones backed for Senate spot by Labor kingmaker
Labor kingmaker Gary Bullock is plotting a return to politics for former Queensland Labor minister Kate Jones, just months after she helped knife Annastacia Palaszczuk.
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Vote ‘yes’ on Palestine, PM told
The pressure from Labor MPs comes as Greens leader Adam Bandt demands Anthony Albanese expel Israel’s ambassador to Australia.
Meta’s dangerous playbook to be exposed
The decision by tech giant Meta to abandon payment-for-content deals with news outlets, and its failure to monitor publishing of harmful and illegal material, will be the focus of a federal parliamentary inquiry.
Era of Chalmers in, gospel of Paul out
Jim Chalmers’ third budget will take Australia down a new economic path from the ‘orthodoxy’ embraced by Labor and Coalition governments since the 1980s.
Hounded out by ‘activists’: Queen’s backing for disgraced Hollingworth
Queen Elizabeth II penned a letter of sympathy to Peter Hollingworth after he resigned in disgrace as governor-general over his past handling of child sexual abuse as Anglican archbishop of Brisbane and lashed ‘activists’ and their ‘horrid media campaigning’.
Labor gas vision ignites critics
Labor’s plan to expand gas production faces key hurdles to meet supply shortfalls, including new energy infrastructure and a Greens party vowing to derail the government’s legislative agenda.
Use treaties cash to keep us safe: Price
In a pre-budget strike, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price says all federal funding for truth, treaty and voice must be redirected into stopping violence in Alice Springs and remote Aboriginal communities.
PM orders airport to ‘get serious’ over rail link
Anthony Albanese has weighed into the public dispute between Victorian Labor and Melbourne Airport over an airport rail link in the city, demanding the private operators ‘get serious’ to deliver the project.
Teals set sights on LNP heartland seats
Simon Holmes a Court’s Climate 200 fund is ramping up efforts to snatch prized Coalition seats in Peter Dutton’s home state of Queensland.
Call to ante up on remote housing
WA Premier Roger Cook has told the Albanese government it must start funding remote Aboriginal communities beyond the Northern Territory.
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Decision day for Labor on detainees
The Albanese government is bracing for another landmark High Court ruling which could trigger the release of as many as 200 more non-citizen detainees.
China tactics not legal: army chief
Defence Chief Angus Campbell has lashed China’s ‘illegal, coercive, aggressive, and deceptive’ conduct as he repudiated Beijing’s claim an Australian helicopter was spying on a PLA-Navy exercise before it was threatened.
Super ‘better placed in housing than fund’
First-home buyers who use a chunk of their superannuation to purchase property could prove to be financially better off at retirement than those who banked their money, new figures have shown.
Premier tackles energy taboos
As Labor struggles to get its lines straight on energy policy, it could do worse than follow the example of South Australia’s pro-gas, nuclear-agnostic Premier Peter Malinauskas.
Premier ‘infuriated’ by nuclear energy divide
Nuclear, gas and hydrogen power were covered at The Australian Competitive Advantage event, and SA Premier Peter Malinauskas didn’t pull any punches.
Aussie firms ‘at risk of being crushed by AUKUS’
Australia’s defence sector risks being ‘crushed’ by AUKUS unless the federal government dramatically lifts R&D funding and throws its support behind domestic players, study finds.
Migration surge eats into surplus
WA’s much-lauded operating surplus came in lower than forecast at $3.2bn, amid signs that years of a booming economy have put a strain on the state’s infrastructure.
Never mind the surplus: Cook’s big worry is PM
The biggest electoral danger facing Roger Cook and his government lies not in the fine print of the budget papers, but some 3,290 kilometres away in the Lodge.
‘Legitimate, peaceful’: PM hits back at China spy claims
Anthony Albanese insists the helicopter targeted by a Chinese jet was doing nothing wrong when flares were dropped in its path.
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