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    Former treasurer Josh Frydenberg, now the chairman of Goldman Sachs Australia, at The Australian Financial Review Business Summit in February.

    Frydenberg’s political comeback splits Liberals

    The former treasurer is not ruling out a rematch against teal independent Monique Ryan in his old seat of Kooyong.

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    • Ronald Mizen
    June 3, 2024

    David Rowe cartoons for June 2024

    David Rowe is a multiple Walkley award-winning cartoonist. He draws a daily political cartoon and one for the Chanticleer column.

    • 45 mins ago
    • David Rowe

    Marles raises concerns over Chinese military harassment

    Richard Marles says he had a frank talk with his Chinese counterpart in Singapore; a rescue mission is underway to find a person in the ruins of a collapsed townhouse in Sydney’s west. Follow updates here.

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    • Lois Maskiell

    China will prosper if it helps stand against Russia: Marles

    The defence minister will tell the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore that Beijing is wrong if it thinks there is ‘indelible hostility’ towards China in the West.

    • Phillip Coorey

    ‘Gina effect’: Gallery got 25pc bump after Rinehart portrait gripe

    The fuss about an image of Gina Rinehart being included in a National Gallery exhibition did not register in the artist’s home community of Indulkana, the Senate has been told

    • Tom McIlroy

    Albanese opens door for Giles’ exit amid NZ PM’s grave concerns’

    Anthony Albanese is making no commitment to keeping the embattled immigration minister as he weighs a winter reshuffle.

    • Phillip Coorey

    Opinion & Analysis

    The Liberals need Frydenberg, but at what cost?

    The optics of a bloke pushing aside a woman, especially in a teal seat, just because it’s suddenly become winnable, will be poor.

    Phillip Coorey

    Political editor

    Phillip Coorey

    Hysteria over Husic’s call shows what’s wrong with tax debate

    If honesty were to play any part in tax policy, we would all be searching for a way to have a fulsome conversation about our tax system, and how its failing will negatively affect all Australians.

    Michelle de Niese

    Tax reform advocate

    Michelle de Niese

    ‘You talking to me?’ De Niro meets the Don on the streets of Manhattan

    Acclaimed actor Robert de Niro has never made a secret of his loathing for Donald Trump.

    Rowan Dean

    Satirist

    Rowan Dean

    Giles scandal shows we disdain bureaucracies until we need services

    Slashing the capabilities of government departments means that in the real world, dodgy characters escape scrutiny and genuine needs go unanswered.

    Laura Tingle

    Columnist

    Laura Tingle
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    If Josh Frydenberg wants to make a tilt for his old seat of Kooyong, he will need to replace

    The Liberals need Frydenberg, but at what cost?

    The optics of a bloke pushing aside a woman, especially in a teal seat, just because it’s suddenly become winnable, will be poor.

    • 43 mins ago
    • Phillip Coorey
    Ed Husic called for tax reform at the Australian Financial Review AI Summit last week.

    Hysteria over Husic’s call shows what’s wrong with tax debate

    If honesty were to play any part in tax policy, we would all be searching for a way to have a fulsome conversation about our tax system, and how its failing will negatively affect all Australians.

    • Michelle de Niese

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    Robert De Niro created one of cinema’s iconic figures as Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver.

    ‘You talking to me?’ De Niro meets the Don on the streets of Manhattan

    Acclaimed actor Robert de Niro has never made a secret of his loathing for Donald Trump.

    • Rowan Dean

    May

    Redistribution puts teals, Liberals at risk

    Labor has lost a key seat in Victoria but could replace it by picking up a newly created electorate – Bullwinkel – in WA, under a planned rejig for the next federal election.

    • Tom McIlroy and Phillip Coorey
    Immigration Minister Andrew Giles: in keeping with modern practice, Anthony Albanese will not let him walk.

    Giles scandal shows we disdain bureaucracies until we need services

    Slashing the capabilities of government departments means that in the real world, dodgy characters escape scrutiny and genuine needs go unanswered.

    • Laura Tingle
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    Emeritus Professor Rosalind Croucher, President, Australian Human Rights Commission, during a Senate estimates hearing at Parliament House in Canberra on Friday.

