New: the Liberal party ran as “Nationals-lite” last election and would be “rewarding standover tactics” if it caves to dropping net zero, says former party president & MP Jason Falinski Shadow minister Andrew Bragg says it's “not leadership” to drop it www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The National Anti Corruption Commission says it has prepared an investigation report on a matter which “relates to a grants scheme” relating to a commonwealth official 40 corruption investigations on foot - 7 related to current or former politicians www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Nats MP Michael McCormack has once again done his "Melbourne Cup of Politics" mock horse race call in the parliament "Canning [Andrew Hastie] has gone hard and fast, maybe a bit too Hastie" "New England [Barnaby Joyce], maybe changing stables"

The Bureau of Meteorology has apologised for unpopular changes to its website and said “adjustments” will be made, following negative public feedback to its redesign www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Liberal voters want the party to pursue more progressive policies and not spiral further into rightwing positions, according to a new poll that shows far more Australians back a net zero climate target than oppose it Our latest Essential poll: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Australian Jewish groups weren’t lining up to endorse Ley’s Joy Division criticisms on Tuesday. Contacted for comment, none of the major community organisations chose to back her criticisms of Albanese’s T-shirt It featured an album released 46 years ago www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Outside the White House cabinet room hangs a fan-fiction painting of Donald Trump flanked by Abraham Lincoln & Ronald Reagan, proudly displayed amid a gallery of other Trump tributes Some colour from a few hours inside Trump's gaudy and gilded White House www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Asked if Trump’s govt had told him about changes they wanted, Albanese replied: "Yes, but we don’t make announcements about AUKUS and structures at a press conference like this" Comes after US naval secretary "clarify some of the ambiguity" in AUKUS www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Trump meeting: - endorses Aukus - praises Albanese as a "great" PM - signs multi-billion critical minerals deal - tells Rudd "I don't like you" (but appears to have forgotten past criticisms) Big morning in Washington DC, hello Australia www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Labor government announces major changes to superannuation tax proposal, in a big backdown $3 million super threshold to now be indexed up to $10m Also increasing the low-income super tax offset - says changes will "better target superannuation concessions for large balances"

The major theme from a lineup of Liberal rightwingers boiled down to: please don’t abandon the Coalition, especially for One Nation, or start a new party My report from conservative political conference CPAC in Brisbane, and what it means for the opposition www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Sussan Ley fights for conservative airtime as she struggles to hold together a fractured opposition | Josh Butler

Tony Abbott asks CPAC conference to give Liberals "one last chance" - urging against UK Reform-style new conservative party Abbott calls for “reform” of Liberals & “factional warlords” Other Coalition MPs urge against shift to right-wing minor parties www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Sussan Ley says she ‘misspoke’ after comments that Coalition doesn’t believe in setting climate targets

“It’s very simple Brian. The Coalition believes in targets. We believe we have a target of having coming up with a target if we ever get back to running the government. Which of course is in of itself another target, which we have targeted to achieve sometime after 2050.”

Sussan Ley indicates Coalition won’t set 2030 / 2035 climate target unless they return to Govt Comes after a gaffe (since walked back) that Coalition "don’t believe in setting targets at all" PM Albanese says Oppn “changes its policies from hour to hour” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

🚨PM Albanese confirms Australia's 2035 emissions reduction target is a range of 62-70% Calls it "a responsible target supported by science and a practical plan to get there and built on proven technology" Calls it right for environment, jobs and national interest

great moments in press conference transcript history:

Breaking: PM Albanese says ASIO has evidence the Iranian government "directed at least two" anti-Semitic attacks in Australia Government expelling Iranian ambassador - and will list IRGC as a terror organisation

🚨breaking: PM Albanese says Australia will recognise a Palestinian state at the UN general assembly next month

former Labor foreign minister Bob Carr says Australia should sanction Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu and move quickly to recognise Palestinian statehood, saying it would send “a message that we are turned inside out with disgust" over Gaza www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

major statement from PM Albanese on Gaza, Australia's strongest condemnation yet: "The situation has gone beyond the world’s worst fears" "Israel’s denial of aid and the killing of civilians, including children, seeking access to water and food cannot be defended or ignored"

"It is horrifying that over 800 Palestinians have been killed while seeking aid. The Israeli Government’s denial of essential humanitarian assistance to the civilian population is unacceptable.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

New: A “groundswell” of Labor members are urging the government to reject key recommendations from the federal antisemitism envoy Labor MPs & members say they're concerned over wider adoption of IHRA definition of antisemitism www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Jillian Segal's plan to Labor Govt on anti-semitism (yet to be adopted) suggests: - cancelling visas - “report card” on uni campuses - tearing up grants to academics & arts orgs - “monitor" media outlets "to avoid accepting false or distorted narratives" www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Albanese and Jillian Segal to make anti-semitism announcement this morning. A package of suggestions, developed by Segal with with Jewish community groups, likely to include issues around online abuse and better education around modern face of antisemitism www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

