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Low-profile, low-activity Peter Dutton seems to have decided that staying as still as possible will help keep a fragile vessel of disparate interests together.

In the business of advocacy, one can just as easily find themselves isolated as welcomed to the inner circle. Either way, it’s better than being seen as irrelevant.

Former Welsh Labour MP Gwynoro Jones has co-authored a book which reveals behind-the-scenes rows that helped wreck the prospect of the Conservatives and Labour being replaced in power by a centrist alliance in the 1980s, reports Political editor-at-large Martin Shipton

The former PM, apparently acting alone and in secret, gave impetus to a deal that blindsided France and ambushed his Labor opposition.

When the Liberal Party’s most senior right-wing figure, Peter Dutton, forced a leadership spill in 2018, ending Malcolm Turnbull’s premiership, even some moderates in the party room preferred him over the hyper-ambitious Scott Morrison. Yet it was to the latter they reluctantly turned, judging him less frightening to voters.

With fewer Australians owning their homes, Crikey is keeping an eye on how many politicians own several properties.

Anthony Albanese has warned of difficult decisions ahead in the federal budget, as the government looks for cost-of-living relief measures.

Progressives still can’t believe that Labor is now the party of total capitalism. They’ll waste years if they don’t get wise — fast.

As long as the Liberal Party keeps wheeling out the former PM — with seemingly little impact — it too will remain irrelevant.