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

Who are the other four Labor ministers sworn in on Monday?

Anthony Albanese wasn't the only Labor member to be sworn into office on Monday — four of his senior colleagues and cabinet members were as well. Here's who they are.

ABC News

Biloela family home "as soon as possible"

Supporters of the Tamil family held in immigration detention believe their plight changed votes in Qld as the town of Biloela prepares to welcome them home.

AAP

Voters sick of party fights: Palaszczuk

Queensland's premier says voters rejected the outgoing Morrison government's climate change policies and warned that voters are sick of adversarial politics.

AAP

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

Market response to Australia’s new Labor government will be ‘muted’, economists say

Analysts say election of Albanese government will not ‘shift the dial’ on economic forecasts

The Guardian - AU

Anthony Albanese Has Been Sworn In As PM So Who Are The New Main Characters In Parliament?

Anthony Albanese was sworn as Australia's 31st Prime Minister following the federal election with a new cabinet ministers in parliament.

Pedestrian.tv

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This blog is now closed

The Guardian - AU

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

ABC News

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.

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

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?

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.

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.

ABC News

Morrison shrugs off 'buffoons' sledge from NSW anti-corruption watchdog commissioner

Scott Morrison shrugs off a frank character assessment from one of the commissioners of the New South Wales anti-corruption watchdog, who labelled critics of his organisation as "buffoons".

The Guardian - AU

Scott Morrison warns overly powerful Icac could turn Australia into ‘public autocracy’

Labor, which has promised to establish a national anti-corruption commission ‘with teeth’, says the PM’s comments show his ‘true colours are emerging now’

ABC News

Federal election: Rising interest and inflation rates dominate debate between Josh Frydenberg and Jim Chalmers — as it happened

Interest rates, cost-of-living pressures and how each party would start to repay our historic debt dominate the treasury debate. Look back at all the day's politics.

The Conversation

Centre-left parties worldwide have struggled to reinvent themselves – what kind of ALP is fighting this election?

With due caution about the (in)accuracy of opinion polls, Australian voters may bring in a Labor government on May 21. If so, what kind of government would they get?

1 … 74 75 76 77

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.