Chris Uhlmann is the ABC's political editor. He has previously hosted AM, co-hosted 7.30 and 666 ABC Canberra's top rating breakfast program, produced Mornings on 774 ABC Melbourne and worked as the chief political correspondent for ABC radio current affairs.
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| UpdatedGeorge Christensen reportedly threatens to quit the Coalition, citing Federal Government inaction in a dispute between a foreign-owned sugar mill and cane growers in his north Queensland electorate.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, liberal-national-party-queensland, liberals, political-parties, australia
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| UpdatedAustralia Post's strategy of trying to hide its CEO's $5.6 million salary package has backfired and the Government should step in, writes Chris Uhlmann.
Topics: public-sector, government-and-politics, australia
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| UpdatedIn 1978, a group of Catholic schoolboys was called to make a moral decision. The night before, a Marist brother had tried to assault one of them. Those boys were better disciples than the princes of their Church. That is a triumph and a tragedy, writes Chris Uhlmann.
Topics: religion-and-beliefs, catholic, royal-commissions, sexual-offences, assault, canberra-2600, act, australia
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| UpdatedThe complicated life of PM Malcolm Turnbull is about to become harder when Cory Bernardi formally announces he's quitting the Liberal Party. It's another sign of the unravelling of the status quo in liberal democracies, Chris Uhlmann writes.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, political-parties, liberals, sa, australia
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| UpdatedOutspoken Liberal senator Cory Bernardi is set to announce he is leaving the Coalition to form his own political party called Australian Conservatives, leaving his colleagues struggling to guess if any MPs will jump ship and join him.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, political-parties, liberals, sa, australia
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| UpdatedIn the latest sign the National Party faces an existential threat from One Nation, polling obtained by the ABC shows its West Australian state leader suffering a 20-point drop on his 2013 election result, Chris Uhlmann writes.
Topics: government-and-politics, parliament, federal---state-issues, states-and-territories, one-nation, nationals, wa, australia
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| UpdatedMedia coverage has not wavered since US voters went to the polls, and now the focus has turned to what kind of president Donald Trump will be and from whom he will seek counsel.
Topics: elections, world-politics, united-states
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| UpdatedUnited States Secretary of State John Kerry confirms his country has agreed to consider re-settling refugees from Nauru and Manus Island.
Topics: refugees, immigration, foreign-affairs, federal-government, world-politics, australia, united-states, nauru
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| UpdatedIs Donald Trump the gracious winner of election night, who called on the country to unite, or the spiteful bully who wants to jail his opponent? Either way it looks likely to be a white-knuckle ride, political editor Chris Uhlmann writes.
Topics: us-elections, world-politics, united-states
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| UpdatedDonald Trump's claims of a rigged election speak to the core grievance of America's poor, that the game of life is fixed to benefit the rich and the working man is being screwed. But does he have the answers to solve their grievances.
Topics: us-elections, world-politics, united-states
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| UpdatedIn the early 1920s, the largest labour uprising in US history took place in Logan County, in West Virginia's rich coal country. Today, writes Chris Uhlmann, US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is at the centre of a new rebellion as the region struggles to cope with the industry's downturn.
Topics: us-elections, coal, industry, business-economics-and-finance, united-states
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| UpdatedThe Australian Energy Market Operator finds the sudden and unexpected loss of half of South Australia's wind power in the midst of the severe storm on September 28 was a key event in the state-wide blackout, writes Chris Uhlmann.
Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, wind-energy, storm-disaster, storm-event, sa
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| UpdatedIn the wake of South Australia's power blackout, those who point out the real and well documented problems with the electricity system shouldn't be burned as heretics.
Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, wind-energy, sa
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| UpdatedMonths before the blackout which left South Australia in darkness, the state's Energy Minister wrote to the Energy Market Commission saying the high take-up of wind turbines and rooftop solar cells could be risky.
Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, wind-energy, solar-energy, sa
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| UpdatedRenewables are the future, but rushing to a target to parade green credentials exposes the electricity network to a serious security risk, and in the long run risks permanent reputational damage to the renewable energy cause, writes Chris Uhlmann.
Topics: weather, storm-event, environment, alternative-energy, electricity-energy-and-utilities, sa
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| UpdatedA former Australian ambassador to China says Beijing's influence here might become a thornier problem for the Federal Government than the dispute over the South China Sea.
Topics: world-politics, government-and-politics, foreign-affairs, china, australia, asia
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| UpdatedConcerns are raised about IBM's ability to meet the demands of merging the Customs and Immigration computer systems. An IT failure could have serious national security implications as the mainframe will manage Australia's border controls, including red flagging terror suspects.
Topics: computers-and-technology, public-sector, government-and-politics, federal-government, population-and-demographics, immigration, australia
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| UpdatedAn extraordinary spike in South Australia's wholesale electricity price in July sounded an alarm across the five states that share the National Electricity Market, Grattan Institute research shows.
Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, federal---state-issues, government-and-politics, sa, vic
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| UpdatedThe charities regulator threatens the tax-free status of the Catholic Education Commission of Victoria after it urged parents not to vote for the Greens at the federal election.
Topics: government-and-politics, charities-and-community-organisations, community-and-society, education, catholic, australia, vic
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| UpdatedHit and miss interest in the Pacific region, deep foreign aid budget cuts and a lack of climate change action has made enemies for Australia in the past, but early signs from Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull at this year's Pacific Islands Forum were good.
Topics: world-politics, government-and-politics, climate-change, micronesia-federated-states-of, pacific
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| UpdatedThere are no pictures of Vladimir Putin's encounter with Malcolm Turnbull at the G20 in Hangzhou. But his blunt message on the Syrian war could not have been clearer — and it was emblematic of Russia and China's new confidence in the world, writes Chris Uhlmann.
Topics: government-and-politics, world-politics, unrest-conflict-and-war, foreign-affairs, turnbull-malcolm, australia, china, russian-federation
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| UpdatedMalcolm Turnbull meets with Francois Hollande on the sidelines of the G20, telling the President the French contractor's leak of sensitive data about the submarines was unacceptable.
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| UpdatedMalcolm Turnbull's free trade pitch will be a hard sell at the meeting of the 20 leading economies that begins today in China, but his travails pale by comparison with other leaders attending the economic jamboree.
Topics: government-and-politics, world-politics, china
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| UpdatedAustralia's domestic spy chief warned the nation's major political parties last year that some of their donors had strong links to the Chinese Government. The revelation comes as pressure grows for a ban on foreign donations to Australian politics.
Topics: federal-government, defence-and-national-security, security-intelligence, australia, china
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| UpdatedFormer treasurer Wayne Swan says there needs to be a debate about foreign influence on Australian politics, as momentum builds to consider a ban on political donations from overseas following an ABC investigation of Chinese-linked payments to the major parties.
Topics: foreign-affairs, government-and-politics, world-politics, australia, china, asia