Mick Foley

Sydney

Climate and Energy Correspondent at Sydney Morning Herald

Climate and Energy Correspondent at The Age

Articles

How the war between ‘watermelons’ and ‘tree-Tories’ brought down the Greens

6 days ago | smh.com.au | Matthew Knott |Mick Foley |Michael Bachelard

By Matthew Knott, Mike Foley and Michael Bachelard May 9, 2025 — 5.09am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Drew Hutton played a crucial role in the formation of the Greens – first in Queensland, then as a co-founder of the national party alongside Bob Brown.
Voters, ‘left media’ to blame for Coalition wipeout: Rinehart

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Olivia Ireland |Mick Foley

By Olivia Ireland and Mike Foley May 5, 2025 — 4.09pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Mining magnate Gina Rinehart is urging politicians to shift further to the right and adopt US President Donald Trump’s polices as she blames voters and the “left media” for the Coalition’s disastrous election result.
Nuclear fallout: Coalition’s energy policy proved toxic to voters

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Mick Foley

By Mike Foley May 5, 2025 — 12.12pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The Coalition’s nuclear energy policy was toxic to voters, delivering big swings against Peter Dutton’s candidates in electorates chosen to host reactors, while support for Labor grew in many of the places it has chosen for massive offshore wind farms.
Palmer and Hanson crash out of election despite high hopes and huge spending

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Mick Foley

By Mike Foley May 4, 2025 — 2.01pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Election night was a fizzer for Clive Palmer, whose Trumpet of Patriots party failed to elect anyone despite the mining magnate’s $50 million estimated advertising expenditure, while Coalition hopes that One Nation preferences would help it win seats were dashed.
Wannon, Gilmore, Bendigo among nation’s regional seats to watch

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Mick Foley

By Mike Foley May 3, 2025 — 10.44pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Follow our live coverage of the 2025 federal election here. Voters have swung hard to Labor in several key regional seats, delivering shock wins in Tasmania and Far North Queensland and boosting the Albanese government’s standing in the bush.
Peter Dutton, Anthony Albanese polls; Liberal Party costings revealed; AEC warns over polling station aggressive behaviour

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Angus Delaney |Olivia Ireland |Mick Foley |Tony Wright

By Mike FoleyDutton is launching into an early start on his last full day of campaigning, visiting the Adelaide Produce Market. He’s campaigning in Makin, a safe Labor seat, with Liberal candidate Irena Zagladov. While the chances of winning this seat are slim, the aim of this visit is to get Dutton’s faces splashed across media today and tomorrow as voters head to the polls. Expect to see the Coalition Leader popping up on all sides of the continent in the next 24 hours.
‘It’s not about the campaign’: Dutton bunkers down for campaign blitz

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Mick Foley |James Massola

By Mike Foley and James Massola May 1, 2025 — 7.30pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Peter Dutton has called on voters to judge the Albanese government’s record, rather than his own performance on the campaign trail, even as he launches a last-ditch blitz of marginal electorates.
Dutton promises $40b debt cut as nuclear questions grow

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Shane Wright |Mick Foley

By Shane Wright and Mike Foley April 30, 2025 — 10.30pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The Coalition will pledge to slash at least $10 billion out of budget deficits over the next four years while bringing down government debt by $40 billion amid suggestions the cost of its signature nuclear power policy will be far more expensive than it has promised.
Federal election 2025 LIVE updates: Anthony Albanese and Labor Party give $2 billion to states to build homes in Australia housing crisis, RSL disputes Peter Dutton claim on no Welcome to Country on Anzac Day

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Nick Newling |Olivia Ireland |Gabrielle Costa |Mick Foley

By Gabrielle CostaTo Melbourne’s hot seats, where it appears our yellow-vested friends are back at it in Kooyong, undeterred after being reported to the Australian Electoral Commission. Volunteers handing out anti-teal pamphlets were spotted at pre-polling in Malvern on Monday, wearing bright-yellow vests with “Community Advisor” printed on them. Are the vests intended to look like official AEC uniforms and confuse voters? We’ve certainly asked the question.
Federal election 2025 LIVE updates: Anthony Albanese v Peter Dutton leaders’ debate reaction

2 weeks ago | theage.com.au | Olivia Ireland |Nick Newling |Mick Foley |Natassia Chrysanthos

7.56amGovernment reportedly knew of Russian request before campaignBy Nick NewlingThe Australian newspaper reports this morning that the Australian government knew about a Russian request to utilise Indonesian airfields for long-range military aircraft before the election campaign began. LoadingAccording to the report, the government became aware of the request after a meeting in February between the Indonesian Minister of Defence and the Russian Secretary of the Security Council.