Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Coalition

Scott Morrison refuses to say if he’ll stand down if he loses election

Scott Morrison has refused to say if he'll stand down if he loses Saturday’s election after spending the day defending a controversial housing plan.

The New Daily

Scott Morrison’s first-home buyers scheme will jack up prices, not build homes

The Coalition's superannuation backed first home buyers scheme will push up prices by as much as $134,000 but not increase the supply of housing

The New Daily

Scott Morrison defends marginal seat spending saying MPs ‘know what their community needs’

Prime minister on ABC’s 7.30 program takes umbrage at question suggesting ‘your government used community sports grants as a slush fund’

The Guardian - AU

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Independents success due to 'more insulated' communities, PM says

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has appeared on 7.30pm

The Canberra Times

Scott Morrison 'not contemplating' quitting if he loses election, claims he can defy polls again and win a second term on Saturday

Prime Minister Scott Morrison claims he can defy national opinion polls and win Saturday's federal election, saying Australians want him to be a "more inclusive" Prime Minister if he gets another term in power.

ABC News

Labor pledges to get creative industries ‘back on track quickly’ as it announces arts policy

Opposition wants to boost Australian content on streaming services but overall policy is light on funding commitments

The Guardian - AU

Australian election briefing: Morrison’s housing sales pitch knocked off course as Albanese dodges a digger — plus ‘polite incentives’

Monday: the best of Guardian Australia’s 2022 federal election coverage

The Guardian - AU

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

The Loop: Housing debate heats up, Dallas thrash Phoenix in the NBA, and old favourites return to Doctor Who

Here's your TL;DR for today's news.

ABC News

Dominic Perrottet downplays Coalition’s bid for first-home buyers to access superannuation

NSW premier says allowing up to $50,000 or 40% from superannuation accounts for deposits will not solve crisis

The Guardian - AU

Coalition loves showering public companies with taxpayers’ money. How does that sit with budget repair?

From lavish federal grant-giving to misspent millions in JobKeeper, the government seems more spendthrift than scrupulous.

Crikey

Morrison goes all in on housing, while Advance Australia found in breach of electoral law

The PM spruiked his policy to let first-home buyers use super to buy property, even as his own minister admitted it would increase prices.

Crikey

Labor accuses Coalition of ‘playing politics’ with national security after reports of Aukus snub

Opposition claims government is whipping up fear for election votes as WA premier Mark McGowan slams Peter Dutton’s ‘inflammatory’ rhetoric

The Guardian - AU

'Futile and cruel': plan to charge fees for immigration detention has no redeeming features

Some people in immigration detention could be asked to pay for their own incarceration, as part of a new border protection policy announced by the Coalition on Friday.

The Conversation

I want my vote to count for nature: how do the major parties stack up?

The animals and plants at risk of extinction finally made it onto the political agenda last week, as Labor and the Greens launched biodiversity policies ahead of the federal election.

The Conversation

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - AU

Coalition super housing policy likely to inflate prices by increasing demand, analysts say

Saul Eslake points to ‘unambiguous and unequivocal evidence’ showing such policies lift prices rather than home ownership

The Guardian - AU

Australian election 2022 voters’ guide: everything you need to know

How to vote, when is election day, who can you vote for and what to do if you have Covid on polling day

Newsroom.co.nz

‘His beating heart is a focus group’ - What makes Morrison tick

Veteran Australian political writer Michelle Grattan weighs the factors ranged against PM Scott Morrison winning again in the election this Saturday

ABC News

Scott Morrison suggests Labor may have leaked AUKUS information had it been briefed sooner

Prime Minister denies Australia broke with the Biden administration when it decided not to consult Labor about its decision to scrap the French submarine program and unveil an ambitious new plan to build nuclear-powered submarines with the UK and the US.

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Pedestrian.tv

The Coalition Wants To Let You Use Your Super To Buy A Home — Here’s Why That’s A Shit Idea

The Coalition has admitted its new policy to allow first homebuyers to access their super to pay for a house would jack up house prices.

Crikey

Trapped: Australia’s economy is hostage to the housing market, and neither party is willing to save us

The politics of Morrison’s super-for-homes announcement is obvious and desperate. But what of the economics of this ongoing obsession with the housing market?

Crikey

Where were women in the Coalition’s campaign launch? Certainly not in its homeownership policy

The Morrison government’s new housing policies will worsen the gender gap — hurting women while enriching older white males.

The Guardian - AU

Will Australia’s opinion polls be more accurate in 2022 than at the last election?

Polling companies have introduced new techniques since they failed to predict Scott Morrison’s 2019 election win. Now they anxiously wait to see if they have worked

The Guardian - AU

Only 8% of candidates in the federal election come from diverse backgrounds

Despite the nation’s demographics the majority of political candidates remain solidly white and male – with the few exceptions largely challenging safe seats

The Guardian - AU

Adam Bandt outlines seven demands for Labor in Greens’ balance-of-power wishlist

Party confident of winning at least one seat in Brisbane, where it will launch its campaign on Monday night

The Guardian - AU

Coalition minister concedes plan to allow first homebuyers to access super will push up house prices

Allowing access to up to $50,000 of retirement savings ‘like throwing petrol on a bonfire’, industry super group warns

1 … 131 132 133 134

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

House of Representatives

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.