This Month
- Exclusive
- Renewables
‘A big risk’: Voters wary of nuclear replacing coal-fired power
Voters in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley have raised the spectres of Chernobyl and Fukushima when asked about Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s plan to build large-scale reactors in their community.
- Tom McIlroy
April
- Opinion
- Canberra Observed
Dutton’s atomic bet threatens Coalition chain reaction over climate
Rather than keep the heat on Labor’s handling of the cost-of-living pain as inflation stays high, the opposition leader’s nuclear venture risks becoming the story.
- Jacob Greber
- Opinion
- Political leadership
A governor-general from the Chairman’s Lounge
The PM is truer than he knows when he says Sam Mostyn represents modern Australia. It’s a nation of talkers, not doers.
- John Roskam
February
PM spoils for a fight on stage three tax cuts
The Coalition will move amendments to the Albanese government’s tax cuts legislation, but won’t die in a ditch to get them passed.
- Phillip Coorey
Christine Holgate still gunning for Australia Post
Making Australia Post cheaply distribute its competitors’ parcels would hamper Australia Post’s finances. For Christine Holgate, that might be a bonus.
- Myriam Robin
January
- Opinion
- Supermarkets
The cost-of-living crisis is real – so is supermarket competition
The Emerson review must not make findings for the political sake of having been seen to have done something.
- Jeff Kennett
December 2023
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
November 2023
Peter V’Landys haunts AHA lunch
The powerful lobby group entertained a room bustling with Labor types. And a few Nationals too.
- Myriam Robin
August 2023
- Analysis
- Commonwealth Games
PwC scandal casts secrecy shadow over Commonwealth Games inquiry
Witnesses before an inquiry into Victoria cancelling the Commonwealth Games were quick to explain why they had to remain silent.
- Patrick Durkin
Victoria to pay $380m for cancelled Games
The Victorian government has agreed to pay Commonwealth Games bodies $380 million in compensation after cancelling the 2026 event.
- Duncan Murray
Mike Ahern, giant of Qld politics, remembered as a man of integrity
The forrmer Queensland premier had famously declared that he would implement the findings of the Fitzgerald inquiry “lock, stock and barrel”.
- Robyn Wuth
June 2023
Australia is leaning left - leaving the Coalition in serious danger
It’s not just young voters who are more likely to vote for progressive parties, older voters are voting left for longer.
- Julie Hare
- Opinion
- Tax reform
Australia’s glorious history of policy failure
The Commonwealth was founded through a dodgy deal between colonial politicians, and went downhill from there.
- Jason Falinski
May 2023
Liberals might need to dissolve coalition with Nationals, warns Ken Henry
Former treasury secretary says the party should ignore Australia’s extremist fringes and focus instead on winning mainstream votes from the centre.
- Gus McCubbing
Nats dump leader on eve of NSW sitting week
Opposition Leader Mark Speakman said the leadership change was unlikely to derail the Coalition Agreement but could affect shadow cabinet appointments.
- Samantha Hutchinson
April 2023
Nats punch above their weight after Jacinta Price promotion
David Littleproud refused to dump another Nationals shadow minister to make way for Senator Price.
- Phillip Coorey
March 2023
Nationals’ $55k from Big Tobacco no influence on vaping policy
David Littleproud wants e-cigarettes regulated like regular ones, to (somehow) keep them from the hands of children.
- Myriam Robin
‘Not benign’: Labor plans vaping crackdown
Health Minister Mark Butler has accused the tobacco industry of marketing vaping products to children.
- Tom McIlroy
January 2023
Nationals pick Voice opponent to fill frontbench slot left by Gee
Former Nationals leadership aspirant Darren Chester returns to the frontbench after Andrew Gee defected to the crossbench, frustrated at the party’s opposition to the Voice.
- Samantha Hutchinson
December 2022
Shooters Party in disarray as NSW MPs quit
Three months before the state election, the NSW Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party is in disarray after two MPs quit over their leader’s misogynistic comments to a former party colleague in parliament.
- Stephanie Gardiner, Phoebe Loomes and Farid Farid
