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For three years the prime minister has schemed and strategised. Can Australians stomach any more?

If the problem with Anthony Albanese is that he’s an unknown quantity, then the problem with Scott Morrison is that we know him all too well

The Guardian - AU · Apr 8, 2022

Labor is careful not to write him off, but the pressure is all on Scott Morrison

The PM of 2019 could have won with this budget – he still can, but now he has three years of baggage to carry

The Guardian - AU · Apr 2, 2022

Michael Pascoe: Morrison’s gone, cynical Frydenberg trying to save the furniture

Scott Morrison is gone. Anthony Albanese will win the election. Josh Frydenberg is fighting to save some of the furniture. There, it’s been said.

The New Daily · Mar 28, 2022

Kimberley Kitching funeral: Husband praises Labor senator’s thoughtfulness and criticises ‘cantankerous cabal’

Delivering eulogy at wife’s funeral, Andrew Landeryou says she ‘deserved so very much better’ from internal party rivals

The Guardian - AU · Mar 21, 2022

Kimberley Kitching’s death and its aftermath are another glimpse into the routine brutality of Australian politics

This is fundamentally a story about contemporary politics. It isn’t pretty, because the arena can be hostile to humans

The Guardian - AU · Mar 18, 2022

‘Extraordinarily disrespectful’: Albanese hits back after Labor senators dubbed ‘mean girls’

Rebuke followed story in The Australian about alleged disagreements between Kimberley Kitching and a group of female Labor senators

The Guardian - AU · Mar 16, 2022

Australia bans imports of Russian oil, petroleum, gas and coal – as it happened

Australia follows lead of US and UK with Russia sanctions; ‘We want tradies to come to Queensland,’ premier says. This blog is now closed

The Guardian - AU · Mar 11, 2022

Kimberley Kitching mourned across political divide as stress of Labor preselection in focus

Former Labor leader Bill Shorten is questioning how much stress party politics and the preselection process put on his close friend Senator Kitching in the lead-up to her death.

ABC News · Mar 10, 2022

Labor senator Kimberley Kitching dies suddenly in Melbourne aged 52

Federal leader Anthony Albanese says ‘the Labor family is in shock tonight at the tragic news’ that Kitching had died of a suspected heart attack

The Guardian - AU · Mar 10, 2022

Australia records 77 deaths on deadliest day of pandemic; national medical stockpile activated – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU · Jan 17, 2022