Though it is generally believed a minor miracle would be needed to rescue the Morrison government, the Coalition judges the best way to “save furniture” is to wave the fear flags.
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More than 1500 sheep died across these voyages collectively from heat
stress, injury or disease – which was nevertheless under the official
“reportable mortality” rate.
In a major economic address in Brisbane on Tuesday, Morrison will point out that at the coming election only half of those of voting age
will have been through a recession in their working lives.
The former head of the government’s Clean
Energy Finance Corporation is expected to run against Treasurer Josh Frydenberg in the heartland Liberal seat of Kooyong.
Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion and Minister for Human Services and Digital Transformation, Michael Keenan, have announced they will leave politics at this year’s election.
A retired vet and an anaesthetist from Western Australia share the honour for 2019 after they used their medical and cave-diving skills to rescue 12 boys and their coach from a Thai cave in 2018.
Deep Saini speaks with Michelle Grattan about the week in Australian politics.
It’s true the nationalistic rhetoric around the date has varied over the years but the notion of the date just “fading away” is surely ridiculous.
This is shaping as a very inauspicious start to the campaign of someone who will carry the tag of a captain’s pick candidate.
As it approaches the election, the government’s economic pitch on its
record is being linked to the argument that the Coalition is the best
manager in uncertain times.
The minister for women’s decision to walk away is appalling timing, and the government’s most popular woman might follow suit.
Looking back on the federal politics of 2018, voters can conclude they’ve been given a rough trot. What’s been dubbed “the permanent election campaign” to which we are subjected these days is a curse…
McCormack must live in a parallel universe if he ever thought Broad’s account of flying off on an overseas date, followed by an apparent move to extract money from him, was just “a personal matter”.
Tanya Plibersek on a united Labor
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Labor deputy leader Tanya Plibersek told The Conversation the ALP wants voters to see the party as "responsible and progressive".
Rudd told the conference the Coalition had “a very robust” partner in the “Murdoch party” which had an ideology.
Broad has been forced to quit as assistant minster to McCormack after sensational claims about exchanges with a young woman he met through a “seeking arrangement” website.
He said the $500 million would directly improve orderly regional processing and resettlement in the region and countries closer to where refugees originally come from.
The government is worried about a conference which is a highly managed affair where divisions are being contained and participants have their eyes firmly on the prize of Labor winning power next year.
Labor would create a new Australian Environment Act and establish a federal Environment Protection Agency in its first term.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison timed his news conference in Canberra with the governor-general designate to coincide with Bill Shorten’s opening address at the ALP national conference in Adelaide.
In his Sunday announcement, Shorten says the ALP’s ten-year plan to build 250,000 houses and units would be Australia’s “biggest ever investment in affordable housing”.
Morrison announced a compromise position that recognises West Jerusalem as Israel’s capital but does not move Australia’s embassy there until a peace settlement determines Jerusalem’s final status.
In the lead up to next week’s ALP national conference, which Shorten
needs to run smoothly, the government has been trying to exploit what
it sees as a Labor weak point – border protection.
Opposition leader Bill Shorten slammed the proposed body was “not a
fair dinkum anti-corruption commission”. It would be limited in scope
and power and had no transparency.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison plans to create a new post of Freedom of Religion Commissioner, because he says many people of religion “feel the wheels closing in”.
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