A WA Liberal MP has issued a scathing public slam down of Sussan Ley’s timeline to discuss the party’s position on net zero next week.
Liberal leader Sussan Ley will bring her party room together in Canberra next Wednesday to agree on its climate and energy policy, amid pressure to make a deal over environmental protection laws.
Katina Curtis
Labor’s move would make it harder for Australians to access FOI documents — and easier for the PM to hide secrets.
Caitlyn Rintoul
Dumping Sussan Ley as Opposition leader would not bode well for the Liberal Party's standing with women, analysts say, as speculation of a challenge to her leadership grows.
Tess Ikonomou
South West MP Ben Small has doubled down on anti-immigration while slamming the Commonwealth Government's management of the housing crisis.
Craig Duncan
Housing Minister Clare O’Neil has hit back at criticism government stimulus aimed to give first-home buyers a leg-up into the property market has lifted house prices in October.
Communications Minister Anika Wells hasn’t received a formal invitation to front an inquiry examining the Optus triple-zero failure last month despite a threat from the committee’s chair.
Roger Cook and Rita Saffioti insist both that the Prime Minister is ‘rock steady’ on the GST deal and that they have to spend a million dollars defending it as they took their fight to Canberra.
Many older Coalition voters are fleeing Sussan Ley's iteration of the Liberal Party, leading to record polling highs for a resurgent One Nation.
Ben McKay
LIVE UPDATES: Opposition Leader Sussan Ley is desperately attempting to bring calm to the Coalition as leadership concerns grow, claiming the Coalition is ‘stronger than ever’.
Max Corstorphan
Roger Cook says he is confident Anthony Albanese remains a ‘key supporter for WA’ after the Premier took the fight to keep the State’s GST deal intact to Parliament House.
Katina Curtis, Caitlyn Rintoul & Jessica Page
ASIO director-general Mike Burgess has warned at least three countries are ‘willing and capable’ of ordering assassination hits on Australia.
Andrew Greene
Though patrol numbers have increased over the past year they still haven’t returned to the levels seen under the Coalition government.
Sussan Ley faces growing unrest as conservatives push to abandon net zero while some warn the move could isolate Australia.
LIVE UPDATES: Opposition Leader Sussan Ley has told a joint Liberal-Nationals meeting she is a ‘coalitionist’, attempting to fight off mutiny as leadership rumours swirl.
A messy split between the Coalition might be the catalyst to save the partnership, with the Liberals under pressure to follow suit in dumping a key target.
The Nationals are forcing the hand of the Liberals on an issue that picks the scab off divisions that have roiled the Liberals – and rolled its leaders – for more than 16 years.
Murray Watt is under pressure to clarify the Federal Government’s new environmental laws as Roger Cook weighs into the debate that is set for a Senate showdown.
Jessica Page
Anthony Albanese bounced into a suburban doctor’s clinic in Canberra, declaring it was ‘muscle Monday’ as he turned his mind back to domestic matters after a successful lap of international summits.
The Liberals will now decide their energy policy within days, not weeks, after the Nationals’ move to dump net zero raised anew the spectre of a split in the Coalition.
Katina Curtis and Andrew Greene
Opposition leader Sussan Ley says the Nationals are ‘entitled’ to make their own decision on abandoning net zero and expressed confidence they can work together.
LIVE UPDATES: Opposition Leader Sussan Ley, who has been hit with horror poll numbers, is reportedly considering dumping net zero commitments as a Coalition fall-out implodes.
Opposition Leader Sussan Ley has led the Coalition to its worst poll result in 40 years as net zero, infighting and leadership murmurs threaten to further destabilise the Liberals and Nationals.
Zac de Silva and Melissa Meehan
The Nationals have scrapped their party’s commitment to a net zero target for Australia, setting the stage for a potential split in the Coalition once the Liberals decide their policy.
