The new hall honouring those who gave their lives for Australia is a ‘powerful addition’, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will declare as he opens the new centrepiece of the Australian War Memorial.
Katina Curtis
Roger Cook has warned Prime Minister Anthony Albanese his changes to capital gains tax discounts could hurt the mining sector that underpinned the nation’s wealth.
Nine months after a triumphant Anthony Albanese addressed the UK Labour Party conference, his words back to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer could now be read as a ‘kiss of death’ for his former counterpart.
Andrew Greene
Australia has signed its biggest military export deal on record to supply a locally developed radar to Canada, a year after the North American nation announced plans to acquire the world-leading technology.
RECAP: ‘I consider Keir Starmer a friend and I’m thinking of him on what must be a very tough day’.
Kimberley Braddish and Madeline Cove
The National Party has drawn comparisons with One Nation after a senior figure used a slogan popularised by Pauline Hanson’s party during a debate over Labor’s housing and economic policies.
Madeline Cove
Unravelling the ubiquitous family trust to avoid a new 30 per cent income tax is likely to cost WA families, including tradies, thousands of dollars.
Nick Bruining
Anthony Albanese has used the word ‘nonsense’ in response to claims he has been lying to the Australian people.
Road users are expected to save $11 when filling a 65L tank after the Federal Government’s fuel excise cut was extended at a reduced rate.
Caleb Runciman
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says it is ‘nonsense’ that he has lied to voters as he claims self-interest is driving critics of the Government’s planned capital gains tax exchange.
Jessica Evensen
A backdown and carve-out on capital gains taxes on small business has been labelled ‘half-arsed’ by the Opposition Leader.
Blair Jackson
He can twist it, he can turn it, he can backflip, he can do a forward somersault. But Anthony Albanese has a problem: his credibility is shot.
Joe Spagnolo
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced his fuel excise cut will be extended for a month - albeit at a lower rate.
Comedian Dave Hughes has been a lifelong Labor voter — but even he has had enough of the Albanese-Chalmers show and the sad state of Australian politics.
Ben O'Shea
ANDREW GREENE: As the Budget fallout fuels leadership speculation, Labor insiders fear the Albanese-Chalmers partnership is following a familiar political script.
Both sides of the House are struggling to come to grips with Pauline Hanson’s rise. But they should know it is tied closely to their failures.
Jim Chalmers has conceded the Government has lost ‘political paint’ over its backdown on the Budget tax plan, and now they’ll need to do a deal with the Greens to get it over the line.
Love it or loathe it, Pauline Hanson’s composure during the protest banner stunt at the National Press Club spoke loudly to the One Nation leader’s single-minded focus and authenticity.
Paul Murray
Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers had ‘hashed up’ the Budget so badly, that the health minister would ‘win out’, according to Opposition frontbencher Tim Wilson
For 29-and-a-half of her 30 years in politics, punching Pauline Hanson has been a beloved pastime for the nation’s newspaper columnists. No longer.
Ben Harvey
RECAP: The Coalition has launched a blistering attack on Labor’s revised tax package, with Tim Wilson accusing the Government of scrambling to repair a policy Australians had already rejected.
Labor has fuelled hopes of a last-minute extension to its fuel excise cut, with Treasurer Jim Chalmers refusing to rule out more cost-of-living relief as the June deadline approaches.
Pauline Hanson’s safety is under renewed scrutiny following this week’s security breach at the National Press Club and amid claims repeated requests for increased federal police protection have been ignored.
If Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers think the Budget backflip announced on Thursday does the job they need to think again. They need a bigger scraper. And Rita Saffioti indicated she was ready to use it.
