Australia news live: Tony Abbott praises Liberal party’s new top strategist as party tries to rebuild campaign machine
Lincoln Folo has been tasked with helping rebuild after two federal election defeatsJosh Taylor (the Guardian)
Lincoln Folo has been tasked with helping rebuild after two federal election defeatsJosh Taylor (the Guardian)
Most economists believe the chronic undersupply of homes will eventually push prices higher once interest rates ease and the tax changes are priced inJonathan Barrett (the Guardian)
Hanson’s party is leading in the polls, but it has a long way to go before being recognised as a serious political outfitJosh Butler (the Guardian)
Interim vice-chancellor tells senate estimates of ‘very significant’ effect on donor pipeline and enrolmentsKrishani Dhanji (the Guardian)
Tech giants claim Australia’s free trade agreement with the United States will be violated, as they try to kill a proposal to force them to pay news companiesJosh Taylor (the Guardian)
Sky News host Andrew Bolt says blunder shows Pauline Hanson’s party is ‘literally making up policy as it goes along’Josh Butler (the Guardian)
High court dismisses organisation’s injunction attempt against designation as a hate groupGuardian staff reporter (the Guardian)
Commonwealth’s barrister tells federal court they will return diary to former political staffer but it must be declassified firstGuardian staff reporter (the Guardian)
Greens support needed to pass proposed changes but party concerned it will give government sweeping discretionary powersJosh Butler (the Guardian)
Senate estimates hearing told issues caused by a glitch in the automated system that runs the controversial mutual obligations schemeCait Kelly (the Guardian)
Senate committee also hears Murray Watt needed personal security after sending the union into administrationCait Kelly (the Guardian)
Labor MP Mike Freelander says party must continue to help under-pressure workers, including considering further income tax cutsDan Jervis-Bardy (the Guardian)
Auction success hit a new low for the year on the last Saturday in May, with just 54.5% of homes soldCatie McLeod (the Guardian)
Australian Greens should ‘take on’ Pauline Hanson’s One Nation, Polanski tells Victorian party conference, just as he took on Nigel Farage’s Reform UKJoe Hinchliffe (the Guardian)
Liberal insiders concerned former PM could pull party even further to the right by appointing Advance allies to prominent positionsSarah Basford Canales (the Guardian)
Exclusive: Parliamentary records show the One Nation MPs claimed travel expenses for fundraising events on exclusive cruise liner where mining billionaire owns an apartmentSarah Martin (the Guardian)
The $1,000 tax deduction, $250 ‘working Australians tax offset’, and CGT and negative gearing changes will benefit most young people, Treasury secretary saysLuca Ittimani (the Guardian)
Gavan Reynolds cites ‘commercial-in-confidence nature of the contract’ in declining to answer Greens senator’s question in parliamentChristopher Knaus (the Guardian)
Modelling predicts 241,000 people on the scheme before January 2028 won’t be receiving supports by mid-2031Dan Jervis-Bardy (the Guardian)
As the budget fight plays out fiercely online, Labor senator Ellie Whiteaker turns to a zebra and a giraffe for helpJosh Butler (the Guardian)
Company founded by Yaron Finkelstein received contract to advise on antisemitism under a limited tender due to an ‘absence of competition for technical reasons’Tom McIlroy (the Guardian)
Welfare advocates say that while the reforms are a step in the right direction, the privatised employment services model has failed and should be torn upSarah Basford Canales (the Guardian)
Exclusive: former PM says the changes to tax rates are ‘so marginal that no entrepreneurial initiative is likely to be thwarted’Tom McIlroy (the Guardian)
With a second investigation under way into his conduct, Paul Brereton tells estimates about concerns of workersTom McIlroy (the Guardian)
Employment minister Amanda Rishworth plans to move system from a ‘one size fits all’ employment services model to three streams of supportJosh Butler (the Guardian)
Mining giant’s backsliding on climate commitments due to ‘weakness’ of policy, Kate Chaney saysChristopher Knaus (the Guardian)
Australia now a top-three global player in batteries, and renewable energy met nearly half of the nation’s power in 2025Petra Stock (the Guardian)
Changes to political funding and the need for crossbenchers to remain relevant are driving discussions but some independents are opposedDan Jervis-Bardy (the Guardian)
Brereton says ‘ongoing focus on matters relating to me personally’ were ‘drawing attention away from the commission’s core purpose’Sarah Basford Canales (the Guardian)
From blocking freedom of information requests to tabling documents when no one is looking, promises of an upfront approach to power are in rough shapeTom McIlroy (the Guardian)