Australia votes
Phil Gaetjens’ last summer of perks before his demise
The man once described by Labor as “Scott Morrison’s butler” received two tickets worth $1000 to day two of the 4th Ashes Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground in January.
- by Kishor Napier-Raman and Noel Towell
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Australia’s two-party system besieged, if not broken, by election
The fall in major party support seems an inexorable feature of the 21st century Australian political landscape.
- by Paul Strangio
Dutton commits to WA GST formula on first trip to Perth as opposition leader
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton travelled to Perth on Wednesday to hold his party’s first shadow cabinet meeting.
- by Hamish Hastie
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Swan rattles the can for Labor
Labor’s national president is begging true believers for cash, as the party tries to firm up its coffers post-election.
- by Kishor Napier-Raman and Noel Towell
Coalition’s ‘warmongering rhetoric’ backfired on Morrison: Labor campaign chief
The clash over Chinese influence helped Labor win the federal election, the party’s national secretary has concluded in his first public assessment of the way Anthony Albanese swept into power.
- by David Crowe
‘Politics about people’: Former Wallabies captain David Pocock elected to Senate
David Pocock’s confirmation as a senator of the ACT, ousting Liberal Zed Seselja, came as Liberal Andrew Constance asked the AEC for a recount in the seat of Gilmore on the NSW south coast.
- by Katina Curtis
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NSW Governor Margaret Beazley, and her entourage, jet off to Europe
NSW Governor Margaret Beazley is set to embark on a taxpayer-funded trip to Europe this week, including stops in Britain, France and Belgium.
- by Kishor Napier-Raman and Noel Towell
Phone voters stuck at home with COVID-19 were more likely to back Labor
People who had to phone in their votes because they were in insolation with COVID-19 were more left-leaning than their wider electorate in all but eight seats.
- by Katina Curtis and Shane Wright
Opinion
Anthony Albanese
A sure way for Albanese to fail: symbols without solutions
The Labor government will get into trouble if it opts for gestures in the service of virtuous feelings rather than real change.
- by Parnell Palme McGuinness
Opinion
Five Minutes with Fitz
‘People were fed up’: Sussan Ley on her punk past, feminism and why the Liberals lost
COVID crankiness not Scott Morrison was the primary drag on their vote, the new deputy leader of the Liberal Party says.
- by Peter FitzSimons
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CBD
All the President’s men (and a few women) line up for Origin schmooze
Origin’s back! And with it, the colourful cast of pollies, CEOs and media types who filled the President’s Suite at State of Origin Game I.
- by Kishor Napier-Raman and Noel Towell