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Albanese Government Delivers 2025 Budget

Major parties explore pact on immigration

By Michelle Grattan Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition leader Angus Taylor have met twice to explore the possibility of a deal on measures to tighten the

Keating’s global harmonisation vision emerges from past

By Frank Bongiorno There have been two topics on which former Australian prime minister Paul Keating has been a persistent, passionate commentator in the three decades

Draft digital duty of care laws to address online harm

By Lisa Given The Federal Government has introduced draft digital duty of care legislation, designed to protect Australians from online harms. The legislation was first

Employers seeking rethink of ban on non-compete clauses

A peak employer group says the banning of non-compete clauses for many workers will have “predictable problematic consequences” for businesses. The Australian

Hanson’s super plan shakes up mortgage debate

By Michelle Grattan Pauline Hanson’s attention-grabbing policy to give mortgage holders and renters greater access to their super is high populism while being –

AI may be ‘biggest transformation in our lifetime’

By Michelle Grattan Artificial intelligence (AI) should help Australia achieve its long term productivity target, while having “profound” effects on the labour

Most Australians still want to stick with US alliance

By Samuel Garrett In 1951, Australia and the United States signed the ANZUS Treaty, declaring “publicly and formally their sense of unity, so that no potential

One Nation WA win ends Labor’s safe harbour

By Michelle Grattan Neither Labor nor the Liberals needed the bruising Secret Harbour byelection to tell them One Nation had become a major player. But Saturday’s

Albanese and Crisafulli face off over data centres

By Michelle Grattan Anthony Albanese will outline to national cabinet this week proposed national legislation for conditions and guardrails around data centres – but

The secret world of political lobbying exposed

Jennifer Lacy-Nichols The secret world of political lobbying has been thrown into the spotlight by ABC Four Corners this week. The program examined the loopholes in

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