Voters thought ‘leadership qualities Dutton most lacked were inspiration, closely followed by compassion’, co-author of Australian Electoral Study says * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Voters backed Labor as the party best placed to manage the economy at the federal election, with Peter Dutton’s decision to oppose tax cuts seeing the Coalition squander a nearly 40-year advantage. The collapse in support on economic policies – revealed in the latest instalment of the Australian Electoral Study (AES), released on Wednesday – contributed to the former opposition leader’s historic unpopularity with voters and Labor’s thumping win. Continue reading...

Baker, the chief reporter for the Herald, will start in the new role in 2026.

The Guardian US reviewed figures from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection since Trump’s inauguration

While banning the burqa might play with the Sky After Dark audience, it is miles from a broad concern among punters Nearly 30 years after she first entered politics with a firebrand maiden speech about Asian immigration, Pauline Hanson remains a committed fringe dweller, with narrow political interests and bad instincts. Suspended from the Senate on Tuesday, her decision to don a burqa in the chamber a day earlier badly disrupted proceedings and drew near universal condemnation. It is only the fifth time since 1901 that a seven-day suspension has been put in place, and the first time since 1979. Continue reading...

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【パリ=北松円香】スペインの人口が急増している。移民制限に傾くドイツや英国とは対照的に、積極的に移民を受け入れているためだ。人口は5000万人の大台が視野に入り、経済指標も好調だ。1人当たり国内総生産（GDP）は今や日本を上回る。スペイン国家統計局によると同国の人口は10月1日時点で4944万人。ここ数年は年率1%と、近隣のフランス（2024年は前年比0.25%増）などに比べ急ピッチで拡大して

Macarthur MP Mike Freelander believes the multi-partisan support for restricting gambling advertising means the reforms will "get there" eventually.

Australia’s richest person has criticised her company’s joint venture partner, Rio Tinto, for torching shareholder value on the “green altar” of net zero.

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Australian foreign minister echoes European call for sovereignty to be respected and for end to ‘Russia’s illegal and immoral war’ * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Foreign minister Penny Wong has warned any peace plan for Ukraine must not hand new territory to Vladimir Putin, amid furious international backlash to Donald Trump’s proposal. The US president’s plan prompted a furious response from Ukrainians at the weekend, before the country’s European allies released an alternative plan during talks in Geneva. That plan omits some of the pro-Russia provisions included in the original, US-backed document and calls for Kyiv’s sovereignty to be respected. Continue reading...

A party that forgets why it wants to govern, loses the public altogether. That’s what’s happening to the modern Liberal Party with its descent into an inane brand of retail politics.