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 Peter Dutton

What have Australia’s most powerful people said about the US election?

While our most senior politicians have hedged their bets, there’s at least one mining billionaire who hasn’t been afraid to speak her mind.

Crikey

Peter Dutton rules out Coalition abortion policy changes and blasts MPs for stirring debate

It follows party criticism of Jacinta Nampijinpa Price for condemning later term abortions, though opposition leader did not name names

The Guardian - AU

Peter Dutton wrong to say homebuilding has halved under Labor

The opposition leader has falsely claimed that the number of new homes being built has fallen from 210,000 a year during the Coalition’s previous reign to about 100,000 under Labor.

Crikey

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

Time to help snap summer's deadly hot streak

'Many of us inherited a fear of water from parents.'

Newcastle Herald

More than 5.4m extra doctor visits were bulk billed last year after incentives boost, health minister says

Increase follows Albanese government tripling financial rewards for GPs to bulk bill pensioners, concession card holders and children

The Guardian - AU

The Liberal party is 80 years old. But what would Menzies think of Peter Dutton’s divisive negativity?

The purpose of a political party, Menzies believed, was not just to occupy the government benches but to serve the national interest

The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: court rules Hanson racially vilified Faruqi; Jennifer Lopez campaigns with Kamala Harris; and a really, really, really big fine

Justice Angus Stewart found Pauline Hanson’s comment that Mehreen Faruqi should ‘piss off back to Pakistan’ was a ‘strong form of racism’

The Guardian - AU

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

McKenzie defends Dutton flight, saying Coalition doesn’t ‘need Gina Rinehart to influence us’ to back mining

Shadow transport minister says she is reviewing her own declarations on flight upgrades she may have received

The Guardian - AU

Labor, coalition ensnared in flight upgrade furore

As the prime minister came under fire for flight upgrades, the opposition is defending its own travel arrangements.

AAP

Afternoon Update: Dutton admits Rinehart company jet request; Woolworths employee confronts board; and a ‘hated’ hand sculpture

Opposition leader says request to Hancock Prospecting for flight to Bali bombing memorial service came only after government would not help him get a flight

The Guardian - AU

Fight or flights: the six days it took Albanese to deny he contacted Alan Joyce for Qantas upgrades

Over the course of nearly a week, the prime minister batted away questions about the Qantas upgrade scandal before eventually comprehensively denying contacting Joyce for upgrades

The Guardian - AU

Canberra’s Qantas protection racket goes far beyond Albo’s airline upgrades

If the prime minister wants to snuff the perception he’s Qantas’ man in Canberra, he must follow the example set by Europe and the US.

Crikey

Flight upgrades still clear for take-off despite outcry

Aviation experts say flight upgrades for business leaders and politicians are likely here to stay after concern about the prime minister's travel arrangements.

AAP

Albo’s Qantas headache continues

Try as he might, Anthony Albanese can’t get his alleged flight upgrades from Alan Joyce out of the news, and Joe Biden has given Kamala Harris the gift of the gaffe.

Crikey

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

AAP

PM: I never called ex-Qantas boss for flight perks

The prime minister has emphatically denied calling Qantas's former chief executive for flight upgrades, pouring cold water on an incendiary political dogfight.

The Guardian - AU

Morning Mail: The MPs in Qantas’ Chairman’s lounge, judge rules on Australian right to privacy, lost Mayan city found

More than 90% of federal parliamentarians benefit from the airline’s exclusive lounge, analysis shows; researchers find a lost city in the Mexican jungle

Crikey

Albanese’s upgrades scandal engulfs PM

Anthony Albanese will be hoping for good inflation news when the September consumer price index is released today, and Kamala Harris is returning to an infamous Donald Trump rally site for her ‘closing argument’.

The Guardian - AU

Albanese needed a diversion after his Qantas firestorm. The Covid inquiry came at just the right time

A huge report might supplant questions over flight upgrades for now – but Peter Dutton’s attacks on the PM’s character just gained another hue

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Independent UK

Australian PM defends himself after being accused of seeking free flight upgrades from Qantas boss

Anthony Albanese says he has always “acted in a transparent and appropriate way,” after a new book claimed that he repeatedly requested free upgrades from Qantas Airways

Crikey

The LNP controls the Coalition. And the LNP loves wasting taxpayer money

The Liberals no longer run the Coalition. Rather it’s controlled by the profligate Queensland LNP and its National allies.

AAP

Political dogfight erupts over PM's plane promotions

Australia's major party leaders are embroiled in an increasingly personal stoush after revelations the prime minister accepted a stack of flight upgrades.

The Guardian - AU

Stan Grant takes shots at ‘political elites’ in US – as it happened

This blog is now closed

The Independent UK

Australian PM defends his free first-class upgrades on Qantas flights

‘All of mine have been declared,’ Albanese says, defending the first-class upgrades

AAP

Greens point finger at Labor after another poll letdown

The Greens have gone backwards at another election after a disappointing state poll result but haven't specified where they can improve.

The Guardian - AU

Cushy Qantas perks in Chairman’s Lounge book shine spotlight on travel habits of Albanese and others

Prime minister allegedly used personal relationship with former Qantas CEO Alan Joyce to request free upgrades on flights

1 2 3 4 5

People

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

Organisations

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.