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Brethren members campaigned across NT during 2025 election, inquiry hears
By Jack Hislop
Former senior Northern Territory Labor politicians have claimed members of the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church — also known as the Exclusive Brethren — helped campaign for the Country Liberal Party ahead of the 2025 federal election.
In the kaleidoscope of Australia's system, who gets to define a migrant?
By Bang Xiao
Migrants can be perceived as visa holders, refugees, asylum seekers, permanent residents, short term visitors and sometimes even citizens who speak or look differently.
#Immigration #GovernmentandPolitics #CommunityandSociety #Refugees #PoliticalParties #FederalGovernment #MigrationPolicy #FederalParliament #LawCrimeandJustice #AustralianFederalElections #BangXiao
The Coalition finds voice in One Nation battle and starts new free speech fight
By Clare Armstrong
As fresh battle lines were drawn up over Labor’s proposed digital duty of care this week, another ongoing war entered a new phase.
#GovernmentandPolitics #Elections #InformationandCommunication #InternetCulture #PoliticalParties #CommunityandSociety #ALP #AustralianFederalElections #StateandTerritoryGovernment #SocialMedia #ClareArmstrong
Hastie emerges as genuine conviction politician
By Jacob Greber
People who lead us in public life can often sound like one of those dead-eyed "large language models" many are so worried about.
#GovernmentandPolitics #PoliticalParties #AustralianFederalElections #FederalGovernment #FederalParliament #Liberals #Elections #OneNation #ALP #Parliament #JacobGreber
It's an odd time for Labor to play politics as usual with federal grants
By Jake Evans
MPs make promises; MPs deliver on those promises — but the public expects we all get a fair go when politicians spend our money.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-11/everybody-pork-barrels-sometimes/107137470
#FederalGovernment #FederalParliament #AustralianFederalElections #JakeEvans
Joyce vague on details, Albanese wins tennis match amid golf grant saga
By Courtney Gould
This week One Nation's Treasury spokesperson was vague on policy details, Andrew Hastie took on Pauline Hanson and the prime minister defended his membership to a golf club.
#FederalParliament #GovernmentandPolitics #FederalGovernment #AustralianFederalElections #PoliticalParties #Liberals #Parliament #Sport #CourtneyGould
Winners and losers of Labor's $560m community grants
By Jake Evans
Some seats were offered tens of millions of dollars in funding for sports clubs, parks and more, while 45 seats were given nothing out of an "invite-only" grant program now under scrutiny over pork barrelling claims.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-10/mlci-grants-seat-winners-losers/107134532
#AustralianFederalElections #FederalGovernment #GovernmentandPolitics #FederalParliament #JakeEvans
Anthony Albanese held undeclared honorary membership to golf club awarded $6 million
By Jake Evans
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese held an honorary membership to the Marrickville Golf Club in his seat, which was promised $6 million at the 2025 election through an invite-only scheme, and which Mr Albanese has not declared.
#FederalGovernment #GovernmentandPolitics #FederalParliament #PoliticalParties #AustralianFederalElections #Parliament #JakeEvans
'Serious pork-barrelling': Fears Labor may have misused millions last election
By Jake Evans
The Centre for Public Integrity warns that the federal government appears to have pork-barrelled a $560 million "invitation-only" fund, directing the vast majority to safe Labor seats and marginal seats it wanted to win.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-08/labor-mlci-grants-marginal-pork-barrelling/107116982
#AustralianFederalElections #GovernmentandPolitics #FederalGovernment #ALP #JakeEvans
Why political optimism has become scarce in Australia
By Jacob Greber
Judgements on the Albanese government's performance have never been this harsh.
#GovernmentandPolitics #CommunityandSociety #FederalGovernment #AustralianFederalElections #BusinessEconomicsandFinance #Elections #EconomicTrendsandIndicators #Religion #WorldPolitics #JacobGreber
Hanson risks accusations she's using a security issue for political points
By David Speers
By speaking publicly about the threats she's facing, the One Nation leader has shone a light on a growing problem facing our democracy but pinning them on routine political rhetoric risks accusations of political point-scoring.
