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Dumped Liberal vows to ‘get on with job’

Liberal senator Jane Hume has vowed to dust herself off and get on with the job after being dumped from shadow cabinet by the opposition leader. The Victorian senator was the highest profile demotion when Sussan Ley unveiled her leadership team earlier this week. It came after Senator Hume wore some of the internal blame for the Liberals’ disastrous election result after spearheading an unpopular return to work policy blamed for alienating women voters.

AAP Newswire

5 hours ago

Australia

05 May 2025

Liberals mull over election defeat

A string of factors rather than a standout reason is being blamed on Liberal failings as the party recorded its worst election defeat in history. MPs and insiders were left dismayed at how poorly the party performed after internal numbers set an expectation they would go forward, not backward, losing at least 13 seats and potentially up to 19. The Liberals were routed across metropolitan areas, with Peter Dutton becoming the first opposition leader to lose his seat.

AAP Newswire

05 May 2025

Australia

03 May 2025

World leaders congratulate ‘Albo’

World leaders have sent Prime Minister Anthony Albanese congratulation messages after Labor’s landslide victory secured a second term in government. Among the well-wishers was Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. “I wish you continued success in serving the people of Australia and delivering meaningful achievements,“ Zelensky said in a post on X

AAP Newswire

03 May 2025

Australia

02 May 2025

Rivals crash PM’s campaign

A sweet moment on the campaign trail has been soured for the prime minister as Liberal supporters crashed the party. While Anthony Albanese visited a Tasmanian bakery famous for scallop pies, local Liberal volunteers pulled up with anti-Labor posters and tried to take the spotlight.

AAP Newswire

02 May 2025

Australia

01 May 2025

Liberals press economic credentials

Peter Dutton has pledged the coalition will shave billions of dollars off government debt by removing some of Labor’s signature policies, if the opposition wins the election. As the coalition released its costings, the party claimed it would reduce debt by $40 billion over the next four years. These include plans to cut at least two of the Labor government’s off-budget investment funds, including the $10 billion Housing Australia Future Fund set up to build 30,000 new homes and the $20 billion Rewiring the Nation Fund.

AAP Newswire

01 May 2025

Australia

30 Apr 2025

Ex-PMs pop up on campaign trail

While some former prime ministers like to keep a relatively low profile, others are front and centre on the hustings in a bid to sway votes. Liberal and Labor stalwarts have campaigned in different capacities since the election was called, with appearances and political pleas set to ramp up in the final week. All living former Liberal prime ministers attended the coalition campaign launch, with Tony Abbott and John Howard hitting the hustings alongside Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and local candidates in marginal seats and tight contests.

AAP Newswire

30 Apr 2025

Australia

30 Apr 2025

Coalition makes Pacific pledge

The Coalition will place infrastructure needs at the heart of a revamped development strategy in the Pacific, pledging an extra $2 billion in loans and grants to the region. Australia invests deeply in the blue continent, both to assist with developmental and humanitarian projects, and in an attempt to hold strategic sway over the region, rather than China. On Wednesday, the Coalition said it would lift the funding available from the Australian Infrastructure Financing Facility for the Pacific to $6 billion.

AAP Newswire

30 Apr 2025

Australia

16 Apr 2025

Humility and hostility as Albanese and Dutton face off

Voters will have the final say on which leader prevailed after Peter Dutton and Anthony Albanese spanned well-trodden ground in a debate rematch. The prime minister faced off against the coalition leader at the ABC’s western Sydney studios for the second out of four campaign trail clashes on Wednesday night. Unlike the first debate, where an audience of undecided voters declared a winner, this contest - moderated by the ABC’s national lead David Speers - will only be decided when viewers go to the ballot box on May 3.

AAP Newswire

16 Apr 2025

Australia

16 Apr 2025

Parties pledge to fix housing woes

Major parties have traded blows on how they would solve Australia’s housing crisis, but uncertainty remains on how critical targets would be reached. Housing Minister Clare O’Neil and opposition spokesman Michael Sukkar debated the issue at the National Press Club, both pledging to make it easier for first-home buyers to enter the market. O’Neil said housing remained one of the nation’s most pressing issues, with many young people feeling disenfranchised.

AAP Newswire

16 Apr 2025

Trade

09 Apr 2025

Australia looks at trade options

Australia is looking to bolster free trade with the rest of the world in the wake of Donald Trump’s tariffs, as the government moves to reassure investors the nation is well-placed to avoid a recession. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese talked up his government’s diplomatic victories as he positioned Labor as best-equipped to increase trade links with China, India and south-east Asian neighbours. ”There are enormous opportunities for Australia to take advantage of where we are in the world,“ he told reporters on Wednesday.

