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Voters swing to Dutton in new sign of angst over economy
With households suffering from rising prices and higher interest rates, 53 per cent of voters name the cost of living as the most important issue in deciding their votes.
- by David Crowe
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Building Bad
Labor executive set to ban donations from Victorian CFMEU
- by Angus Thompson and Paul Sakkal
‘Everything on the table’: Burke weighs deregistration of CFMEU construction division amid revelations
- by James Massola and Annika Smethurst
Opinion & Perspectives
True history of the Black Hand, the Liberals who have kept Menzies’ flame alive
In 1984, I was the youngest Liberal invited to the founding of a forum whose mission was to maintain the party’s liberal values. The spirit of Menzies still thrives.
George Brandis
Former high commissioner to the UK and federal attorney-general
It’s tougher now than in the 1980s
Even Boomers agree: younger people are doing it terribly tough because of the cost of putting a roof over their head.
Exposing councils with slow DA approval histories will spur reform
The publication of a name and shame list of NSW councils dragging their heels on processing development applications should spur reform.
The Herald's View
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Federal
Best of cartoons, July 16, 2024
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Building Bad
Labor executive set to ban donations from Victorian CFMEU
- by Angus Thompson and Paul Sakkal
NSW
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Public housing
NSW’s new maintenance system will see 750 homes revamped with thousands to follow
- by Alexandra Smith
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Sydney councils
Claims of disappearing documents engulf Sydney’s Game of Thrones council
- by Max Maddison and Kate McClymont
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Property development
Exposing councils with slow DA approval histories will spur reform
- The Herald's View
Victoria
Allan wants CFMEU temporarily banished from Victorian Labor
- by Broede Carmody and Rachel Eddie
Jacinta Allan has some time to delay airport rail, but not for long
- by Kieran Rooney and Rachel Eddie
Queensland
Perspective
Government
A Queensland Senate may be the only thing to protect the LNP from itself
- by Cameron Atfield
