AUKUS continues to be hit with niggling concerns about its progress or even its continuation. The countries’ three leaders need to get together, stand together and recommit to erase any doubts.
Allowing new homes to be built is one thing. Changing the tax rules and pushing down prices is another. Mr Albanese is changing the country. Investors are being forced to adapt.
Aaron Patrick
The under-pressure audit and consulting firm insists it has not yet settled on cuts, despite talk its workforce will be reduced by up to 10 per cent.
Sean Smith
The comments have triggered confusion in Washington, with officials seeking answers over the future of US submarines in Australia.
Andrew Greene
Federal Labor MP Luke Gosling has been released on bail after being arrested this morning following allegations he assaulted the Northern Territory Administrator earlier this month.
LIVE UPDATES: The Home Affairs Minister has rubbished Pauline Hanson’s proposed law to block ISIS fighters from returning to Australia, saying it ‘would last 30 seconds in High Court’.
Chloe Maher
Pauline Hanson has laid out the key priorities she says would define the first 100 days of a One Nation government if the minor party were to win the 2028 federal election.
Opposition Leader Angus Taylor denied five times he had made any payment to a conservative Christian group.
LIVE UPDATES: “Inflation has come in lower than expected, lower than forecast in the Budget or by the Reserve Bank,” he said.
Kimberley Braddish and Madeline Cove
With another interest rate rise still possible, Australia’s political leaders are locked in a blame game over who is responsible for keeping inflation above target.
Madeline Cove
A US company will design a new dry dock to support AUKUS operations in WA, as the Pentagon continues to pressure the Albanese Government to build more facilities for nuclear-submarine maintenance.
Pauline Hanson's flights from London to Sicily during a recent European trip, and tickets to a luxury fashion show, were paid for by mining boss Gina Rinehart.
Duncan Murray
Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock has explained why borrowers could face another rate hike.
Stephen Johnson
LIVE UPDATES: Newly sworn-in Victorian Premier Ben Carroll has used his first press conference to pledge a royal commission into Victoria’s construction sector and distance himself from his predecessors.
Kimberley Braddish, Emily Williams and Madeline Cove
The ACTU’s high-profile secretary and president have signalled the end of eight years together leading the powerful union.
Katherine Kraayvanger
In a rare public appearance, the mastermind of Labor’s election wins in 2022 and 2025 has declared his party’s next contest will be as much about fighting One Nation as its traditional Coalition opponents.
Patrick Gorman has praised WA’s ‘special relationship’ with China as diplomatic tensions continue to simmer over Beijing’s recent missile test and Taiwan’s push to establish a new trade office in Perth.
The Australian Jewish Association has accused the organisers of the upcoming Census of downplaying the existence of Judaism.
Angus Taylor and Pauline Hanson have accused Anthony Albanese of refusing to answer key questions about a fundraising dinner at the $40 million harbour-side mansion.
Caitlyn Rintoul
A party source said MPs from Premier Jacinta Allan’s left faction were defecting to right-wing challenger Ben Carroll
RECAP: The Federal Government has declared the first nationwide Oz Alert test a success, with 94 per cent of targeted towers broadcasting the emergency message.
Anthony Albanese is facing fresh pressure after attending a luxury Point Piper fundraiser, with Matt Canavan calling on Labor to return the controversial donation.
Bearing in mind the margin for error and possibilities of poll fluctuations both ways, it remains clear One Nation has not gone away.
The PM has awkwardly skirted around questions about his attendance at a private Labor fundraising dinner hosted at a wealthy businessman’s mansion, refusing to directly address the event.