    ‘Toxic’: Human rights watchdog at war with itself over Gaza

    Race Discrimination commissioner Giridharan Sivaraman said he needed “context” before he would condemn the phrase “from the river to the sea”, in a fiery Senate committee hearing.

    • Patrick Durkin
    Anthony Albanese places great emphasis on a stable cabinet.

    Labor’s much-vaunted stability is showing signs of strain

    Anthony Albanese’s ministry has not changed since it was announced two years ago. But competitive tension is rising and the Future Made in Australia Act risks more fireworks.

    • Phillip Coorey
    Former president Donald Trump in court during the trial.

    Trump verdict reveals deep US divisions: Dutton

    Political leaders emphasised the strength of ties between Australia and the United States in the wake of the guilty verdict in Donald Trump’s election interference case.

    • Tom McIlroy
    One of the big benefits of teaching Chinese international students is the insights they provide into their country.

    On the front line of Australia’s foreign student surge

    International students are in the sights of both a government and opposition looking to win votes. Who are these political pawns, and what is it like to teach them?

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    • Mark Mulligan
    Australian Energy Regulator chair Clare Savage and Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb are two of the country’s most powerful regulators.

    They battled blokey workplaces. Now these 33 women enforce the rules

    Energy regulator Clare Savage and competition chief Gina Cass-Gottlieb are among 33 women leading Australia’s regulatory bodies, once the domain of male enforcers.

    • Tom Burton

    There won’t be a reshuffle until there is one

    To move Immigration Minister Andrew Giles, a close factional ally of the Prime Minister and member of his praetorian guard, could cause more problems than it would solve.

    • Phillip Coorey
    Immigration Minister Andrew Giles during Question Time in Canberra on Wednesday.

    Kiwis warn PM against a return to deporting criminals

    New Zealand is seeking input into a new ministerial directive amid concerns the Albanese government will re-start deporting criminals.

    • Phillip Coorey
    Scape CEO Anouk Darling at a new Scape student accomodation development.

    Migration cuts scaring off investors in student digs: industry

    A shortfall will exist even if international student numbers drop to as low as 25 per cent of 2019 levels, according to Savills.

    • Campbell Kwan
    Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at a press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in 2022.

    Zelensky pushes Albanese over peace summit attendance

    Volodymyr Zelensky has asked Anthony Albanese to help generate support for the June peace summit in Switzerland. Coal was not raised.

    • Phillip Coorey

    Labor wants a deal on more senators by Christmas

    Tasmania has 402,000 voters and 12 senators; the ACT has 315,000 voters and two senators. MPs want to make upper house representation a bit more even.

    • Tom McIlroy
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    Biggest density rises in Minns’ housing plan are in Liberal seats

    The seven councils with the largest increases to their housing targets, in percentage terms, are predominantly located in Liberal-held electorates.

    • Campbell Kwan
    In this year’s annual JPMorgan Chase address, Jamie Dimon focused on wars, geopolitics, technology and AI, with climate change only mentioned during question and answers.

    Business has bigger worries than ESG

    One explanation for the seeming decline in discussion about ESG is that it’s something that goes in and out of fashion according to economic conditions.

    • John Roskam
    Immigration minister Andrew Giles is under fire for his management of the immigration detainee release saga.

    Government using drones to track freed former immigration detainees

    Immigration Minister Andrew Giles says a $250 million funding boost is helping agencies track the 153 freed detainees; New Zealand’s new centre-right government has cut taxes in its first budget. Here’s how the day unfolded.

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    • David Marin-Guzman
    Around 99 per cent of Australia’s solar panels come from China, despite the technology having been developed here.

    Future Fund sells stakes in Chinese firms linked to military, rights abuses

    Australia’s sovereign wealth fund has sold out of a range of Chinese companies, including brewer Tsingtao and energy and tech firms.

    • Andrew Tillett
     Casino Food Co-op chief executive Simon Stahl.

    ‘Johnny on the spot’: China ban ends at perfect time for beef farmers

    Just two Australian beef exporters remained locked out of the Chinese market, the latest thawing in the long-running trade dispute between Beijing and Canberra.

    • Tom McIlroy, James Hall and Jessica Sier