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Archer is pushing for extensive reform in a party that is electorally on the ropes and out of office everywhere except her home state of Tasmania. …
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WA Premier Mark McGowan has announced his shock decision to step down, saying he is ‘exhausted’ after six years as premier and more than 26 years as a state Labor MP. …
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The Labor Party will hold its national conference in Brisbane. Coincidentally, the venue is in the electorate of Griffith, which Labor lost to the Greens in 2022 …
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In this podcast, Labor MP Julian Hill joins Michelle Grattan to discuss the job market and getting people into work, artificial intelligence, Julian Assange, and TikTok. …
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As debate on the historic referendum legislation, Dutton claimed the Voice would ‘re-racialise our nation’. …
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Jonathan Ernst/Pool/AP Anthony Albanese now has a firm promise of a state visit to the United States this year, and
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Like Albanese, Plibersek is pragmatic, but probably hasn’t moved quite so far to the centre as he has. If she were running things, would this Labor government have a more radical tinge? …
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The bar was always too hard for Dutton. This week’s budget, whatever criticisms can be made of it, has been an elusive target for the Liberals …
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In this podcast, @michellegrattan canvasses the budget with Treasurer @JEChalmers, Shadow Treasurer @AngusTaylorMP and The Conversation’s politics + society editor @amandadunn10 …
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The budget is aimed firmly at the most vulnerable and has a significant focus on women. …
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