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Government Services Summit 2025
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‘We have to meet modern Australia where they are’: Ley
Opposition leader Sussan Ley says the Liberal Party let women down, and she will take time to get their policies right. How the day unfolded.
Sussan Ley seizes control of Liberals in victory for moderates
She becomes the Liberal Party’s first female leader and Ted O’Brien is her deputy, after the much vaunted Angus Taylor-Jacinta Price ticket fizzled.
Coalition climate war threat as Nats blink on net zero
Nationals dumping their support for net zero emissions would pose a further challenge to whoever wins Tuesday’s ballot for the leadership of the Liberal Party.
Ed Husic’s sacking shows innovation always loses in Canberra’s Game of Thrones
Short-term political expediency has always over-ridden strategic innovation and industry policy.
Yesterday
How a hoax bomb plot pushed Albanese to shake up security
The prime minister’s cabinet reshuffle marks the start of an opportunity for him to reshape the voices who advise him on national security.
Bradfield a rare Lib win, but Kooyong is gone again
Gisele Kapterian has secured a razor-thin victory in the Sydney seat of Bradfield for the Liberals, but the party conceded it could not win back Kooyong.
PM to attend Pope’s inauguration in side trip from Indonesia
Anthony Albanese will meet world leaders on the sidelines of the new Pope’s inaugural mass.
Nationals’ populism a threat to the Liberals’ economic reset
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s defection to the Liberals has strained relations, but the Coalition faces deeper structural challenges.
David Rowe cartoons for May 2025
David Rowe is a multiple Walkley award-winning cartoonist. He draws a daily political cartoon and one for the Chanticleer column.
The winners and losers in Albanese’s cabinet reshuffle
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has moved trusted allies to fix some weak points for Labor in key portfolios.
Albanese resets the board for a high-stakes political game
The prime minister says he is confident he has the right people in the right ministerial roles as he shrugs off any criticism about his new team.
PM reveals cabinet reshuffle; Littleproud retains Nationals leadership
Anthony Albanese says Murray Watt will take over Tanya Plibersek’s portfolio; teal MP Monique Ryan has secured Kooyong. Follow live updates.
Plibersek sidelined, PM puts fixers in environment and NDIS
Mark Butler has been given the task of bringing the NDIS under control, while Tanya Plibersek has been pushed out of environment and replaced by Murray Watt.
Albanese starts fixing, the Coalition starts breaking
Anthony Albanese has put two of his best ministers in charge of his biggest problems. Meanwhile, the change to the Coalition’s internal ratio adds to its woes.
Burke gets AFP, ASIO in national security portfolio shake up
The move as part of Anthony Albanese’s shake up reverses the decision when Labor was first elected to split out the two agencies from home affairs.
This Month
Stephen Conroy’s man behind the ‘factional assassin’
The former minister’s protege has hurdled his way into the ministry, over the still-warm bodies of competent ministers.
For the Liberals to survive, NSW party reform is essential
There will probably always be factions, but we have a duty to Liberal Party members and the people of NSW and Australia to limit the opportunities for abuse of power.
Why Australia will go slow on Trump’s tariffs
The UK’s shoddy trade deal with Donald Trump provides a cautionary example for the Albanese government.
Climate 200 spent big on teals. The best ROI may be a surprise
While big donations went to Deb Leonard and Kate Chaney, analysis shows candidates such as Jessie Price gave the funding group its best bang (vote) for buck in long-shot Labor seats.
If Jacinta Price is the answer, Liberals are asking wrong question
A lesson of the election campaign is that the Liberal Party should never be Labor-lite on economics, but heading in a Trump-like direction would be a dead end.
Husic hit job exposes Labor’s failure on growth
The dumped industry minister reveals that Australians have endorsed a second-term Labor government with no plan for reviving living standards.
Don’t believe the spin – the Australian election was Trumped
I’ve had enough of the misreading of the result. It was not about Labor’s strategic brilliance but rather voters’ response to Donald Trump’s wrecking ball.
Albanese needs to be ‘hands-on’ to avoid another WA backlash
The West Australian government and mining sector want the prime minister to take a role in negotiations on environmental reforms to avoid another breakdown as occurred under Tanya Plibersek.
Fail: University degree targets ‘can’t be met’
On current trajectories and with falling funding, enrolments could be lower by the end of the decade than today.
