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The Latest Breaking News from Kevin Rudd

With the chance to use his political capital for reform, can the PM repay the trust placed in him?

There’s a growing crisis everywhere Anthony Albanese looks, but they may enable a more ambitious agenda

The Guardian - AU · Jun 17, 2022

Guardian Essential poll: Albanese enjoys post-election approval boost last seen with Kevin Rudd

More Australians think the nation is on a positive trajectory, but economic uncertainty and cost of living worries still dominate, poll suggests

The Guardian - AU · Jun 14, 2022

Anthony Albanese shows he’s a big-picture empath – more like Hawke than Rudd or Gillard

In these opening weeks, the new prime minister is drawing on Labor songlines from the 1980s and 90s

The Guardian - AU · Jun 10, 2022

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Anthony Albanese says his cabinet has the largest number of women in history. Is that correct?

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says his new cabinet has the largest number that have ever served in an Australian cabinet. Is that correct? RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates.

ABC News · Jun 8, 2022

Challenges loom large for new Albanese government

Members of the Albanese government say they do not need to exaggerate when discussing the challenges stretching out before them.

The New Daily · Jun 7, 2022

Katy Gallagher says the government has inherited the worst set of budget books in history. Is that correct?

Finance Minister Katy Gallagher says the incoming Labor government has inherited the worst set of budget books in history. Is that correct? RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates.

ABC News · Jun 6, 2022

Grattan on Friday: Albanese government mugged by gas crisis as it faces challenge of managing expectations

Tony Burke reads a poem aloud every day and has a piano lesson once a week.

The Conversation · Jun 2, 2022

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Australia's first two Muslim federal ministers sworn into office in historic moment

Labor MP Ed Husic said he "felt the weight of the moment" to be one of the first two Muslim ministers to be sworn into Federal Parliament.

ABC News · Jun 1, 2022

Labor’s full cabinet has finally been sworn in. Here’s a who’s who of new ministers

Although Labor hasn't been in government since 2013, almost half of the new cabinet have past experience as government ministers.

The New Daily · Jun 1, 2022

Anthony Albanese to create climate super-department in bureaucratic shake-up

Prime minister also plans to remove AFP from home affairs portfolio as he reshapes the public service

The Guardian - AU · Jun 1, 2022

Linda Burney calls for Peter Dutton to show his 'different side' with support for Indigenous Voice to Parliament

Minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney calls for Liberal leader Peter Dutton to support a referendum for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.

ABC News · May 31, 2022

Anthony Albanese’s government must learn from Labor’s last breakup with electoral power

The ALP enters this new relationship with the Australian people led by MPs who lived through the last implosion

The Guardian - AU · May 31, 2022

Albanese appoints former University of Melbourne vice-chancellor Glyn Davis to head PM&C

Anthony Albanese is bringing in an outsider, former University of Melbourne vice-chancellor Glyn Davis to head his Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.

The Conversation · May 30, 2022

Albanese should adopt a collaborative, European approach to governing – not the take-it-or-leave-it Anglo style we're used to

The Australian Labor Party is edging towards 76 seats and possible majority government after the electorate abandoned the Coalition at the federal election.

The Conversation · May 30, 2022

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The Guardian - AU · May 27, 2022

How Australia’s electoral system allowed voters to finally impose a ceasefire in the climate wars

Preferential voting opened a pathway for independents to bypass the right’s hyperpartisan approach to climate policy

The Conversation · May 26, 2022

Albanese will bring a different style of leadership to the PM's office –– can Australia make the adjustment?

One of the fundamental questions that emerges from the election of Anthony Albanese’s Labor government is whether Australia will put behind it a decade and a half of instability in the prime ministership.

The Guardian - AU · May 25, 2022

Duelling diplomacy in the Pacific should dispel the notion of a China-Australia reset

However much either side tempers their rhetoric, regional competition is the name of the game

The Conversation · May 25, 2022

National Sorry Day is a day to commemorate those taken. But 'sorry' is not enough – we need action

This article contains mentions of the Stolen Generations, and policies using outdated and potentially offensive terminology when referring to First Nations people.

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The New Daily · May 25, 2022

Who is Peter Dutton? The ex-cop tipped to be the next leader of the Liberal Party

Former minister Peter Dutton is expected to run unopposed to be the next leader of the Liberal Party and, in turn, Australia's next opposition leader.

The New Daily · May 25, 2022

National Sorry Day is a day to commemorate those taken. But ‘sorry’ is not enough – we need action

Sorry Day also commemorates the continuity of injustice borne by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Remembering is the least we can do.

The Conversation · May 24, 2022

Wages and women top Albanese's IR agenda: the big question is how Labor keeps its promises

Industrial relations issues were front and centre when federal Labor last won office from opposition in 2007. The backlash against John Howard’s “Work Choices” reforms cost both his government and his own seat. Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard’s detailed “Forward with Fairness” policy provided a blueprint for the Fair Work…

The Conversation · May 23, 2022

Did Australia just make a move to the left?

Political commentators often use the idea of a political spectrum from left to right as shorthand for understanding political ideologies, parties and programs. Derived from the arrangement of the National Assembly in the French Revolution, it has been a remarkably resilient form of political shorthand.

Pedestrian.tv · May 23, 2022

A Chef’s Kiss Roundup Of The Most Satisfying Right-Wing Meltdowns Following Labor’s Victory

Someone check on the Andrew Bolt Supporters Page.

The Conversation · May 22, 2022

As Albanese heads to the Quad, what are the security challenges facing Australia's new government?

Extreme weather events are the new normal. The use of nuclear weapons by Vladimir Putin’s Russian military is now an unthinkable possibility. And Xi Jinping’s China, our largest trading partner and rising superpower, is pulling down the shutters.

ABC News · May 22, 2022

Anthony Albanese's rise from humble beginnings to the prime ministership

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is a politician moulded by his humble start to life as the only child of a single mother who raised him on a pension in gritty inner-Sydney suburbia.

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