Yesterday
Political poison: Unions, the Labor Party and the CFMEU
With an election due within a year, the CFMEU scandal will be an issue that dogs Labor and the unions all the way to polling day.
- Ronald Mizen
Is the CFMEU the reason none of your friends can buy a house?
Experts say sheer union bargaining power has helped to push wages up across the entire construction industry, and that is filtering through to property prices.
- Lucy Dean
Why Jacinta Allan is so exposed by the CFMEU scandal
The Victorian premier’s deep roots in the union movement place her on the front line of fallout from the scandal enveloping the CFMEU.
- Patrick Durkin and Gus McCubbing
This Month
- Opinion
- US election
Democrats know that this fight is done
No matter how much Joe Biden points to falling inflation and violent crime rates and rising real wages, too many voters are looking in the other direction.
- Jennifer Hewett
How Donald Trump went from pariah to political saviour
The former president was in the wilderness not much more than a year ago, but now he is back. The seven battleground states will be the ultimate judge.
- Matthew Cranston
The Trump family: who is up, who is down, and where is Melania?
Ex-president’s wife and daughter Ivanka fade into the background as Republican National Convention chair Lara takes the limelight.
- Lauren Fedor
- Investigation
- Building Bad
Bikies, underworld figures and the CFMEU takeover of construction
‘It’s a cancer that spreads ... we’ll all pay for it’: This is the investigation into CFMEU power that prompted union boss John Setka to quit.
- Nick McKenzie, David Marin-Guzman and Ben Schneiders
- Analysis
- US election
Why Biden’s biggest threat is from his own party
There has been no more critical moment for his presidency than the attacks on him by powerful Democrats. It’s one major fight he looks at imminent risk of losing.
- Jennifer Hewett
The unmasking of Chinese hacking group APT40
The group that hit the headlines this week is just one part of a vast hacking machine that operates far beyond China.
- Jessica Sier
This place decriminalised drugs. It didn’t go well
The policy was introduced in British Columbia as a way of alleviating the opioid crisis. But scenes of people openly using drugs on city streets and soaring deaths have sparked a fierce backlash.
- Vjosa Isai
Biden’s go-to playbook is failing and so might NATO
The internationalist playbook isn’t working this time, after a dismal presidential debate performance against rival Donald Trump in front of 50 million Americans last month unveiled a feeble president.
- Matthew Cranston
Putin is meeting a lot of world leaders for a ‘global outcast’
In the two months since he began his fifth presidential term in May, Vladimir Putin has held more than 20 meetings with leaders. He has also made six foreign visits.
- Henry Meyer
- Analysis
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
The Muslim vote was a disaster for Starmer and could be for Albanese
An analysis of the 23 seats in the UK where Muslim Vote candidates opposed Labour, resulted in an unmitigated disaster for the party. Repeated here, it would be a wipeout for Labor in western Sydney.
- John Black
Fault lines: The growing divide threatening our society
Labor senator Fatima Payman’s resignation from the party highlights a schism between Muslims and the major parties. At risk is Australia’s multicultural ethos.
- Andrew Tillett, Tom Rabe and Gus McCubbing
Labour’s sweeping victory in Britain is terrible news for Peter Dutton
The UK general election was fought over problems that are familiar to many Australian voters, which is why the outcome looks bad for the Coalition.
- Aaron Patrick
‘In a nosedive’: Can Biden last in the election race?
Democrats were hoping the month of June would totally change the trajectory of Biden’s campaign. It has, just not the way they wanted it to.
- Matthew Cranston
The war in Gaza is dividing Australians. Business is worried
Paul Bassat says Australia is fighting a “war of ideas” and losing; John Mullen says business people are too scared to say what they really think and Rod Eddington fears multiculturalism is under threat.
- Patrick Durkin
How London turned against the Tories
London might be the home of the professional and business elite but the UK election result effectively shut the Tories out of the English capital.
- Mark Ludlow
June
How the Greens went from tree huggers to angry culture warriors
With polls showing Labor could be on track to lose its lower house majority at next year’s federal election, the Greens have a chance at gaining real influence.
- Tom McIlroy
The secret breakthroughs that freed Assange
Legal proceedings against the notorious whistleblower ended after a long and delicate fight in the highest offices on three continents.
- Andrew Tillett
