Jason Koutsoukis
Special Correspondent at The Saturday Paper
former @NikkeiAsia opinion editor.
Articles
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2 weeks ago |
thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Jason Koutsoukis
Tony Abbott was en route to Hungary to address a think tank backed by Viktor Orbán’s right-wing government when he made the call: he wanted Northern Territory Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price brought into the Liberal Party fold. It was May 8, just days after the Coalition’s devastating election loss.
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3 weeks ago |
thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Jason Koutsoukis
About three months out from the election, Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles summoned senior Labor Right powerbrokers to a closed-door meeting where they settled how the faction would handle the ministerial vacancy created by Bill Shorten’s exit from politics. “Albo had said to Marles, ‘Look, I don’t really want a messy fight over his replacement. Can the Vic Right do me a favour?’ ” one Victorian Labor Right source tells The Saturday Paper.
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1 month ago |
thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Jason Koutsoukis
On Monday night, standing under fluorescent lights at Gladesville Sporties, a popular local sports club and restaurant in the Labor-held Sydney seat of Bennelong, Peter Dutton delivered a full-throated endorsement of his candidate, Scott Yung. This was no ordinary stop. Bennelong is sacred Liberal ground – the former seat of John Howard, Dutton’s political hero, who has returned to the trail this election to campaign hard for Dutton’s leadership.
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1 month ago |
thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Jason Koutsoukis
News The opposition leader and his prospective treasurer are among the richest people to ever sit in parliament – although their wealth is held in a series of complex arrangements that would breach the ministerial code. By Jason Koutsoukis. SHARE Copy Link Bluesky Facebook X LinkedIn If Peter Dutton wins next Saturday’s election, one of his earliest tests will be whether to keep Labor’s ministerial code of conduct.
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2 months ago |
thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Jason Koutsoukis
Peter Dutton’s election campaign is faltering just as momentum should be building, fuelling growing unease inside the Coalition that his abrasive image and perceived ideological closeness to Donald Trump is pushing away the swing voters he needs to win.
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