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‘Not a coherent word’: Keating slams PM, Marles over AUKUS
Former prime minister Paul Keating says there has been no proper debate about AUKUS’ impact on Australia’s defence settings, as a new report backs the delivery schedule.
- Tom Rabe
New ministers target CFMEU, people smugglers and Greens
Murray Watt cited a CFMEU clean-out as his number one priority, Clare O’Neil refused to yield to the Greens on housing, and Tony Burke headed to Indonesia to talk tough on people smuggling.
- Phillip Coorey
Revolving door of PMs embarrassed Australia: Albanese
Anthony Albanese has acknowledged Labor’s contribution to the chaos that blighted Australian politics for almost two decades.
- Phillip Coorey
Joyce’s talk of bullets and ballot boxes enrages PM
Anthony Albanese called on Peter Dutton to dump Barnaby Joyce for using “completely unacceptable” language at an anti-offshore wind rally.
- Jessica Gardner
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The grassroots campaign targeting a Labor weak spot
Keep The Sheep has raised close to $450,000 since it was founded earlier this year, and is promising to target federal Labor seats in Perth.
- Tom Rabe
Opinion & Analysis
Look to Arizona for nuclear reality
Reader letters on nuclear power; energy rebates; the CFMEU scandal; inheritance and adult children; and the NSW changes for landlords.
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Keating: AUKUS hijacking national accountability
Letters from readers including former prime minister Paul Keating on AUKUS; the Paris opening ceremony; whether Jabiluka should be mined and the retirement of AFR Editor-in-Chief Michael Stutchbury.
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Why east coast energy woes won’t hurt green industry plans
Many projects in the new industries can be located where they are welcomed, and away from the current grid.
Former ACCC chair
Why beating up on private motorway companies is short-sighted
Privately owned motorway companies must provide a superior service to motorists, or they simply go out of business.
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Look to Arizona for nuclear reality
Reader letters on nuclear power; energy rebates; the CFMEU scandal; inheritance and adult children; and the NSW changes for landlords.
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- Letters to the Editor
Keating: AUKUS hijacking national accountability
Letters from readers including former prime minister Paul Keating on AUKUS; the Paris opening ceremony; whether Jabiluka should be mined and the retirement of AFR Editor-in-Chief Michael Stutchbury.
- Opinion
- Carbon challenge
Why east coast energy woes won’t hurt green industry plans
Many projects in the new industries can be located where they are welcomed, and away from the current grid.
- Rod Sims
- Opinion
- Infrastructure
Why beating up on private motorway companies is short-sighted
Privately owned motorway companies must provide a superior service to motorists, or they simply go out of business.
- Tony Shepherd
This Month
- Opinion
- Federal election
O’Neil jumps from the frying pan to the fire in deft reshuffle
Anthony Albanese’s reshuffle is a deft piece of people management. No-one can really argue they’ve been demoted, and it plugs holes that needed to be plugged.
- Phillip Coorey
Albanese guts Home Affairs in pointed reshuffle
Anthony Albanese has gutted the Home Affairs department and moved aside the two ministers responsible for the troubled Immigration portfolio, in a modest but pointed reshuffle.
- Phillip Coorey
NSW Premier Chris Minns dodges a fight over Palestine
The Labor leader promised new protections for renters and gig-economy workers at the party’s first conference in power in NSW after 12 years.
- Aaron Patrick
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Will Albanese’s ‘no losers’ reshuffle be enough?
The former workplace relations minister who let the law-breaking CFMEU off the leash by abolishing the Australian Building and Construction Commission has been put in charge of policing the nation’s borders.
- The AFR View
Now its O’Neil v Chandler-Mather on housing
Clare O’Neil will take on selling the government’s housing agenda, which pollsters say has been drowned out by the Greens’ precocious spokesman Max Chandler-Mather.
- Jessica Gardner
- Opinion
- Immigration
Multicultural report buries Australia’s British past
The institutions that Britain brought – parliamentary democracy, the rule of law, an independent judiciary and a free press – are the very institutions which have allowed multiculturalism to flourish. This report ignores them.
- James Curran
Martin Indyk, Australian diplomat who pursued Middle East peace, dies at 73
Raised in Sydney’s Castlecrag, the diplomat who helped steer Middle East policy under two US presidents, has died. “He’ll be remembered for his commitment to the cause of Israeli-Palestinian peace, which in the end broke his heart.”
- William Branigin
Kennett calls on Dutton to establish a CFMEU royal commission
Peter Dutton has blasted the beleaguered CFMEU and identity politics as the opposition leader rallies Liberal Party faithful.
- Callum Godde
NSW Labor formally backs Palestine state ‘as priority’
NSW Labor has sent a message to its counterparts in Canberra, passing a motion demanding the federal government recognise Palestinian statehood.
- Alex Mitchell and Samantha Lock
- Opinion
- Building Bad
Albanese is responsible for the monster that is the CFMEU
A friendly political environment created by the Labor government allows the lawless union to thrive.
- Aaron Patrick
- Analysis
- White collar crime
Inside the push to break up ASIC
ASIC chairman Joe Longo says the corporate cop is finally turning a corner, but there are plenty of critics who think the only answer for ASIC is ‘radical change’.
- Ronald Mizen
Is Perth ready to welcome nuclear submarines?
Officials are publicly confident Perth is ready to host nuclear-powered submarines. Others are worried by slow progress.
- Andrew Tillett
Albanese kills uranium mining at Jabiluka
Anthony Albanese has ended a decades-old dispute over uranium mining in the NT by ending the mineral lease on Jabiluka and pledging to add the mine site to the Kakadu National Park.
- Peter Ker and staff writers
Australia, Canada and NZ urge immediate Gaza ceasefire
An escalation of hostilities and rhetoric between the militant anti-Israeli group Hezbollah and Israel was flagged as a concern by the leaders of the three countries.
- Holly Hales
- Exclusive
- University
The uni reform that has vice chancellors in rare furious agreement
The first piece of reform under the universities accord is not going to plan, says vice chancellors.
- Julie Hare
Top barrister slams Berejiklian over corruption denial
Former ICAC assistant commissioner Anthony Whealy criticised the ex-NSW premier for her defiance after losing an appeal over a corruption finding.
- Aaron Patrick