#GovernmentandPolitics #OneNation #PoliticalParties #FederalParliament #AustralianFederalElections #FederalGovernment #Parliament #CommunityandSociety #Elections #LawCrimeandJustice #DavidSpeers
A GST deal and the NDIS blew out by billions — but one is sacred
By Jake Evans
The Albanese government had a turbulent week with tussles over data centres and division within the Labor party over its humanitarian intake.
#GovernmentandPolitics #FederalGovernment #Tax #BusinessEconomicsandFinance #Budget #FederalParliament #FederalStateIssues #AustralianFederalElections #JakeEvans
The AI sleeper issue that could sway Australian elections
By Patricia Karvelas
AI's impact on politics is poised to go from academic to reality due to undecided voters, seats with tiny margins and growing evidence that it can persuade people.
#Elections #StateandTerritoryElections #AustralianFederalElections #AI #AIEthics #PatriciaKarvelas
How much does it cost to fight Pauline Hanson? Labor has options
By Clare Armstrong
Pauline Hanson has a knack for jettisoning positions no longer deemed politically useful without blowback but Labor is getting more deliberate about how it fights a fickle One Nation.
#GovernmentandPolitics #OneNation #PoliticalParties #Elections #AustralianFederalElections #ALP #MinorParties #StateandTerritoryParliament #Parliament #StateandTerritoryGovernment #ClareArmstrong
Labor has made the most of its cooperation with the Coalition
By David Speers
Fights over immigration, superannuation, housing, tobacco excise and data centre rules will continue and intensify. But this was a week for cooperation.
#GovernmentandPolitics #FederalGovernment #AustralianFederalElections #FederalParliament #PoliticalParties #Liberals #CommunityandSociety #Parliament #Elections #DavidSpeers
Taylor's tetchy press conference, Bragg's big day out
By Courtney Gould
The opposition leader and prime minister both had tense press conferences this week.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-13/angus-taylor-staffer-ten-reporter-albanese-tomago/107027202
#GovernmentandPolitics #FederalGovernment #FederalParliament #AustralianFederalElections #PoliticalParties #Parliament #BusinessEconomicsandFinance #CourtneyGould
Tony Abbott sent in to woo back lost Liberals in hotly contested seat
By Kelly Fuller
Former prime minister Tony Abbott has headed to the NSW South Coast to rally disaffected Liberals as senior local party figures concede they need to rebuild voters' trust.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-12/tony-abbott-woos-gilmore-voters/107024926
#AustralianFederalElections #Liberals #OneNation #RegionalCommunities #KellyFuller
Albanese returns to a gambling debate ready to catch fire
By Clare Armstrong
The explosive evidence heard at a two-day inquiry into Labor's proposed crackdown on wagering advertising has proved a watershed moment for the increasingly friendless bill.
#GovernmentandPolitics #FederalGovernment #FederalParliament #AustralianFederalElections #BusinessEconomicsandFinance #CommunityandSociety #Liberals #PoliticalParties #Tax #Parliament #ClareArmstrong
Labor has one big political test on migration
By David Speers
If stopping asylum seeker boats was the great immigration challenge in decades past, achieving a lower Net Overseas Migration (NOM) figure has become the new political test.
#FederalGovernment #GovernmentandPolitics #Immigration #AustralianFederalElections #CommunityandSociety #Elections #ALP #Refugees #PoliticalParties #DavidSpeers
Leeser says Albanese has 'lost his direction' on Indigenous affairs
By Matt Garrick
Shadow Indigenous Australians Minister Julian Leeser has accused the federal government of being "adrift" on Indigenous affairs during his speech at the Garma Festival.
