Yesterday
MPs drop $30m on expenses in three months
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese led the pack, spending $684,665 between July and September 2022, newly released data show.
- Michael Read
This Month
Voters feel everything is getting worse except China relationship
Cranky voters believe everything from wages to the economy, energy bills and the behaviour of politicians has deteriorated.
- Phillip Coorey
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Dutton’s political tactics are no governing agenda
The problem for the country with the Coalition’s approach of opposing much and proposing little is that the political heat is not being put on Labor to genuinely revamp its policy approach in the new year.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Federal election
Labor is polls apart from Christmas last year
The government has lost every significant advantage it held this time last year.
- Phillip Coorey
Labor takes a hit on immigration, cost of living
November’s High Court ruling on the permanent detention of non-citizens appears to have cost Labor politically.
- Phillip Coorey
Labor loses lead, PM’s ratings slump: poll
Labor has lost its lead and would be pushed into minority government if an election were held today, according to The Australian Financial Review/Freshwater Strategy poll.
- Phillip Coorey
Queensland a fight on two fronts for Labor: Chalmers
Treasurer Jim Chalmers, the most senior federal MP from Queensland, says the Albanese government will need to win over Greens voters and fight “the old enemy” at the next federal election.
- Phillip Coorey
We’ll be back in election mode on the other side of Christmas
Three-year terms mean that the government, after just 20 months in power, will start pulling down the new policy shutters, with the opposition dialling everything up to 11.
- Phillip Coorey
Mike Baird flags HammondCare exit
If Peter Dutton was hoping to recruit Mike Baird to run for the Liberals in a teal-held NSW seat, he had better get started now.
- Myriam Robin
Trade focus shift to UAE, as China eases bans
The government has shelved plans for an FTA with the EU and will focus on the new year to seal a deal with the UAE.
- Phillip Coorey
- Opinion
- Federal election
Why Dutton feels confident in attack mode
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton is using every opportunity to target the Labor government, confident that he is ending this year with the political momentum rather than Anthony Albanese.
- Jennifer Hewett
Dutton urges migration curbs, but wants more foreign tradies
Peter Dutton has slammed the government’s ban on foreign tradies using a new fast-track visa, even as he criticised Labor for not doing more to curb migration.
- Michael Read
Is chasing likes on TikTok a good policy for political parties?
Harnessing the hottest memes is proving popular and for some young people it is their only exposure to the nation’s political issues. But is that good for democracy?
- Daniel Chenu
The prime minister needs his mojo back
Voters want their prime minister to be of them, not like them. At the moment, they feel he is neither.
- Phillip Coorey
Immigration detention laws pass as fourth ex-detainee arrested
Canberra has already started identifying the “worst of the worst” offenders to go back into immigration detention as it circumvents a High Court ruling.
- Updated
- Andrew Tillett
- Opinion
- Joe Biden
What happens if Biden were to step aside?
Such an eventuality would upend all calculations in the presidential race here and in the US.
- James Curran
Political crisis deepens as third ex-detainee arrested
The government is fending off calls that two of its ministers resign as Victorian police arrest a former ringleader of a child exploitation gang.
- Updated
- Phillip Coorey
Labor’s detention law headache to be over by week’s end
The Coalition signalled it would support proposed preventative detention laws that mirror counter-terrorism legislation, to end the High Court-triggered crisis.
- Updated
- Phillip Coorey
Labor MP Peta Murphy dies after cancer fight
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was emotional as he confirmed that the Dunkley MP died at home at age 50.
- Tom McIlroy
Talk builds about Frydenberg political return
Josh Frydenberg and his supporters have commissioned a poll of voters in his former seat of Kooyong, fuelling speculation about his return to federal politics.
- John Kehoe
