Treasurer Jim Chalmers has hit out at the Greens and said he hoped the party had “learnt” from the “mistake” of opposing Labor’s emissions trading scheme in 2009.
The federal election may hinge on a new crossbench of professional women in wealthy inner-city seats and a rural revolt against the Nationals It will top 35 degrees today in the northern Victorian town of Stanhope, population around 800 and shrinking fast.
A political ‘Game of Thrones’ prevented Australia from having a credible energy policy and complicated its management of a souring relationship with China as tech companies led a corporate makeover.
Galloping Chinese demand for our resources transformed the Australian economy in the first 10 years of the new millennium, but the GFC and end-of-decade political turmoil put the country on edge.