Today
Labor’s plan to unlock the right foreign investment
While some investors will get a fast track, extra safeguards will be set up for high-risk proposals, like China entities investing in critical infrastructure.
- 7 mins ago
- Phillip Coorey
- Opinion
- Federal budget
Chalmers takes aim at his ‘nostalgic’ critics
A risk of drip-feeding the policy is that everyone and their aunty piles on before it is detailed and contextualised.
- 7 mins ago
- Phillip Coorey
Budget surplus of $13b tipped, but Labor needs a ‘credible’ plan
It could be the second consecutive surplus for Labor and the first time that has happened in almost 20 years. But the longer-term outlook is increasingly bleak.
- 7 mins ago
- Ronald Mizen
- Opinion
- Federal budget
Labor’s reforms will de-risk foreign investment
The overhaul in the budget will strengthen the review framework where we need to, streamline it where we can, and make it more transparent, writes Jim Chalmers.
- 7 mins ago
- Jim Chalmers
David Rowe cartoons for May 2024
David Rowe is a multiple Walkley award-winning cartoonist. He draws a daily political cartoon and one for the Chanticleer column.
- David Rowe
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Quantum a better bet than burning a billion on solar panels
But even if this is the right place to deploy such a huge sum, we know too little about whether this was the best way to spend it.
- The AFR View
Bail rules and offender tracking to lead national cabinet talks
High-risk violent offenders face closer tracking in the community, part of a push by state premiers for tough and immediate new responses to domestic violence.
- Tom McIlroy
Chinese influence lingers in Solomons despite Sogavare ouster
The new Solomon Islands government is not expected to be as overtly hostile to Australia after Manasseh Sogavare declared he will not recontest the prime ministership.
- Andrew Tillett
- Opinion
- Property development
Why Australia can’t build enough new homes
The nation’s housing ambitions are way off target. That means the price of new homes and rentals will continue to climb, compounded by still high immigration numbers.
- Jennifer Hewett
White-collar crime goes unpoliced due to lack of funds: ASIC boss
“We would welcome additional funding and … there are matters we would like to run now we don’t,” ASIC chairman Joe Longo told a Senate committee.
- Ronald Mizen
Quantum investment will bring Australian entrepreneurs home: PM
Anthony Albanese says the government’s $1 billion investment in PsiQuantum will create 400 jobs; Triple zero access to be strengthened after Optus outage; Houthis attack four ships in Indian Ocean, Red Sea. Here’s how the day unfolded.
- Updated
- Maxim Shanahan
ATO told scam victim he owed $46k tax refund sent to fraudster
The victim of the scam was told he had to repay the money paid out to someone who had stolen his identity online.
- Tom McIlroy
Albanese tries to shift blame on alleged attack by freed detainee
Labor is under fresh pressure over its management of immigration detainees set free by the High Court after the alleged bashing of a Perth grandmother.
- Andrew Tillett
Bonza planes repossessed; CEO-elect quits; BHP rivals emerge
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
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
Yesterday
Government baulks at hard caps on foreign student numbers
The Albanese government is shying away from a Canadian-style hard cap on foreign student numbers and will opt for more nuanced measures to control migration.
- Phillip Coorey and Julie Hare
- Opinion
- Domestic violence
Albanese confronts domestic violence crisis
Women are angry, and the prime minister is dodging criticism even as he calls an emergency meeting of national cabinet on domestic violence.
- Updated
- Jennifer Hewett
Albanese out, Pope in for G7 summit
Despite Australia being a regular fixture in recent years, Anthony Albanese is off the guest list for the June leaders’ summit of the world’s most advanced economies.
- Andrew Tillett
- Analysis
- Domestic violence
Politicians alone cannot stop violence against women
Malcolm Turnbull best summed up the challenge a decade ago when he sought to address domestic violence. The challenge for Anthony Albanese is little different.
- Phillip Coorey
The NIMBY council singled out by Minns for rejecting density
The NSW government has released its reforms for increasing housing near transport, and will immediately enforce it on the one council that has opposed density.
- Updated
- Campbell Kwan
