Politics

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.

Labor is tightening control of Question Time, cutting the opposition’s share as the fractured Coalition struggles to find its footing.

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.

Bill and Hillary Clinton have agreed to comply with a US Congressional subpoena to testify about their relationship with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Opposition leader Sussan Ley has told her Nationals counterpart she will only accept the three rebel senators back onto the frontbench under one condition.

Donald Trump says he will sue Grammys host Trevor Noah after he made a disparaging joke on-air about the US President.

President Trump’s Middle East envoy and his son-in-law were expected to meet Iran’s foreign minister in Istanbul on Friday amid tensions between the countries.

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.

Matt Canavan has launched a scathing attack on Treasurer Jim Chalmers, as mortgage holders brace for the first interest rate hike in more than two years.

‘There’s not a unanimous view amongst the economists about what’s driving the most recent tick up in inflation.’

Former Victorian premier Daniel Andrews is reportedly recovering from a significant health incident.