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In one of those paradoxes of politics, a government that has delivered in spades to the union movement finds itself in a bare-knuckle fight with the country’s most militant industrial organisation.

Hunter union members throw support behind CFMEU.

Nautical metaphors are irresistible, I’m afraid, when talking about Australia’s seemingly endless submarine saga. But as investigative journalist Andrew Fowler makes clear in Nuked: The Submarine Fiasco that Sank Australia’s Sovereignty, his excellent and excoriating analysis of the genesis of the AUKUS pact, there isn’t much room for levity otherwise.

Labor's Cr Liz Adamczyk linked to 'politically motivated' attack.

Former leading Canberra press gallery journalist, Laurie Oakes, now retired, had a cut-through question about the government’s response this week to the CFMEU crisis.

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Exclusive: Two officeholders quit, with one claiming the party has ‘become a spineless jellyfish’

The NSW government is moving to force an independent administrator on the CFMEU's state construction arm, mirroring a push from its federal Labor counterpart.

Senator’s departure disappointing to ‘thousands of rank-and-file ALP and union members and Labor supporters’

Labor would do well to draw a line under its loss of Senator Fatima Payman from its ranks, instead of taking more pot shots to try to discredit her.

Labor and the coalition will use a month-long break from parliament to refine their respective pitches to voters as a possible year-end election looms.