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Nationals meet after three frontbenchers resign – as it happened

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PM caught in backlash as transparency pleas grow

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese faces calls to bolster transparency as Labor starts the new year ramming through complex legislation with reduced oversight.

AAP

View from The Hill: Albanese’s backflip on royal commission is a humiliating own goal

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese prides himself with being in tune with the public mood. But in holding out for weeks against a royal commission into antisemitism he misjudged that mood, making Thursday’s backdown on his hardline opposition a humiliation for him.

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Third Labor MP breaks ranks to urge Albanese to call royal commission into Bondi attack

Michelle Ananda-Rajah ‘wholeheartedly’ calls for national inquiry as expectations grow prime minister will relent on previous position

The Guardian - AU

'Evil' anti-Semitism targeted with tougher hate laws

People spouting racial hatred could have visas cancelled after the Bondi massacre, but the government is being pushed to go further still to stop anti-Semitism.

AAP

Niki Savva’s Earthquake is a damning account of the election that shook Australia

As federal polling day neared on May 3 2025, the ground was silent but the people of Australia stirred, some restless with fear, others hankering for a change of government. History favoured the incumbent. There had been no single-term governments nationally since the interwar years.

The Conversation

'Classic glass cliff': women leaders mark Liberal first

The majority of Liberal leaders across Australia are now women - but are they political saviours or placeholders until a male colleague takes over?

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Labor minister Don Farrell claimed $9,000 for family travel during sports events and theatre showings

Minister says family travel expenses, including those claimed around the time of AFL grand final and a sunset dinner at Uluru, are ‘in line with relevant rules’

The Guardian - AU

View from The Hill: Two women intent on vindication ensure Higgins affair haunts Labor

The extraordinary Brittany Higgins saga, probably one of the biggest Australian political scandals of our time and devastating for multiple people, returned this week to the margin of public attention when one of the legal cases was in the Federal Court.

The Conversation

A translation of the Nauruan president’s remarks will stay suppressed for a decade – but secrecy in Australia’s offshore policy is nothing new

From Scott Morrison’s ‘on-water matters’ to the Albanese government’s MOU with Nauru, successive governments’ attitude to legitimate scrutiny has been one of hostility

The Guardian - AU

Airbrushing and exhortations: Ita Buttrose reflects on her life in media – well, some of it

Ita Buttrose is a consequential figure in Australian public life for many reasons, most of all because of her work as a journalist, so it is odd that only one chapter of her memoir Unapologetically Ita is wholly devoted to this.

The Conversation

View from The Hill: Barnaby Joyce wants to pull the horse up while he resaddles

A pesky journalist broke the story about Barnaby Joyce being in talks with One Nation, and now the apparently-exiting Nationals MP wants everyone to press the “pause” button while he has a chat with family and gets himself and his situation straight.

The Conversation

Australia: A History by Tony Abbott review – mostly celebratory account of ‘a land built by heroes’

Former PM lauds his country’s progress to egalitarian democracy where ‘only the very unlucky’ miss out – yet judges it ‘materially rich but spiritually poor’

The Guardian - AU

Will Donald Trump Get a Nobel Peace Prize? Scott Morrison Declares POTUS 'No More Worthy Recipient' If Gaza Peace Plan Succeeds

Former Australian PM Scott Morrison supports Donald Trump's Nobel Peace Prize bid if his Gaza plan succeeds. Hamas has reportedly agreed to key details.

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The Guardian - AU

Scott Morrison says Trump deserves a Nobel prize if president’s Gaza peace plan works

The former Australian PM describes the plan as an ‘absolute gamechanger’ as US officials arrive in Egypt for talks

The Conversation

The Liberal Party is riven with disagreements and discontent. Can it survive?

In May, immediately after the 2025 election, debate swirled about whether the Coalition agreement would survive. The consensus was that it would be madness for the Liberals and the Nationals to part ways. Nonetheless they did so, briefly, before awkwardly reconciling. It was not a convincing display.

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Papua New Guinea swells with pride for golden jubilee

Papua New Guineans are draping themselves in the national colours to celebrate 50 years since the country's flag was first raised to mark its independence.

The Independent UK

Australia agrees record payout for victims of illegal Robodebt scheme

Hundreds of thousands of Australians wrongly accused of owing welfare debts to share $475m compensation

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Brittany Higgins responds after $315k defamation loss

Brittany Higgins has used social media to reach out to her ex-boss Linda Reynolds after losing an expensive defamation battle with the former senator.

The Conversation

Coalition declares it would revoke Australia’s Palestinian statehood recognition if it wins office

The bipartisanship about the path to a long-term settlement in the Middle East has finally been irrevocably broken.

The Guardian - AU

Anthony Albanese says Benjamin Netanyahu is ‘in denial’ about crisis in Gaza

The PM’s escalating criticism of Israel comes as the French president overnight welcomed Australia’s plan to recognise Palestinian statehood

The Guardian - AU

Labor was in a climate crouch. It now has the chance to stand up to News Corp and put the national interest first

Australia’s political landscape is barely recognisable from four years ago. Will Labor abandon its risk-averse past and take an aggressive stance on emissions?

The Guardian - AU

Coalition is wedging itself on climate crisis with net zero debate, warns Liberal MP in Scott Morrison’s former seat

Exclusive: Simon Kennedy warns closed-door meeting against backsliding on efforts to cut carbon emissions

AAP

Labor secrecy 'worse than under five-ministry Morrison'

A failure to release federal government documents despite Labor's pledge to be more transparent has been slammed, fuelling questions about what's being hidden.

The Guardian - AU

Scott Morrison tells US Australia risks going to sleep on China threat after diplomatic ‘charm and flattery’

Former prime minister warns US House of Representatives committee Australia must do more to resist the security threat posed by China

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