Crikey‘s Electioncast is back! Every Friday throughout the 2025 federal election campaign, politics editor Bernard Keane, readers editor Crystal Andrews ...
This is an unrepentant election budget. I had started to think the Albanese government had no desire to win another term. That Albo simply wanted to ...
What exactly is Labor’s strategy for dealing with Donald Trump? We’re beginning to have a good idea: craven capitulation. The Financial Review’s Phil ...
Anthony Albanese is channelling his inner Bob Hawke and urging the nation to get on board with “Team Australia” by buying locally made goods as a way to ...
While Anthony Albanese’s political and media opponents will revel in his failure to secure an exemption from the Trump administration’s tariffs on steel ...
An abandoned caravan found laden with explosives earlier this year was part of a “fabricated terrorism plot”, and what the Australian Federal Police is now ...
It is deeply weird that one of Labor’s most expansive climate policies is also one of its least mentioned. The “safeguard mechanism” — a policy that ...
ALFRED AFTERMATH After making landfall over the weekend, Tropical Cyclone Alfred has left hundreds of thousands of homes without power with “phenomenal ...
The fallout from Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s decision to fly to Sydney to attend a “ritzy” fundraiser at the mansion of pub baron and absent-minded ...
Labor’s hit jobs on Peter Dutton’s property transactions over the decades, along with his purchases of bank shares during the GFC may well be, at least in ...
CHALMERS IN DC AS TARIFFS LOOM You may have noticed a fair amount of noise coming out of Washington DC over the past few weeks and I’m afraid that’s ...
MEDICARE BIDDING WAR The weekend has come and gone, and predictions that Anthony Albanese was going to call a federal election ended up being unfounded. ...