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Competence and vision: how to be a successful opposition

Sussan Ley’s challenge as opposition leader is to keep her party united and ready to govern in the event that the government loses public favour. That is, they need to be a ready alternative government.

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Latest phone chat points towards Albanese-Trump meeting

A phone call between Anthony Albanese and Donald Trump makes a face-to-face meeting of the two leaders more likely, experts say.

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Australia's US tariff fixation 'missing bigger picture'

Engaging with the US on issues such as critical minerals and supply chains rather than President Donald Trump's tariffs is the way to go, one expert reckons.

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Donald Trump is not the first politician to swear in public. Here are six more infamous expletives

From a frustrated Australian prime minister to ‘the most unparliamentary of language’ in Irish politics

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PM confirms Trump meeting as Americans take to streets

After much anticipation, Anthony Albanese has confirmed he will have his first in-person meeting with Donald Trump on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Canada.

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‘We just sit here’: the broken men Australia’s offshore detention regime left behind in Papua New Guinea

Samad Abdul is among the last of more than 2,000 people who passed through the illegal system. Prevented from leaving PNG, he says his life is wasting away

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Grattan on Friday: Trump, tariffs and the Middle East are looming challenges for Albanese

Australia these days receives invitations to big-league international conferences. And so Anthony Albanese will be off soon to the G7 meeting in Alberta, Canada, on June 15-17.

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Ambition is not a dirty word: female politicians and the ‘Lady Macbeth bias’

When the new parliament convenes after the recent election, it will feature a rarity in Australian politics. Women will lead two significant political parties at the same time: the Liberal Party’s Sussan Ley and the Greens’ Larissa Waters.

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'Tax on Bluey': Rudd rips into Trump's film tariffs

Australia's ambassador to the US Kevin Rudd has spoken against President Donald Trump's proposal to tax foreign-made movies.

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Who is Anthony Albanese? First Australian prime minister in 21 years to win re-election

Albanese’s election pledge has been that his government would hold no Australian back and leave none behind

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Albanese has been a ‘proficient and lucky general’. But if he wins a second term, we are right to demand more

Barring a rogue result, this Saturday Anthony Albanese will achieve what no major party leader has done since John Howard’s prime-ministerial era – win consecutive elections. Admittedly, in those two decades he is only the second of the six prime ministers (the other is Scott Morrison), who has been permitted…

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Libs channel Labor's unfriendly ghost, Jim Scullin

A first-term government has not been kicked out of office for almost a century but Peter Dutton is hoping comparisons with the 1931 election will resonate.

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State of the states: six politics experts explain the key seats across the country

The five-week election campaign is now in full swing throughout the nation.

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Leaders play power games in election skirmish over gas

Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton both say gas will form part of Australia's energy mix, but differ on how it will be used to bring power bills down.

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Australia's prime minister has survived a volatile political era

Anthony Albanese hopes to become the first Australian prime minister in 21 years to lead a political party to consecutive election victories

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Australia’s government agencies use encrypted messaging apps such as Signal. But should they?

Commonwealth agencies have a legal responsibility to preserve records – and security hygiene for device users still poses a challenge

The Guardian - AU

Pocock says politicians using encrypted messaging apps damages ‘health of our democracy’

Kevin Rudd once lobbied the Turnbull government for a UN position using encrypted app Wickr – and the messages could not be found

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Australia will not revise critical minerals-for-tariffs exemption deal rejected by Trump administration

Resources minister says she is ‘sad’ the US did not embrace a more reliable supply of minerals for renewable energy and battery technologies

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Metal makers reinforced as new US tariff threat emerges

The government assures a key export sector of support as a new tariff threat emerges while fresh funding reinforces metal manufacturing against US levies.

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Politics with Michelle Grattan: Peter Dutton on why he’s not Australia’s Trump – ‘I’m my own person’

On current opinion polls, we are looking at a very close race at the May election. As voting day draws near, Peter Dutton will face more forensic questioning about his policies and how he would run government.

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Surface tension: could the promised Aukus nuclear submarines simply never be handed over to Australia?

The multi-billion dollar deal was heralded as ensuring the security of the Indo-Pacific. But with America an increasingly unreliable ally, doubts are rising above the waves

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Grattan on Friday: Anthony Albanese beset by disruptors, from Cyclone Alfred to Donald Trump

Issues sometimes “come at you”, Anthony Albanese declared on Thursday at the end of a news conference, held at Canberra’s National Situation Room, about Cyclone Alfred.

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Cause for Australian optimism despite US-Ukraine stoush

Australian ambassador to the United States Kevin Rudd has launched a staunch defence of the alliance between the two nations amid a shake up under Donald Trump.

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Communities warned to prepare as weather system takes right turn – as it happened

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Politics and property – how our leaders are among the privileged using legal loopholes to build their wealth

Not so long ago, former Liberal prime minister Malcolm Turnbull was branded “Mr Harbourside Mansion”, a moniker bestowed upon him by his own side of politics.

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