#IndigenousAustralians #CommunityandCulturalEvents #GovernmentandPolitics #IndigenousPolicy #FederalGovernment #CommunityandSociety #FederalParliament #PoliticalParties #AustralianFederalElections #MattGarrick
'I realise now I got overtures': It took Taylor a minute to figure politics out
By Annabel Crabb
In an interview for Kitchen Cabinet, the opposition leader recalls feeling a sense of overwhelm and reverence for the parliament when first he took his seat there.
#GovernmentandPolitics #FederalGovernment #FederalParliament #Liberals #AustralianFederalElections #CommunityandSociety #ArtsCultureandEntertainment #PoliticalParties #AnnabelCrabb
What Labor gains and loses by hiding its fights
By Clare Armstrong
If Labor has a policy fight behind a closed door and nobody else hears, did it really happen?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-26/labor-conference-policy-fights-debates/106953350
#GovernmentandPolitics #ALP #PoliticalParties #Parliament #CommunityandSociety #FederalGovernment #AustralianFederalElections #StateandTerritoryParliament #Elections #ClareArmstrong
Australia's 'monoculture' might be at the Labor conference
By Jacob Greber
For those who believe in the virtue of converting and wrangling political trade-offs into a unified, coherent set of messages, Labor's example is transcendent.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-25/labor-national-conference-tax-aukus-unions/106953348
#GovernmentandPolitics #ALP #PoliticalParties #FederalGovernment #AustralianFederalElections #BusinessEconomicsandFinance #FederalParliament #Elections #Parliament #JacobGreber
Labor debates future, Liberals hold up pamphlet
By Gina Rushton
Australia's two major parties are deliberating their futures this week with Labor's national conference and the Liberal Party's glossy new pamphlet.
#GovernmentandPolitics #ALP #FederalGovernment #FederalParliament #PoliticalParties #Parliament #AustralianFederalElections #GinaRushton
Albanese's career mirrors Howard's in two important ways
By Annabel Crabb
Anthony Albanese has been in near-fatal vehicle accidents not once, but three times. Politically, his is also a story of survival against the odds.
#GovernmentandPolitics #FederalGovernment #AustralianFederalElections #FederalParliament #PoliticalParties #Liberals #AnnabelCrabb
Abbott amplifies Hanson problem for Liberals
By Patricia Karvelas
Pauline Hanson's grievance politics is a challenge for Labor, but a splitting headache for the Liberals — compounded by former prime minister Tony Abbott.
#Liberals #Islam #RaceRelations #OneNation #AustralianFederalElections #Elections #ALP #LawCrimeandJustice #PatriciaKarvelas
Hanson faces rough political seas beyond the Mediterranean
By Clare Armstrong
Many voters are unhappy with the hand they feel successive governments have dealt them and no one has tapped into that better than Pauline Hanson.
#GovernmentandPolitics #PoliticalParties #Elections #OneNation #AustralianFederalElections #CommunityandSociety #MinorParties #ArtsCultureandEntertainment #Parliament #StateandTerritoryGovernment #ClareArmstrong
Albanese makes AI plan, Hanson and Rinehart enjoy Sicily
By Gina Rushton
It might not have been a sitting week but it has been a busy few days in politics with the prime minister's AI announcement, a raft of politicians inking book deals and a spotting of Pauline Hanson and Gina Rinehart in Sicily.
#GovernmentandPolitics #FederalGovernment #AustralianFederalElections #InformationandCommunication #FederalParliament #PoliticalParties #ComputerScience #ScienceandTechnology #CommunityandSociety #Liberals #GinaRushton
Gender quotas revived in Liberals' soul-searching mission
By Ewa Staszewska and Holly Tregenza
Liberal Party HQ has admitted it is "in the political fight of our lives" as it canvasses ideas, including reviving gender quotas, to take the party forward.
