The times don’t suit the Liberals, and the Liberals don’t have top people to suit the times. Worse for them, there is no sign of either of those things changing.
- Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
A little-known Nationals MP has put up his hand to spill the party’s leadership, but unless he gets some support from colleagues, it may not get off the ground.
The Liberal senator says ‘social media influencers’ have falsely ‘whipped up a frenzy’ of misinformation about new hate speech laws limiting freedom of speech.
A stand-off between leadership hopefuls Andrew Hastie and Angus Taylor delays the inevitable and prolongs the Liberals’ pain.
The 41-year-old from South Australia is the first Australian to qualify as an astronaut under the country’s national space program.
The highly-respected senior bureaucrat is a safe choice, and his defence background will be an added bonus on AUKUS.
Sussan Ley may pay the price for the implosion of the Coalition, but the blame rests squarely with Nationals leader David Littleproud.
The Liberal-National Coalition is over for the second time in less than 12 months, this time over hate crimes legislation.
The Coalition is on the brink of collapse with all the Nationals’ shadow cabinet members saying they will resign in solidarity with the three Nationals defectors.
The Nationals have broken with their Coalition partners, voting against the government’s hate speech legislation despite the Liberals agreeing to it.
On the backdrop of a solemn day in Parliament, the government and opposition moved closer to a deal to pass hate-speech laws.
The prime minister sliced off parts of the bill to increase its chances of passing at a special sitting of parliament this week,
The debate over the government’s hate speech bill has left the opposition leader wedged on multiple fronts by a significant number of her own colleagues.
Rudd is leaving his post as Australian ambassador to the US early to return to his previous role of president of Asia Society.
The prime minister has finally reached the right decision. But it’s important to scrutinise the reasons he’d opposed a royal commission in the first place.
The calls for a federal royal commission in the wake of Bondi are now reaching a roar.
Under the scheme, exporters will have to reserve between 15% and 25% of gas production for the local market.
in the Albanese government’s latest responsle to the Bondi tragedy Ausrtralian law enforcement and intelligence agencies are to be reviewed.
Governments across Australia continue to respond to the Bondi terror attack.
In an extraordinary personal censure, Australia’s Jewish community effectively denied Anthony Albanese the role of being the nation’s chief public mourner in this week of national tragedy.
Increased penalties for hate speech promoting violence and making hate an aggravating factor in sentencing are among a raft of new laws following the Bondi attack.
The response to the massacre has become deeply partisan, with Frydenberg calling on Albanese to accept ‘personal responsibility’ for the deaths.
The treasurer says the government needs to do more on several fronts: from fighting antisemitism after Sunday’s deadly attack, to cracking down on illegal tobacco.
Wednesday’s budget update will project a better budget deficit then what was predicted.
For all the government’s rhetoric on antisemitism, something has often seemed missing. It has appeared behind where it needed to be.
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