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As much as we can know anything these days, we can probably say the next election is going to be very close.
But what about the Greens, often called the third party of Australian politics? How are they faring with the Australian public? Have they successfully rebranded from being the party of the environment to being a broader based movement?
National Affairs Editor James Massola and Federal Political Correspondent Paul Sakkal joins Jacqueline Maley for Inside Politics.
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Donald Trump has been elected as the 47th American president.
His decisive victory will have major impacts on global affairs and on the Australian economy. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton were quick to congratulate Trump, and both leaders will be assessing their relationship with the President elect over coming weeks.
So what does a Trump presidency mean for Australia?
Joining Jacqueline Maley to unpack is chief political correspondent David Crowe and Nineâs national affairs editor Andrew Probyn.
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Politics is full of surprises but few people expected abortion policy to be back on the agenda in 2024. The fierce abortion debate in the United States has been turbocharged by the upcoming presidential election.
Now the fight over reproductive rights has made its way to Australia.
Abortion has been a surprise issue in the Queensland election campaign. It was also the subject of an attempted legislative rollback in South Australia last week. Now it is being put on the federal agenda by high-profile Opposition front-bencher Jacinta Nampijinpa Price.
Joining Jacqueline Maley to discuss is federal political correspondent Paul Sakkal, and federal politics reporter Natassia Crysanthos.
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Itâs probably our greatest national obsession. Property: buying it, selling it, how much it costs and how hard it is to afford.
This week Prime Minister Anthony Albanese made headlines when it was reported he had bought a $4.3 million ocean-front beach house at Copacabana on the NSW Central Coast.
Albanese said the purchase was made in contemplation of his changing personal circumstances. He is set to marry his partner Jodie Haydon, who grew up in the area and whose family still lives there.
But the optics were unbelievably bad. Australia is in the midst of a cost of living crisis, and the related housing affordability crisis is one of the main, if not the main, issues for the next election.
Joining Jacqueline Maley to unpack all this is chief political correspondent David Crowe and national affairs editor James Massola.
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A year on from the stunning October 7 attack by Hamas on Israeli towns, our parliament - on the other side of the world - is again convulsing over the widening war.
As Prime Minister Anthony Albanese jets off to the influential ASEAN summit in Laos, he is trying to lower the temperature on a polarising domestic debate about antisemitism and Australiaâs level of support for Israelâs invasion of Lebanon.
One of the most prominent Australian backers of the Palestinian cause, Labor defector Fatima Payman, has started a new party just days after the PM and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton split on the question of how to commemorate the October 7 attack.
Today, political editor and international editor Peter Hartcher and political reporter Natassia Chrysanthos join Paul Sakkal on the fallout from the October 7 motion.
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese wanted to talk about the budget surplus and the crack-down on the big supermarkets over their alleged ill-treatment of customers this week, but that was derailed by the escalating conflict in the Middle East.
While the government struggled to find the right form of words to respond to the crisis between Israel and its neighbours, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton labelled the Prime Minister weak, and said he needed to stand more firmly with Israel.
The result was an ugly week where both men vied to position themselves to voters as the best leader to handle a crisis, showing off their very different styles.
Deputy federal politics editor Nick Bonyhady and federal political correspondent Paul Sakkal join Jacqueline Maley to discuss.
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Federal politics got interesting this week when our very own James Massola and David Crowe reported that the Labor government has asked the Treasury to model cuts to negative gearing tax concessions, a policy that has previously caused Labor plenty of electoral pain.
The Prime Minister and his frontbench are being very coy about any proposed changes to the tax treatment of investment properties.
Are changes to negative gearing an option the government is really considering? How would they argue the case to cut the concessions this time, given they have tried and failed to do so before? And would changes to negative gearing make any difference to house prices anyway?
Joining Jacqueline Maley to discuss are chief political correspondent David Crowe and national affairs editor James Massola.
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The Albanese government came to power promising to ease the housing crisis by increasing supply. But has its housing agenda stalled?
This week, the Greens hardened their opposition to two key elements of the governmentâs housing policy.
The Prime Minister has urged the Greens to âget on with itâ and wave the plans through. So will Labor be able to secure its agenda? And if not, who will pay the political price?
Plus we have a look at the war of words between the business lobby and the government. Is this just the usual tension we often see between a Labor government and corporate interests? Or is it something more significant?
Joining Jaqueline Maley to discuss, is federal political correspondent Paul Sakkal and chief economic correspondent Shane Wright.
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Snapchat is officially on notice. As are Instagram, Facebook and TikTok.
This week the Prime Minister and his communications minister Michelle Rowland announced they will introduce a ban on young people using social media. But they were short on detail, including exactly what age the government would require teens to be before they could access social media.
Meanwhile, on Wednesday, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton promised the minerals industry that a Coalition government would be the âbest friendâ of miners.
Joining Jacqueline Maley to discuss, are chief political correspondent David Crowe and shadow communications minister David Coleman.
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This weekâs National Accounts figures showed that GDP growth was the weakest annual figure since the 1990s recession, not counting the pandemic.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers said the soft growth reflected the âimpacts of global economic uncertainty, higher interest rates and persistent but moderating inflationâ. But Chalmers also seemed to blame the Reserve Bank, saying the RBA is âsmashingâ the economy with interest rates.
Meanwhile, The Age and SMH exclusively reported this week that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese vented his frustration to his cabinet colleagues over the mishandling of the possible new census questions about gender and sexuality.
Joining Jacqueline Maley to discuss, is chief political correspondent David Crowe, senior economics correspondent Shane Wright, and national affairs editor James Massola.
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The Albanese government has told the university sector it has to slash foreign students by 53,000 places by next year. The universities say this will financially devastate them, but the government has pledged to halve net migration by next year, and something has to give.