AAP Newswire

09 Apr 2025

Australia

01 Apr 2025

No relief as RBA holds rates

The Reserve Bank of Australia has kept interest rates on hold, denying borrowers back-to-back mortgage relief. As widely expected by economists, the RBA’s new monetary policy board held the cash rate steady at 4.1 per cent as its first meeting on Tuesday. Markets had priced in just a 10 per cent chance of a cut, despite the central bank kicking off a long-awaited rate easing cycle in February.

AAP Newswire

01 Apr 2025

Australia

30 Mar 2025

Libs work to cement seats

Peter Dutton is seeking to keep the focus on struggling Australians but faces questions over the coalition’s policy detail. The opposition leader went on the offensive in western Sydney on Sunday, touring a brick manufacturing factory to laud his plan to bring power bills down by pumping gas into the system. Firing a shot across Chris Bowen’s bow, Mr Dutton toured Austral Bricks in the heart of the energy minister’s electorate. However, Mr Dutton was forced to explain his own referendum proposals after criticising the vote on an Indigenous voice for being expensive and divisive.

AAP Newswire

30 Mar 2025

Australia

11 Mar 2025

Trump-Turnbull spat overshadows tariff relief talk

Australia’s chances of a US tariff exemption hang in the balance as tensions continue to flare between Donald Trump and Malcolm Turnbull. The US president and former Liberal prime minister launched a war of words days before Trump’s 25 per cent tariffs on steel and aluminium imports take effect on Wednesday. While some are concerned the stoush could jeopardise Australia’s attempts to negotiate an exemption, former ambassador to the US Arthur Sinodinos brushed off the criticism.

AAP Newswire

11 Mar 2025

Australia

05 Mar 2025

Economy accelerates as exports grow

Australia’s economy has accelerated out of a historic funk, ending 2024 with the fastest quarter of growth in two years. Gross domestic product rose by 0.6 per cent in the December quarter, the Australian Bureau of Statistics reported. That pushed growth over the year up to 1.3 per cent, from the 0.8 per cent annual figure recorded in September, which was the lowest yearly result since the early 1990s recession, outside of the pandemic.

AAP Newswire

05 Mar 2025

Australia

27 Feb 2025

Unapologetic Chinese envoy plays down drills

China’s ambassador to Australia has played down the fallout of a live firing drill, saying notice given was appropriate despite federal government protests. The Chinese vessels conducted drills in compliance with international law and practice. “I don’t see there’s any reason why the Chinese side should feel sorry about that or even … apologise for that,“ Xiao Qian said.

AAP Newswire

27 Feb 2025

Australia

21 Feb 2025

Anti-Israel vandal has ‘Hezbollah tattoos’

One of the men facing charges over an alleged anti-Israel vandalism attack has neck and throat tattoos for declared terrorist group Hezbollah, a court has heard. Mohammed Farhat and Thomas Stojanovski are accused of carrying out the vandalism spree on Wellington St in Woollahra, in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, in November.

AAP Newswire

21 Feb 2025

Australia

19 Feb 2025

Australians worked hard for interest rate cut – PM

Mortgage holders have “worked hard” for the benefits of an interest rate cut after almost five years without a reduction, the prime minister says. But Anthony Albanese has batted away suggestions the Reserve Bank’s decision to cut interest rates by 25 basis points to 4.1 per cent had cleared a path to an early election. The lowering of rates will result in a monthly saving of about $80 for those with a $500,000 mortgage, and the prime minister welcomed the hip-pocket boost for homeowners.

AAP Newswire

19 Feb 2025

Australia

16 Feb 2025

Labor faces making unwanted election history

Australian Labor might be losing its grip in the outer suburbs as cost-of-living concerns threaten to consign the government to a humiliating defeat at the next federal election. In an alarming sign for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, the coalmining seat of Hunter that the party has held since 1910, is projected to flip to the coalition at the election which is due to be held by May 17, according to fresh modelling released by pollster YouGov. The seat is among a number of strongholds Labor is predicted to lose including Gough Whitlam’s old seat of Werriwa in western Sydney, bellwether Robertson in NSW’s Hunter region and McEwen in Melbourne’s outer north.

AAP Newswire

16 Feb 2025

Australia

12 Feb 2025

Electoral reform deal firms up

Australians will only be able to give $50,000 to political candidates and donations over $5000 will need to be declared under proposed electoral reforms. Labor and the Coalition have sealed a deal on controversial legislation, clearing the path for it to pass parliament by Thursday, although it won’t come into effect before the federal election slated to be held before late May. Special Minister of State Don Farrell, who spearheaded negotiations, agreed to more than double the initial donation cap of $20,000 and increase the disclosure threshold from $1000.

AAP Newswire

12 Feb 2025

Australia

07 Feb 2025

Grandma met with ‘aggressive brutality’

Clare Nowland’s family still can’t believe their 95-year-old matriarch was killed by a police officer, who remains free and is challenging his dismissal from the force, while a judge considers whether or not to send him to jail.

AAP Newswire

07 Feb 2025

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