While Coalition insiders say Peter Dutton has rallied the party room around his nuclear policy, some fear that unity has been achieved at the expense of key seats.
As the government faces the prospect of its housing agenda unravelling, with two key bills stalled in the Senate, Labor and the Greens are locked in a bitter fight over an issue that could decide the next election.
As the gas industry wages a campaign of misinformation over her government’s stance on cooktops, the Victorian premier is navigating a course that could set a national standard for household electrification.
Moira Deeming’s defamation case is a symptom of greater dysfunction within the Liberal Party, exacerbated by an influx of right-wing religious members who flowed out of Family First.
Only five people have been given access to the royal commission’s sealed section. One is the attorney-general, who is ‘giving consideration to questions relating to the release of the confidential chapter’.
The government is increasingly using non-disclosure agreements as a condition of consultation on reforms, threatening advocates and social welfare groups with imprisonment if orders are breached.
