The party has learnt some lessons from the last election in its selection of professional women to contest three seats lost to independents. Can they convince voters turned off by Peter Dutton’s platform?
Staffers and politicians say workplace culture has been slow to improve. Unredacted survey results obtained by The Saturday Paper reveal the full extent of the failures that prompted the reforms.
Australian governments have a habit of not running their full three-year terms. The average time between House of Representative elections is two years and seven months. So is it any wonder the prime minister and the treasurer were hit with election speculation almost before the ink had dried on their budget papers?
Labor’s Future Gas Strategy has demonstrated the extent to which the party is prepared to risk losing urban seats to the Greens, with a policy largely dictated by the interests of Western Australia and Queensland.
The acting auditor-general is considering an investigation into contracts awarded to a private firm following complications over a tech upgrade for the Meals on Wheels service.
The jail sentence handed to one of Australia’s most high-profile whistleblowers hinged on intent – will it deter others who want to speak out to hold authority to account?
Amid calls for the urgent repatriation of so-called Australian ISIS brides and their children stranded in Syria, Anthony Albanese has decided to shelve any plans to bring them home.
The budget is a pitch to make investments in green projects the centrepiece of the next federal election – but observers say the plan lacks coherence and that it will take a year to sell that vision.
Labor’s budget confirms the election priorities of the energy transition, housing and cost-of-living support, while securing a second consecutive surplus. Its targeted spending is intended to avoid a rebound in inflation.
