Albanese government risks failure to live up to its own pledges of increased transparency

AFP to get power to possess and share child abuse material to target sex offenders online

Albanese’s feelgood 5% deposit scheme will only add fuel to Australia’s housing fire | Tom Mcllroy

Andrew Hastie quits Coalition frontbench over immigration policy dispute

Snowy Hydro 2.0 flags another cost blowout with $12bn price tag now considered unachievable

Australia could split Cop31 hosting rights with Turkey under potential compromise: Anthony Albanese pledges to continue talks with rival, as sources say previous climate summits have been co-hosted Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free...

Turkey argues both countries can win from drawn-out contest with Australia over Cop31 hosting rights

Chris Bowen meets Turkey’s first lady as lobbying to hold Cop31 intensifies

Labor has good reason to sweat over its 2035 climate target – but the dishevelled Coalition response rings hollow | Tom McIlroy

workforus.theguardian.com/jobs/855/ I was delighted to announce this week that @tommcilroy.bsky.social has been appointed as @australia.theguardian.com political editor, That means we are looking for a chief political correspondent to join our Canberra team.

‘Grave concerns’ from states over Labor plan to move autism services off NDIS

The rules of political gravity may have set in for Jacinta Nampijinpa Price – but the Coalition is still in a dangerous limbo

Albanese went to Vanuatu to sign a $500m agreement – but leaves empty-handed thanks to concerns about China

China and Russia increasingly working ‘in tandem’ to undermine faith in governance, top Finnish official claims

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... Good column from @tommcilroy.bsky.social

Albanese is growing more confident on the international stage – an area where he has no shortage of challenges

Elderly facing many health and hospital risks because Labor’s care at home program ‘so badly designed’, expert warns

The Marles-Hegseth meeting chaos prompted jokes. But uncertainty over Australia’s US relationship is no laughing matter

Sharren Haskel is getting Canberra’s goat www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... @australia.theguardian.com

If Australia is transitioning into a standard-of-living crisis, Chalmers has three years to deliver for voters

AI and misinformation in crosshairs of Labor’s review of its landslide election win

Labor asks Deloitte to design universal childcare system as PM eyes political legacy

Australia could announce plan to recognise Palestinian statehood ‘within days’

Albanese and Chalmers could take the Howard-Costello approach to tax reform. The conditions may never be better | Tom McIlroy

Australia joins UK, Germany, Italy and New Zealand in condemning Israel’s planned Gaza City takeover

Albanese government has no knowledge of Trump administration threat to deport Iranian man to Australia

Labor is facing a backlash over aged care services as a delay to landmark reforms prompts calls for urgent funding for 20,000 additional home packages and warnings that a two-speed system is locking out poorer elderly people. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... @australia.theguardian.com

Australia’s parliament opens with tradition and pageantry – plus a sideshow of protest and reactionary zeal | Tom McIlroy

Labor lifts ban on US beef, saying new measures ‘effectively’ manage biosecurity risks

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Ken Henry is right to be a bit worked up – he has a solid reform plan ready to go for an emboldened Labor | Tom McIlroy

Ted O'Brien talks to @australia.theguardian.com on the party's long road back

Albanese heads to China as Trump upends the global order. The PM may wish he lived in less interesting times | Tom McIlroy

‘No one should forget Trump tried to overturn a democratic election, goading his supporters to deadly violence as he attempted to cling to power.’ @tommcilroy.bsky.social #AUKUS #TACO #China #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

A lack of women is just one part of the story behind the Australian Liberal party's big election loss. @tommcilroy.bsky.social talks to us about how the party is wrestling with the idea of quotas, and maybe even reassessing its core values. youtu.be/95BLcfczJqA?... @australia.theguardian.com

If old school white-anting Sussan Ley on gender quotas works, the Liberals may pay a heavy political price | Tom McIlroy

Top public servant urges ‘more doing, less reviewing’ after 70 inquiries in Labor’s first term, FoI papers reveal

Sussan Ley wants to keep the Coalition together – but caving on net zero won’t help her win back seats My column for @australia.theguardian.com

EXCLUSIVE: Trump campaign chief claims he visited Australia to advise Liberals at start of election campaign

Our April Focus On is here! This month featuring work by Paul Collis, Joanne McCarron, Tom McIlroy, Hitomi Nakanishi, Marcus Smith, and Firuzeh Shokooh Valle. Check out these plus our region archive: marion.ink/focus-on @firuzehsv.bsky.social @tommcilroy.bsky.social

The historical controversy over Jackson Pollock’s ‘masterpiece’ revealed much about Australia’s attitude towards the arts.

“James Mollison was a curator to his boot-heels, but he defied many people’s image of what that might entail. He liked Brahms, he said, but also the Rolling Stones and Number 96, the risqué late-night TV soap.”

Book extract in today’s Fin Review - how Australia came to own Blue Poles, the Jackson Pollock masterpiece www.afr.com/life-and-lux...

“Art on the front page of newspapers. How good is that?”

Blue Poles: Jackson Pollock, Gough Whitlam and the Painting That Changed a Nation Out February 26 www.hachette.com.au/tom-mcilroy/...

Very pleased to announce that @tommcilroy.bsky.social is joining @australia.theguardian.com as chief political correspondent.

An extraordinary Pollock offering at the Musée Picasso