Who spent big in Canberra’s last election – and how proposed changes would hurt newcomers
Could big spending explain the success of the independents at the ACT election? New data from the ACT Electoral Commission shows this isn't the case.
Could big spending explain the success of the independents at the ACT election? New data from the ACT Electoral Commission shows this isn't the case.
At 2:30pm, the Reserve Bank is almost certain to raise the cash rate to 4.6%, the highest it has been since November 2011 when the RBA cut the cash rate from 4.7% to 4.5%. It will be the act of a central bank hostage to old thinking and an inability to react to supply shocks.
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Independent MLA Thomas Emerson introduced the Electoral (Gambling Industry) Amendment Bill 2026 in June, which would ban donations from entities connected to the gambling industry. His proposal comes amid an ongoing ACT Government push to reduce gambling harm within the Territory.
The lower house in Tasmania has narrowly passed new firearm legislation, which falls well short of the agreement in National Cabinet at the start of this year. The vote for the Firearms Amendment (Strengthening Firearms Security) Bill passed 16 to 15, with Labor, the Greens and some independents opposing.
After a NSW Parliamentary Inquiry recently found that the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme is putting people at risk of modern slavery, their lost super might seem like a minor problem, but it’d be an easy one to fix.
ABC’s Political Editor Jacob Greber said on 730 that the Greens’ decision on how to vote on the carbon credit method’s disallowance motion is “reprising memories of another hard-fought battle over climate policy”, the vote on the Rudd Government’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) in 2009. What does a vote 17 years ago have to do with next week’s disallowance motion, and what lessons might the Greens take from the CPRS history?
Since Parliament last sat, the likelihood of a rate rise this year has gone from 'not likely' to 'lock it in'. I wish I could say this is because, in the past couple weeks, there has been data showing that the economy is going gangbusters and is in need of cooling off. But alas… this is not the case.
There are about 22 million adults living in Australia, but at the 2025 federal election fewer than 16 million votes were counted. What happened to the other six million adults? This explainer goes through the voting process to explain who gets counted.
Chalmers was interpreting GDP growth as a symbol of the Australian economy’s health. The higher the GDP growth, the healthier the Australian economy. But just a week before his speech, the United Nations was cautioning member states from doing exactly that.
Freedom of Information (FOI) requests from journalists and the public help hold governments to account. Let’s have a look at thirteen FOI stories from around Australia and what they tell us about the policies and operations of different governments.
