Weeks before mass salmon deaths were revealed in Tasmania, the government quietly changed the designation of the bacteria killing the fish – which the industry now admits are being sold from infected leases.
The first week of the campaign has shown up an ill-disciplined opposition leader, with Coalition sources saying they are already ‘factoring in a loss’.
The Victorian Auditor-General’s Office has long suffered accusations of being a toxic workplace, and staff wonder when this will be addressed by parliament.
In deciding whether to award a massive Australian naval contract to Japan or to Germany, the Australian government must carefully weigh both competing strengths and strategic relationships.
With the economy dominating this election campaign, Labor insiders say they can shake voters’ traditional perceptions of the Coalition as the stronger steward.
As Australia loses research funding following a Trump crackdown, academics believe the government has failed universities by rejecting multiple invitations to join Europe’s largest fund.
Independent campaigns were structured around an April 12 election – and the decision to go later has added roughly $250,000 to required spending in each seat.
The prime minister has kicked off a long-awaited official campaign that most believe will deliver a hung parliament, as the independents work to harness growing voter disaffection with the major parties.
The Albanese government delivers an election-eve budget sweetened with tax cuts, which the opposition will be under pressure to match, while conceding that a surplus is a decade away.
Some people and things come up in daily conversation – despots, interest rates, an annoying neighbour, that cat you only see every couple of months – but Stenant Billionaire was bigger than all that.
