Tony Abbott and Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono have declared the Australian-Indonesian relationship close to being mended, although there is still some work to be finished. At a joint appearance…
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Four in ten Australians believe relations with Indonesia are worsening – 24 points higher than in 2008 – while nearly half expect China will become a military threat to us in the next 20 years, according…
Talks between Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Wednesday will test how far the relationship between the two countries has healed after months of tension…
Cabinet minister Malcolm Turnbull has made an extraordinary attack on conservative News Corp writer Andrew Bolt, describing his column today as bordering “on the demented”. Turnbull told reporters that…
Tony Abbott leaves this week for an extensive trip that will include joining the 70th anniversary commemoration of D-Day in France before visiting Canada and the United States. His departure on Wednesday…
Liberal backbencher Dennis Jensen has attacked the absence of a coherent science policy, and questioned the budget’s plan for a huge medical research fund when cuts are being made to other science areas…
Clive Palmer and his Palmer United Party are refusing to meet with ministers in a bid to pressure the government to give PUP extra staff to deal with legislation “effectively”. Palmer cancelled a meeting…
New Australian Medical Association president Brian Owler has warned the budget’s $7 co-payment will particularly hit the “working poor”, while the squeeze on states’ hospital funding will affect “frontline…
Australia has a jobs crisis rather than a welfare crisis, according to the Salvation Army’s Economic and Social Impact Survey of nearly 2500 clients. Current job search and employment service programs…
Economist Ross Garnaut has predicted “trench warfare” over development projects, given the influence business now has with government. Delivering the John Freebairn lecture in Melbourne, Garnaut said it…
The budget hits 1.25 million low and middle income families with children on average by about $3000 a year in 2017-18 while it actually benefits upper middle and upper income families through removing…
The budget has driven the government’s vote down and pushed Bill Shorten decisively ahead of Tony Abbott as preferred prime minister, in two polls today. The Nielsen poll in Fairfax Media has the opposition…
Angry first ministers have flatly rejected Tony Abbott’s claim that the budget cuts will not hit states and territories immediately and again demanded he call an urgent meeting of the Council of Australian…
Opposition leader Bill Shorten has pledged Labor will vote against budget cuts to university funding and student support, declaring that it “will not support a system of higher fees, bigger student debt…
Former prime minister John Howard has said the GST should be broadened and its rate should perhaps be increased. As the government seeks - without admitting it - to put pressure on the states to ask for…
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has bluntly dismissed howls of outrage from Liberal premiers over the budget’s plan to push future funding responsibility for hospitals and schools on to the states. He has rejected…
Treasurer Joe Hockey has bought down a budget that hits middle Australia with swingeing cuts and price hikes, while lauding smaller government and pushing increased responsibilities onto the states. Middle…
Sweeping changes to the electoral law to crack down on micro parties “gaming” the system to win Senate seats appear certain after unanimous recommendations from a parliamentary committee. The radical reforms…
In this edition of The Week in Politics, University of Canberra Vice Chancellor Stephen Parker is in discussion with Michelle Grattan about the upcoming Federal budget, the excise on petrol, broken pledges…
Former Treasurer Wayne Swan has accused the Abbott government and Commission of Audit head Tony Shepherd of “trashing” Australia’s record internationally “for base political motives”. In a bitter attack…
Australia’s Chief Scientist, Ian Chubb, has called on company chief executives to speak out in the public debate about climate change. Chubb said corporate managers and investors knew that climate change…
Finance Minister Mathias Cormann today has effectively confirmed the budget will contain a tax levy on high-income earners and appealed to Australians to “trust” the government. Cormann said the government…
Senior Liberal backbencher Warren Entsch says the Commission of Audit has “frightened the bejeezus” out of old people and warned that the government’s proposed deficit tax levy will hit the government’s…
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has cancelled plans to fly to Bali early next week to meet Indonesian premier Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. The visit had been at the President’s invitation and would have been their…
Tony Abbott will interrupt his work on the budget to make a rushed trip to Bali early next week for his first face-to-face encounter with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono since the revelations…