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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

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Treasurer Jim Chalmers.

Chalmers mocks Taylor for ‘failing upwards’ in most impassioned defence of budget yet

The Treasurer has justified his contentious tax changes on the basis that “not everybody is born already at the top of the ladder like Angus Taylor”.

  • Shane Wright
Some investors may move out of short-term rentals such as Airbnb due to the government’s property tax changes.

The short-term stay that tax reform may make permanent

The short-term rental market may be shaken up by the federal government’s property tax changes, with investors looking back to permanent rentals.

  • Shane Wright
Treasurer Jim Chalmers.

Capital gains tax outcry is sad and predictable, fuelled by vested interests. This is a bold push for change

As sure as night follows day, within a few months the predictions of doomsday currently dominating sections of our media will have proved to be illusory.

  • Graeme Samuel
Jim Chalmers and Anthony Albanese need to finagle the budget bill through the Senate.

Chalmers eyes old CGT for start-ups, as Labor MPs say budget politics being won at auctions

Labor MPs in key inner-city marginal seats say younger voters in the street and at less-competitive auctions are giving the government credit for its tax overhaul.

  • Paul Sakkal
While de-growther “logic” is unlikely to lead to a wholesale change to modern economies, it does threaten some of the more promising avenues for economic growth and the human flourishing that growth enables. Like data centres.

‘We’ll miss the AI boom’: Nation’s top scientists warn of missed opportunity

As the nation grapples with how to extract economic uplift from AI investment, 640 of Australia’s top researchers have united.

  • Paul Sakkal
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Opposition Leader Angus Taylor and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese ahead of Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra on Monday 2 March 2026. fedpol Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

Taylor blames Albanese’s budget for plummeting Coalition vote as One Nation surges

After a fourth poll showed One Nation inching ahead of Labor, Angus Taylor told this masthead that Labor’s budget had “further eroded trust in the political system”.

  • Paul Sakkal
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

Disunity is death, but here’s why more friendly fire might help the PM

The “sheep” on Labor’s backbench will become lambs to the slaughter if they can’t find their voice before the next election.

  • James Massola
Treasurer Dr Jim Chalmers and Opposition Leader Angus Taylor walk past each other during a division on Thursday.

Coalition and Greens put Labor’s major budget bills in limbo

The Senate could team up to derail Labor’s agenda, with the Coalition seeking a longer tax inquiry while the Greens want more time to investigate sweeping changes to the NDIS.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos and Shane Wright