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2025-11-01

House prices have been climbing for a generation. Will a fix take longer?
By Tom Crowley

It's an inconvenient truth that a housing crisis that took a generation to create cannot be fixed easily. The damage will likely take another generation to undo, unless the solution comes at the expense of those who already own their homes.

abc.net.au/news/2025-11-02/hou

#HousingPolicy #FederalGovernment #GovernmentandPolitics #EconomicTrendsandIndicators #TomCrowley

2025-11-01

What will aged care fee changes mean for you? Here are the details
By Tom Crowley

A new fee structure for aged care takes effect today. Find out what it will mean for you.

abc.net.au/news/2025-11-01/wha

#AgedCare #FederalGovernment #GovernmentandPolitics #FederalParliament #TomCrowley

2025-10-28

Optus to be called before senators to explain triple-0 failure
By Tom Crowley

An inquiry into the telco's triple-0 failure was green-lit by the Senate late on Tuesday and will hold its first hearings in Parliament House next week.

abc.net.au/news/2025-10-29/opt

#FederalGovernment #GovernmentandPolitics #FederalParliament #InformationandCommunication #TelecommunicationsServicesIndustry #MobilePhones #TomCrowley

2025-10-17

'No doubt' Albanese and Trump will discuss critical minerals: Chalmers
By Tom Crowley

Anthony Albanese will "no doubt" use a meeting with Donald Trump next week to discuss critical minerals, the treasurer says as he dismisses a call for Australia to "decouple" with China over rare earth materials.

abc.net.au/news/2025-10-17/alb

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2025-10-13

Chalmers wielded the axe on his super tax, but the PM's fingerprints were obvious
By Tom Crowley

The treasurer has never been afraid to venture beyond his prime minister with his tax reform ambitions, but on superannuation, he has been pulled into line.

abc.net.au/news/2025-10-14/cha

#FederalGovernment #GovernmentandPolitics #FederalParliament #Budget #Tax #BusinessEconomicsandFinance #TomCrowley

2025-10-13

Labor has watered down its super tax proposal. Here's the new version
By Tom Crowley

Every prominent criticism of the tax has been addressed, with the result that it will apply to fewer people and raise less money.

abc.net.au/news/2025-10-13/lab

#FederalGovernment #GovernmentandPolitics #FederalParliament #Superannuation #Tax #BusinessEconomicsandFinance #Budget #TomCrowley

2025-10-08

Optus email mishap left department in dark about triple-0 outage
By Tom Crowley

The telco operator sent two emails about its outage, which understated its extent, to a departmental email address that had been changed a week earlier.

abc.net.au/news/2025-10-08/opt

#FederalGovernment #GovernmentandPolitics #FederalParliament #TelecommunicationsServicesIndustry #TomCrowley

2025-10-05

Greens leader 'doesn't know very much' about wind farm opposed by colleagues
By Tom Crowley

Larissa Waters says she will be looking closely at the Robbins Island wind farm, which the Greens's two Tasmanian senators say will threaten several endangered species.

abc.net.au/news/2025-10-05/gre

#FederalGovernment #GovernmentandPolitics #FederalParliament #AustralianGreens #AlternativeEnergy #WindEnergy #EnvironmentalPolicy #ClimateChange #EndangeredandProtectedSpecies #TomCrowley

2025-10-04

Labor's housing fund is taking longer and costing more, but will it bear fruit?
By Tom Crowley

It takes a long time to build anything at all in Australia's dysfunctional housing market, even for the federal government, but Labor's social housing fund is inching towards an impact.

abc.net.au/news/2025-10-05/lab

#FederalGovernment #GovernmentandPolitics #FederalParliament #HousingPolicy #HousingConstructionIndustry #BusinessEconomicsandFinance #ConstructionandRealEstateIndustry #TomCrowley

2025-09-21

Australia formally recognises state of Palestine
By Tom Crowley and Matthew Doran

