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Cloyne has been sold for more than $5 million

Playtime’s over: Historic mansion linked to troubled childcare outfit sells for over $5 million

The Toorak property has a famous past. Now it comes with a taste of corporate woes too.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman

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AFR Former Attorney-General Christian Porter, now working as a lawyer, enter the Perth District Court. 06 June, 2025. Photo:Trevor Collens AFR 

Christian Porter joins legal conference with disgraced judge

Porter was attorney-general when an independent inquiry found former High Court judge Dyson Heydon had sexually harassed his associates. Now, they’re sharing a stage.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
New Coalition finance spokesman James Paterson says he is open to tax reform as long as taxes don’t go up.

The Coalition says it’s open to tax reform – but there’s a catch

The federal opposition went to the last election opposing the government’s tax cuts. Now it says it backs tax reform on one condition.

  • Shane Wright
Teal politician Nicolette Boele meets with supporters at the Australian Electoral Commission counting centre in Asquith after winning the seat of Bradfield a month after the federal election in Sydney.

The Bradfield booth that swung it for the teals and how the Liberals’ lead slipped away

It was one of the tightest races in electoral history, and analysis of Bradfield votes shows how and when it was won for teal Nicolette Boele.

  • Matt Wade and Alexandra Smith
Brad Battin.

Time to pay the Deeming debt and focus on the job of opposition

If the Liberal Party wants to move towards the voters it seeks to represent it may need to open its wallet.

  • The Age's View
Plymouth Brethren Christian Church members at a polling booth.

‘Game On’: The minute-long message that unleashed the Brethren’s election machine

To the secretive sect, messages from its leader are treated as holy writ. This one put its members on the national stage.

  • Michael Bachelard and Max Maddison
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The prestigious Australian Club on Macquarie Street in Sydney.

He stopped women joining the Australian Club. Now he’s rewriting the NSW Liberals’ rules

Retired Federal Court judge Peter Graham, KC, blocked women from joining the Australian Club. Now he is rewriting the NSW Liberal Party’s rules.

  • Alexandra Smith
Opposition Leader Sussan Ley has given a new explanation for her decision to add an ‘s’ to her name.

Sussan Ley reveals the real reason behind her name change

The opposition leader has declared numerology was not responsible for her decision to add an extra “s” to her first name – despite saying so more than a decade ago.

  • Nick Bonyhady
The prospect of a Tasmanian election has cast fresh doubt on the Devils.

AFL Commission to discuss Devils licence amid delay fears, political chaos

Tasmanian premier Jeremy Rockliff is set to call his second election in 16 months, which Devils officials fear will at the very least delay construction of the Macquarie Point stadium, and imperil the team.

  • Sam McClure and Alexander Darling
Police Minister Yasmin Catley answers a question in the NSW Legislative Assembly this week.

‘A sexist man’: Catley slams Speakman after he calls her ‘hysterical’

The NSW Liberal leader made the comments on the same day he slammed a Victorian party elder for claiming Liberal women were “sufficiently assertive”.

  • Penry Buckley and Alexandra Smith

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