Phillip Coorey

Australia

Political Editor at Australian Financial Review

Political Editor, Australian Financial Review https://t.co/fQsd73PGRj

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Ley might not save the Liberal Party, but she won’t die wondering

1 week ago | afr.com | Phillip Coorey

Typically, when a leader conducts a reshuffle, he or she calls those who have been shifted or won promotion. The rest wait in vain for the phone to ring. This time, Sussan Ley said she rang all 54 members of her caucus – winners, losers and the overlooked – because “everyone has a role to play, even if they are not formally in the line-up”. Loading...
Sussan Ley purges Peter Dutton’s frontbench in shadow ministry overhaul

1 week ago | afr.com | Phillip Coorey

May 28, 2025 – 5.55pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Liberal leader Sussan Ley has moved swiftly to stamp her authority over the opposition with a frontbench overhaul weighted towards rewarding loyalists and moderates, and which includes nine new members of the shadow cabinet.
Super tax ‘shows Treasurer Jim Chalmers is ignoring history’

1 week ago | afr.com | Phillip Coorey |Michael Read

May 27, 2025 – 6.07pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Critics of the government’s $3 million superannuation tax have accused Treasurer Jim Chalmers of failing to learn from history, given Labor had to backflip a decade ago on the taxation of employee share ownership schemes because it was killing investment in start-ups.
Jacinta Price at risk of relegation in new shadow ministry

1 week ago | afr.com | Phillip Coorey

May 27, 2025 – 4.17pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber?
Barnaby Joyce, Michael McCormack face exile on the backbench

1 week ago | afr.com | Phillip Coorey

May 26, 2025 – 5.40pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Former Nationals leaders Barnaby Joyce and Michael McCormack are set to be excluded from the shadow ministry that will be announced this week after the Nationals and Liberals agreed to reform the Coalition following a brief civil war.
Anthony Albanese was a Labor vote driver, says post-election survey

1 week ago | afr.com | Phillip Coorey

May 26, 2025 – 12.51pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Anthony Albanese was a greater incentive for people to vote Labor than Peter Dutton was for those who chose Liberal, according to a breakdown of voting patterns at the May 3 federal election.
Coalition to rejoin forces but knives out for David Littleproud

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Phillip Coorey

May 23, 2025 – 6.13pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? The Liberal Party has agreed in principle to a set of watered-down policy demands by the Nationals, paving the way for the Coalition to be restored within days.
‘I don’t think John Howard has met these Nats’

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Phillip Coorey

May 23, 2025 – 2.55pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? On Thursday, an hour before David Littleproud agreed to reconsider his decision to abandon the Coalition, the Nationals leader was preparing to unveil a frontbench of his own.
Sussan Ley’s Liberals should do a deal on nature-positive environment laws, even if there’s no Coalition

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Phillip Coorey

This week’s nightmare, otherwise known as the Victorian state budget, was a timely reminder of how bad a government can become in the prolonged absence of a decent opposition. Although the Victorian Liberals have begun to lift their game, they rendered themselves unelectable for much of the past decade with their selfish squabbles and idiotic culture wars, while Labor, first under Dan Andrews and then Jacinta Allan, seamlessly managed the place into economic oblivion. Loading...
Sussan Ley is talking to Nationals includig Barnaby Joyce about resolving the breakup with the Liberals quickly

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Phillip Coorey

May 22, 2025 – 9.46am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Liberal leader Sussan Ley is reaching out to senior Nationals who opposed the decision to abandon the Coalition in a bid to bring about a reconciliation, or at least pave the way for one down the track.