Angus Taylor

Labor and One Nation both want to bring down international arrivals, seeking to capitalise on growing anti-migration sentiment and pressure on housing and essential services

The ARC was established as a permanent unit by the state government following the fatal mass shooting of 15 people at a Jewish holiday celebration at Bondi Beach in December last year

A Coalition government would slash temporary visa holders by 650,000 over four years in an immigration crackdown that Angus Taylor insists would not damage the budget bottom line

Sport and politics is an intoxicating mix, and like a moth to a flame the political class was well represented at the event where more than 1000 guests kicked off their grand final day over scrambled eggs and champagne at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre

Hanson has appealed to the Coalition and opposition leader Angus Taylor to unite against Labor ahead of the 2028 election

An Australian government snapshot of life in 40 years has been sharply criticised for underplaying the economic and social damage expected due to the worsening climate crisis

Chalmers releases his second intergenerational report at 12:30 p.m

It wasn’t the empty chair reserved for federal Liberal president and former prime minister Tony Abbott — it was the lack of any mention of One Nation or Pauline Hanson in Sloane and Taylor’s combined 43 minutes of speeches

New migration rules restrict partners and children as Canberra targets ‘visa hopping’

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Angus Taylor have held talks on migration as Labor seeks a pathway to get its fresh crackdown through the Senate, but the Coalition’s demands on how to crunch the overseas intake means a deal is not yet in sight

Figures from multiple sides of politics are calling for Pauline Hanson to remove a video where Liberal MP Andrew Hastie is repeatedly called a “traitor”

The South Australian premier, Peter Malinauskas, has issued a stern warning for the federal government not to join the “madness” of cutting migration to appease One Nation

Labor challenges Coalition and the Greens over social media fines

Temperatures this spring will average as much as three degrees above the baseline from recent decades, potentially the hottest spring on record

Australia’s leading medical body has labelled the Coalition’s plan to slash tax on a packet of cigarettes by $24 and legalise vapes a “reckless” move that will damage public health, as the opposition frames the move as an assault on organised crime

With an increasingly cranky business community still hounding the prime minister about tax changes and workplace laws, states bickering over how to power the AI revolution and cost of living still Australians’ top concern, the government has enough on its plate without a possible byelection in Gosling’s Northern Territory seat of Solomon, which the MP held by a slender 1500 votes in 2025

The intensity of their lobbying is a sign of the economic and business sensitivities that Labor is dealing with in its plan to change the migration system without jeopardising key industries

A few hours earlier, after eight agonising days of searchers scouring the Nattai national park, 90km south-west of Sydney, for the missing 18-year-old hiker Lily Hooper, fears had abruptly turned to joy

Joyce was asked about Singh’s comments on ABC’s Afternoon Briefing after a page linking to his candidacy was taken down from One Nation’s website

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has reversed a late change to a scheme forcing tech giants to pay for news, clinching a deal with Opposition Leader Angus Taylor that media firms hope will lead to hundreds of millions of dollars in new revenue

A day after John Howard called for bold policies to counter One Nation, the leading moderate ruffled feathers in the opposition’s top brass by freelancing on economic policy and announcing a new migration target that Taylor did not repeat in a radio interview

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has moved to salvage his big tech agenda from the brink of defeat, holding talks with counterpart Angus Taylor to win support for plans to force US platforms to pay for news and block gambling advertising

Federal Coalition MP Llew O’Brien has declared it’s “encouraging to see a White Australian” win a sprinting medal at the Commonwealth Games, after Lachlan Kennedy took silver when setting a new national record in Glasgow

The move, which emulates previous Coalition leaders, is an acknowledgement that Coalition policies announced at the time of the budget in May, particularly indexing tax brackets to create permanent relief and pegging migration to housing, have not yet cut through

Bleijie’s remarks about former Women’s Safety and Justice Taskforce chair Margaret McMurdo AC come after a rare public intervention, via this masthead, to share her worry that critical calls from the taskforce seem to have been abandoned

That’s before considering the impact of One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts’ recently revealed travails such as praising both American conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and Russian leader/accused war criminal Vladimir Putin

Jana Armstrong was reported missing from Newtown after she was last seen on 7 July

Every year, tradition has it that the prime minister and opposition leader each give speeches at the annual Midwinter Ball, an event hosted by the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery to raise money for charity

The chief executive of Catholic Schools NSW has stood down this afternoon while the Independent Commission Against Corruption investigates alleged breaches of electoral donations laws

Jotham Napat’s visit renews expectations that the two countries can sign the Nakamal pact after long negotiations

The opposition leader’s answers were met with surprise and concern from some Liberal colleagues, who saw Hanson’s “monoculture” claim as crossing a red line and gifting the Coalition a clear opportunity to differentiate themselves from One Nation’s agenda

The latest Resolve Political Monitor, conducted for this masthead, showed 33 per cent of voters wanted Hanson as prime minister, over 29 per cent who nominated Anthony Albanese

Pasin is a Liberal with more reason than most to worry about One Nation’s surge

Opposition Leader Angus Taylor faces a problem his mentor Tony Abbott never had to confront

One Nation casts them as leaders of a “uni-party” consensus

A Newspoll published on Monday was the third major poll in a row, following surveys from YouGov and Redbridge last week, that showed One Nation just above Labor on first-preference votes

Critics warn move may alienate centrist voters, risking further decline

Taylor withdrew the remark after being asked to do so by Speaker Milton Dick

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has delivered an impassioned defence of his government’s tax policies, doubling down after days of criticism to declare the reforms are necessary to ensure “aspiration for all”

Angus Taylor would cut migration by just 5 per cent under his signature policy if Labor delivers its projected fall in migration and boost to housing supply by the next election

About 80 per cent of trusts in Australia are discretionary, with around 840,000 currently in operation

He has also sent the strongest signal yet that Labor’s changes to capital gains tax breaks could be walked back to allow more relief for business start-ups and venture capital firms