This Month
Payman announces ‘a party for all’, but wants alignment on Israel-Gaza
Candidates for the new party called Australia’s Voice would have “value alignment” with Senator Fatima Payman, including their stance on the Israel-Gaza conflict.
- Ronald Mizen
September
Palmer-proof election donations reform plan looms
Labor is close to finalising plans to overhaul Australia’s electoral laws, including new rules for real-time political donation disclosures.
- Tom McIlroy
July
Tim Wilson rattles the can to rich Sydneysiders
The former Liberal MP has told prospective interstate donors “I refuse to die” in his battle to win back Goldstein.
- Mark Di Stefano
Palmer accuses CITIC of contract breach with 3000 jobs in balance
The Chinese conglomerate has dismissed Clive Palmer’s claims as absurd in the latest twist in a bitter legal battle over an $18 billion WA mine.
- Brad Thompson
Judge backs CITIC claim that 3000 jobs at risk in Clive Palmer dispute
A WA Supreme Court judge says the mine that represents China’s biggest investment on Australian soil could have to shut down within a few years.
- Brad Thompson
June
- Analysis
- Culture wars
In Australia, Tucker Carlson finds a new enemy: the ABC
The right-wing commentator wrongly accused the ABC of criticising him, in another example of how on society’s fringe the market for alternate realities runs strong.
- Aaron Patrick
Palmer confident on $40b coal damages claim
Billionaire Clive Palmer says his Singapore business could take the Commonwealth to the cleaners over a stalled coal project in Queensland’s Galilee Basin.
- Brad Thompson
Clive Palmer’s private jet picks up Tucker Carlson
The mining billionaire’s plane picked up a pain from Maine.
- Updated
- Myriam Robin
Litigation lover Clive Palmer sues James Shipton
After spending millions pursuing the former ASIC chairman with newspaper ads, the Rich Lister has come back for more.
- Updated
- Myriam Robin
May
Palmer says billionaires like him shouldn’t get a break on bills
The Rich Lister, who is eligible for the power bill rebate on several of his homes, says the money would be better spent on households that desperately need it.
- Campbell Kwan and Bonnie Campbell
China’s biggest mine on Aussie soil makes $820m profit
Chinese conglomerate CITIC made a profit of almost $820 million on magnetite operations in WA that it says are under threat because billionaire Clive Palmer refuses to hand over more land.
- Brad Thompson
April
Ramsay Foundation splashed $7m on failed Voice campaign
Rich Listers, major charitable foundations and big corporates spent millions on last year’s Indigenous referendum.
- Tom McIlroy
March
Clive Palmer reaps $447m in royalties from Chinese adversaries
Rich Lister Clive Palmer says he is confident of success with massive damages claim against the federal and WA governments, and will stand his ground in a separate legal dispute with one of China’s biggest conglomerates.
- Updated
- Brad Thompson
Advance lobby group the ‘biggest loser’ from Dunkley byelection
Pollsters say that while the Dunkley byelection was not a write-off for the Liberal Party, it was a brutal result for the credibility of lobby group Advance.
- Gus McCubbing
- Analysis
- Byelection
Dunkley a triumph of expectation over hope for Liberals
Anthony Albanese put his neck on the line to win Dunkley and has been vindicated. For the Libs, it was neither tragedy nor triumph.
- Phillip Coorey
February
‘I love Gold Coast property’: Clive Palmer on $28m beachfront buy
Billionaire mining magnate and former Gold Coast real estate agent Clive Palmer has reset the region’s residential record with a $28 million Mermaid Beach buy.
- Bonnie Campbell
- Opinion
- Private schools
Working women swing to Labor – and to private schools
As soon as families can afford it, they have been switching to independent schools. No amount of public money is likely to reverse that soon.
- John Black
CITIC slashes WA iron ore volumes after feud with Clive Palmer
The Chinese conglomerate warns iron ore jobs are at risk as it runs out of patience in a battle with the maverick billionaire.
- Brad Thompson
November 2023
Parliament needs more politicians, committee finds
A federal committee recommends capping campaign spending and cutting the threshold for reporting political donations, as well as more Senators for ACT and NT.
- Tom McIlroy
October 2023
Court rejects Palmer appeal over tick for Yes
Clive Palmer argued that a tick should be treated the same as an “X” on a ballot paper - an informal vote,
- Michael Pelly