The historic decision foreshadowed last month has now become a reality, as Australia moves with Canada and the United Kingdom to join the growing list of countries to recognise Palestinian sovereignty.

abc.net.au/news/2025-09-21/aus

#ForeignAffairs #FederalGovernment #GovernmentandPolitics #FederalParliament #WorldPolitics #TomCrowley #MatthewDoran

2025-09-21

Government has not set 2035 renewables target, downplays 90 per cent
By Tom Crowley

In New York for the UN summit, Energy Minister Chris Bowen declines to offer a renewable energy target for 2035 after the Climate Change Authority projected more than 90 per cent would be needed to hit its recommended emissions target.

abc.net.au/news/2025-09-21/gov

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2025-09-18

Way more wind, solar and EVs: The mammoth challenge to reach the 2035 target
By Maani Truu and Tom Crowley

Getting to even the bottom end of the government's 62 to 70 per cent emissions reduction target by 2035 will require drastic increases to solar and wind power capacity, electric vehicle take-up and an extension of the safeguard mechanism, according to the Climate Change Authority.

abc.net.au/news/2025-09-19/the

#ClimateChange #FederalGovernment #GovernmentandPolitics #FederalParliament #EnergyPolicy #MaaniTruu #TomCrowley

2025-09-16

Australians too dependent on government, says Sussan Ley
By Tom Crowley

In her first major economic speech, the opposition leader hits out at universal subsidies and says "dependency" has affected Australia's "national character".

abc.net.au/news/2025-09-17/aus

#FederalGovernment #GovernmentandPolitics #FederalParliament #Welfare #TomCrowley

2025-09-15

Social media platforms will not be required to prove accuracy of under-16 bans
By Tom Crowley

While substantial fines would apply to social media platforms that make no effort to ban under-16s, they would not need to test the age of every user.

abc.net.au/news/2025-09-15/soc

#FederalGovernment #GovernmentandPolitics #FederalParliament #SocialMedia #InternetCulture #TomCrowley

2025-09-12

Try again on religious discrimination laws, says Islamophobia envoy
By Tom Crowley

In a landmark report, newly-appointed Aftab Malik also calls for counter-terrorism laws and approaches to be reviewed, and for national inquiries into Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism.

abc.net.au/news/2025-09-12/isl

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2025-09-10

Little hope for Labor of company tax consensus, warn economists
By Tom Crowley

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told business leaders this week he was open to reforming the tax to boost investment in a "fair and affordable" way, but there is no agreement on a clear way forward.

abc.net.au/news/2025-09-11/lab

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2025-09-10

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price unrepentant, refuses to endorse Ley as leader
By Tom Crowley

In a short press conference in Perth, the firebrand senator vows she "won't be silenced" on migration and says Sussan Ley's position is a matter for the Liberal party room.

abc.net.au/news/2025-09-10/jac

#FederalGovernment #GovernmentandPolitics #FederalParliament #TomCrowley

2025-09-06

Albanese scoffed at Morrison's secrecy. Then he copied it
By Tom Crowley

When he lashed Scott Morrison over the multiple ministries affair, Anthony Albanese said his predecessor "operated in darkness". But this week, a PM with a patchy transparency record of his own announced a plan to dim the lights.

abc.net.au/news/2025-09-07/alb

#FederalGovernment #GovernmentandPolitics #FederalParliament #TomCrowley

2025-09-04

Labor aged care reforms 'meaningful' but shy of royal commission vision, says watchdog
By Tom Crowley

The Inspector-General of aged care handed down her assessment of the government's implementation of the Aged Care Royal Commission recommendations in May, but they were tabled in parliament this week.

abc.net.au/news/2025-09-04/lab

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2025-09-04

Labor aged care reforms 'meaningful' but shy of royal commission vision, says watchdog
By Tom Crowley

The Inspector-General of aged care handed down her assessment of the government's implementation of the Aged Care Royal Commission recommendations in May, but they were tabled in parliament this week.

abc.net.au/news/2025-09-04/lab

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