Politics

ExclusivePolitical leadership‘This really is Albo’s cabinet’: How the PM’s razor gang hindered the treasurer’s saving plansJim Chalmers had often advocated for the lowest-cost option when proposals came to the cabinet’s expenditure review subcommittee, but it hasn’t always backed them.

ExclusiveOne NationAlbanese offered One Nation MP an extra staffer. Hanson says it’s an attempt at undue influenceby Nick NewlingGovernment grantsThe stink, the septic system and the $6m question: Inside Albanese’s Marrickville messby Michael McGowan, Jessica McSweeney and Nick NewlingExclusiveAngus TaylorCracks emerge in reunited Coalition over trade deal and AIby Paul SakkalExclusiveGovernment grantsBureaucrats rubber-stamp 98 per cent of Labor’s invite-only grantsby Rob Harris and Nick NewlingAlbanese pegs back a Labor hero and sets off after Hawke’s recordAs the prime minister surpasses the term of postwar reconstruction prime minister Ben Chifley, he has linked Australia’s current moment of economic and social disruption to the hardship of wartime.

Anthony Albanese’s criticism of the Reserve Bank is designed to ensure that households see he is on their side, not that of faceless bankers.

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Mental healthBethany thought only veterans and first responders got PTSD. Then she gave birthThousands of parents and experts have made submissions about gaps in postpartum healthcare to a parliamentary committee on women’s health, which will hold its first hearing on Monday in Sydney.

EditorialAnthony AlbaneseAlbanese pegs back a Labor hero and sets off after Hawke’s recordAs the prime minister surpasses the term of postwar reconstruction prime minister Ben Chifley, he has linked Australia’s current moment of economic and social disruption to the hardship of wartime.