Prime Minister Anthony Albanese with independent MPs Monique Ryan,Allegra Spender,Kate Chaney and Zoe Daniel in discussion after a division in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra last year.

As teals attended drinks with Albanese,Dutton and Labor struck election overhaul

Big money in politics will become an election issue after furious independent MPs argued the proposed changes to cap donations will entrench the major parties’ dominance.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese with Premier Jacinta Allan.

Federal MPs furious over Allan’s Suburban Rail Loop ‘blackmail’

A tense stand-off over project funding has prompted Victorian federal MPs to demand Jacinta Allan cease holding out for extra rail loop money.

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Barnaby Joyce and David Littleproud are rivals in the National Party.

‘Barnaby rule’ hides former deputy PM in his seat

The National Party has hidden former leader Barnaby Joyce by creating a rule that effectively bars him from making political trips outside his seat.

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Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

Albanese overruled top minister in capitulation to Dutton

The changes pleased Jewish groups,which for months have called for a more muscular approach to deal with rising antisemitism in Australia.

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Former resources minister Keith Pitt announced he would resign from politics late last year.

Former Nationals cabinet minister to be Australia’s next ambassador to the Vatican

In a surprise move,former Nationals minister Keith Pitt is expected to be appointed Australia’s ambassador to the Holy See.

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Displaying Nazi symbols will be punished with mandatory minimum sentences of a year. These swastikas were graffitied on a Sydney synagogue.

Albanese defends backflip on mandatory minimum sentences for antisemitism offences

A communications breakdown between state and federal police kept Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in the dark over the discovery of a caravan full of explosive,inflaming debate on antisemitism.

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Members of the National Socialist Network are arrested as they hold a counter-protest on Australia Day in Adelaide.

Australian neo-Nazis suspended from X

White supremacists Thomas Sewell and Blair Cottrell had their accounts suspended on Tuesday,two days after this masthead reported neo-Nazism was thriving on the platform.

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Trump backer Pratt gave Albanese $1 million before PM attended Katy Perry party

As they gear up for an election year,the Liberal and Labor parties and their state branches raked in more than $64 million each.

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Sixteen members of the National Socialist Network were arrested in Adelaide when they marched on Australia Day.

Musk’s X enables Australia’s neo-Nazis,warn Coalition and online watchdog

White supremacists and leaders of Australia’s National Socialist Network (NSN) were previously banned or censored on X before returning in the past year or so.

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Communications Minister Michelle Rowland briefed executives about the wagering plan in August but the package has been put on ice.

Labor shelves crackdown on gambling ads until after election

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton says Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s timidity on the gambling advertising debate was evidence of his alleged weakness of character.

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