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New governor-general Sam Mostyn.

‘I want to introduce myself’: Mostyn’s first speech as GG

Sam Mostyn, born in Canberra, rose from an army family to become a political and corporate power player. This is her story.

  • 1 hr ago
Paul Keating is set to meet China’s foreign minister.

Keating praises Mostyn’s appointment

Paul Keating has welcomed corporate leader Sam Mostyn as Australia’s next governor-general; the peak small business body has warned about growing numbers of insolvencies. Here’s how the day unfolded.

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  • Lois Maskiell
Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom, 43, was killed in an Israeli air strike in central Gaza while helping to deliver food. 

Albanese expresses ‘outrage’ to Netanyahu over aid worker’s death

Anthony Albanese has expressed Australian anger over the death of aid worker Zomi Frankcom in a telephone call with Benjamin Netanyahu.

  • Andrew Tillett
Sam Mostyn will be sworn in as the new governor-general on July 1.

Sam Mostyn named as Australia’s 28th governor-general

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese named the businesswoman and former AFL commissioner as King Charles’ next representative in Australia.

  • Tom McIlroy

Yesterday

Peter Dutton will address the Council of Small Business Organisations of Australia national summit on Wednesday.

‘We’ll stay off your backs’ Dutton tells business leaders

Peter Dutton has promised business leaders cheaper energy prices and less government interference under the Coalition.

  • Tom McIlroy
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Lobby group ClubsNSW says its members had recently met with the financial crime watchdog to ensure they were complying with anti-money laundering laws.

NSW clubs ‘acutely aware’ of money laundering laws

Lobby group ClubsNSW said its members had recently met with the financial crime watchdog to ensure they were complying with anti-money laundering laws.

  • Ronald Mizen
The Rheinmetall Boxer CRV at Parliament House in Canberra in 2017.

Australia locks in $1b defence deal with Germany

The manufacturing deal will create at least 600 jobs in Queensland but was thrown into doubt last year after Labor snubbed the company involved for its own defence contract.

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  • Hannah Wootton
April 3, 2024

David Rowe cartoons for April 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 April 2024 here.

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  • David Rowe
For Labor, the road to Parliament House runs through the Federal Labaor Business Forum.

Labor’s $5m fundraising chief turns lobbyist

As director of the Federal Labor Business Forum, Kate Dykes spent 12 years as the all-important cog in the Labor fundraising machine. 

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  • Myriam Robin
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

PM ‘expects full accountability’ for aid worker’s death

The PM says the tragic death of Zomi Frankcom is “completely unacceptable”; Jim Chalmers says RBA minutes show it didn’t consider increasing the cash rate in March. Here’s how the day unfolded.

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  • Lois Maskiell
The Australian Electoral Commission released data on the major donations on Tuesday.

Ramsay Foundation splashed $7m on failed Voice campaign

Rich Listers, major charitable foundations and big corporates spent millions on last year’s Indigenous referendum.

  • Tom McIlroy
AUSTRAC CEO Brendan Thomas.

AUSTRAC targets clubs’ pokies in $70b money laundering crackdown

New CEO Brendan Thomas says “massive” clubs that rival Sydney’s Star casino and host three in four of the states pokies pose a “significant risk”.

  • Ronald Mizen

This Month

The once blue-ribbon seat of Wentworth overs Sydney’s affluent eastern suburbs.

Former Deloitte consultant emerges as Liberal candidate for Wentworth

The Liberal Party now has its likely candidate but party members and officials have mixed views of the Liberals’ chances of regaining Wentworth.

  • Ronald Mizen and Samantha Hutchinson
Judges want their pensions to be exempt from new superannuation taxes.

Retired judges demand $3m super tax exemption

Extending the tax increase to judicial pensions could endanger the courts’ independence and drain talent from the bench, judges warned Treasury.

  • Hannah Wootton
Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme Bill Shorten.

AFR readers sceptical of Shorten’s NDIS promise

Almost 75 per cent of AFR readers doubt the Albanese government can reform the National Disability Insurance Scheme within five years.

  • Tom Rabe
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Lisa Wilkinson (left), Bruce Lehrmann and Brittany Higgins. Network Ten is seeking to call fresh evidence in the high-profile defamation case.

Ten seeks to call fresh evidence about Lehrmann days before judgment

The network’s lawyers have lodged an interlocutory application seeking that the high-profile Bruce Lehrmann case be reopened before the decision on Thursday.

  • Savannah Meacham

March

SA uncorks support to bolster wine exports to China

South Australian winemakers are being urged to re-engage with China after the country lifted tariffs on Australian wine that inflicted pain on the local industry.

  • Jack Gramenz
Scott Morrison

China can be a democracy: Scott Morrison

The former PM has dismissed the idea that China is unable to become a multiparty democracy, saying there is no “anti-democratic” instinct in the Chinese people.

  • Ben Westcott
Senators Jacqui Lambie and Tammy Tyrrell have parted ways.

Tammy Tyrrell goes solo, quits Jacqui Lambie Network

Senator Tyrrell made the shock resignation announcement late on Thursday, citing a rift between herself and party leader Jacqui Lambie.

  • Ronald Mizen
The retail union wants the Fair Work Commission to set living wage of $29.92 per hour.

Rebel union calls for 28pc increase to minimum wage

A small retail union is calling on the workplace umpire to set a “living wage” of $29.82 an hour; Rio Tinto paid about $10 billion in taxes and royalties last year. Here’s how the day unfolded.

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  • Lois Maskiell