#Liberals #AustralianFederalElections #FederalParliament #EwaStaszewska #HollyTregenza
One Nation corflutes backing Ben Roberts-Smith spark legal warning
By Jess Scully
One Nation election advertising stating the party's support for Ben Roberts-Smith, who is charged with carrying out war crimes in Afghanistan, has legal experts worried.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-06/one-nation-signs-support-ben-roberts-smith/106643228
#Elections #OneNation #AustralianFederalElections #FederalParliament #LawCrimeandJustice #DefenceandNationalSecurity #GovernmentandPolitics #JessScully
Coalition's migration proposal faces practical questions
By Gina Rushton and Sara Tomevska
The Coalition's new migration policy aims to increase screening of visa applicants and "boot out" people who do not abide by Australia's values, but questions remain about how the plan would work in practice.
#Immigration #GovernmentandPolitics #FederalGovernment #CommunityandSociety #Refugees #PoliticalParties #FederalParliament #AustralianFederalElections #LiberalPartyofAustralia #ALP #GinaRushton #SaraTomevska
Packer's $150,000 donation to Advance a 'worrying' sign for Liberals
By Jake Evans
Liberals say billionaire James Packer's first political donation in 12 years to a conservative lobby group should be a cause for concern, saying the rise of Advance could push the party further from the mainstream.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-04/james-packer-advance-donation-worries-liberals/106408534
#PoliticalDonations #FederalGovernment #GovernmentandPolitics #FederalParliament #LiberalPartyofAustralia #PoliticalParties #AustralianFederalElections #JakeEvans
The script for this episode of Liberal drama was written months ago
By Courtney Gould
The Liberals have spent the week embroiled in leadership woes as the party braces for a spill on Friday morning.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-12/liberals-leadership-spill-angus-taylor-sussan-ley/106325872
#GovernmentandPolitics #FederalGovernment #FederalParliament #LiberalPartyofAustralia #PoliticalParties #AustralianFederalElections #Parliament #CourtneyGould
Barnaby Joyce quits Nationals, will sit as independent
By Clare Armstrong
The former leader and deputy prime minister has confirmed his long-awaited political move.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-27/barnaby-joyce-quits-nationals/106073080
#FederalGovernment #GovernmentandPolitics #FederalParliament #PoliticalParties #AustralianFederalElections #PaulineHansonsOneNation #NationalPartyofAustralia #MinorParties #Elections #ClareArmstrong
Pauline Hanson's One Nation delivers shock doubling of federal representatives
By Brett Worthington
Surprise Senate results will see Pauline Hanson's One Nation double its representation in the next parliament, meaning it will have the same number of representatives as the Nationals in the upper house.
#FederalGovernment #PaulineHansonsOneNation #FederalParliament #AustralianFederalElections #BrettWorthington
Littleproud leadership 'irreparably damaged' as Joyce vows to back McCormack
By Jacob Greber and Lucy Barbour
Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce has indicated privately to colleagues that he would back former rival Michael McCormack if he sought the troubled minority party's top job.
#NationalPartyofAustralia #FederalGovernment #LiberalPartyofAustralia #AustralianFederalElections #JacobGreber #LucyBarbour
Does Labor have a mandate to do what it wants after its big election win?
By Gareth Hutchens
Does Labor have a mandate to do what it wants after its big election win? Do mandates even exist?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-18/does-labor-have-a-mandate-to-do-what-it-wants-/105301322
#AustralianFederalElections #NationalElections #FederalGovernment #Voting #GarethHutchens
Rowland to become attorney-general on Albanese's new-look frontbench
By Maani Truu
While most high-profile ministers will remain in their roles, the prime minister has swapped around some key portfolios after Labor's landslide election victory.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-12/labor-anthony-albanese-unveils-new-ministry/105280774
#Elections #FederalGovernment #GovernmentandPolitics #AustralianFederalElections #MaaniTruu
Which politicians are wearing Aussie wool as industry pleads for help?
By Warwick Long, Jane McNaughton, and Justine Longmore
The ABC asked every Australian politician if they wore wool on the campaign trail.
