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Executive Council of Jewry co-chief executive Peter Wertheim said the Bill has ‘significant shortcomings’.

FEDERAL POLITICSCommentsJewish leader urges Ley to support hate speech reform

Australia’s peak Jewish body has warned the Coalition against a ‘wholesale rejectio’” of Labor’s proposed hate speech laws and urged Opposition leader Sussan Ley to support them. 

Caitlyn Rintoul

One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson and One Nation member for New England Barnaby Joyce at Bondi Beach in Sydney.

Federal PoliticsCommentsOne Nation claims ‘monumental result’ in latest poll

One Nation has claimed a ‘monumental result’ after a poll showed that, for the first time, it had the same amount of voter support as the Coalition.

Katina Curtis

Sussan Ley has not counselled Barnaby Joyce not to jump ship to One Nation.

Federal PoliticsCommentsLey hasn’t asked Barnaby Joyce not to join One Nation

Sussan Ley hasn’t counselled Barnaby Joyce not to jump ship to One Nation, with the Liberal leader saying that was a decision for the now-independent and the National Party.

Katina Curtis

The Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Jodie Haydon got married in Canberra.

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Friends and opponents send Albanese best wedding wishes

Anthony Albanese’s political friends and foes alike have sent their best wishes after the Prime Minister married his partner Jodie Haydon on Saturday.

Katina Curtis

Sussan Ley wants to meet Anthony Albanese one-on-one to sort out a deal on the environmental law overhaul.

Federal PoliticsCommentsLey wants one-on-one with Albo to sort environment law deal

Sussan Ley has declared she wants to meet Anthony Albanese one-on-one to sort out a deal on the environmental law overhaul, accusing his minister of dropping the ball.

Katina Curtis

Leader of the opposition Sussan Ley pictured on a visit to Emu Plains engineering business Marley Flow Control.

FEDERAL POLITICSCommentsPremiumThe changes needed for Ley to back environmental overhaul

Sussan Ley has declared the Coalition will back Labor’s environmental law overhaul next week as long as the Government makes seven key changes.

Katina Curtis

Leader of the opposition Sussan Ley pictured on a visit to Emu Plains engineering business Marley Flow Control.

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Albo makes it clear what he stands for. Ley is different

For all the complaints about Anthony Albanese making incremental change instead of big-bang, Whitlam-style reforms, at least you know what he stands for. Sussan Ley is a different proposition.

Katina Curtis

Katina Curtis

The Liberals have announced their climate policy, including scrapping its position on net zero.

Federal PoliticsVideoCommentsLibs lay down gauntlet to Albanese as net zero dumped

The Opposition has challenged the Prime Minister on soaring energy bills as the Liberals abandoned legislated emission reduction targets and mechanisms to cut pollution.

Katina Curtis

Sussan Ley will promise Australians income tax cuts as she battles to keep a divided Coalition focused on scrutinising Labor.

Federal PoliticsCommentsSussan Ley promises tax cuts but details are years away

Sussan Ley will promise Australians income tax cuts to be paid for by winding back new spending the Government proposes, but the details won’t come until closer to the 2028 election.

Katina Curtis

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says ‘we thank President Trump for his diplomatic efforts’.

Federal PoliticsVideoCommentsAlbanese welcomes Trump Middle East peace deal

Australia has welcomed Donald Trump’s announcement that Israel and Hamas have struck the first phase of a peace deal that will lead to the release of all hostages and withdrawal of troops from Gaza.

Katina Curtis

Anthony Albanese has been on a worldwide foreign relations tour.

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Albo’s foreign policy fails are mounting up

It has been a month of disappointment from Anthony Albanese as he has bungled diplomacy and squandered chances to advance the national interest.

Sussan Ley

Environment Minister Murray Watt.

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Sectors say law reform needed to hit 2035 emissions goal

Australia has no chance of meeting its new 2035 emissions reduction target unless environmental approval laws are overhauled and quickly, the resources and renewable energy sectors have warned.

