Before the marches, immigration was not a topic in our focus groups. After them, it still isn’t. The people keeping it on the front page are not those struggling.
Fast-forward 17 months and the Liberal Party and Greens both have new leaders and both have dispensed with their respective party’s flirtation with being constructive.
Slashing and burning housebuilding and investment today will inhibit inflation a little in the short-run at the price of diminishing long-term supply – a sure way to breed more long-term inflation.
An excellent article that should be read widely, particularly by politicians. The facts exposed should make it very clear what needs to be done and not wriggled out of. It looks at two communities, in Melbourne and in outer Brisbane.
At the heart of the probe, the ICAC examined alleged collusion between fugitive property developer Jean Nassif and party powerbrokers including two brothers of former NSW premier Dominic Perrottet.
Australia should not provide any military support to Ukraine, new Greens leader David Shoebridge has declared as he called for the United States to be evicted from prized Australian defence facilities, including the Pine Gap surveillance base.
Less than 5mins long, Shoebridge explains and puts in a nutshell where we are now (and where that will take us) and what we need to do for a decent future.
Greens MPs will elect a new federal leader at a two-day retreat in Sydney this week, as possible contenders go quiet on who will lead the party to the next election.
Speaking on ABC’s Insiders on Sunday, Hume said the “real alarm bell” was that the government only became aware of the hack because OpenAI disclosed it.
“Intelligence agency the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) is reviewing how prepared the government is to block and respond to hacking by AI. Officials will look at policies around how AI companies should report cyber-incidents to the government, and how cooperative companies should be during and after an attack.
Opposition defence spokesperson James Paterson said he did not believe it was a “coincidence” that Albanese revealed the incident while attending the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
The Coalition would cancel offshore wind zones, scrap climate laws for heavy industry and car makers, and attempt to lift the ban on nuclear if it wins power.
At the centre of their unlikely alliance is a fight over parliamentary staffing, with the three accusing Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of unfairly determining who gets additional staff and calling for the system to be taken out of the prime minister’s hands.
Right now in Australia, our laws don’t do enough to stop our country from being complicit in genocide and crimes against humanity – whether through military trade, investments, embedded personnel or institutional partnerships.
The Albanese government is considering giving AI companies access to Australian creatives’ works by default as it pursues a compromise with US tech giants.
Speaking at ABC’s second National Forum on Monday evening, One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce was not able to confirm how the policy would impact the budget or jobs, while rejecting questioning over why the parliamentary budget office was not consulted.
One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce said his party will cut Australia’s migrant population “primarily by not issuing new” visas, after his party announced a plan to dramatically slash migration and bring it into “net-negative” for three years on Monday.
The Australian version pairs the Norwegian NASAMS design with locally built CEA Technologies radar, the CEATAC and CEAOPS active electronically scanned array systems, mounted alongside launchers on Hawkei protected mobility vehicles. Raytheon’s AN/AAS-52 Multispectral Targeting System adds day and night optical tracking. The setup replaces the Army’s older RBS-70 man-portable air defense missiles.
A controversial plan to allow big industry to use a new koala national park in New South Wales to offset its climate pollution is expected to go ahead after the Greens reached a deal with Labor, and decided not to vote with the Coalition to block it.
Foreign Minister Penny Wong has ruled out Australian support for a similar blanket ban, saying it may have unintended consequences, but has flagged a raft of new sanctions against Israel is in the works.
The Mortlake Community Alliance is suing the 400 megawatt (MW) Mt Fyans wind project and planning minister Sonya Kilkenny in the state’s Supreme Court, alleging errors in the decision that led to a planning permit being issued last year.
“Users over 16 years of age will be given new tools to turn off algorithm-driven content, with platforms facing fines of more than A$100m for non-compliance.
Hastie strongly defended his war service as a captain in the SAS, and called out Hanson and One Nation for not supporting efforts to hold Australian soldiers to high standards of battlefield conduct.
One Nation’s plan to allow workers to extract part of their superannuation as take-home-pay could leave Australians poorer in retirement while charging future taxpayers more, experts and critics warn.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s efforts to strengthen Pacific ties and influence the world at the United Nations could be compromised by Australia’s failure to meet climate change commitments, critics have warned.
The Greens’ vote is actually up. So I don’t think One Nation is a threat to our [Greens’] Senate seats. But […] One Nation is a threat to the type of nation we want to be. And I say that without apology.
On Sunday morning, before the sun is over Sydney Heads, up to 40 current and former soldiers of the Israel Defence Forces will jog across the Sydney Harbour Bridge with numbers pinned to their chests and a cheer squad waiting at the Opera House.
As many as 40 former and current IDF soldiers and associates are coming to Australia to compete in the Sydney Marathon on August 30, a trip sponsored by AIJAC and the Zionist Council of NSW.
In recent weeks the devices, dubbed “pervert glasses” by some critics for their capacity to film in secret, have inspired two Australian petitions calling for restrictions on their sale and import which attracted tens of thousands of signatures.
Anthony Albanese left the door open at a meeting of the nation’s leaders on Wednesday to a more “flexible” approach as Queensland and the Northern Territory refused to agree to standards requiring them to use renewables for new data centre developments.
“The 62-year-old surgeon told MPs: ‘What I found particularly disturbing was that a bomb would drop, maybe on a crowded, tented area and then the drones would come down.’
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