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The argument that we need to protect sports gambling ads to look after the interests of giant media brands has little merit. Losing this revenue would hurt, but the industry would be able to adapt.
The prime minister has made changes that will strengthen his team ahead if the next election, though not as many as he might have, given factional constraints.
Cabinet ministers Linda Burney and Brendan O'Connor will be standing down from the frontbench, opening vacancies for Anthony Albanese to reshuffle his ministry.
Labor’s solidarity pledge is effective and necessary - and has been so for more than 100 years. But it only works properly if MPs can freely voice their concerns and disagreements in caucus.
The Western Australian senator will sit on the crossbench after refusing to accept party solidarity on the Gaza war.
Labor senator Fatima Payman has crossed the floor to support a motion backing a Palestinian state against members of her own party.
In a sensible bit o forward planning Albanese told caucus it should be focused on crafting an offer for the second term, evidence of how politics is now in what’s dubbed the “permanent campaign”.
Many of the party’s more ambitious proposals – like free cancer treatment and dental care for pensioners – were abandoned after the 2019 election, and have not resurfaced.
Tasmanians head to the polls on Saturday in an election that was called more than a year early. After a largely uninspiring campaign, here’s your guide to state election.
After frontbench resignations, MPs going rogue and months of speculation, the Apple Isle is headed to the polls. What can we expect?
While most are still relatively new to federal politics, the teal independents have had a big impact on the way the country is run.
Contending with the human misery of the latest conflict has proven politically fraught at all levels.
The idea of equality is not what it used to be -–and it’s a political headache for Labor.
The vote demonstrated that the project of progressive politics in Australia remains brittle.
In this podcast we talk with Wayne Swan, the Labor Party National President. Swan was treasurer and deputy prime minister in the Rudd and Gillard governments.
Gillard’s legacy - a mixed one on policy - was more than just the misogyny speech.
Crean, who served in parliament from 1990 to 2013, was a minister in the Hawke, Keating, Rudd and Gillard governments.
The Albanese government had no intention of giving the Low and Middle Income Tax Offset a further lease of life. It just would have preferred that a pesky journalist hadn’t highlighted the fact
The seat is on a 2.8% margin, after a large swing of more than 7% against the discredited Tudge in 2022
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