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The WA govenrment has approved the extension of the North West Shelf plant near Karratha.

Community right to feel Albanese having it both ways on climate

The clear sense of betrayal from some and relief from others suggests many are not sure where the government stands on carbon.

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Ex-senator Pat Dodson now wonders whether he should haveever entered politics.

‘Find things in common’: After a cancer shock, Pat Dodson has words of hope

Less than two years ago, the Father of Reconciliation was confronting death. Now the former Labor senator is back with a message.

  • Victoria Laurie
After playing a lead role in the campaign, Health, Disability and Aged Care Minister Mark Butler will control more than a quarter of the federal budget.

How Albanese’s wingman is now Labor’s $220b minister

Mark Butler was Anthony Albanese’s campaign wingman. Now he jumps straight into tense negotiations with the states – and a job in charge of a quarter of the federal budget.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos

This election is one of the worst I’ve seen. Here’s the one thing we can do to fix Australian politics

I think both sides of politics are treating us like mugs. Maybe like the mugs many of us have allowed ourselves to become.

  • Ross Gittins
Getting ahead with leadership.

Modern Labor is losing the battle of ideas

Whatever their faults, former PMs Turnbull, Abbott and Keating were all driven to change things.

Liberal Senator Hollie Hughes speaking about her autistic son and the future of the NDIS during her final speech in the Senate.

Liberal senator’s teary speech: ‘Frightened beyond words’ for autistic son on NDIS

As the future of the NDIS was debated after the budget, outgoing Liberal Senator Hollie Hughes fought back tears as she revealed her autistic son had had his plan cut.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
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Bill Shorten will leave politics on Monday.

The NDIS is Shorten’s legacy, and Labor’s problem

The NDIS may be one of modern Labor’s biggest reforms, but the unwieldy scheme has come at a big cost politicians will spend years wrangling.

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Bill Shorten will leave politics on Monday.

More than half a million workers earn income from NDIS, Shorten says in parting shot at critics

Bill Shorten has hailed the NDIS jobs boom as an achievement as big as Medicare. But economists say it might be a drain on the economy and the federal budget.

  • Paul Sakkal
Minister for Aged Care Anika Wells is a major winner from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese reshuffle.

Albanese reshuffles ministries ahead of election, promoting four women

The prime minister had an open spot in the government’s senior ranks after former Labor leader Bill Shorten announced his retirement.

  • David Crowe
Outgoing NDIS Minister Bill Shorten believes the scheme will be safe with the Coalition.

‘No longer a problem child’: Shorten says he’s shored up NDIS beyond election

The outgoing minister has delivered parting words designed to defuse a political fight over the $47 billion program ahead of the federal election.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos

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