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Grattan on Friday: when the music stopped, Greens had out-stepped flat-footed Liberals on environment deal

Come dance with me! That was Environment Minister Murray Watt’s invitation to the opposition as he prepared to push through his reforms to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act.

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Ex-PM paints ugly picture of coalition's reality denial

Malcolm Turnbull's prime ministerial portrait has officially been unveiled, with Anthony Albanese's speech about a vulnerable moment almost moving him to tears.

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Over 100 issues, Quarterly Essay has generated news, controversy – and the occasional explosive scene

Perhaps the most profane opening paragraph in the history of Australian journalism can be found in one of Black Inc.’s avowedly highbrow Quarterly Essays. “Those Chinese fuckers are trying to rat-fuck us,” Kevin Rudd is quoted as saying, in David Marr’s June 2010 edition of the essay series. Profane, yes,…

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View from The Hill: The Liberals may fell Sussan Ley but she won’t make it easy for Taylor and Hastie

In 2015, soon after he had rolled Tony Abbott to become prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull was heckled when, with a straight face, he told New South Wales Liberals, “We are not run by factions”.

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Libs making 'same mistakes' after dumping net zero

Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull says the Liberals' climate policy will do little in helping the coalition win back ground to form government.

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Malcolm Turnbull accuses Liberals of ‘Trumpian campaign against renewables’ after party dumps net zero

Climate groups call backflip a ‘disaster’ while moderate Liberals worry about impact on winning back urban electorates

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Grattan on Friday: Libs should reflect on proverb ‘As a dog returns to its vomit, so fools repeat their folly’

Twice in recent times the Liberals have faced an existential crisis over climate and energy policy: in 2009 over Kevin Rudd’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, and in 2018 over the National Energy Guarantee, a plan to reduce emissions while maintaining reliability at lowest cost.

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Albanese faces the diplomatic test of his political life to attract, and hold, Trump’s attention

Dealing with the US president requires nose holding; and the PM must navigate the delicate balance between getting Trump’s attention and attracting too much

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Australia: A History by Tony Abbott review – mostly celebratory account of ‘a land built by heroes’

Former PM lauds his country’s progress to egalitarian democracy where ‘only the very unlucky’ miss out – yet judges it ‘materially rich but spiritually poor’

The Guardian - AU

Family of Erin Patterson’s victims say mushroom trial media frenzy fed off their suffering

Heather and Ian Wilkinson’s daughter says it is ‘revolting to experience our family’s tragedy being turned into entertainment’. Plus: Andrew Greene’s second chance

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PM declines to comment on reports of other attacks orchestrated by Iran; Israel praises Australia for ‘principled stand’ – as it happened

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Trump found his immigration playbook in the most unexpected place, and now he’s taking the cruelty even further

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Australia won’t receive Aukus nuclear submarines unless US doubles shipbuilding, admiral warns

Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull says there is a ‘very, very high’ chance Virginia-class subs will never arrive under Australian control

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Politics with Michelle Grattan: Malcolm Turnbull on Australia’s ‘dumb’ defence debate

The Albanese government remains in complicated territory on the international stage. It has to tread carefully with China, despite the marked warming of the bilateral relationship. It is yet to find its line and length with the unpredictable Trump administration.

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PM says Dfat will upgrade Middle East travel advice ‘very soon’ – as it happened

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Keating says US Aukus review could ‘save Australia from itself’ as Morrison urges against overinterpreting move

Former PM Malcolm Turnbull and former foreign minister Bob Carr say Australia must seize chance to urgently review its defence needs

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Court’s nuanced analysis of McKenzie’s secret recording in Roberts-Smith appeal a far cry from Sky News claims

All the same, the Nine reporter found it a ‘terrifying experience to be put before the full bench of the federal court’. Plus: SBS returns to ‘Sex Before Soccer’

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The band is breaking up: has the Coalition stopped making sense?

I remember seeing footage, several years ago, of a jubilant Malcolm Turnbull, then prime minister and Liberal leader, speaking in Tamworth to loyal members of the National Party. These were the rank and file who had spent weeks stumping for their man in New England, Nationals leader and deputy prime…

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The Liberals are about to select Peter Dutton’s replacement. Here’s who is in the running

The ballot for new leadership is not just a contest between individuals, but a struggle for the party’s future direction in the wake of resounding defeat

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Grattan on Friday: Bitter struggle in Liberals for likely poisoned chalice, as Jacinta Price defects from Nationals

By late last week it was clear Labor would win the election, but it came as more of a surprise when Peter Dutton lost the Queensland seat of Dickson he’d held since 2001.

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Who will be the next leader of the Liberal party? These are the MPs in the race

Sussan Ley, Angus Taylor and Dan Tehan are the top contenders to replace Peter Dutton after federal election drubbing

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Helping or haunting, past PMs pop up on campaign trail

Some former prime ministers are helping their parties on the campaign trail, others are keeping a lower profile and one is not holding back on criticism.

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Peter Dutton: a Liberal leader seeking to surf on the wave of outer suburbia

In searching for the “real” Peter Dutton, it is possible to end up frustrated because you have looked too hard.

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Albanese has been a ‘proficient and lucky general’. But if he wins a second term, we are right to demand more

Barring a rogue result, this Saturday Anthony Albanese will achieve what no major party leader has done since John Howard’s prime-ministerial era – win consecutive elections. Admittedly, in those two decades he is only the second of the six prime ministers (the other is Scott Morrison), who has been permitted…

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Stubborn or resolute: Anthony Albanese’s lifelong political instinct faces final judgment

The prime minister’s background as a tough backroom operator has served him well but internal Labor critics accuse him of turning a deaf ear to advice at crucial moments. What the voters say on 3 May will define his legacy

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