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While most in the big end of town are relieved at the Abbott government’s arrival, Holden is getting more than the cold shoulder. The Coalition is aggressively taking on the car maker that has its hand…
The government has taken the first step in exploring how to curb the scope for “micro” parties to win Senate places through elaborate preference deals. Special Minister of State Michael Ronaldson has asked…
Members of the ALP national executive will vote tomorrow to preselect candidates for Victorian legislative council electorates. Executive members from as far away as Western Australia and Queensland will…
The Abbott government is, as a new administration, being tested out on various fronts. A very obvious one is industry policy and whether it is going to hold firm against providing more subsidies. Both…
Queensland Liberal senator Ian Macdonald is not prominent and he has an axe to grind. Shadow parliamentary secretary for northern Australia, he didn’t even make the “third eleven” of the frontbench in…
The ABC and its managing director Mark Scott are caught in a perfect storm. Critics variously driven by ideology, commercial interests or a combination have found in the ABC’s decision to partner with…
It was the messiest back down imaginable but Tony Abbott knew he had no choice. The row over school funding had turned into a hurricane blowing away his credibility on the key question of trust. So Abbott…
Tony Abbott enters the last parliamentary fortnight highly vulnerable on that familiar issue of “trust” – and it is all his own doing. The Prime Minister today added to the ammunition the opposition has…
The Abbott government is sailing in heavy waters, in a boat that is less than entirely shipshape. It’s fighting with the states over schools funding, with Indonesia over spying, with China over that country’s…
Western Australian Liberal premier Colin Barnett has signalled that a major blowout in the estimated cost of the national disability scheme will be a main issue for Tony Abbott’s first Council of Australian…