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Greg Piper is not one to throw hand grenades at the government on the floor of Parliament, so it is a measure of the importance of Newcastle's proposed container terminal that he chose to do so this week.

Mr Layzell's vote could be crucial to ending a six-year political debate over whether Newcastle can develop a large-scale freight terminal.

Opposition leader warns against powers so extensive they result in ‘show trials’ as ‘good faith’ talks on bill continue

Nationals Upper Hunter MP Dave Layzell is hopeful the Coalition will support a bill designed to dismantle port commitment deeds that are constraining the development of container terminal at the Port of Newcastle.

Jim Chalmers’ long term ambition is similar to that of most treasurers. He wants to be prime minister. More immediately, he aspires to be a reformer, which has become harder in today’s electorate, with its low tolerance for pain.

New polling shows the Andrews government maintains a comfortable lead heading into Victoria's state election in November, while Coalition support has dropped.

At the 2018 Victorian state election, Labor easily won a majority in the lower house of the Victorian parliament, but the upper house result was an anti-democratic shambles, as the Greens won just one of the 40 upper house seats, while three parties with very small vote shares won seats.

The Coalition handed Labor a permanent budget deficit by spending more than it raised in taxes. How to fix it?

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has told world leaders at the UN General Assembly in New York that the world is ‘gridlocked in a colossal global dysfunction’, and Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong plans to meet her Chinese counterpart at the assembly — it would be their second meeting in two…

The Climate Council has put the nation's largest emitters on notice

Slashing budget deficits have long been cast as a Treasurer’s reason for being. But Jim Chalmers was muted on Tuesday.