Australia

AARON PATRICK: The return of one of the greatest communicators in conservative politics is an opportunity and threat for Liberal leader Angus Taylor.

Anthony Albanese has paid tribute to Richard Scolyer, praising the former Australian of the Year for facing his cancer battle with extraordinary courage and grace.

From the halls of power to fields of study and faraway communities, service to others in its many forms has been recognised.

‘Daniel was an adored husband, son, brother and uncle who had a lifelong love and deep respect for the ocean.’

The man who led the response for a deadly Australian nursing home emergency says the answer will be ‘far worse than you can imagine’.

Australian trade officials have warned further US tariffs on sectors including pharmaceutical and digital services could be on the horizon in the wake of America’s recent ‘slave labour’ levy. 

AARON PATRICK: The One Nation leader’s anti-immigration crusade has turned her into, by one measure, Australia’s most-popular political leader.

Before One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce said foreigners should be forced to sell their homes in Australia, the party’s leader went even further.

A leading property economist is warning Labor’s negative gearing and capital gains tax changes will cause rents to soar without seeing more first homebuyers enter the housing market as investors lost interest.

A One Nation senator has been kicked off live radio and told to sort out his policy position after failing to answer simple questions around the minor party’s views on foreign ownership of residential property.

Australia’s economic growth has stalled following a series of interest rate rises while productivity has gone backwards, which could stop the Reserve Bank hiking rates any further.

Former PM Tony Abbott says the Liberals are ‘under new management’ with him in charge, while his Howard-era cabinet colleague Alexander Downer wants the party to be ‘media tarts’ to win the next election.

Flight Centre founder Graham Turner says Labor’s capital gains tax changes will hurt aspiration and young Australians will not being able to climb the ladder to business success.

The Prime Minister’s promise to ‘fully cooperate’ with the investigation into the Bondi terror attack has been questioned.