Australia

ANDREW GREENE: Labor was taking no prisoners as it went on the attack with the Liberals and Nationals split in parliament.

AARON PATRICK: Michele Bullock described Tuesday’s interest rate hike in bloodless central-banker speak - but it will cost the economy roughly $3 billion to $6 billion.

Homeowners are set to be thousands of dollars out of pocket after the Reserve Bank raised the interest rate today.

OPINON: Statements and opinion pieces from the Jewish Council of Australia have been circulating for months in authoritative fashion as though this body speaks for Australian Jews. It does not.

Principals and teachers face losing their job without the chance to be employed elsewhere in the school under a new code of conduct banning them from spreading hate on social media or in the classroom.

Health Minister Mark Butler has released the plan for Labor’s ‘Thriving Kids’ initiative, a proposed alternative to the NDIS for children with mild to moderate developmental delays or autism.

LATIKA M BOURKE: The Opposition should have had the PM on the ropes after the Bondi massacre. Instead they’ve fully imploded and are now being outpolled by One Nation.

A damaging split of the Coalition is set to continue after an initial face-to-face meeting between Sussan Ley and her counterpart David Littleproud in Canberra failed to resolve differences.

Watching the Liberal Party’s leadership saga is excruciating. It’s like witnessing a slow death: drawn-out, painful and entirely avoidable.

Former Liberal MP Katie Allen has been farewelled in a touching memorial service attended by political, academic and medical leaders.

Australia and East Timor have pledged to develop a long-stalled gas project as soon as possible under a new agreement that further cements Australia’s position as the Pacific’s preferred security partner.

The Opposition claimed large payments to the states and other unexplained expenses weren’t disclosed before last year’s election.

AARON PATRICK: By pretending the Coalition split isn’t a political crisis, the Liberal Party Leader is insulting voters’ intelligence.

The Prime Minister has refused to rule out his government backing a possible second attempt by Kevin Rudd to become United Nations secretary general, after his term as Australia’s ambassador to Washington.