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Fresh wave of immigration detainee releases expected
The Albanese government is bracing for a fresh wave of High Court cases – and rulings – against the powers to hold people in immigration detention indefinitely.
- Andrew Tillett
Australia ends freeze on $6m for Palestinian aid agency UNRWA
Australia joins Canada, Sweden and the European Union in restoring funding for the organisation after at least 12 countries froze payments in January.
- Andrew Tillett
The wealthy are in the crosshairs for ever-rising aged care costs
Richer Australians will pay more for aged care under a long-awaited government review released this week. Is this the start of a new trend?
- Tom McIlroy
Aged care workers win further wage rise of up to 13.5pc
Aged care workers win second work value wage rise; Australia restores UNRWA funding; ‘Long COVID’ should not be used says QLD chief health officer; Read the latest here.
- Tom Burton
The one thing John Howard says could get four-year terms over the line
Former prime minister John Howard and his one-time Labor rival Kim Beazley have thrown their support behind calls to extend the federal parliamentary term to four years.
- Tom Rabe
Cost of living help will be a fraction of the tax cuts: Chalmers
Peter Dutton says Jim Chalmers can’t decide whether to fight inflation or stimulate growth.
- Phillip Coorey
Opinion & Analysis
A tense Oval Office meeting for Biden: here it is verbatim
Every word hits the target as President Joe Biden dresses down Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu.
Satirist
TikTok made me write this – and it’s time for it to go
TikTok’s influence on young Australians goes beyond free speech and into sinister realms of undue influence.
Columnist
Dutton’s nuclear push could take on political life of its own
The zero-emissions power source adds up on some fronts, but there’s still a whiff of crazy about the whole push.
Political editor
How the US Navy could sink AUKUS
The US nuclear submarine program is under stress on several fronts. Fixing them is crucial to the success of AUKUS.
Foreign affairs, defence correspondent
Yesterday
- Opinion
- Satire
A tense Oval Office meeting for Biden: here it is verbatim
Every word hits the target as President Joe Biden dresses down Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu.
- Rowan Dean
- Opinion
- Social media
TikTok made me write this – and it’s time for it to go
TikTok’s influence on young Australians goes beyond free speech and into sinister realms of undue influence.
- The Parrhesian
This Month
- Opinion
- Canberra Observed
Dutton’s nuclear push could take on political life of its own
The zero-emissions power source adds up on some fronts, but there’s still a whiff of crazy about the whole push.
- Phillip Coorey
- Analysis
- AUKUS
How the US Navy could sink AUKUS
The US nuclear submarine program is under stress on several fronts. Fixing them is crucial to the success of AUKUS.
- Updated
- Andrew Tillett
Wong to push China’s foreign minister on trade, security
Penny Wong will raise the removal of conflict prevention, human rights and the detention of Yang Hengjun when she hosts China’s foreign minister next week.
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- Andrew Tillett
- Opinion
- GST
Loser Victoria shouldn’t be a GST winner
Any federal government that’s serious about reforming Commonwealth-state relations would stop rewarding Victoria’s disastrous financial mismanagement.
- John Roskam
Budget to strike balance on relief, reform: Chalmers
Jim Chalmers says his next budget will strike a balance between relief, repair and long-term reform; Victoria will fast-track approvals for new renewable energy projects. Here’s how the day unfolded.
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- Lois Maskiell
Iron ore price, cooler job market to weigh on budget: Chalmers
The federal government’s revenue expectations will be downgraded significantly in the May budget due to falling commodity prices and a softening jobs market, the treasurer says.
- Phillip Coorey
Loyalty schemes are not what they seem, consumer groups warn
A Senate inquiry into the pricing practices and market share of companies including Coles and Woolworths has heard customers cannot properly assess changing specials.
- Tom McIlroy
It’s wedding season! The four ministers eyeing first-term ceremonies
Canberra’s political classes are buzzing for not one but four weddings involving frontline ministers of the Albanese government.
- Mark Di Stefano
GST stoush to disrupt treasurers’ meeting
NSW will use Friday’s meeting of state and federal treasurers to push for urgent reform of the rules for the carve-up of the GST.
- Tom McIlroy and Michael Read
Suburban Rail Loop to cost another $16b, Victorian budget office finds
Victoria’s Parliamentary Budget Office has projected that building and operating the first two phases of the Suburban Rail Loop will cost $216.7 billion.
- Gus McCubbing
High Court win for corruption bodies comes with a warning
Victoria’s anti-corruption body dodged a bullet on Wednesday after a High Court ruling cleared the way for it to complete a stalled investigation.
- Michael Pelly
Australia faces ‘creeping irrelevance’: Varoufakis
Yanis Varoufakis says lucrative tech industries in the US and China are driving a new Cold War; a former tax office employee has been jailed for accepting bribes. Here’s how the day unfolded.
- Updated
- Lois Maskiell
NDIS is as popular as Medicare, study shows
Redbridge research reveals deep community support for the national disability insurance scheme, underscoring why both sides of politics are wary of criticism despite massive cost blowouts.
- Tom Burton
- Analysis
- AUKUS
AUKUS mugged by ugly industrial reality
Congressional wrangling over the Pentagon’s budget sends a worrying message over AUKUS and highlights an ugly industrial reality.
- Andrew Tillett
Greens say price tag for emissions support is gas veto
Adam Bandt’s party is vowing to back Chris Bowen’s vehicle emissions reforms sight unseen – but only if Labor ditches laws to fast-track offshore gas approvals.
- Jacob Greber and Phillip Coorey
Why this cyber chief thinks your electric car is a security risk
Chinese technology is “inherently suspect”, a top US cybersecurity official says.
- Andrew Tillett
David Rowe cartoons for March 2024
David Rowe is a multiple Walkley award-winning cartoonist. He draws a daily political cartoon and one for the Chanticleer column. You can see all of his political cartoons for March 2024 here.
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- David Rowe
‘Profound’ submarine blow to AUKUS on eve of anniversary
Despite promises to ramp up production, so Australia can receive nuclear-powered submarines, the Pentagon will only start one new submarine in 2025.
- Andrew Tillett
