The Latest Breaking News from Coalition

Owner Origin Energy says ‘nothing has changed’ with plan to shut the coal-fired Eraring plant no sooner than August 2025

The Reserve Bank of Australia’s first female governor will begin her appointment at or very near the end of the cycle of rate rises

Peter Dutton doesn’t want the new RBA governor to be ‘tainted’ by a close association with either major party. He might want to sit down to read this list of appointments his government made.

Scott Morrison failed the nation on robodebt. But he says the buck stops somewhere over there — and his colleagues support him.

Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong had ‘frank’ talks with her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi about jailed Australians and lifting trade bans, and Treasurer Jim Chalmers is expected to announce the ‘lucky’ man or woman to be the new governor of the Reserve Bank.

The robodebt royal commission revelations have triggered revulsion in all fair-minded Australians.

Stuart Robert has kept well away from the byelection to choose his parliamentary successor, but Labor has made sure the controversial former member hasn’t been forgotten.

NSW Labor Premier Chris Minns exudes a decidedly business-as-usual tone, rather than looking for opportunities to reform.

Labor’s ‘radical centre’ is a force field to shield them from the psychic shock of a simpler truth: that they are no longer the goodies, and perhaps never were.

Few Australians are losing sleep over how Scott Morrison is going to earn a crust after politics. Few outside the federal Coalition, at any rate. His continuing presence on the opposition backbench serves as a distraction from the present and reminder of the past. Unfortunately, that past keeps intruding on…

Analysis finds PwC, Deloitte, KPMG and EY donated $4.3m to Labor and the Coalition over the past decade