‘Heartless’: Karl’s brutal question to Dutton
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has been grilled following his claims people fleeing Gaza should not be allowed visas into Australia.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has been grilled following his claims people fleeing Gaza should not be allowed visas into Australia.
Peter Dutton has defended his captain’s call for an outright ban on arrivals from the conflict zone of Gaza but moved to soften his rhetoric around refugees after he was branded ‘racist’.
As Anthony Albanese says Peter Dutton is sowing ‘fear and division’ over refugees, the Opposition Leader accuses the Prime Minister of deliberately misquoting ASIO chief Mike Burgess.
Legitimate concerns about visas potentially being granted to Hamas supporters to enter Australia deserve better than snide dismissal by Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke.
After taking the fight up to Anthony Albanese, the Opposition Leader’s challenge is to prosecute an alternative vision.
The Department of Home Affairs granted 2992 visas to holders of a Palestinian Authority travel document since the October 7 attacks, as it emerges Peter Dutton’s call for a blanket ban on Gaza arrivals was a captain’s pick.
Linda Reynolds told a psychologist that Peter Dutton had ‘undermined’ her in the wake of Brittany Higgins going public with her rape allegation, as doctors feared the senator could die after she collapsed soon after the story broke.
Under cross-examination from Brittany Higgins’ legal team, Linda Reynolds’ psychologist April Jones was asked about notes from their sessions in which she had written that the senator had told her ‘Peter Dutton undermined me’.
Anthony Albanese has appeared to walk back previous statements where he signalled the government had dropped its commitment to establish the body during question time.
Angus Taylor says growth for 2023-24 will fall well short of the government’s budget forecast of 1.75 per cent, arguing the RBA and Treasury now had different views on the economic outlook.
Anthony Albanese has branded a renegade LNP Senator “a cooker” over his conspiratorial childcare posts, during a broad swipe against the Coalition’s “shift to the right” under Peter Dutton’s leadership.
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Peter Dutton says the Coalition is looking at ways to provide tax breaks in regional areas.
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Labor is trailing the Coalition badly on economic management, cost of living, security, immigration, and law and order, but what is worse for Albanese is that not only are they Coalition strengths – they also happen to be the areas of most public concern.
Workplace Relations Minister Murray Watt said the appointment showed the Albanese government was delivering on its promise to restore balance to the commission.
John Howard, Peter Dutton, and Labor’s strongest Israel voices have called the Greens a vehicle of ‘extremism’ as it prepared to urge the government to sanction Israel in parliament next week.
Paul Keating has offered a stinging rebuke of the defence pact, claiming the US is taking ‘military control of Australia’.
The Opposition Leader has lashed out at the Albanese government after four foreign fishing boats were intercepted off Western Australia’s northwest coat.
Jim Chalmers and Michele Bullock appear to be on a collision course, with the RBA boss saying government spending is fuelling excess demand, while the Treasurer insists Labor’s cost of living measures are helping.
Peter Dutton says new revelations about the involvement of staff of a UN aid group in the October 7 attack on Israel is unacceptable.
Peter Dutton says new revelations about the involvement of staff of a UN aid group in the October 7 attack on Israel is unacceptable.
Michele Bullock said a near-term rate reduction ‘doesn’t align with the board’s current thinking’, meaning mortgage holders face a wait for relief amid cost-of-living pressures.
The Chris Bowen-Ted O’Brien contest might not only decide the outcome of the looming federal election, but is likely to deliver Australia’s first detailed energy master plan.
Peter Dutton said university encampments were allowed ‘to go on for way too long’ becoming a ‘hotbed of hatred’ towards Jewish people, adding protest crackdowns should have been more severe to prevent further activism.
Amid rising global tensions, Peter Dutton has become the first Australian politician to meet with the Israeli Prime Minister.
Palestine supporters have gathered outside the University of Melbourne’s Law Building ahead of federal Labor MP Josh Burns’s lecture on the need for a national human rights act on Tuesday night.
The Opposition Leader has embarked on a three-day trip to Israel where he will meet with senior members of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.
The Opposition Leader has embarked on a three-day trip to Israel where he will meet with senior members of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.
The Prime Minister wonders ‘What does this bloke have to do to lose his job?’ after Barnaby Joyce’s sloppy voting and firearms lyrical waxings.
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