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Nick Newling

Nick Newling

Nick Newling is a federal politics reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.

Treasurer Dr Jim Chalmers and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during parliament this week.

Labor looks to housing supply after budget criticism as PM questioned on broken promises

Anthony Albanese, probed about his overhaul of negative gearing and the CGT discount, said the need to “deliver real change for the better” justified changes.

  • Paul Sakkal, Shane Wright and Nick Newling

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Senator Pauline Hanson and Barnaby Joyce in Parliament House on Wednesday.

One Nation MPs caught in back-to-back ‘train wreck’ housing interviews

The inclusion of permanent residents in One Nation’s foreign home ownership policy needed clarification after a series of confused interviews on Thursday and Friday.

  • Nick Newling and Emily Kaine
Donald Trump has been daring lawmakers to defy him and doing his best to vanquish them from office if they do.

Anti-slavery tsar says Trump tariff a distraction from human rights issues

Anti-slavery commissioner Chris Evans said the Trump administration had conducted a “show trial” before proposing its new tariff.

  • Matthew Knott and Nick Newling
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg “personally authorised and actively encouraged the infringement”, the lawsuit alleges.

Labor holds firm on plan to make tech giants pay for news as Meta attacks

The government is pressing ahead with its plan to make tech giants fund journalism, shrugging off Meta’s claim it amounts to a “discriminatory tax”.

  • David Swan, Calum Jaspan and Nick Newling
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said the US has an “ideological difference” on trade relations.

Trump’s newest tariffs are ‘unjustified’, says Albanese

The prime minister defended the government’s anti-slavery response, the justification of the US’s latest tranche of tariffs

  • Nick Newling
One Nation had a new member sworn in to parliament on Tuesday. If polling holds at the next election, they would welcome a dozen more senators.

‘Be humble’: Joyce’s warning for One Nation as polling surge threatens to reshape parliament

The party could quadruple its representation in the Senate, a polling analysis reveals, but the conservative bloc may fall short of holding power.

  • Nick Newling
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One Nation leader Pauline Hanson said she has ‘the ability’ to be prime minister.

Joyce thanks Labor for One Nation poll surge as Hanson says she’s up for PM

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has declared she is fit to serve as prime minister after turning 72 last week, as polling showed Labor falling behind One Nation.

  • James Massola, Nick Newling and Emily Kaine
X-Rays that show the medical condition of Hodan Abby’s nine-year-old daughter.

Medical condition of last child from IS-linked group revealed as NSW asks for funding

The records are expected to form part of Hodan Abby’s bid to return home after the rest of the cohort arrived in Australia in controversial circumstances.

  • Mostafa Rachwani and Nick Newling
Ali France, member for Dickson, in the House of Representatives.

Labor MP referred to AEC over claim she’s enrolled at vacant plot of land

Member for Dickson Ali France, who unseated Peter Dutton at the last election, has been referred to the AEC.

  • Nick Newling
Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has criticised his old party for chasing One Nation votes.

Turnbull endorses teal party as Ryan, Chaney rule themselves out

The former prime minister said the Liberals had left a political vacuum by tacking too far to the right.

  • Nick Newling and Brittany Busch