#Fashion #WoolGrowing #RuralandRemoteCommunities #TextileIndustry #AustralianFederalElections #WarwickLong #JaneMcNaughton # #JustineLongmore
They can't vote yet but these kids want Canberra to know what counts
By Jodie Hamilton, Maddie Nixon, and Joseph Baronio
Behind a schoolgirl's love for her idyllic seaside lifestyle is a fear that if change doesn't come soon, she may be among the last to enjoy her town's true beauty.
#AustralianFederalElections #Teenagers #RegionalCommunities #JodieHamilton #MaddieNixon # #JosephBaronio
'Not recognised': What politicians don't get about young women
By Isabella Higgins
Experts say young women are a "really important" voting category but are sometimes "not recognised", as Vote Compass data shows gen Z females to be deeply progressive.
Swing voters admit to 'disillusionment' ahead of federal election
By Cindy Wockner
Millions of Australians might have already cast early ballots — but for others, working out who to support is proving more difficult, with some so disillusioned with politics that they're even tempted to deliberately vote informally.
How political parties can legally spam voters
By Daniela Pizzirani
Political texts from parties are frustrating voters on social media in the week leading up to the election, but they are completely legal.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-29/political-parties-can-send-you-texts/105226350
#PoliticalPartiesandMovements #AustralianFederalElections #SocialMedia #InformationandCommunication #DanielaPizzirani
Muslim Vote urges Parramatta constituents to preference Libs over Labor
The Muslim Vote campaign has taken aim at the Labor Party's "failure to stand for justice on Gaza and Palestine" as it looks to unseat Parramatta MP Andrew Charlton.
The six things you should know about gas and if it can make power cheaper
By Jo Lauder
Gas has been making lots of headlines throughout this election campaign. As we enter the final week, there are a few things to know about gas, how much of it we use, and what role it plays in our power bills.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-27/how-gas-affects-our-power-bills/105122762
#Elections #EnergyMarkets #EnergyPolicy #Utilities #AustralianFederalElections #ClimateChange #JoLauder
Rural voters want zonal tax offset updates this election
By Meghan Dansie
Tax rebates for rural Australians were last updated more than 30 years ago. Voters say it is time for them to be on the election agenda.
#RuralandRemoteCommunities #Tax #AustralianFederalElections #RegionalCommunities #MeghanDansie
Coalition vow to end EV lease discount may inflate prices $15K
By Jake Evans
The Coalition's promise to end electric vehicle subsidies could drive up prices for popular EVs by more than $15,000 under a typical novated lease and have an almost immediate effect on sales.
#ElectricVehicles #AustralianFederalElections #AutomotiveIndustry #FederalGovernment #Elections #GovernmentandPolitics #JakeEvans
Coalition accuses Labor of scare tactics over claims it will cut clinics
By Stephanie Dalzell
The Coalition has accused Labor of "disgraceful" lies about claims a future Dutton government would scrap almost 90 existing urgent care clinics.
#Health #GovernmentandPolitics #AustralianFederalElections #StephanieDalzell
Will the government's new IR laws bring the Pilbara back to the 'bad old days'?
By Charlie Mills
As a storm brews over federal industrial relations changes, government critics say increased worker power will take the resource-rich Pilbara region back to the "bad old days" of union power. But how bad were they?
#Unions #IndustrialRelations #MiningandMetalsIndustry #RegionalCommunities #AustralianFederalElections #GovernmentandPolitics #CharlieMills
Could we have a double dissolution election on the Australia Day weekend? Technically yes, but probably no
By Matthew Doran
Welcome to that time of the political cycle where we find ourselves burrowing into the election date speculation rabbit hole.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-17/could-there-be-double-dissolution-election-/104360258
#FederalGovernment #GovernmentandPolitics #AustralianFederalElections #FederalParliament #Elections #MatthewDoran