This is just an incredible clip and quote amid everything going on right now. This will be played on repeat for a long time to come Iran and Israel "fighting so long and so hard that they don't know what the fuck they're doing"

YouTube should be included in under-16s social media ban, eSafety Commissioner says, urging the government to cancel a carve-out Julie Inman Grant also says the under-16s ban should address social media features like stories, streaks and AI chatbots www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Penny Wong says Australia supports the US strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities - but refused to say whether Pine Gap was used in the bombing, and said the US has not asked Australia to get involved in any future military engagement www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

"ADF personnel and aircraft are being deployed to the Middle East... to help Australians, they are not there for combat" foreign minister Penny Wong says emphasises a 2nd time the Defence deployment "is to assist Australians & not for combat purposes. It is part of contingency arrangements"

PM Albanese's office says it's "understandable" Trump is going back to Washington, and that Australia is concerned about Middle East situation A meeting with Trump at the G7, before the President leaves today, is now not expected by Australian officials

Defence minister Marles downplays Trump review into Aukus, says it was “natural” the US would review it Former US ambassador & Liberal treasurer Joe Hockey says Trump is “transactional” and says PM Albanese has "something to trade" when they meet www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

🚨 Breaking: US and Trump reviewing Aukus deal Pentagon: "department is reviewing Aukus as part of ensuring that this initiative of the previous administration is aligned with [Trump's] ‘America first’ agenda" Australia has already paid the USA $800m www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Wong on Gaza: "I’m sending a message from the Australian government, alongside the overwhelming majority of the international community, that you are obliged to allow humanitarian aid to enter Gaza for civilians" www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Anthony Albanese has pledged not to back down on plans to ban under-16s from social media and force online giants to pay for Australian news – key policies opposed by big tech companies with the ear of Donald Trump – ahead of an expected meeting with the president www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The ABC’s managing director, Hugh Marks, is expected to unveil his first tranche of changes at the public broadcaster on Wednesday morning, including a new round of redundancies and the axing of Q+A after 18 years www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...

"The sources said airstrikes had been authorised against such sites in circumstances in which only low-ranking militants were present despite knowing that civilians could be killed" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

BREAKING: senator Dorinda Cox announces she's leaving the Greens to join Labor At a presser with PM Albanese, he says she will be admitted as a Labor member tomorrow and that she didn't ask for anything in return for the party switch

Senator Fatima Payman reported a male colleague to parliament’s workplace complaints body, after claiming she was subjected to inappropriate comments at a function in 2023 First reported by JJJ Hack, Payman says the PWSS handled her complaint well www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

🚨 Coalition shadow ministry: - treasury: O'Brien - defence: Taylor - Julian Leeser back in as attorney general - Tim Wilson in industrial relations - Jacinta Price as defence industry - foreign affairs: Cash - energy: Tehan - home affairs: Hastie - social services: Liddle

Senator David Pocock at a Parliament House event with Dr Mohammed Mustafa, recently returned from Gaza "If the horror unfolding in Gaza is not our country's red line for stronger action, then I don't know what is" ~1100 people registered for this event

PM Albanese says it's is an "outrage" that Israel is blocking supply of aid into Gaza "We find Israel's excuses and explanations completely untenable and without credibility. People are starving. The idea that a democratic state withholds supply is an outrage"

The Nationals obviously realised you can't do Brat Summer during Canberra winter It's a lonely time to be single-and-ready-to-mingle #auspol #politics www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Peter Dutton now says the Coalition has no proposals to reform what students are taught in schools, despite earlier claiming children were being “indoctrinated” and pledging changes to the curriculum www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Trade Union protesters, critical of Dutton's nuclear plan, have gate crashed his photo op at a local footy club in Gilmore with fake Geiger counters and air raid sirens Dutton has abandoned a planned press conference after interruption. Members of the footy club have called the protesters "muppets"

PM Albanese pledged Labor would go further on addressing gambling harms and violence against women if re-elected at the 3 May poll - in a long podcast interview with @nourhaydar.bsky.social and I Listen: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Labor has pulled further ahead of the Coalition, opening up a larger lead in the latest Essential poll after two weeks of policy confusion and backdowns from the Liberals Our "two-party-plus" puts it at 50 Labor, 45 Coalition, rest undecided (around 53-47 on 2PP) www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The president of Palau has delivered a pointed barb at Peter Dutton while backing Australia's bid to host a UN climate conference “For us in the Pacific... the phrase ‘water lapping at our door’ is not a metaphor or a punchline. It’s our fear and reality" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Some research is showing Aussies have differing opinions on whether Albanese or Dutton is best to respond to Trump Labor taking the tack that people want "stability" in an "uncertain" world, painting Dutton as "reckless" Column after a week on the road: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Despite campaigning on cost of living & families doing it tough, Dutton rebuffed a question on whether public servants’ families deserved to know if their jobs were at risk He again repeated discredited claims Labor hired 41,000 new public servants in Canberra www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...