ALP
Liberals draw up housing battle lines as Triguboff rubbishes expanded Landcom role
The Meriton founder has questioned giving state-owned corporation Landcom a direct role in building homes, as the opposition demands Premier Chris Minns rule out redeveloping Macquarie Hospital.
- by Michael Koziol
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Exclusive
Home Truths
The refugees left, but the millions kept coming for Nauru contractor
Documents reveal how Australian company Canstruct made big profits servicing refugees on Nauru, and they only got bigger as time went on.
- by Michael Bachelard and Nick McKenzie
Breaking
State Parliament
Minister’s office pushed for former Labor staffer to get top job
Transport Minister Jo Haylen has refused to say whether former Labor staffer Josh Murray was recommended to be the state’s new Transport Secretary by a hiring panel.
- by Michael McGowan
Opinion
Victorian Parliament
Andrews’ never-apologise shtick won’t help debt-saddled Labor
Premier Daniel Andrews would do well to display some contrition or humility about his big mistakes. But he couldn’t be bothered with any of that.
- by Shaun Carney
Analysis
Roger Cook
Cook opts to burn laws rather than political capital in Aboriginal heritage backflip
Reading between the lines, Roger Cook was forced to cut his losses because he did not have enough political capital with the public to die on any hill at the moment.Â
- by Hamish Hastie
Labor leaders aiming for national plan to boost renters’ rights
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is seeking the deal at a national cabinet meeting in Brisbane next week while also negotiating new commitments on planning laws to add 1 million homes across the country.
- by David Crowe
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Foreign relations
Labor to harden position on Palestine
Labor will begin to refer to ‘illegal settlements’ on the Israeli West Bank in a move that significantly toughens the government’s language on a sensitive diplomatic issue.
- by James Massola and Matthew Knott
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Indigenous
‘I’m sorry’: Roger Cook scraps WA Aboriginal cultural heritage laws
Western Australia’s 2021 Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act spent six years in development but just 39 days in operation.
- by Hamish Hastie
Andrews shoots down exiled MP’s hopes of returning to Labor
The premier poured cold water on Will Fowles’ hopes of returning to the party room, as pressure mounts on the Ringwood MP to resign as the chair of a high-profile committee.
- by Broede Carmody
Exiled Labor MP under pressure to quit lucrative committee role
Will Fowles, who has denied an assault allegation levelled against him this week, remains the member for Ringwood and the chair of an investigatory parliamentary committee.
- by Rachel Eddie and Annika Smethurst
Analysis
Political leadership
Which state in Australia has the most political power?
NSW and Victoria have long competed to be Australia’s most consequential state. But economic and population changes, along with the pandemic’s influence on state power, have shaken things up.
- by James Massola