Liberal MP claims the Reserve Bank has been soft on inflation. Labor says questioning the RBA’s dual mandate amounts to a ‘plan for higher unemployment’

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• Tim Wilson walks back suggestion Liberals would rethink RBA full employment mandate

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New shadow treasurer accused of ‘extreme ideology’ that would result in higher interest rates and unemployment after saying RBA’s ‘core purpose’ should be to lower inflation

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Anthony Albanese links Pauline Hanson’s comments on Muslims to heightened risk of violence as the holy month of Ramadan begins

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A program to put additional staff in childcare centres to support children with complex needs is plagued by funding gaps and delays

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Tabcorp and Sportsbet provided tickets to at least six Liberal and Labor politicians, register of interests shows

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• Woman in Syrian detention camp banned from returning to Australia for up to two years

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Pauline Hanson says people ‘w

One Nation leader’s statements about Muslims also labelled ‘bigoted and wrong’ by NSW minister for multiculturalism

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Rotting from the Top report author Geoffrey Watson says ‘personal attacks’ from Labor government ministers have ‘crossed a line’

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For years the radical right has been pushing the limits of acceptable language. Now, as the One Nation leader proves, hateful, demonstrably wrong things can be said without qualification

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The path back for Angus Taylor and the Coalition is to build a narrative that offers hope rather than grievance – not one that shadows One Nation

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Thinking ‘supply is the answer’ lets politicians dodge a much more difficult conversation about tax – for investors and owners

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The former PM is open to resurrecting his parliamentary career, if Angus Taylor does what Peter Dutton wouldn’t and actively drafts him in

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Opposition leader picks Tim Wilson as shadow treasurer while rewarding his supporters and elevating some strong performers

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It is almost impossible to overstate th

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• Angus Taylor unveils Coalition frontbench with Tim Wilson as shadow treasurer and Nationals returned

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Liberal leader also promotes Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Andrew Hastie to shadow cabinet

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Angus Taylor has given moderate MP Tim Wilson the treasury portfolio and

Another senior member of Sussan Ley’s team has expressed serious reservations about aspects of the plan

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You would think politicians promoting ‘Australian values’ would try to exhibit some themselves, including a ‘fair go’ for all

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Tony Abbott and Angus Taylor have ar

Paul Scarr, the shadow immigration minister under Sussan Ley, and South Australian senator Andrew McLachlan expressed concern

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Angus Taylor says the hardline policy document designed under Sussan Ley has ‘no validity’ but hints he will toughen policy

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Andrew Hastie and Jacinta Nampijinpa Price among those expected to return to frontbench as new leader pursues rightwing agenda

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• Angus Taylor moves to promote conservatives and sideline Sussan Ley allies as Liberal party veers right

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The party HQ is busy brainstorming policy ideas

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Our food environment has been built to put profit over health – even after a regulatory victory, lobbies still have too much power

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The tax has climbed by 60% since 2020 and accounts for three-quarters of the legal cost of a packet of cigarettes

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Prime minister commits $3.9bn as ‘down payment’ for Adelaide facility to eventually build nuclear-powered vessels

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At least $30bn will be spent building a construc

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Charlotte Mortlock, the high profile former Coalition staffer and leader of grassroots organisation Hilm

Some female Liberal members ‘incredibly worried’ after Sussan Ley’s ousting, with one saying: ‘The boys are back in charge’

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Queensland’s deputy premier says the event ‘ain’t happening’ at the Brisbane Games unless it takes place in Rockhampton

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With backers including Climate 200, Michelle Milthorpe is confident she can win Sussan Ley’s south-western NSW seat

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Some are tucked away in sheds, gathering dust.

The Israeli president’s visit to console victims of the Bondi beach terror attack was not without controversy

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This week’s visit to Australia by the Israeli presid

‘Angus Taylor presents us with a new question: can a soufflé rise once?’ the prime minister said in a speech to a Labor conference

The prime minister has borrowed from a sharp-tongued predecessor to launch his first attack on the new opposition l

Two sides ‘converge’ on key differences in Brussels after years of negotiations

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Australia and the EU are on the brink of striking a long sought-after free trade a

The Barries are back, and Angus Taylor has won the Liberal leadership battle against Sussan Ley. Speaking on Friday afternoon, the new leader said he did not seek to be ‘One Nation lite’ but that he would “shut the door” on people who don’t share ‘Aust

The new Liberal leader risks learning the wrong lesson from the party’s haemorrhaging of votes to One Nation as he appeals to the conservatives

More than a few times throughout his political career, Angus Taylor has told the story of his grandfat

The Victorian senator’s elevation may help mitigate the effects of the party dumping its first female leader after only nine months. It also suggests the moderates still hold influence

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Australia’s political leaders have used plenty of colourful language to describe their opponents. Here are a few gems from the archives

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The newly elected oppositi

Conservationists estimate coal exported from expanded mine to release CO2 equivalent of about half Australia’s annual carbon footprint

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• New opposition leader Taylor wants to stop ‘bad immigration’ but says Liberals aren’t ‘One Nation lite’

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Liberal leader says his party must ‘change or die’ but is yet to make clear how he differs from his predecessor

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Policies are an expression and extension of a candidate or party’s values. Does the ‘big tent’ party still have any?

One of the great Liberal party pastimes is to simultaneously look for both scapegoats and Messiahs.

Sussan Ley is today’s s

Ley’s term as leader surpassed only that of Alexander Downer. But how does she measure up to other Liberal party leaders?

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Ley says she will step away ‘completely and comprehensively from public life’ after losing Liberal leadership ballot to Angus Taylor

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Ley presented as a moderate who would drag the party back to the centre, but was driven increasingly to the right. The poll numbers delivered a scathing verdict

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Former shadow defence minister wins partyroom vote, ending Ley’s tumultuous nine-month reign as the first female leader of the Liberals

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‘The problem with Angus is that he does not actually do anything,’ one colleague says of the former minister with a glossy CV

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Protesters around Australia, including Nick McKim and other Greens colleagues, gathered to express opposition to the visit of the Israeli president, Isaac Herzog, this week. The Greens senator tells our political editor, Tom McIlroy, t

One hundred survivors and their descendants gathered in Canberra this week to mark the 18th anniversary of the apology

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• Liberal party on brink of dumping first female leader with Taylor’s backers confident of defeating Ley

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A handful of votes may decide the next Liberal leader, with Sussan Ley to stare down her challenger, Angus Taylor, on Friday morning

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