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Trump and China force Australia to secure its defence closer to home

Peter Hartcher
Peter Hartcher

Australia can no longer put all its faith in the US alliance as its best defence. It is turning to regional neighbours in what the Defence Minister calls "the most consequential realignment since World War II”.

Labor talks COVID, while for LNP it's jobs and crime

Conal Hanna

Analysis of campaign media coverage lays bare the conflicting strategies of the major parties as Labor has sought to ensure a pandemic-focused election.

Why Morrison needs to quickly fix the Liberal Party's gender imbalance

David Crowe
David Crowe

An analysis of women in politics that shows Labor has the edge. But it also shows things don't have to stay that way.

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Tanya Plibersek: "Setting targets and making it something that an organisation can be held to account on is an important element of that. Equality doesn’t happen by accident."
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Tanya Plibersek on her election shame: 'Doing my job as well as I can is the only way to atone'

Labor’s shadow minister for education and training shares the personal cost of politics, why she is culturally Catholic and the devastation she felt after the 2019 federal election.

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National security

Trump and China force Australia to secure its defence closer to home

Australia can no longer put all its faith in the US alliance as its best defence. It is turning to regional neighbours in what the Defence Minister calls "the most consequential realignment since World War II”.

  • by Peter Hartcher
Underpayment was rife in 7-Eleven convenience stores.
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Wage scandal

Allan Fels says 7-Eleven's $173m wage theft bill should have been higher

  • by Nick Bonyhady
The report into the 2019-20 Black Summer fires, which left 33 dead and thousands homeless, found the cost of the crisis ran to billions of dollars.
Bushfire royal commission

Australia must prepare for 'catastrophic' natural disasters amid rising threat from climate change

  • by David Crowe
Disability royal commission chair Ronald Sackville QC will ask for an extension of time to present the final report.
Disability royal commission

Disability royal commission wants more time due to COVID and workload

  • by Rachel Clun

Queensland

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New South Wales

Premier Gladys Berejiklian says she was not the decision-maker in the controversial council grants scheme.
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Premier's office provided a list of grants to approve, despite saying she's not responsible

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Former NSW auditor-general says Berejiklian should resign

  • by Alexandra Smith
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Gambling

Church leaders urge MPs to back gambling card

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Victoria

Queensland's borders remain shut.
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Coronavirus pandemic

Why I don't want to travel north when I'm allowed

  • by Michelle Griffin
Public service

Executive pay in state's major departments jumps, annual reports show

  • by Clay Lucas and Henrietta Cook
Coronavirus pandemic

Blacked-out emails show dispute over security company's role

  • by Richard Baker and Tammy Mills

Western Australia

Premier Mark McGowan's hard border success claims put to the test.
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McGowan prepares to scrap WA's hard border as nervous MPs brace for fallout

  • by Nathan Hondros
Coronavirus pandemic

WA Premier Mark McGowan sticks to his guns as border pressure builds

  • by Nathan Hondros
Coronavirus pandemic

Is Mark McGowan about to go soft on WA's hard border lockdown?

  • by Nathan Hondros

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