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Voters have marked down Jim Chalmers’ performance as treasurer while strongly backing some of Angus Taylor’s key policies.

One in three like Labor’s budget. Taylor has other reasons to hope

Public assessment of Jim Chalmers’ performance as treasurer has fallen to its lowest level ever as business groups unleash on the May budget.

  • James Massola

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One Nation Express v Albanese’s ‘stable’ revolution: It will be a head-on crash

Australia’s political landscape is shifting fundamentally. Voters are yet to define how they want it to shape up.

  • Sean Kelly
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Urgent wake-up call for political mainstream: Don’t ignore or dismiss angry voters

Voters are not just backing One Nation as the top party in Australia, but for the first time are also backing Pauline Hanson as preferred prime minister.

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Pauline Hanson is the nation’s preferred prime minister in the most recent Resolve Political Monitor.

Voters prefer Hanson as PM. Are they prepared for her to run the country?

According to the latest Resolve Political Monitor, that’s exactly what they are asking for.

  • James Massola
Diverging fortunes … Pauline Hanson, Anthony Albanese and Angus Taylor.

Hanson overtakes Albanese as preferred PM, Coalition crashes to record low

One Nation is also now Australia’s preferred party by primary vote, overtaking Labor for the first time.

  • James Massola
Elizabeth Watt, a former employee of Australia’s peak, publicly funded women safety organisation, had to escalate a dispute to the Federal Court after being denied her job back following maternity leave.

Elizabeth worked at Australia’s top women’s safety body - until she went on mat leave

Elizabeth Watt spent years fighting the federal agency after being denied her pre-parental leave role. Her case exposes a loophole that experts say leaves mothers lagging the rest of the world.

  • Rob Harris
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Like Trump, Hanson’s rise is beyond politics. That’s why she’ll be hard to stop

She plays the suffering outsider, yet she’s an insider now, and says she could be prime minister.

  • Peter Hartcher
Pauline Hanson.

Senior Liberal warns party to stop talking about One Nation as Hanson hits back at PM

The One Nation leader posted a report about its fundraising campaign on social media after Albanese questioned its veracity, Hanson saying it proved the money was “ridgy-didge”.

  • Brittany Busch, Emily Kaine and James Massola
Orange “sponsored passes” give lobbyists access to Parliament House.

Decades of secrecy to end with Parliament House lobbyists unmasked

A major overhaul of the parliamentary pass system will force the public disclosure of business representatives roaming private corridors.

  • Rob Harris
Bill Shorten and Anthony Albanese in September.

Shorten’s Trump fears on AUKUS revealed

The former Labor leader raised concerns about the prospect of Donald Trump being elected and compromising the AUKUS deal in a cabinet meeting in 2023.

  • Paul Sakkal and Matthew Knott