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- Political leadership
Price and Hastie return as Taylor revamps economic team
Opposition Leader Angus Taylor revealed his Liberal frontbench on Tuesday afternoon, four days after toppling Sussan Ley.
- Paul Sakkal
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Fate of Coalition still in limbo after hopeful peace talks
Opposition Leader Sussan Ley’s backers are pleading with wavering Liberal MPs to keep her in the job until at least the federal budget in May.
- Paul Sakkal and Nick Newling
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- Islam
‘Deeply damaging’: Aly says Morrison’s Islam speech risks inflaming tensions
The comments follow a fresh rift that former PM Scott Morrison opened with Australian Muslims when he gave a speech in Israel on Tuesday night.
- Natassia Chrysanthos
Muslim leaders slam Morrison as ‘reckless, irresponsible’ after Islam speech
Andrew Bragg has urged Australian Muslims to take some responsibility for religious extremism, after Scott Morrison told an antisemitism conference in Israel that Islamic leaders should enforce stronger standards on their communities.
- Brittany Busch and Mostafa Rachwani
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- Political leadership
Liberal moderate speaks out on Indigenous acknowledgments at events
Moderate and conservative Liberals are locked in an existential tug-of-war over climate change and migration. That’s about to spread further into cultural and national identity.
- Paul Sakkal
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- Housing affordability
O’Neil reads riot act to agency as Labor seeks to keep housing probe secret
Coalition frontbencher Andrew Bragg has labelled Housing Australia, the embattled agency overseeing the $10 billion Housing Australia Future Fund, a “dysfunctional hellhole”.
- Paul Sakkal
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- Blood Oil
‘Urgent priority’: Major Australian super fund investigates Russian Blood Oil links
One of the nation’s biggest superannuation funds is investigating ties to the Russian oil trade as the war in Ukraine reaches a crucial moment.
- Matthew Knott
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- Factional politics
‘Sussan has been undermined from day one’: Former Liberal MP quits party in protest
Hollie Hughes resigned her membership of the party she spent six years with in the Senate on Tuesday with a furious spray at her former colleagues.
- Paul Sakkal and Mike Foley
- Editorial
- Political leadership
Weak Liberal Party ‘moderates’ as shameless as internal net zero opponents
Any moderate with a shred of self-respect would step off the frontbench in protest at what has unfolded.
- The Herald's View
Moderates threatened to quit the Liberal frontbench over net zero. Here’s what they say now
After their faction was hollowed out by successive election defeats, many moderates appear to have fallen in line behind Opposition Leader Sussan Ley’s abandonment of net zero.
- James Massola and Nick Newling