Mike Seccombe

Australia

National Correspondent at The Saturday Paper

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Articles

Murray Watt’s first task as environment minister

2 weeks ago | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Mike Seccombe

News Murray Watt, known for his effectiveness, is confident he can deliver long-delayed environmental reform. His first and most consequential task is the ‘carbon bomb’ project awaiting approval. By Mike Seccombe. SHARE Copy Link Bluesky Facebook X LinkedIn Murray Watt’s appointment as environment minister gives Kelly O’Shanassy a measure of hope.
How will Larissa Waters reshape the Greens?

3 weeks ago | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Mike Seccombe

News Larissa Waters won the Greens leadership without a formal vote, with party sources emphasising she will represent a reset from the party’s obstructionist image. By Mike Seccombe. SHARE Copy Link Bluesky Facebook X LinkedIn The new leader of the Greens, Larissa Waters, seems nice. She’s certainly well-credentialled, holding degrees in both science and law, the latter with honours.
And the Bandt played out: Inside the Greens result

4 weeks ago | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Mike Seccombe

Greens leader Adam Bandt has lost his seat. At 2.15 on Thursday afternoon he held a media conference to announce he had just called Sarah Witty, his Labor opponent for the seat of Melbourne, to concede defeat. Almost 24 hours earlier, ABC election analyst Antony Green had called the result, but Bandt held back, in the hope that absent and declaration votes, which broke solidly to him in 2022, would do so again.
Where the election will be won and lost

1 month ago | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Mike Seccombe

The Albanese government will be returned with an increased majority, there will be an expanded cross bench in the parliament, and the Liberal Party will win the lowest proportion of seats in the house since its foundation in 1944. This is the prediction of Paul Smith, director of public affairs and public data for YouGov, on the basis of the company’s final poll before today’s election, released late on Wednesday night.
‘Devastating’: Inside the Liberals’ One Nation deal

1 month ago | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Mike Seccombe

News After decades of principled condemnation, the Liberal Party has done sweeping preference deals with One Nation and Family First. By Mike Seccombe. SHARE Copy Link Bluesky Facebook X LinkedIn Just days out from the 1996 election, Jim Barron, then Queensland state director of the Liberal Party, decided he had to disendorse one of the party’s candidates.
Examining the foundations of Labor, Coalition housing policy

1 month ago | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Mike Seccombe

Peter Dutton failed to anticipate the obvious question on Monday, when he trotted his son out to speak to the media about the high cost of housing. Harry, 20, a second-year apprentice, told the reporters gathered at a real estate development in Brisbane that despite “saving like mad”, he saw no prospect of getting into the housing market “in the near future”. It’s a common story, to which millions of other would-be home owners might relate, except in one regard.
The Coalition’s bright idea on gas

1 month ago | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Mike Seccombe

This week, before the release of the economic analysis underlying the opposition’s election promise to reserve more gas for domestic consumers, Danny Price predicted how the gas industry would respond. “What’s going to happen,” said Price, the principal of Frontier Economics, who did the opposition’s modelling, “is the gas producers are all going to catastrophise. “They’ll say there will be an investment freeze.
Inside story: How Albanese’s late election sent the teals broke

2 months ago | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Mike Seccombe

News Independent campaigns were structured around an April 12 election – and the decision to go later has added roughly $250,000 to required spending in each seat. By Mike Seccombe. SHARE Copy Link Bluesky Facebook X LinkedIn Ben Smith is more or less out of money.
Polling shows teals support is growing in Coalition base

2 months ago | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Mike Seccombe

The electorate of Cowper on the New South Wales Mid North Coast is National Party territory. Except for two years in the early 1960s when Labor briefly took over, Cowper has been held by members of the Nationals – or their previous iteration, the Country Party – for more than a century. In the past 60 years it has been represented by just four MPs, all men, all Nats. At the 2022 election, though, something extraordinary happened.
Greens fight over trans rights and free speech

2 months ago | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Mike Seccombe

Bob Brown calls Drew Hutton a hero and an icon, the “driving force” behind the establishment of the Greens. Over decades, Hutton worked to build a movement, first as co-founder of the Queensland Greens, then with Brown in the formation of the national party. Later he worked to unite conservationists and farmers against fossil fuel miners in the Lock the Gate Alliance.