Labor has torn up all three headline limits on its proposed start-up tax break after industry criticism, while carving out biotech and medtech from a tougher R&D regime.
Ryan Johnson
Australia’s defence minister Richard Marles says One Nation’s ‘traitor’ name calling of Andrew Hastie was ‘extremely tasteless’ and has called for Pauline Hanson to remove a cartoon mocking him.
Caitlyn Rintoul
Labor’s housing tax overhaul could cost renters an extra $10 a week, five times more than Treasury initially forecast.
Madeline Cove
The realisation that people do not like to be lectured, hectored and talked down to is taking hold.
Kevin Rudd used his National Press Club address on Thursday to call for a major shift in national urgency and ‘radical’ mindset change, amid the most complex array of global challenges since WWII.
Just how different would the world be today if US and UK intelligence services hadn’t got it so wrong post-9/11? At 87, John Howard is finally ready to consider the possibilities.
Mark Riley
Gas producers supplying WA’s domestic market may be completely excluded from Australia’s first national gas reservation policy, which has been watered down following uproar from energy giants.
Rebecca Le May and Jessica Page
The Independent senator has leapt to the defence of Liberal MP Andrew Hastie, over traitor claims from the One Nation leader.
Andrew Greene
South Australia’s popular Labor Premier Peter Malinauskas has likened the idea of cutting immigration to stop One Nation as ‘appeasement’.
Stephen Johnson
Australian classrooms could be headed for a ‘digital detox’ as Jason Clare warns excessive screen time may be dragging students further behind.
Anthony Albanese and Angus Taylor have held a private meeting after the Opposition dropped a list of migration requirements on the PM to gain their support for the Government’s stalled immigration overhaul.
Matt Zis
The chief executive says he doesn’t expect the spectre of a major new tax on the oil and gas sector will go away any time soon — and investors remain worried.
Rebecca Le May
Anthony Albanese provides a scathing response to the ABC for inappropriate reporting about his connection to golf club in local electorate.
Shadow treasurer Tim Wilson claims he had no knowledge of a One Nation-style plan for early super access when Sussan Ley was Liberal leader.
Just a fortnight before Anthony Albanese travels to New York to promote Australia’s digital regulations, the US has reiterated its warning against targeting American tech companies.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has put big tech on notice with $100 million fines as Labor moves to give Aussies more control over what appears in their feeds.
Anxiety is growing inside Australian Federal Police ranks over a proposed restructure of the organisation, after a staff warning from Commissioner Krissy Barrett of a ‘workforce budget realignment’.
The Coalition has accused Labor of pursuing a ‘digital duty of control’ as the Government defends sweeping new changes to Australians’ social media feeds.
Santos boss Kevin Gallagher has stepped up his campaign on the Federal Government’s controversial gas reservation policy, urging it to adopt the same framework long used in WA.
Online platforms will be forced to give Australian users a pop-up box to give them a clear choice on what content appears in their social media feed under the Communications Minister’s sweeping new powers.
Whether this will work as intended will take time to emerge.But for the moment, good on the Albanese Government for having a crack.
The senior Liberal MP accused One Nation of calling him a ‘traitor’, a charged denied by party leader Pauline Hanson, who has now called him ‘a wanker’.
Aaron Patrick
ARSEN OSTROVSKY: Under the guise of ‘fighting against racism’, the UN’s Durban conference was a spectacle of unhinged Jew-hatred.
Arsen Ostrovsky
Barnaby Joyce has clashed with Sarah Ferguson over One Nation’s plan to let renters and mortgage holders access part of their superannuation.
Chloe Maher
