politics

A messy week of debate on migration has now drawn in the Coalition after Opposition Leader Angus Taylor left the door open to cuts to the refugee intake, a day after his frontbench colleague said humanitarian visas would not be touched. Source link

Australia is in a “sliding doors” moment with a chance to negotiate a bigger share of the AI boom in exchange for building data centres. Source link

Opposition Leader Angus Taylor has left the door open to reducing Australia’s annual refugee intake below the current number of 20,000. Follow live.  Source link

Securing a UN Security Council seat would cap the Albanese government’s international efforts.  Source link

An unlikely alliance of left and right politicians fails to block an expansion of spy agency powers that would allow it to question people in secret. Source link

The Albanese government had a turbulent week with tussles over data centres and division within the Labor party over its humanitarian intake. Source link

The Albanese government’s plans to slash more than 6,000 places from its annual refugee intake have sparked anger and confusion within Labor, and prompted accusations it would amount to an “extraordinary betrayal” of the party’s rank and file members. Source link

The prime minister says getting information out of Nepal is “difficult” following a deadly flood that has killed more than 150 people. Follow live. Source link

As is so often the case in Australia, the politics came down to a fight over energy. Source link

For more than half a century, this Ford manufacturing plant was known as the home of the iconic Falcon. Now there is a proposal to turn it into a giant data centre and locals are worried. Source link