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Richard Marles says support for trilateral agreement still strong in Washington and Australia knew about review weeks ago

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Issues sometimes “come at you”, Anthony Albanese declared on Thursday at the end of a news conference, held at Canberra’s National Situation Room, about Cyclone Alfred.

Costs at the cash register, aged-care reform and house prices were key concerns of John Howard's cabinet ahead of the 2004 election, documents show.

Opposition Senate leader and former senior minister in the Coalition government Simon Birmingham has announced he will quit parliament. Birmingham, one of the few remaining moderates in the Liberals’ ranks, is shadow foreign minister. Now , aged 50, he’s defecting to a (yet to be announced) commercial job.

Tariffs raise prices much like the GST – and like the GST it hurts people on low and middle incomes the most

The furore over Australia’s ambassador to Washington, Kevin Rudd, is a “self-licking icecream” created by some at Sky News, former defence chief and former ambassador to the United States, Dennis Richardson says.

The opposition leader has the challenger’s advantage of being able to reflect voters’ pain back to them and promise the world

Anthony Albanese says Australia's relationship with America will be just as strong no matter who wins the US election, with results showing a close contest.