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- Opinion
- The AFR View
A first governor-general from the business world
Sam Mostyn’s instinctive promotion of progressive cultural policies will now be cloaked in a vice regal role that should remain above politics and controversy.
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- The AFR View
Dutton sets sights on Coles, Woolies ‘market domination’
The Opposition Leader has flagged action on property acquisitions and land banking as part of a new policy to boost competition.
- Tom McIlroy and Samantha Hutchinson
Teals warn Labor has ‘dropped the ball’ on small business
The independent MPs, expected to play a crucial role in next year’s federal election, also hit out at the Coalition for failing to support sensible changes.
- Patrick Durkin
- Analysis
- Political leadership
Sam Mostyn may face a constitutional crisis next year
Electoral and demographic trends could combine to force the new governor-general into a leading role in sorting out a post-election parliamentary deadlock.
- Andrew Clark
- Opinion
- Political leadership
Albanese’s shrewd G-G choice won’t settle for cutting ribbons
Sam Mostyn is whip smart and is more than capable of using her role to bring attention to various causes as she sees them, in a non-confrontational manner.
- Phillip Coorey
‘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.
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.
- Updated
- Lois Maskiell
Albanese ‘outraged’ after aid worker’s death as condemnation grows
Israel’s top military commander has apologised for the death of Zomi Frankcom and six colleagues killed in a botched Israeli airstrike in Gaza.
- Andrew Tillett
Sam Mostyn goes from boardroom to Yarralumla
Sam Mostyn has become the first major significant figure to be appointed to the role of governor-general, after a trailblazing career as a lawyer, director, AFL commissioner and equality activist.
- Tom McIlroy
Yesterday
‘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
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
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.
- Updated
- Hannah Wootton
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.
- Updated
- David Rowe
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.
- Updated
- Myriam Robin
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.
- Updated
- Lois Maskiell
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
- Exclusive
- Organised crime
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
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
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
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
