Mike Seccombe

6 days 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.

1 week 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.

3 weeks 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.

1 month 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.

1 month 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.