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Brisbane Times

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Taylor said Albanese wasted the nation’s time. His reply was not much different

Taylor said Albanese wasted the nation’s time. His reply was not much different

Angus Taylor has had his right of reply to Anthony Albanese’s address to the nation. It felt a bit like a sequel for which nobody asked.

02.04.2026 10

WA Today

Rob Harris

Taylor said Albanese wasted the nation’s time. His reply was not much different

Taylor said Albanese wasted the nation’s time. His reply was not much different

Angus Taylor has had his right of reply to Anthony Albanese’s address to the nation. It felt a bit like a sequel for which nobody asked.

02.04.2026 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Rob Harris

Taylor said Albanese wasted the nation’s time. His reply was not much different

Taylor said Albanese wasted the nation’s time. His reply was not much different

Angus Taylor has had his right of reply to Anthony Albanese’s address to the nation. It felt a bit like a sequel for which nobody asked.

02.04.2026 10

The Age

Rob Harris

Taylor said Albanese wasted the nation’s time. His reply was not much different

Taylor said Albanese wasted the nation’s time. His reply was not much different

Angus Taylor has had his right of reply to Anthony Albanese’s address to the nation. It felt a bit like a sequel for which nobody asked.

02.04.2026 10

Brisbane Times

Rob Harris

If this crisis is serious enough to warrant a national address, the message felt thin

It’s not COVID 2.0. It’s not a national emergency. So what was the point of Anthony Albanese calling Australia to attention during prime time?

01.04.2026 10

WA Today

Rob Harris

If this crisis is serious enough to warrant a national address, the message felt thin

It’s not COVID 2.0. It’s not a national emergency. So what was the point of Anthony Albanese calling Australia to attention during prime time?

01.04.2026 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Rob Harris

If this crisis is serious enough to warrant a national address, the message felt thin

It’s not COVID 2.0. It’s not a national emergency. So what was the point of Anthony Albanese calling Australia to attention during prime time?

01.04.2026 10

The Age

Rob Harris

If this crisis is serious enough to warrant a national address, the message felt thin

It’s not COVID 2.0. It’s not a national emergency. So what was the point of Anthony Albanese calling Australia to attention during prime time?

01.04.2026 10

Brisbane Times

Rob Harris

The Hanson paradox: How a populist surge became Labor’s best friend

Pauline Hanson is right that the electorate has had a “gutful,” but the arithmetic of the South Australian result proves that a fractured right is...

22.03.2026 20

WA Today

Rob Harris

The Hanson paradox: How a populist surge became Labor’s best friend

Pauline Hanson is right that the electorate has had a “gutful,” but the arithmetic of the South Australian result proves that a fractured right is...

22.03.2026 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Rob Harris

The Hanson paradox: How a populist surge became Labor’s best friend

Pauline Hanson is right that the electorate has had a “gutful,” but the arithmetic of the South Australian result proves that a fractured right is...

22.03.2026 40

The Age

Rob Harris

The Hanson paradox: How a populist surge became Labor’s best friend

Pauline Hanson is right that the electorate has had a “gutful,” but the arithmetic of the South Australian result proves that a fractured right is...

22.03.2026 20

Brisbane Times

Rob Harris

‘Comedy poison’: I watched the Pauline Hanson movie so you don’t have to

A Super Progressive Movie clearly wants to sit in the tradition of Australian satire. It just badly overestimates how long one joke can survive on...

03.02.2026 10

WA Today

Rob Harris

‘Comedy poison’: I watched the Pauline Hanson movie so you don’t have to

A Super Progressive Movie clearly wants to sit in the tradition of Australian satire. It just badly overestimates how long one joke can survive on...

03.02.2026 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Rob Harris

‘Comedy poison’: I watched the Pauline Hanson movie so you don’t have to

A Super Progressive Movie clearly wants to sit in the tradition of Australian satire. It just badly overestimates how long one joke can survive on...

03.02.2026 10

The Age

Rob Harris

‘Comedy poison’: I watched the Pauline Hanson movie so you don’t have to

A Super Progressive Movie clearly wants to sit in the tradition of Australian satire. It just badly overestimates how long one joke can survive on...

