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Glen Le Lievre cartoons for 2023-24
See all of Glen Le Lievre cartoons for 2023 and 2024.
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- Glen Le Lievre
Dutton’s housing fix ‘will worsen supply’
One of Australia’s biggest property developers says slashing permanent migration as a way to fix acute housing shortages will only exacerbate the problem.
- Tom McIlroy, Michael Read and Nick Lenaghan
One in, one out: Dutton plan ‘risks $48b foreign student industry’
Peter Dutton’s promise to reduce temporary migration to 160,000 people would smash the country’s fourth-largest export sector, experts say.
- Julie Hare
Albanese and Dutton fight on the home front for voters
With the countdown now on to the election, both sides used budget week to stake out their territory on the hot-button housing issue. But it’s already a crowded policy space, and there are no quick fixes.
- Andrew Tillett
Tradies are the thing we need most: Developers to Dutton
Developers warned that cutting immigration would not only slow home building, but have ramifications for the entire Australian economy.
- Campbell Kwan, Larry Schlesinger and Nick Lenaghan
Dutton’s housing election; Nvidia bulls sell; Millennial set to retire
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
Opinion & Analysis
Dutton wants a housing election. This could get nasty
As the RBA says, there are no quick fixes to the residential property crisis. But that won’t stop Peter Dutton trying before the next election.
Columnist
Labor’s green superpower plan will need a new public service
Expertise in green hydrogen, photonic quantum physics, large-scale lithium batteries and next-generation mineralogy are not skills you typically see on Canberra CVs.
Government editor
This budget sees the return of government as saviour
Two decades ago, Australia was poised to shed the hard-done-by battler mindset. Now it is more entrenched than ever.
Political editor
The big fail in Australia’s housing
The Albanese government’s promises of 1.2 million homes over five years are now in the realm of political fantasy, despite the billions of dollars it has pledged for housing.
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- Chanticleer
Dutton wants a housing election. This could get nasty
As the RBA says, there are no quick fixes to the residential property crisis. But that won’t stop Peter Dutton trying before the next election.
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- James Thomson
Dutton concedes homes sales to foreigners are ‘low’
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has conceded only a tiny fraction of property sales in Australia are made by foreign residents, hours after releasing a major new population policy.
- Tom McIlroy and Michael Read
Prescription data safe, says cyber chief
A-League players arrested for alleged yellow card betting racket; no need to replace Medicare cards after MediSecure cyber hack; Pesutto apologises and settles defamation actions. Follow updates here.
- Tom Burton
- Analysis
- Government Observed
Labor’s green superpower plan will need a new public service
Expertise in green hydrogen, photonic quantum physics, large-scale lithium batteries and next-generation mineralogy are not skills you typically see on Canberra CVs.
- Tom Burton
- Exclusive
- Federal budget
Two-thirds of new road and rail money flows to Labor seats
Labor has allocated $4.1 billion for 64 new priority infrastructure projects, $2.7 billion of which has gone to Labor seats in Tuesday’s federal budget.
- Ronald Mizen and Tom McIlroy
Yesterday
- Opinion
- Canberra Observed
This budget sees the return of government as saviour
Two decades ago, Australia was poised to shed the hard-done-by battler mindset. Now it is more entrenched than ever.
- Phillip Coorey
Dutton to slash migrant intake, ban foreign property buyers
The opposition leader has vowed to slash permanent migration by a quarter and ban foreign investors buying established homes for two years.
- Phillip Coorey
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- Gas
Labor slammed for offshore gas approval backdown
A deal with the Greens means Labor is close to passing Petroleum Resources Rent Tax changes and vehicle emissions standards, but it has shelved fast-tracked gas approvals.
- Tom McIlroy
- Opinion
- Property market
The big fail in Australia’s housing
The Albanese government’s promises of 1.2 million homes over five years are now in the realm of political fantasy, despite the billions of dollars it has pledged for housing.
- Jennifer Hewett
- Analysis
- Federal budget
The ADF will grow by just 358 people next year. That’s a big problem
If Defence is to attract the 5000 new soldiers, sailors and aviators it desperately needs, it must do a much better job looking after its current ones.
- Andrew Tillett
Can Australia become a green energy superpower? Five charts that say yes
The Albanese government is taking a big punt on its signature Future Made in Australia policy, betting $24.3 billion over 10 years in Tuesday’s budget – these charts show why.
- Ronald Mizen
Jobs growth, immigration back under control: Chalmers
Delivering his 2024 budget speech, Treasurer Jim Chalmers says Labor has delivered record jobs growth, wages growth is back in the black, and immigration will be half what it was last year.
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Jobless rate up; No ‘quick’ house price fix: RBA; Buffett boosts bulls
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AFP investigates large-scale ransomware attack on health company
The Australian Federal Police and other authorities are investigating a large-scale ransomware attack on a private health business. Here’s how the day unfolded.
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- Tom Rabe
PM chides Labor MP over her use of anti-Israel slogan
The opposition wants Anthony Albanese to remove rookie senator Fatima Payman from a prestigious parliamentary committee after her pro-Palestinian advocacy.
- Andrew Tillett
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.
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- David Rowe
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- Australian economy
Chalmers confronts his economic critics
The treasurer insists his budget gets the balance right, even if the economists don’t agree. What will the Reserve Bank and the voters think?
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- Jennifer Hewett
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Chalmers’ budget boast overlooks Australia’s debt mountain
The substantial fiscal challenge from the budget is a forecast decade of deficits and highest plateau of federal government net debt for more than half a century.
- The AFR View
Dutton rejects ‘Rich Lister’ tax cuts
The opposition has blasted $27.8 billion in production credits in the budget as “tax cuts for billionaires”, vowing to repeal them if elected.
- Phillip Coorey and Brad Thompson
Pro-Palestine protesters storm university building
Police were called and all classes in one building at the University of Melbourne were cancelled after students occupied the site in defiance of administrators.
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- Gus McCubbing