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Fresh pitch to break deadlock on home buyer help scheme

Deadlocked legislation to help first-home buyers with low deposits has returned to federal parliament as government urges opponents to put differences aside.

AAP · Oct 7, 2024

Foreign tensions, domestic impasses await at parliament

As the government looks to resolve a deadlock on housing and push wage increases through parliament, conflict in the Middle East is set to overshadow debate.

AAP · Oct 7, 2024

Failure to launch: why the Albanese government is in trouble

It wasn’t meant to be like this.

The Conversation · Oct 7, 2024

Division among Australian politicians easy to see and hear on 7 October anniversary

Labor condemns Hamas and acknowledges ‘devastating’ loss of civilian lives. Coalition offers emphatic support of Israel and chides calls for a ceasefire

The Guardian - AU · Oct 7, 2024

Experts lash search and seizure laws for school kids

Proposed laws to be introduced in the Northern Territory would mean children as young as 10 could be searched for knives while at school.

AAP · Oct 7, 2024

Labor’s Help to Buy housing bill is darkening parliament’s doors again. Will this time be any different?

For each of the parties, the debate has little to do with the number of people in the scheme or their finances. It has become a political symbol

The Guardian - AU · Oct 6, 2024

Inside Queensland Labor’s scramble to protect the next generation of leaders as election defeat looms

Polls predict the LNP will take the sunshine state at the next election – but a fallback strategy is already taking shape

The Guardian - AU · Oct 5, 2024

'Unproven technology': Carbon capture no substitute for renewables, say Greens

THE Scottish Greens have said the UK Government’s plans to pour billions of pounds of funding into carbon capture is no substitute for…

The National (Scotland) · Oct 5, 2024

Greens senator Dorinda Cox says ‘significant missing context’ in reports of alleged bullying

West Australian senator acknowledges ‘challenges’ in office and apologised for ‘the distress this may have caused’

The Guardian - AU · Oct 4, 2024

Glenn Druery encourages speculation Fatima Payman will launch her own political party

‘Where there’s smoke sometimes there’s fire,’ WA senator’s chief of staff and ‘preference whisperer’ tells Guardian Australia

The Guardian - AU · Oct 3, 2024