News Articles for Penny Wong

Investigations by Victoria's Fraud Squad may put even further pressure on the prime minister's position.

The prime minister's warning about a tough budget outlook have wide implications; they apply to state and federal governments, now and into the future.

We can expect the battle for the soul of the Labor Party to be waged furiously after what seems like an inevitable election loss in September.

Factions aren't at the heart of Labor's problem but rather the failure to allow for dissenting votes.

Martin Ferguson is not a baby, but when the Federal Resources Minister let slip an obvious fact last week, that: “the resources boom is over”, it was a classic example of the old saying about truth

Time's running out for federal Labor to change course.

Treasurer Wayne Swan has described his fifth federal budget, to be delivered this evening with a forecast $1.5 billion surplus, as one for the "battlers".

The Labor Party just ain't what it used to be.

The federal government has established a manufacturing industry taskforce that includes seven politicians, six unionists, two academics and one business lobbyist along with six industry executives.

Labor's McKell Institute is a worthy idea, but not the only way to effect change.

Some big political calls are to be made as we rush towards a carbon tax.

Federal Labor needs to rethink its approach if it is to survive beyond the next decade or two.

Expect to hear a lot more from miners about their social contribution in coming months.

Wanton waste and excess are all-too common among our politican overlords.

Modern Labor bears little resemblance to the party founded more than 100 years ago.

Revealing emails set to shift the climate change debate.

The Labour Party has shifted a long way from its traditional base

The voices of dissent over what's accepted as climate science are getting louder.

Ordinary Australians will bear the brunt of the government's proposed ETS.

There's been a lot of talk, but not much action, from Rudd-led Labor.

The federal government has quashed Rio Tinto's push for the government to consider nuclear power as a way to meet climate change targets.

WA Labor needs to act quickly to secure its future, independent from east-coast powerbrokers.

The Chamber of Commerce and Industry WA and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy say the federal government's economic modelling of its proposed emissions trading scheme has confirmed their concerns about the scheme and its impact on the state.

Early action to tackle climate change will reduce gross national product by just a tenth of a per cent a year, with the economy continuing to grow strongly, the federal government says.

The first in-depth assessment of Kevin Rudd's Australia 2020 Summit has been published.

There's an elephant in the room. Whether it's a public forum or a boardroom discussion, if the topic is climate change or lower emissions or the pricing of carbon, there it is - big and hard to miss, but somehow going unnoticed.

A Perth sustainability expert believes the potential business opportunities created under an emissions trading scheme (ETS) would outweigh the risk of crippling Australia's economy.

The Canberra controversies of broadband pork barrelling, poorly behaved unionists and the budget surplus were blown out of the water this week by a new policy on remote indigenous communities, while Neale Fong's email history had a similar effect in WA.

Visitors have been causing trouble in State and Federal Parliaments this week, with door-knocking union bosses, high-rollers at Kirribilli House and lost couriers at WA's Parliament all gatecrashing debate, while Holly Deane-Johns remains uninvited.