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Keep checking back to this page for regular updates Thursday 28 April 2022 Liberal party MP Trent Zimmerman says he and fellow moderate MPs “prevailed” over the deputy prime minister, Barnaby Joyce, in securing a net zero climate target, saying the Nationals leader was opposed to the policy. Zimmerman, a key Liberal party...
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Ex-prime minister John Howard says he doesn’t accept there is a housing crisis in Australia. The former Liberal leader campaigned in the Brisbane seat of Ryan on Thursday ahead of the May 21 election. Mr Howard told reporters a day after the largest spike in inflation in more than 20 years...
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Carbon state: Coalition changed rules to save fossil fuel donor tens of millions

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By Bernard Keane The failed Gorgon carbon capture and storage (CCS) project could be spared more than $100 million in costs after the Morrison government intervened to change the rules around Australian Carbon Credit Units, lowering the bill its fossil fuel company owners are facing, a new report reveals. The report...
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Annabell Crab mussings

ECONOMY
Western democracy was so much easier 300 years ago, when it was illegal for journalists to report the goings-on in Parliament. In those days, politicians could say whatever they liked to their voters, and whatever they liked in the parliament, without the irksome risk of inconsistencies between the former and...
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A teal “Independents” fight on their hands

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By Rachel WithersToday is not a great day to be a so-called modern Liberal fending off a challenge from a progressive independent. After LNP senator Matt Canavan reignited the Coalition’s internal climate wars last night by declaring the government’s target of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 “dead”, Wentworth MP...
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Pacific failings continue to plague Morrison as Labor unveils regional strategy

ECONOMY
By Bernard Keane Crikey's Politics EditorCapitalising on Scott Morrison’s persistent problems over his Solomon Islands debacle, Labor maintained the unusual foreign policy theme of the campaign so far by unveiling its Asia-Pacific strategy this morning, with Penny Wong standing in for Anthony Albanese. A half billion dollars in extra...
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‘This is a hose you have to hold’: Turnbull accuses Morrison of failure over China-Solomons pact

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Malcolm Turnbull has accused his former colleagues of failures on Australia’s regional security, taking a potshot at Morrison directly – saying “this is a hose you have to hold” – as the Coalition scrambles to defend its handling of the situation. It comes as China accuses Scott Morrison of spreading...
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Scott Morrison is setting up another fake fight on a carbon ‘tax’

ECONOMY
By Katharine MurphyWith Australia’s lived experience of global heating, you would think we’d have moved past grown men staging hyperbolic encounters with invisible things If you’ve been paying attention over the past decade or so, you may have noticed that opponents of climate action in Australia spend a lot of...
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Losing interest in bank reform

ECONOMY
By Ross Gittens Despite earnest promises after the royal commission into banking, the re-elected Morrison government soon moved on. Can you remember as far back as three years ago? Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg are hoping you can’t. And fortunately for them, the media’s memory is notoriously short. The media mostly live...
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War footling

ECONOMY
By Rachel Withers The khaki election that the Coalition so dearly wanted has taken a curious turn. After Defence Minister Peter Dutton was criticised (yet again) for warmongering against China (and on Anzac Day to boot), Labor today came out with its new Pacific policy, including a pledge...
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