September
- Opinion
- Letters to the Editor
Bowen escapes energy scrutiny
Readers’ letters on Peter Dutton’s nuclear energy policy, restoring productivity and industry superannuation funds.
- Opinion
- Nuclear energy
Beware the hidden cost of Dutton’s nuclear plan
The Coalition’s timeline will need major expansion of gas to replace sidelined renewable energy projects, which will be a huge and needless expense.
- Chris Bowen
Neo-Nazis boasted of protecting rally Deeming helped plan, court told
Social media posts made by a neo-Nazi leader have been read out to a court during MP Moira Deeming’s defamation trial against Liberal leader John Pesutto.
- Gus McCubbing and Patrick Durkin
- Exclusive
- Jobs
The most common jobs MPs had before they were elected
Anthony Albanese was a party official and Peter Dutton was a police officer, but neither are from the most popular vocational backgrounds in federal parliament.
- Ronald Mizen
August
- Updated
- Big four
Big business faces down Canberra’s ‘insidious’ populist policies
Commonwealth Bank chief Matt Comyn has warned “performative” attacks is eroding trust, highlighting the rising tensions between MPs and corporate Australia.
- Updated
- James Eyers, Carrie LaFrenz and Lucas Baird
Dutton doubles down on ‘price gouging’ by big-box retailers
Brands including IKEA, Petbarn and Officeworks are expected to front the looming Senate inquiry into the business practices of big-box retailers.
- Tom McIlroy and James Hall
July
Rod Carnegie: corporate giant felled at the final hurdle
Sir Rod Carnegie soared across the corporate sky in the ’70s and ’80s but was thwarted in his attempt to secure full Australian local control of mining giant CRA.
- Andrew Clark
Albanese makes three-day assault on Queensland battleground
The prime minister has thrown down the gauntlet in Queensland during a pseudo-election-campaign tour.
- James Hall
- Exclusive
- Energy
LNP to debate nuclear despite ‘intriguing’ omission
The LNP’s Queensland base will be “white-hot angry” if convention doesn’t debate nuclear energy, senior federal MP warns.
- James Hall
June
- Opinion
- Energy transition
Nuclear is unviable because of economics, not engineering
Even if all that mattered was the cheapest possible energy that meets minimum levels of reliability and emissions, the Coalition’s plan fails.
- Steven Hamilton and Luke Heeney
- Exclusive
- Nuclear energy
Labor’s $40b renewables bid attracts massive industry support
Energy Minister Chris Bowen will on Monday reveal the first auction for 6 gigawatts of renewable energy received bids from more than 100 projects covering more than 40 gigawatts of renewable energy production.
- Ronald Mizen
Climate wars to escalate with Dutton to unveil nuclear sites
Peter Dutton will escalate the climate wars on Wednesday by announcing site plans for nuclear power plants.
- Phillip Coorey
- Exclusive
- Water buyback controversy
$300m for river communities as Plibersek moves to save the Murray
The government has pledged $300 million to support regional communities that will be affected by sending an extra 450 gigalitres of water down the Murray
- Phillip Coorey
May
- Exclusive
- Renewables
‘A big risk’: Voters wary of nuclear replacing coal-fired power
Voters in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley have raised the spectres of Chernobyl and Fukushima when asked about Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s plan to build large-scale reactors in their community.
- Tom McIlroy
April
- Opinion
- Canberra Observed
Dutton’s atomic bet threatens Coalition chain reaction over climate
Rather than keep the heat on Labor’s handling of the cost-of-living pain as inflation stays high, the opposition leader’s nuclear venture risks becoming the story.
- Jacob Greber
- Opinion
- Political leadership
A governor-general from the Chairman’s Lounge
The PM is truer than he knows when he says Sam Mostyn represents modern Australia. It’s a nation of talkers, not doers.
- John Roskam
February
PM spoils for a fight on stage three tax cuts
The Coalition will move amendments to the Albanese government’s tax cuts legislation, but won’t die in a ditch to get them passed.
- Phillip Coorey
Christine Holgate still gunning for Australia Post
Making Australia Post cheaply distribute its competitors’ parcels would hamper Australia Post’s finances. For Christine Holgate, that might be a bonus.
- Myriam Robin
January
- Opinion
- Supermarkets
The cost-of-living crisis is real – so is supermarket competition
The Emerson review must not make findings for the political sake of having been seen to have done something.
- Jeff Kennett
December 2023
MPs drop $30m on expenses in three months
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese led the pack, spending $684,665 between July and September 2022, newly released data show.
- Michael Read
