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Weaker climate goals would betray Pacific partners: Wong warns Dutton
Penny Wong says any move to dilute Australia’s climate targets would equate to abandoning Pacific neighbours; world leaders attempted to forge Ukraine’s peace plan at a meeting in a Swiss resort. Follow updates here.
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- Lois Maskiell
Push to dump Liberal’s Chinese candidate in Bennelong
After boundary changes made the seat more winnable, rivals begun lobbying factional leaders to hold a vote to replace Scott Yung, party sources say.
- Aaron Patrick
Chalmers seeks to boost small banks with mortgage review
Labor has launched a review into the future of struggling small lenders ahead of the Treasurer’s long-awaited decision on ANZ’s $4.9 billion bid to buy Suncorp’s banking arm.
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- John Kehoe
David Rowe cartoons for June 2024
David Rowe is a multiple Walkley award-winning cartoonist. He draws a daily political cartoon and one for the Chanticleer column.
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- David Rowe
Teals lose North Sydney in NSW shake-up, Bennelong turns Liberal
After taking into account the redistributions in NSW, Victoria and Western Australia, nationally, Labor has 77 seats and the Coalition 59.
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- Phillip Coorey
Enter the panda: China ramps up the soft power
Li Qiang”s visit is the first to Australia by a senior Chinese leader in seven years. On the surface, there will be emphasis on co-operation and mutual respect, but underneath tensions and suspicions remain.
- Andrew Tillett
Opinion & Analysis
Why compulsory voting keeps Australia in the centre
It doesn’t stop parties on both sides testing the limits, but the middle ground is where elections are won and lost.
Political editor
Suspend your disbelief? Naaah! This is Hollywood
Here’s the movie pitch: the former president of the United States locked up with the, er, druggie son of the current president, and, ah, they’re plotting how to escape.
Satirist
Teals are ‘paying the piper’ while Dutton plays Russian roulette
Peter Dutton reckons the cost of living doesn’t discriminate between the teal seats and the rest.
Political editor
Why the government is desperate to cut immigration
There are many reasons for Australia’s inadequate housing supply, but a population jumping by 2.5 per cent a year obviously compounds the immediate problem.
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Why compulsory voting keeps Australia in the centre
It doesn’t stop parties on both sides testing the limits, but the middle ground is where elections are won and lost.
- Phillip Coorey
- Opinion
- Satire
Suspend your disbelief? Naaah! This is Hollywood
Here’s the movie pitch: the former president of the United States locked up with the, er, druggie son of the current president, and, ah, they’re plotting how to escape.
- Rowan Dean
Federal seat of North Sydney slated to go
Teal seat proposed for abolition; Setka harming labour movement says Malinauskas; new age limit emerges for social media use. Here’s how the day unfolded.
- Tom Burton
Migration finally turns a corner as reforms bite
Net migration hit a record high of 547,000 in 2023, but in the last three months of the year numbers started heading in the opposite direction.
- Julie Hare
Help us or hospital system could fail: private operator
One of Australia’s largest Catholic hospital operators says a review of the viability of the private sector must secure a viable business model.
- Tom McIlroy
- Opinion
- Canberra Observed
Teals are ‘paying the piper’ while Dutton plays Russian roulette
Peter Dutton reckons the cost of living doesn’t discriminate between the teal seats and the rest.
- Phillip Coorey
Business chiefs to talk climate change during Li visit
Boosting ties in mining and energy, agriculture and services will be high on the agenda for Australian and Chinese company chiefs.
- Andrew Tillett
- Opinion
- Immigration
Why the government is desperate to cut immigration
There are many reasons for Australia’s inadequate housing supply, but a population jumping by 2.5 per cent a year obviously compounds the immediate problem.
- Jennifer Hewett
Cost of living will outweigh climate, even in teal seats: Dutton
Peter Dutton says his rejection of Labor’s climate change target will not stop the Liberal Party winning back critical teal seats.
- Phillip Coorey
Anti-corruption commission robo-debt call to be investigated
Gail Furness, SC, the independent inspector tasked with holding the NACC accountable, on Thursday said the decision came after nearly 900 individual complaints.
- Ronald Mizen
Migration finally turns a corner as reforms bite
Around 17,000 fewer people now call Australia their temporary home; Chooks reminisce at Chanticleer 50th anniversary; Jobless rate falls to 4pc. Follow breaking news here.
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- Elouise Fowler
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Bet365 probed over credit card ban loophole
The gambling regulator began making inquiries after The Australian Financial Review was able to deposit credit cards funds into Bet365 via third parties.
- Ronald Mizen
Why there are calls for reform after 30 years of native title
This week on The Fin podcast, Peter Ker and Ronald Mizen explore whether the native title regime is delivering for Indigenous Australians.
Labor, Coalition making progress towards higher aged care fees
The Albanese government hopes for a deal as early as next week on higher aged care fees for those who can pay.
- Phillip Coorey
- Exclusive
- Healthcare
Private hospitals open books for urgent ‘health check’
Health Minister Mark Butler has launched an urgent review into the $22 billion private hospital system.
- Tom McIlroy
‘Doing justice to freedom’: ex-detainee Cheng Lei to make comedy debut
Australian journalist Cheng Lei, who was freed eight months ago after being detained by China for three years, is making her stand-up debut in Melbourne.
- Gus McCubbing
Dutton warns of recession as PM sidesteps over 2035 target
Anthony Albanese did not guarantee unveiling the 2035 emissions reduction target before the next election.
- Phillip Coorey
PM shrugs off concerns over Chinese ownership of lithium plant
Chinese Premier Li Qiang’s planned visit to the lithium plant in Perth highlights the emerging global competition over critical minerals.
- Andrew Tillett
CFMEU boss John Setka links threat against AFL umpire to free kicks
John Setka says Stephen McBurney and other former ABCC officials should not be able to ‘walk off into the sunset’. Follow updates live.
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- Gus McCubbing
- Opinion
- Greens
Greens are a threat to Australia’s bipartisan tolerance
To have a political party standing side by side with protestors who call for the elimination of the Jewish state “from the river to the sea” is intolerable.
- Georgina Downer
