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 Jim Chalmers

Anthony Albanese and four senior frontbenchers sworn in ahead of Quad trip

Moments after he is officially sworn in as the 31st Prime Minister of Australia, the Labor leader appears alongside his new ministers and makes a symbolic change inside parliament.

ABC News

Australia’s government is changing after nine years of the Coalition – what happens next?

From the swearing in of Anthony Albanese and his ministers, to department ‘red books’, the public service is ready for the transition

The Guardian - AU

Factbox-Key members of Australia's incoming Labor government

Australia's Labor Party ousted the conservative coalition at an election on Saturday, returning the centre-left party to government after nine years in opposition.

Reuters

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

Greens make big inroads in Queensland

The Greens are set to win three seats in Brisbane, with the major parties suffering a backlash in Saturday's election.

AAP

Grassroots campaigns can’t pick Qld result

Queensland candidates are hopeful grassroots campaigns will pay off in the federal election, with most sides believing the results are too close to call.

Crikey

Australian election briefing: Labor reveals costings as Morrison bulldozes through wage questions – plus a painted rabbit

Thursday: The best of Guardian Australia’s 2022 federal election coverage

The Guardian - AU

Labor defends $7.4bn increase in deficit to fund election promises

Jim Chalmers says investments in childcare and cleaner energy are necessary and further budget savings could later be identified

The Guardian - AU

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

Journalists demand stunts from Albo as unemployment hits new low

Unemployment hits a new low of 3.9% — good news for Morrison. But the media was too busy having a tantrum at Anthony Albanese to notice.

Crikey

Labor election commitments add $7.4 billion to the deficit, but ALP pledges it's quality spending

Labor's election commitments would cost the budget bottom line an extra $7.4 billion, the opposition has confirmed in its pre-election costings.

ABC News

Plibersek says Albanese has a ‘tough job’ as polls tighten – as it happened

Follow all the day’s developments live

The Guardian - AU

Costings farce: charter of budget honesty is a relic without point

Why should oppositions bother to submit their policies for costing when the whole game is rigged against them?

Crikey

Government claims of 7% real wage rise since in office disputed – as it happened

This blog is now closed

The Guardian - AU

Strife of the party

Good morning, early birds. Several United Australia Party election candidates have reportedly faced criminal proceedings in court, and if Labor wins Saturday’s election Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese says he will go to the Quadrilateral meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday immediately after being sworn in as leader. It’s the news you…

Crikey

The Loop: Coalition shares election costings, refugee advocate wins court appeal, and an English soccer player comes out as gay

Get up to speed on today's headlines with The Loop.

ABC News

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Conversation

Elections used to be about costings. Here's what's changed

The last week of campaigns used to be frantic, behind the scenes. In public, right up until the final week, the leaders would make all sorts of promises, many of them expensive, with nary a mention of the spending cuts or tax increases that would be needed to pay for…

The Guardian - AU

Coalition costings: $3.3bn in public service cuts to fund election pledges worth $2.3bn

Josh Frydenberg spruiks ‘responsible approach’ and calls on Labor to submit its policies to financial scrutiny

Crikey

Australia under Albo — what lies in store if Labor wins?

Life under Labor will be less a story of policy than one of reaction to economic events as Australia enters a difficult transition.

The Conversation

Stand by for the oddly designed Stage 3 tax cut that will send middle earners backwards and give high earners thousands

The Reserve Bank is pushing up interest rates to take money out of our hands.

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - AU

‘I am who I am’: Anthony Albanese rushes towards his date with destiny

Can the Labor leader persuade Australians that his passion and emotional investment are the qualities they need in a PM?

Crikey

Labor’s would-be treasurer gains coverage while ScoMo just can’t get clear air for his message

In election campaigns you want clear air to talk about your preferred topics. Isentia’s Campaign Insights data shows Scott Morrison has had anything but.

The Conversation

Grattan on Friday: 'Gotcha' questions are ugly journalism but hazards for leaders

The public don’t have much regard for journalists and many people will be critical of the “gotcha” questioning that found Anthony Albanese on Thursday unable to recite the six points of his policy on the National Disability Insurance Scheme.

Crikey

This reckless spending must stop — but it won’t. Not after 2019

Inflation is being exacerbated by reckless federal spending. But Labor doesn’t dare call for an end to it.

AAP

Treasurer, Chalmers keep to familiar lines

Josh Frydenberg and Jim Chalmers have failed to deliver any blows during the treasurers' debate at the National Press Club.

Crikey

Electioncast: Who won the battle of the money men?

A day after an interest rate rise and amid growing inflation, Kishor Napier-Raman broke down the clash between Josh Frydenberg and Jim Chalmers over who would be the better economic manager.

Crikey

Electioncast: Who won the money men’s debate?

A day after an interest rate rise and amid growing inflation, Kishor Napier-Raman broke down the clash between Josh Frydenberg and Jim Chalmers over who would be the better economic manager.

1 … 65 66 67 68

People

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

Organisations

House of Representatives

Sydney Morning Herald

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.