Senate committee also hears Murray Watt needed personal security after sending the union into administration

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In a historic moment, David Farley was officially sworn in to become the first One Nation MP to be elected to the lower house of Australia’s federal parliament under the party’s own banner. Farley won the byelection for Farrar a month ago. Farley swore

Labor’s budget changes are not to blame for the recent dip in property prices. But the changes will help move housing away from investors – and that should be celebrated

House prices in Sydney and Melbourne are down by 3.1% and 3.5% respectively,

When I became premier in Queensland in 1998, it was against a surge in One Nation support. There are valuable lessons for federal Labor today

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Don’t let the facts get in the way of a blame campaign

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Former environment minister Peter Garrett will lead an independent inquiry into the Aukus defence pact, launched by a group of Labor veterans and public figures concerned proper scrutiny has never been applied to the $368bn defence plan. The group argu

Former Liberal senator initially labelled ruling by parliamentary expenses authority ‘patently ridiculous’, saying visits were necessary

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Exclusive: Former Labor minister will lead the community-based investigation and report in October

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Support for Pauline Hanson’s populist party has given fresh impetus to a loose network of activists trying to chip away at reproductive rights

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If the Coalition wants to take some real paint off the government over its more contentious budget measures, it won’t get much of a better chance than another week of Senate estimates

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Instead of relying on tax-enhanced speculation, investors must now look at established properties based on actual profitability – leaving space for first home buyers

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Labor MP Mike Freelander says party must continue to help under-pressure workers, including considering further income tax cuts

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Labor will seek to highlight Pauli

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Tony Abbott, the new party president of the Liberals, said he wouldn’t get “too excited” by the poll showing One Nation’s

Auction success hit a new low for the year on the last Saturday in May, with just 54.5% of homes sold

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Decent hard-earning landlords are weeping into their Fabergé egg cups

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Former prime minister Tony Abbott didn’t exactly disappear from the limelight after he lost his seat in the ‘teal’ wave of 2019, but his new role as Liberal president has many asking: why is the party bringing him back now?

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Australian Greens should ‘take on’ Pauline Hanson’s One Nation, Polanski tells Victorian conference, just as he took on Nigel Farage’s Reform UK

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Defence minister says ‘cost-effective’ decision to buy only secondhand Virginia nuclear-powered submarines will make training and operations easier

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Extra negative gearing limits could hurt market and family budgets, Labor says

Clare O’Neil has re

Minister at Singapore defence summit also reveals Australia to buy only secondhand Aukus submarines from US

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It’s been more than two weeks since the Albanese government handed down the federal budget and the criticism has not stopped.

Guardian columnist and chief economist at the Australia Institute, Greg Jericho, argues despite Austral

A party structure could help independents better work together on common ground, while retaining the very thing that made them attractive in the first place

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Tony Barry and Barrie Cassidy examine the government’s struggle to sell its ambitious tax changes as the legislation hit parliament this week.

The Barries also look at the pros and cons of a ‘teal’ party and dig

Angus Taylor believes the former PM is uniquely placed to help the party as its new president, but some fear he will render it even more unelectable

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Paul Brereton’s appearance before a Senate inquiry illustrated why public confidence in the national anti-corruption agency is in the toilet – and what now needs to be done

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Who’s leading the fight against Labor’s CGT reform – and what’s in it for them?

People with direct personal financial stakes in Labor

Former prime minister elected Liberal party president on Friday after running unopposed

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Was the resignation of Justin Stevens leaked to the press? Plus: 7.30 is safe despite speculation it faces axe

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In his new role as director of the Greens’ think-tank, Max Chandler-Mather argues that the major political parties and parts of the media often limit policy debate – which, on issues such as housing and wealth inequality, shuts down real alternatives t

Housing is as much a supply problem as it is a tax one. Until more homes are built, changing tax settings will only go so far

I bought my first home because I got lucky in the stock market. After holding an ASX investment for a year, the returns

Liberal insiders concerned former PM could pull party even further to the right by appointing Advance allies to prominent positions

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Tax critics turn to AI memes and airport billboards in addition to traditional lobbying tactics. Here’s what you need to know about them

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Exclusive: Parliamentary records show the One Nation MPs claimed travel expenses for fundraising events on exclusive cruise liner where mining billionaire owns an apartment

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Kanishka Narayan says Australia’s pioneering law has contributed to national conversation under way in Britain

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The $1,000 tax deduction, $250 ‘working Australians tax offset’, and CGT and negative gearing changes will benefit most young people, Treasury secretary says

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Scams come in all shapes and sizes (and none of them are nice), and the government is considering creating rules that would force banks, t

Gavan Reynolds cites ‘commercial-in-confidence nature of the contract’ in declining to answer Greens senator’s question in parliament

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Jim Chalmers says his fifth federal budget is the ‘best budget for young people’, but in the latest Guardian Essential poll voters are unconvinced that the proposals will make for a fairer housing system.

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He’s certainly facing some obstacles

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The solutions to ending gender-based violence aren’t a mystery. The problem is that governments refuse to act on them

When a social crisis becomes too big to ignore, governments reach for their most powerful instrument: the royal commission. It c

The reaction to the budget has revealed Australia’s warped priorities, with the appalling inequality in dental care among the issues actively ignored

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As the budget fight plays out fiercely online, Labor senator Ellie Whiteaker turns to a zebra and a giraffe for help

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Modelling predicts 241,000 people on the scheme before January 2028 won’t be receiving supports by mid-2031

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‘At some point the statements have got to end and the action needs to begin’, member for Chifley says

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Labor MP Ed Husic says Australia has tolerated poor behaviou

Company founded by Yaron Finkelstein received contract to advise on antisemitism under a limited tender ‘due to an absence of competition’

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The antisemitism envoy,

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Syrian children should be treated ‘sensitively and gently’, Ryan says

Independent MP Monique Ryan

Independent senator said Labor’s plan, which could require podcasts sponsored by betting companies to produce two versions of each program, is ‘totally unworkable’

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Welfare advocates say that while the reforms are a step in the right direction, the privatised employment services model has failed and should be torn up

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Inflation dipped in the year to April as the government’s fuel excise relief kicked in, but price pressures remain and experts predict RBA may still raise cash rate

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Exclusive: Former PM says changes to tax rates are ‘so marginal that no entrepreneurial initiative is likely to be thwarted’

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