03.02.2026 10

Brisbane Times

Rob Harris

This leadership crisis runs far deeper than Sussan Ley

Liberal and National MPs can no longer agree on who it is they are trying to represent. But many of them are terrified about the votes they are losing...

22.01.2026 10

WA Today

Rob Harris

This leadership crisis runs far deeper than Sussan Ley

Liberal and National MPs can no longer agree on who it is they are trying to represent. But many of them are terrified about the votes they are losing...

22.01.2026 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Rob Harris

This leadership crisis runs far deeper than Sussan Ley

Liberal and National MPs can no longer agree on who it is they are trying to represent. But many of them are terrified about the votes they are losing...

22.01.2026 10

The Age

Rob Harris

This leadership crisis runs far deeper than Sussan Ley

Liberal and National MPs can no longer agree on who it is they are trying to represent. But many of them are terrified about the votes they are losing...

22.01.2026 10

Brisbane Times

Rob Harris

Sussan Ley decided to lose three frontbenchers. Now the Coalition is in tatters

The opposition leader accepted the resignation of three frontbenchers on Wednesday afternoon for breaking cabinet solidarity. By Wednesday night, all...

21.01.2026 10

WA Today

Rob Harris

Sussan Ley decided to lose three frontbenchers. Now the Coalition is in tatters

The opposition leader accepted the resignation of three frontbenchers on Wednesday afternoon for breaking cabinet solidarity. By Wednesday night, all...

21.01.2026 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Rob Harris

Sussan Ley decided to lose three frontbenchers. Now the Coalition is in tatters

The opposition leader accepted the resignation of three frontbenchers on Wednesday afternoon for breaking cabinet solidarity. By Wednesday night, all...

21.01.2026 10

The Age

Rob Harris

Sussan Ley decided to lose three frontbenchers. Now the Coalition is in tatters

The opposition leader accepted the resignation of three frontbenchers on Wednesday afternoon for breaking cabinet solidarity. By Wednesday night, all...

21.01.2026 10

Brisbane Times

Rob Harris

Albanese’s response to Bondi shattered a central promise – and exposed familiar patterns

Voters have delivered a coherent verdict: the PM dithered, flip-flopped and politicised a crisis that demanded decisiveness and moral clarity.

18.01.2026 20

WA Today

Rob Harris

Albanese’s response to Bondi shattered a central promise – and exposed familiar patterns

Voters have delivered a coherent verdict: the PM dithered, flip-flopped and politicised a crisis that demanded decisiveness and moral clarity.

18.01.2026 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Rob Harris

Albanese’s response to Bondi shattered a central promise – and exposed familiar patterns

Voters have delivered a coherent verdict: the PM dithered, flip-flopped and politicised a crisis that demanded decisiveness and moral clarity.

18.01.2026 20

The Age

Rob Harris

Albanese’s response to Bondi shattered a central promise – and exposed familiar patterns

Voters have delivered a coherent verdict: the PM dithered, flip-flopped and politicised a crisis that demanded decisiveness and moral clarity.

18.01.2026 20

Brisbane Times

Rob Harris

The cynicism of Frydenberg is familiar — and tempting. It’s also grossly uncharitable

The former treasurer’s speech at Bondi Beach this week did not sound like anything produced by the Australian political system in a long time. That...

19.12.2025 10

WA Today

Rob Harris

The cynicism of Frydenberg is familiar — and tempting. It’s also grossly uncharitable

The former treasurer’s speech at Bondi Beach this week did not sound like anything produced by the Australian political system in a long time. That...

19.12.2025 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Rob Harris

The cynicism of Frydenberg is familiar — and tempting. It’s also grossly uncharitable

The former treasurer’s speech at Bondi Beach this week did not sound like anything produced by the Australian political system in a long time. That...

19.12.2025 30

The Age

Rob Harris

The cynicism of Frydenberg is familiar — and tempting. It’s also grossly uncharitable

The former treasurer’s speech at Bondi Beach this week did not sound like anything produced by the Australian political system in a long time. That...

