Politics
Exclusive
Political leadership
Voters want Labor to allow MPs more freedom to break ranks
The exclusive findings highlight public support for politicians to speak out against the party line when they feel strongly on big issues.
- by David Crowe
Private school charity status sacrosanct despite calls to scrap it
- by Shane Wright and Lucy Carroll
Exclusive
Building Bad
Labor-linked judge in government sights to take over CFMEU
- by Paul Sakkal, Angus Thompson and Ben Schneiders
Opinion & Perspectives
Chance for a CFMEU clean-out – but the devil will be in the detail
The cronies, the corrupt, the violent and all underworld figures need to be banished from the construction union and a new generation of decent people must take their place.
‘For the first time, I feel unsafe.’ Trump attack has fearful Australian MPs on edge
Australia does not have America’s gun culture or record of political violence, but many of our politicians are increasingly concerned about their security.
David Crowe
Chief political correspondent
Jacinta Allan is failing to cut through. The denials are making it worse
The state Labor government has been under weeks of sustained political pressure. But it won’t turn around the slump in support with this defensive manner.
Annika Smethurst
State Political Editor
Federal
New push to end ‘ugly’ exploitation of older Australians
A $5 million media campaign aims to raise awareness of and eliminate elder abuse, which affects about one in six older people in Australia.
- by Paul Sakkal
Can the Voices model help communities fight off nuclear reactors?
Coal communities across the country – facing the loss of industry, jobs and the social fabric that binds them together – are poised to transition from the coal that built their histories.
- by Bianca Hall and Mike Foley
Exclusive
Building Bad
Australians pay the price for CFMEU tactics, figures show
- by David Crowe and Angus Thompson
EVs charge to the front – and to the rescue – in clean power reforms
- by Mike Foley and Nick Toscano
Exclusive
Broadcast rights
NRL to test broadcast rights waters as streaming loophole appears
- by Chris Barrett
Victoria
Exclusive
Building Bad
More than 20 CFMEU officials stood down after organised crime allegations
- by Kieran Rooney, Rachel Eddie, Sumeyya Ilanbey and Angus Thompson
‘She’d steal her grandma’s false teeth’: Notorious conwoman jailed after three decades of fraud
- by Melissa Cunningham and Cameron Houston
New South Wales
Nepotism, wasted money and potential corruption: Liverpool Council on the brink
- by Kate McClymont, Ben Cubby and Max Maddison
Queensland
Perspective
Government
A Queensland Senate may be the only thing to protect the LNP from itself
- by Cameron Atfield
