Peter Dutton ends the year with detailed plans to wind back reconciliation, peppering departments with questions about the cost of Welcomes to Country and promising to scrap flags, dual names and the ambassador for First Nations people.
The opposition has seized upon the firebombing of a Melbourne synagogue to claim that the government is contributing to rising anti-Semitism in Australia.
The billionaire Visy chairman has collected some of Australia’s leading political figures as advisers and is now a regular at Mar-a-Lago. What will he do with his latest, most powerful connection?
The Liberal Party has hired controversial digital agency Topham Guerin to produce content for its election campaign, despite concerns about disinformation and deepfakes used by the group.
The prime minister bowed to mining interests and poor polling in Western Australia with a last-minute decision to upend a deal with the Greens on the Nature Positive laws.
The government’s pledge to restore confidence in the bureaucracy is under attack as the Coalition embraces the mining magnate’s Trumpian vision for deep cuts.
The decision not to implement a ban on gambling advertising comes after intense lobbying and draws on a close relationship between the PM and Peter V’landys.
