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Inland Rail review reveals cost blow-out to 'astonishing' $31b amid claims of unheeded advice

Australia needs an inland rail, but a new report finds advice was ignored, the board does not have the "skills required", and there has been an "astonishing" cost blow-out to $31.4 billion.

ABC News · Apr 5, 2023

Another MP overboard? Former Liberal minister Stuart Robert ‘under pressure’

Amid rumours Scott Morrison will soon be quitting politics, speculation is now rife that close ally Stuart Robert could follow.

The New Daily · Apr 3, 2023

Afternoon Update: Yunupingu hailed as ‘one of the greatest Australians’; female cricketers get pay rise; and Paris to ban e-scooters

Nationwide tributes and respects paid to Yolŋu elder and Aboriginal leader who has died aged 74

The Guardian - AU · Apr 3, 2023

News Corp gives Barack Obama’s swipe on ‘splintering’ Murdoch media a wide berth

Daily Telegraph fails to land blame on Malcolm Turnbull for the former US president’s comments. Plus: Andrew Bolt scolds Mark Latham

The Guardian - AU · Mar 31, 2023

Five years after Australia's reckoning with Chinese foreign interference, Canada has its moment

The political storm bearing down on Canada over alleged Chinese government interference is similar to what unfolded in Australia five years ago, but Justin Trudeau's government looks to be responding in a different way.

ABC News · Mar 26, 2023

On This Day in 2018: Australia ‘sandpapergate’ ball-tampering controversy erupts

Cameron Bancroft was filmed rubbing the ball with unusual pressure and then hiding a yellow object down his trousers.

The Independent UK · Mar 24, 2023

How many ex-PMs does it take to sink Australia’s nuclear submarine deal?

Malcolm Turnbull was quick to share his concerns about the $368bn deal but the opposition to Aukus was led by that old Labor war horse: Paul Keating

The Guardian - AU · Mar 17, 2023

Madonna King: Paul Keating’s AUKUS spray was of a bygone era

The brash leadership of Paul Keating might have been fit for purpose almost 30 years ago, but it certainly isn’t any more.

The New Daily · Mar 16, 2023

Afternoon Update: Albanese fires back at Keating over Aukus criticism; global banking fears; and US threatens to ban TikTok

PM says Keating’s acerbic attack on the Aukus program ‘diminish him’ as Malcolm Turnbull joins chorus of criticism

The Guardian - AU · Mar 16, 2023

Paul Keating has ‘diminished’ himself with scathing attack on Aukus submarine deal, Albanese says

Malcolm Turnbull has also questioned deal amid UK economy’s ‘existential problems’

The Guardian - AU · Mar 16, 2023