Katina Curtis

Anthony Albanese is gatecrashed by a golden retriever while spruiking his energy policy.

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Carbon tax ghosts haunt Albo’s climate fight

Labor still bears the scars of the ‘carbon tax’ skirmish in the climate wars, so Anthony Albanese is moving more warily into the fray this time. But the political climate has changed over the past 15 years.

Katina Curtis

The Leader of the Opposition, Sussan Ley.

Federal PoliticsCommentsLey reassures people on welfare aren’t in Liberal sights

Sussan Ley has sought to reassure people on welfare that her push to reduce dependency on government support wasn’t ‘targeting’ them, after Jim Chalmers accused her of pandering to ‘cookers and crackpots.’

Katina Curtis

Leader of the Opposition Sussan Ley.

Federal PoliticsCommentsLey’s lifters and leaners: leader lays out economic agenda

Sussan Ley will declare Australians need to stop looking to government as the answer to everything and argue the economic pendulum has swung too far towards dependency.

Katina Curtis

Ms Ley dumped Senator Price from the Opposition frontbench on Wednesday evening.

Federal PoliticsComments‘Knives not being sharpened’ for Ley, insists Hastie

Liberal leadership contender Andrew Hastie insists ‘the knives are not being sharpened’ for Sussan Ley as his colleagues openly telegraph their desperation to move on from the Jacinta Price debacle.

Katina Curtis, Jessica Page and Caitlyn Rintoul

Senator Jane Hume

Federal PoliticsComments‘Reeling’ Hume dragged into Hawke-Nampijinpa Price fight

Liberal senator Jane Hume is ‘reeling’ from having been caught up in a dispute between colleagues Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Alex Hawke over comments linking Indian Australians and high levels of migration.

Katina Curtis

The Opposition Leader branded a senator’s claims Labor was taking in Indian migrants to shore up their supporter base as ‘wrong’.

FEDERAL POLITICSCommentsLiberal’s internal row heats up over Price’s Indian remarks

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has accused the Liberal party of undermining women as internal row heats up over controversial remarks she made about the Indian diaspora. 

Caitlyn Rintoul

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is seen playing tennis with friends in Sydney.

Federal PoliticsCommentsTennis with Albo or flying lunch with Ley up for grabs

Tennis with the Prime Minister, a flight to a pub lunch with the Opposition Leader or dinner with the nation’s economic leaders are up for grabs in an annual charity auction.

Katina Curtis

Andrew Hastie is still openly still harbouring leadership ambitions.

Federal PoliticsCommentsAndrew Hastie admits he still harbours leadership ambitions

Andrew Hastie is openly still harbouring leadership ambitions and says he’s gaining the experience needed to run a party from Western Australia.

Katina Curtis

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

Federal PoliticsCommentsNew parliament, same old props for Albanese in ascendency

Anthony Albanese and his Government are determined to focus attention on their delivery of election commitments, seeing the Opposition as irrelevant in the new world order.

Katina Curtis

Leader of the Opposition Sussan Ley during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra.

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Sussan Ley has a moment of grace in Federal Parliament

Sussan Ley’s finest moment in her first Question Time as Opposition Leader was not when she opposed the Labor Government but supported it.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra.

Federal PoliticsCommentsGovernment talks student debt cuts amid attack on super tax

The government has avoided ruling out ever taxing unrealised capital gains beyond large superannuation accounts, prompting Opposition accusations Labor has secret plans to go after family homes and trusts.

Katina Curtis

Parliament was awash with eucalyptus smoke, families and good humour as the formalities of politicians starting their jobs for a new term took place. 

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Ceremonial start to 48th Parliament before gloves come off

Parliament was awash with eucalyptus smoke, families and good humour as the formalities of politicians starting their jobs for a new term took place. 

Katina Curtis and Caitlyn Rintoul