Plus, this week, members of the militant CFMEU hit the streets in major capitals to protest the Governmentâs decision to place the controversial union into administration.
Joining Jacqueline Maley to discuss is chief political correspondent David Crowe and Australian National University professor Andrew Norton.
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In this special episode of Inside Politics, Treasurer Jim Chalmers sits down with Jacqueline Maley, chief political correspondent David Crowe and senior economics correspondent Shane Wright to talk about tax, housing and the cost of living crisis.
The Treasurer acknowledges how high mortgages are impacting ordinary Australians, and talks about what the Government is focusing on in the upcoming mid year budget. Plus he shares some words of wisdom he lives by every day.
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After a six-week break over winter, the Parliament was a fiery place this week.
Labor framed the next election as one between the âmainstream vs the maddiesâ, and the opposition is homing in on its framing of the prime minister as dishonest.
But, as has been the case so many times in the past year, the parliament again convulsed over the war in Gaza. Opposition leader Peter Dutton started a sharp immigration row when he called for Palestinians to be blocked from Australia because they may sympathise with Hamas. The vehemently pro-Israel leader sought to portray Labor as weak on the Gaza issue by questioning their approach on the refugee intake.
But how will this play out in electorate, and how has the government responded?
Joining Paul Sakkal are chief political correspondent David Crowe and home affairs and immigration reporter Natassia Chrysanthos.
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This week the boss of the Australian spy agency, ASIO, lifted the terror threat level from possible to probable. The last increase in the threat level was in 2014, and it was in response to Islamic extremism.
This time, the risk to society is different - it is the risk of young men, especially, being radicalised online by a grab-bag of conspiracy theories and far-right grievances, and carrying out a lone wolf attack.
So what are the social conditions that have led to this evolving threat to our safety? And what can our security agencies do to make us safer?
Plus, we take a look at the decision by the Reserve Bank to leave rates on hold and the effect this will have on the fortunes of the Albanese government.
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Australians are buying way less stuff. Households are draining their savings.
Yet at the same time, weâve been hearing months of warnings that the Reserve Bank might again hike mortgage rates.
That all changed on Wednesday when a key data set was released. It showed the prices of goods and services were still rising higher than we would like, but not quite as quickly as some feared.
Today, senior economic correspondent Shane Wright joins Paul Sakkal to unpack what the latest data tell us about our economy, and whether mortgage holders might see some relief.
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The cost of energy generation went up over winter.
That doesnât mean power bills are about to spike however - retail prices are set once a year by a regulator, which means that households arenât about to see a change in the cost of their electricity any time soon.
But the increased cost of generating power could have big impacts on the economy, politics and households.
Also, two long-serving Labor ministers are retiring from politics, ahead of the next federal election. Indigenous Affairs Minister Linda Burney, and Skills and Training Minister Brendan OâConner will leave parliament at the election, and the Prime Minister will use their retirements to reshuffle his cabinet this weekend.
Today, climate and energy correspondent Mike Foley and national affairs editor James Massola on what governmentâs are doing to fix our energy market and what a reshuffle means for Labor.
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Unions and Labor are intertwined. The oldest Labor Party in the world traces its roots to the shearers strike of the 1890s.
At that time, powerless workers decided to band together to create a political party and take on big business.
The aims of unions underpins a lot of what Labor does when it holds power. Many of its MPs worked for unions. But what happens when one misbehaves? Misbehaves badly.
There have long been suggestions and reports of bully-boy tactics in the rough world that is the building industry. But reports in The Age and SMH revealed so much more than the odd bad apple.
Labor is already sagging in the polls. A new union scandal now threatens to derail the governmentâs winter agenda and opens it up to the long-standing charge of being too close to trade unions.
Today, chief political correspondent David Crowe and political reporter Angus Thompson join Paul Sakkal to discuss the CFMEU scandal and what it means for the government.
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Theyâre worn by the hundreds of lobbyists who are granted access to the building and the politicians who work inside it.Itâs a lucrative business - lobbyists charge handsomely to help big firms get access to large federal deals.
And with billions of dollars of government contracts up for grabs - including $22.7 billion for Laborâs made in Australia plan - a new class of Labor-allied lobbyists has emerged.
This has heightened concerns about the power of top lobbyists and renewed calls for more transparency about the access they get to the countryâs decision makers.
Today, Chief political correspondent David Crowe talks to Paul Sakkal to discuss this lobbyland and the rise of Labor insiders becoming guns for hire, as well as the emergence of a new group called The Muslim Vote that is also trying to influence politics.
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After a tumultuous couple of weeks in Canberra, senator Fatima Payman has quit the Labor party. On Thursday, Payman emotionally announced her decision to leave the party that helped her gain a senate seat in the 2022 election, saying she had exhausted every option to raise her concerns about the governmentâs position on Palestinian recognition. Today, political correspondents Paul Sakkal and Angus Thompson talk to Jacqueline Maley about the split between Payman and the Labor party and its ramifications.
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"My name is Julian Paul Assange."
These were the first words spoken by the Wikileaks founder and high-profile long-time former prisoner as he finally faced court to answer charges this week. Assange accepted a deal to plead guilty of violating US espionage law and appeared on Wednesday in a court in the obscure US Pacific island territory of Saipan.
He was sentenced to time already served and boarded a flight home to Canberra, Australia. He arrived home on Wednesday evening to a cold Canberra evening, a triumphant fist raised.
So how big a political coup is Assangeâs release? Who has been working on it and for how long? Why has Albanese made it a project of his government?
And, the temporary defection of Labor Senator Fatima Payman to the Greens.
Joining Jacqueline Maley to discuss is chief political correspondent David Crowe, national security correspondent Matthew Knott, and live from Saipan, North Asia correspondent Lisa Visentin.
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