The federal treasurer said he did not accept claims the review was a “light touch” exercise that should have been set up to investigate all aspects of the response.
Rallies in Sydney and Melbourne saw a turnout much smaller than Yes campaign marches last weekend.
The first-term senator from the Northern Territory only entered parliament last July,but the polarising figure has become a political phenomenon.
Prominent No campaigner Nyunggai Warren Mundine is set to withdraw from the NSW senate race.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has accused Labor of running a protection racket after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese revealed that unilateral decisions made by first ministers were ruled out of the inquiry’s terms of reference.
Ken Wyatt claimed his former colleague would have changed the essence of the Voice referendum if he was still in parliament,as the ex-treasurer ruled out a return.
Labor is stranded. Its campaign for the Voice has been confused and weak. Meanwhile,it has gradually lost voter confidence on its handling of living costs.
Missing from the fine print in NSW Labor’s Tuesday budget was money for a smaller but equally problematic issue facing Premier Chris Minns.
Former prime minister Scott Morrison says his new book about his faith “hasn’t been written to be available only in bookshops in Canberra”.
NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey will pull the plug on electric vehicle subsidies in Tuesday’s budget – but funding will remain for Metro West.
Sacked Labor minister Tim Crakanthorp withheld the true extent of his extended family’s property empire as he sought an exemption to continue lobbying on behalf of a redevelopment.