19.12.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Rob Harris

Albanese is getting close to his ‘I don’t hold a hose’ moment

The prime minister’s sudden insistence the expenses saga has nothing to do with him has left even some of his own colleagues blinking.

11.12.2025 10

WA Today

Rob Harris

Albanese is getting close to his ‘I don’t hold a hose’ moment

The prime minister’s sudden insistence the expenses saga has nothing to do with him has left even some of his own colleagues blinking.

11.12.2025 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Rob Harris

Albanese is getting close to his ‘I don’t hold a hose’ moment

The prime minister’s sudden insistence the expenses saga has nothing to do with him has left even some of his own colleagues blinking.

11.12.2025 40

The Age

Rob Harris

Albanese is getting close to his ‘I don’t hold a hose’ moment

The prime minister’s sudden insistence the expenses saga has nothing to do with him has left even some of his own colleagues blinking.

11.12.2025 20

Brisbane Times

Rob Harris

The real reason Anika Wells is bound to survive this scandal

Ministerial survival depends on a single, unwavering principle: the prime minister refuses to give ground to his enemies. He’d sooner sandpaper his...

09.12.2025 10

WA Today

Rob Harris

The real reason Anika Wells is bound to survive this scandal

Ministerial survival depends on a single, unwavering principle: the prime minister refuses to give ground to his enemies. He’d sooner sandpaper his...

09.12.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Rob Harris

The real reason Anika Wells is bound to survive this scandal

Ministerial survival depends on a single, unwavering principle: the prime minister refuses to give ground to his enemies. He’d sooner sandpaper his...

09.12.2025 20

The Age

Rob Harris

The real reason Anika Wells is bound to survive this scandal

Ministerial survival depends on a single, unwavering principle: the prime minister refuses to give ground to his enemies. He’d sooner sandpaper his...

09.12.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Rob Harris

Albanese’s words from 2015 that reveal tension at the heart of Wells scandal

Parliamentary entitlement scandals exploded 10 years ago, leading to a change in the rules. What Anthony Albanese said then is instructive.

08.12.2025 10

WA Today

Rob Harris

Albanese’s words from 2015 that reveal tension at the heart of Wells scandal

Parliamentary entitlement scandals exploded 10 years ago, leading to a change in the rules. What Anthony Albanese said then is instructive.

08.12.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Rob Harris

Albanese’s words from 2015 that reveal tension at the heart of Wells scandal

Parliamentary entitlement scandals exploded 10 years ago, leading to a change in the rules. What Anthony Albanese said then is instructive.

08.12.2025 20

The Age

Rob Harris

Albanese’s words from 2015 that reveal tension at the heart of Wells scandal

Parliamentary entitlement scandals exploded 10 years ago, leading to a change in the rules. What Anthony Albanese said then is instructive.

08.12.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Rob Harris

The optics on these $94,000 flights are terrible, but the timing is even worse

It’s the simple scandals – the ones voters can explain to each other in a supermarket queue – that bring ministers undone.

03.12.2025 20

WA Today

Rob Harris

The optics on these $94,000 flights are terrible, but the timing is even worse

It’s the simple scandals – the ones voters can explain to each other in a supermarket queue – that bring ministers undone.

03.12.2025 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Rob Harris

The optics on these $94,000 flights are terrible, but the timing is even worse

It’s the simple scandals – the ones voters can explain to each other in a supermarket queue – that bring ministers undone.

03.12.2025 30

The Age

Rob Harris

The optics on these $94,000 flights are terrible, but the timing is even worse

It’s the simple scandals – the ones voters can explain to each other in a supermarket queue – that bring ministers undone.

03.12.2025 20

Brisbane Times

Rob Harris

Always the exception, never the rule, Joyce writes his own eulogy and plans his next comeback

In the end, Barnaby Joyce didn’t so much leave the Nationals as quietly concede they’d already left him.

27.11.2025 10

WA Today

Rob Harris

Always the exception, never the rule, Joyce writes his own eulogy and plans his next comeback

In the end, Barnaby Joyce didn’t so much leave the Nationals as quietly concede they’d already left him.

27.11.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Rob Harris