Albanese put the best face on the situation after his plan to sign a major defence treaty with Papua New Guinea while in Port Moresby fell through.
- Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The stoush comes as the prime minister prepares for his long-sought meeting with the president.
Sussan Ley will give her first major economic speech as leader to call for Australians to move “off welfare and into self-reliance”
Only a few months into her leadership, Sussan Ley is facing an extraordinary insurgency from Liberal frontbenchers.
After mishandling the initial incident, Ley now has to contend with a freelancing backbencher in a deeply divided opposition.
Sussan Ley has sacked frontbencher Jacinta Nampijinpa Price after she failed to back her leadership of the Liberal Party.
The former NSW Senator has said Australia is an “active, eager participant in the US-led order” and urged the Albanese government to abandon AUKUS.
The ructions within the Liberal Party deepen over Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s recent comments on Indian immigration.
The Senator made life difficult for the Liberal Party with her comments about Indian immigration. When they blew up, she made it worse.
Despite he and his government being in an overwhelmingly dominant position politically, Anthony Albanese sounded quite tetchy at times this week.
The settlement is still to be approved by the federal court, would be the largest class action settlement in Australian history.
Some 20,000 home care packages will be brought forward to be delivered before the end of October.
A former deputy secretary of the immigration department under the Howard government says ‘it’s time politicians on both sides pulled up their socks’.
Immigration Minister Tony Burke announced the figure amid a fresh divisive debate about immigration, intensified by the weekend marches calling for lower numbers.
The government’s trial has found age-assurance for its under-16 social media ban can be done, however admitting it can’t be one-size-fits-all.
the Nauru parliament announced a deal between the Home Affairs Minister and Nauru for that country to accept up to 280 former immigration detainees from Australia.
Albanese appears to be edging closer to landing the long-sought meeting with President Donald Trump when the prime minister is in the United States in September.
If the intelligence community had its Logies, ASIO chief Mike Burgess would be chasing gold this week.
The health minister also says fewer kids are now vaping because of the government’s ban, which ‘exploded’ as a health problem during the COVID years.
Sussan Ley is resisting growing internal pressure for the Coalition to quickly discuss and determine the future of its policy on net zero.
The government will also legislate to list Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organisation.
The Albanese government is bringing forward by three months to October 1 implementation of its 5% deposit guarantee for all first home buyers.
While Mark Butler went bold on NDIS reform, Treasurer Jim Chalmers used his roundtable to present a masterclass in inclusive incrementalism.
Jim Chalmers ends his roundtable more optimistic then he started, leaving in its wake broad support to work on three major areas of tax reform.
While the summit’s program is well-defined, it’s much harder to know what’s going on behind closed doors.
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