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Labor’s history is one of compromise – and its conference delivered it in response to Albanese’s call for a decade in power

A long-term Labor government is the ‘difference between laying the foundation and finishing the build’, the PM tells national conference

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Politics with Michelle Grattan: WA Premier Roger Cook on Labor's conference and his state's issues

Labor this week had its first face-to-face national conference in five years, and it all went Anthony Albanese’s way. He won on AUKUS and rallied the party faithful, who did not rock the government’s boat.

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View from The Hill: Labor conference gives Albanese a firm ‘yes’ on AUKUS

Predictably, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese got his way on AUKUS at Labor’s national conference on Friday.

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Labor thrashes out Aukus position at party conference amid dissent from MP and unions

Heckling, outrage and claims of ‘appeasement’ as stage-managed debate at ALP event gives way to genuine disagreement

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The US navy is still more powerful than China's: more so than the Australian government is letting on

The federal Labor government today used the ALP national conference to address internal dissent over the controversial AUKUS security pact and its plan for acquiring nuclear-powered submarines.

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ALP national conference day 2 – as it happened

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NSW splits planning and environment mega department – as it happened

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Morning Mail: police investigate violent arrest; Aukus fight in Labor ranks; Indigenous Vietnam veterans identified

Shock at violent arrest of Aboriginal man with disability; Labor seeks to ward off dissent over Aukus nuclear submarine deal; researchers identify 285 Indigenous servicemen who fought in Vietnam

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Richard Marles moves to head off Labor conference fight over Aukus submarines

Deputy PM will offer reassurances on nuclear non-proliferation and waste amid grassroots dissent over the program

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Grattan on Friday: Albanese is determined to keep Labor’s eyes firmly focused on a second term

Labor is less than halfway into its first term, but Anthony Albanese is focused, laser-like, on its second one. Securing it, that is.

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Labor rejects ban on native forest logging as PM accuses Greens of hypocrisy on housing

National conference outlines plans for energy transition, making early childhood education universal and closing gender pay gap

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ALP national conference day one – as it happened

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Live site axed after fan misbehaviour - as it happened

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'The world has changed': why Anthony Albanese must up the ante on climate policy at Labor's national conference

Party members, unions and politicians will meet in Brisbane on Thursday when Labor’s national conference begins. The event is where Labor’s federal policy direction is hashed out. This year, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will be under pressure from within the party to boost Labor’s action on climate change.

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Electrical union wants Australia’s net zero targets boosted by ‘substantial’ investment and state ownership

Exclusive: Influential leftwing unions to tell Labor’s national conference party it must seize ‘most significant economic opportunity since the Industrial Revolution’

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Five species face immediate concern of extinction, scientific committee warns Labor

Further 41 species on course to be declared critically endangered, complicating Albanese government’s zero extinctions target

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National cabinet agrees to build 1.2m new homes in bid to tackle housing crisis

Albanese announces ‘new home bonus’ of up to $3bn for states and territories but continues to reject Greens calls for rent freeze

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Afternoon Update: Matildas fever grips Australia; Thorpe calls voice ‘window dressing’; and eating animals when you know their names

Matildas fans scramble for hottest tickets in town as World Cup semi-final against England to kick off tonight

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View from The Hill: Albanese unveils boosted housing target and incentive payments ahead of Labor national conference

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced $3 billion in incentives for states and territories and a boosted target for the number of homes to be built, in a package aimed at alleviating Australia’s housing crisis.

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Missing million: Labor to deliver half of park funding promised by Meryl Swanson

The government will only provide $1m to upgrade Cooks Square Park.

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The AUKUS deal will be hotly debated at the ALP national conference, but its real vulnerabilities lie in America

This year’s ALP national conference, beginning August 17, promises to be somewhat feistier than its recent COVID-affected (and boring) predecessors.

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From Aukus to tax cuts: six things to watch for at Labor’s national conference

Expect a ‘little bit of a bizarro world’ with the policy fights largely already settled, one insider says. Still, some debates will be worth watching

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‘National disgrace’: protest after tree estimated to be hundreds of years old cut down in Tasmania

Sustainable Timber Tasmania said the giant tree pictured on the truck had been assessed and felled ‘for safety reasons’

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Labor, Albanese and the Voice slide in Resolve poll; Fadden byelection preference flows

A federal Resolve poll for Nine newspapers, conducted August 9–13 from a sample of 1,603, gave Labor 37% of the primary vote (down two since the July Resolve poll), the Coalition 33% (up three), the Greens 11% (steady), One Nation 5% (down one), the UAP 2% (up one), independents 10%…

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Hanson-Latham rift leaves One Nation's future in NSW uncertain

Changes to the management of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party in NSW reaffirm an unchanging rule of politics. Opponents be damned. The fiercest fighting is reserved for colleagues.

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