News from Victoria's fastest growth region
Stage 3 has long been built into both federal budget planning and market expectations. Drawing on the British experience is more a convenient argument than a meaningful parallel. …
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Michelle Grattan & politics + society editor Amanda Dunn canvass Tuesdays interest rate hike, Australia’s repatriation mission of women and children in refugee camps and the Brittany Higgins trial. …
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As well as her interviews with politicians and experts, Politics with Michelle Grattan includes “Word from The Hill”, where she
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A key issue for the Liberals’ election post-mortem that reports later this year – conveniently after the Victorian election –
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As of Sunday morning, the Minister for Government Services Bill Shorten and Cyber Security Minister Clare O’Neil were yet to receive information from Optus that was requested on September 27. …
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National cabinet has agreed to lift the five day mandatory isolation period for people contracting COVID, with the Commonwealth’s chief
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Albanese & Dutton see common ground regarding the National Anti-Corruption Commission legislation introduced to parliament earlier this week. …
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Under the proposed legislation for the Albanese governments anti-corruption body, public hearings would only be held in ‘exceptional circumstances’ and in the public interest. …
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While Labor has the numbers in the lower house, it would need one additional vote beyond the Greens if the opposition opposed the legislation in the Senate. …
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“Hop in a taxi [in Kyiv] and the taxi driver is going to ask you, ‘where are you from?’ And you say you’re Australian. Most likely he’s going to say ‘Bushmaster” …
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