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The Latest Breaking News from Tony Abbott

He's the treasurer who may become the next leader of the Liberal Party. So how high can Josh Frydenberg fly?

`This is the first in a two-part series on the major parties’ Treasury spokespeople. You can read Carol Johnson’s profile of Jim Chalmers here.

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Trent Zimmerman joins Liberals calling for Scott Morrison to dump Katherine Deves over trans comments

The Liberal MP for North Sydney’s request came before NSW treasurer Matt Kean publicly called for the Warringah candidate to be disendorsed

The Guardian - AU

Morrison defends Warringah candidate as push to oust her strengthens

Scott Morrison and NSW treasurer and leading moderate Matt Kean are publicly at loggerheads over the future of the prime minister’s controversial captain’s pick for the seat of Warringah.

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PM defends 'captain's pick' in Warringah

The prime minister has defended Liberal candidate for Warringah Katherine Deves despite her past anti-transgender comments and calls for her disendorsement.

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PM defends ‘captain’s pick’ in Warringah

The prime minister has defended Liberal candidate for Warringah Katherine Deves despite her past anti-transgender comments and calls for her disendorsement.

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Scott Morrison sticks by Katherine Deves after NSW Treasurer calls for Liberal candidate in Warringah to be dumped

Prime Minister Scott Morrison sticks by his controversial pick for the seat of Warringah after the NSW Treasurer said "she's got to go" for her comments about transgender people.

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Australia now remembers Scott Morrison can campaign. But will voters forget the past three years?

The devastatingly effective Campaign Morrison was on show this week, as Anthony Albanese fluffed his first pop quiz

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Another election year leads to another Victorian debate about the East West Link proposal

Analysis: Like clockwork, an announcement is made to revive the ‘zombie’ toll road project

The Guardian - AU

Low wage growth in Australia didn’t happen by accident – it’s the system working as intended

Workers have a role to play in demanding higher pay, but the Coalition has spent years condemning ‘weak-kneed’ employers who offer good wages

The Guardian - AU

Australia relied on discredited evidence to detain refugee Sayed Abdellatif for 10 years, court finds

Asio ruled to have relied on evidence obtained under torture in making ‘legally unreasonable’ adverse security assessments against Egyptian national

The Guardian - AU

Edgy encounter highlights desire for 'fair go'

RE: "Prime Minister Scott Morrison confronted by angry punter on a visit to Edgeworth Tavern, Herald online 6/4".

Newcastle Herald

Eric Abetz’s $2,000 expense to attend Tony Abbott farewell dinner justified by former PM’s ‘pro-Tasmania policies’

Expenses watchdog says Liberal MP’s interstate travel bill qualified as parliamentary business

The Guardian - AU

As factions lawyer up and election day looms, Liberals remain stuck in preselection limbo

The Prime Minister is sluggishly pursuing a private agenda when his party should be swiftly readying itself for a federal election.

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As factions lawyer up and election day looms, Liberals are in preselection limbo

The prime minister is sluggishly pursuing a private agenda when his party should be swiftly readying itself for a federal election.

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Australia to take in 16,500 more refugees from Afghanistan at cost of $666 million

It's the most significant increase to Australia's humanitarian program since Tony Abbott offered an additional 12,000 places to Syrian and Iraqi refugees over two years in 2015, in the wake of catastrophic conflict in the region.

The Conversation

This budget, amid talk of deficits, consider the lessons we ought to have learned

A decade ago, and years before Treasurer Josh Frydenberg promised a budget that was “back in the black”, Prime Minister Julia Gillard promised the same thing.

The Guardian - AU

‘Judge me on my actions’: can Andrew Forrest become Australia’s clean, green hero?

The billionaire mining magnate known as Twiggy may be emulating Bill Gates with the scale of his philanthropy, but not everyone is convinced

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‘Soil magic’ may be the biggest rort of all — who could have guessed?

The Emissions Reduction Fund was always a scam. Now one of the key figures involved in vetting it has confirmed that it’s a billion-dollar rort.

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The Guardian - AU

Guardian Essential poll: voters mark Morrison government down on flood response

Separate Australian National University longitudinal survey suggests Coalition primary vote slumps to 32.2% with Labor in election-winning position

The Guardian - AU

Government prepared for backlash before Tony Abbott’s Taiwan trip made public, FoI documents reveal

Emails obtained by Guardian Australia show officials planned to dismiss suggestion Abbott’s trip represented Taiwan policy change

The New Daily

Alan Kohler: How Tony Abbott killed tax reform

It wasn’t only climate change that Tony Abbott and the Coalition cynically weaponised a decade ago – they did it to tax reform as well, writes Alan Kohler.

Crikey

Shock Chinese plot! Coalition, News Corp collaborated with Xi to influence Australia

With allegations of Chinese influence flying in Australian politics, it’s time to recall when Tony Abbott and News Corp did the bidding of Xi Jinping to bring Australia into Xi’s orbit.

The Guardian - AU

At the prospect of ending a decade of climate bollocks, the PM donned a dusty Abbott onesie and zipped up

The desperation on show during this past parliamentary week tells us we’ve entered the ‘whatever it takes’ zone of pre-campaign campaigning

The Guardian - AU

Leading Liberal candidate Jane Buncle quits Warringah race, leaving ‘Tony Abbott 2.0’ to contest seat

Local Liberals concede Zali Steggall is likely to retain seat as multiple candidates withdraw over party’s NSW preselection crisis

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