Anthony Albanese is poised to make a bold announcement on childcare policy to kick off Labor’s re-election campaign built around universal access and enabling more parents to work.
Katina Curtis
It is deeply concerning that the rush of legislation depended on cutting a deal with the extremist Greens.
Editorial
Anthony Albanese personally intervened to kill off a deal his environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, was trying to make with the Greens over a proposed Federal EPA. Here’s what went down behind the scenes.
Dan Jervis-Bardy
Former Labor leader Bill Shorten has called for a new era of political unity to tackle the nation’s ‘unfinished business’ on tax reform and other major issues in his parting message to Federal Parliament.
Dan Jervis-Bardy and Katina Curtis
The Albanese Government’s energy plan could cost five times what Labor has promised, new independent research commissioned by the Coalition has claimed.
Jake Dietsch
Labor has reopened its gun buyback for dealers and individual owners, despite rejecting previous calls to keep offering payments during the first round.
Dylan Caporn
Minority government may be beckoning but a Labor elder warns his party must not do deals with the Greens.
Anthony Albanese’s relationship with Qantas is under the microscope amid claims he contacted former chief Alan Joyce for seat upgrades and suggestions he failed to declare those given to his former wife.
Ellen Ransley and Katina Curtis
Queensland has voted out a ‘very bad Labor government’, Peter Dutton has declared, as he called on Australians to now give the Albanese Government the boot.
A veteran Labor figure has blasted Anthony Albanese’s leadership, accusing the Government of losing touch with its traditional working class base and instead chasing after inner-city elites.
The Albanese Government is planning to run a negative campaign against Peter Dutton’s ‘unlikeability’ and ‘hard man’ image as they switch up campaign tactics ahead of the election.
Labor MPs have backed the use of a data system central to a Corruption and Crime Commission investigation, while Liberal leader Libby Mettam hit out at a ‘dodgy, incompetent Government’.
Jessica Page and Dylan Caporn
If you have divulged any personal information to a door-knocking Labor MP then a report by the CCC should give you pause for thought.
Ben Harvey
A corruption report into WA Labor’s suspected hijacking of taxpayer-funded staff for election campaigning has exposed a system open to political rorting.
Anthony Albanese has been forced to defend his Government’s performance after polling showed Labor lagging behind the Coalition for the first time.
Fatima Payman is not afraid of taking on Anthony Albanese in his own seat, saying she relished an electoral arm wrestle with the prime minister.
An independent review into Labor’s controversial Secure Jobs, Better Pay laws has been launched.
Employees at the powerful WA branch of the United Workers Union have complained management intimidated them into removing their names from a petition they signed in support of Labor defector Fatima Payman.
John Flint
Footage circulating on social media also showed other students joining in, chanting: ‘F..k the ALP. Four, five, six, f..k the rich!’
Caitlyn Rintoul
A fight over a federal EPA has demonstrated just how important WA is to the election.
Labor defector Fatima Payman warns a lack of staff could make it hard for her to decide positions in crucial bills after Anthony Albanese left her in a holding pattern over her request for more resources.
A political push to extend Perth’s retail trading hours is ‘anti-small business’, the Premier has declared, saying a move would risk pitting small operators against big companies on Sundays.
A third-term Labor State Government would work with anyone elected in the Upper House, Roger Cook says, as it emerged One Nation was preparing to run a suite of candidates at the next election.
Former Labor leader Bill Shorten will quit politics for a top university position, ending a rollercoaster 17-year career in Federal Parliament that came within an inch of the prime ministership.
