Politics

Andrew Hastie is gathering the support of disenchanted Liberals with the West Australian MP reportedly preparing to launch a challenge to party leader Sussan Ley. 

A Defence department overhaul, including the likely removal of dozens of high-ranking figures, will now be an Albanese government priority after Greg Moriarty was named Australia’s next ambassador to the US.

The devastated family of ICU nurse Alex Pretti have condemned the Trump administration’s ‘sickening lies’ about the circumstances that led up to his shooting at the hands of Federal agents. 

A Liberal MP has insisted Sussan Ley will survive an impending leadership challenge as the Nationals outline the ‘threshold’ for the two parties to reconcile.

Anthony Albanese has struck a defiant tone after it was revealed far-right associates of neo-nazis allegedly threatened to kidnap him.

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US President Donald Trump has retreated from ‘appalling’ comments that NATO allied troops stayed ‘a little off the front lines’ in Afghanistan.

The Prime Minister has announced a long-time senior public servant as Kevin Rudd’s replacement as Australia’s Ambassador to the US.

Tension is mounting in Minneapolis after a man was shot dead by a federal officer in the second such incident in the US city this month.

Disenchanted Liberals are hoping for a clean kill, hoping that Sussan Ley will resign as party leader as Andrew Hastie firms as her replacement.

Liberal leadership aspirant Andrew Hastie has slammed the US President for his ‘massive slur’ against Aussie soldiers and other coalition forces who ‘fought, bled and died alongside Americans’ in Afghanistan.

Comments from the US president that NATO forces kept ‘a little off the front lines’ in Afghanistan sparked dismay in the United Kingdom, which lost 457 troops.

With Sussan Ley’s leadership in rocky territory, Anthony Albanese has claimed the Liberals undermined her leadership from the moment she took on the post.

EXCLUSIVE: The Government has begun talks on removing a Nationals Senator from a powerful parliamentary intelligence committee after she crossed the floor to vote against Labor’s hate speech laws.

Anthony Albanese is struggling to find a way to decline an offer from Donald Trump to join the US President’s controversial Board of Peace’.