Australian voters are growing in dissatisfaction for the major parties, with both Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton copping hits to their approval ratings, according to the latest Newspoll. Both leaders recorded hits to their net satisfaction levels, with Mr Albanese falling to minus 11 and Mr Dutton plunging six pointsContinue Reading
Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie has unleashed on Peter Dutton’s nuclear ambitions, blasting it as a poorly thought-out plan he pulled “out of his clacker”. The firebrand politician took aim over a lack of detail over nuclear waste, with Senator Lambie also questioning whether Australia has the experts to execute theContinue Reading
Primary support for the Coalition has risen to the highest point in three years as Peter Dutton closes in on Anthony Albanese as preferred prime minister, new polling has revealed. A damaging two weeks for Labor dealt a blow to the party, the most recent Newspoll revealed, with primary supportContinue Reading
Voters have given the tick of approval to Anthony Albanese’s plan to use taxpayer subsidies for clean energy projects. However, the Prime Minister has failed to convert support for the Future Made in Australia policy to support for Labor, according to the latest Newspoll conducted for the Australian. Labor stillContinue Reading
Anthony Albanese says he will take responsibility no matter the outcome at this Saturday’s by-election, as a new poll shows the Liberals have a narrow lead going into the final week of the campaign. The seat, which takes in Frankston and surrounding outer-Melbourne, was held by Peta Murphy, who diedContinue Reading
A new study has revealed almost nine in 10 voters think First Nations Australians should have a say over matters that affect them, raising “serious questions” as to why the Voice to Parliament failed. More than 60 per cent of voters – about 9.42 million people – voted No inContinue Reading
A makeover of Opposition Leader Peter Dutton is in the offing, the Prime Minister has predicted, as the political foes prepare for the next election, due by early 2025 at the latest. Anthony Albanese openly mocked and ridiculed his political opponent, personally guaranteeing that Mr Dutton would seek to re-craftContinue Reading
The NSW Aboriginal Affairs and Treaty Minister David Harris has acknowledged the road to establishing a NSW Treaty with Aboriginal communities will not “be an easy process”. As it stands, the government has committed $5m to a one-year consultation process with Aboriginal communities, which will ask whether they want aContinue Reading
Australians have headed to the polls to cast their vote in the Voice to Parliament referendum. The vote will decide if Indigenous Australians should be formally recognised in the Australian Constitution and whether an advisory body called the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice should be established to make representationsContinue Reading
Australia will bring “shame” on the country in the eyes of the world if it votes No to the constitutional referendum, according to Indigenous leader Noel Pearson. As the campaign heads into its final week, Mr Pearson has warned that voters faced a “moral choice”. In the wake of twoContinue Reading