Phillip Coorey

Australia

Political Editor at Australian Financial Review

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

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Liberal Party gender divide over gender divide as party mulls female quotas

2 days ago | afr.com | Phillip Coorey |Sumeyya Ilanbey

The founder of a network aimed at redressing the Liberal Party’s gender imbalance has accused Tony Abbott of failing to understand the challenge faced by women, as divisions grow over how to best increase the number of female MPs.A day after Liberal leader Sussan Ley warned the party’s demise would continue unless it bolstered its ranks of women, and advocated either quotas or some other mechanism to fix the problem, shadow minister Angus Taylor voiced his opposition to quotas. Loading...
Anthony Albanese spruiks Australia’s virtues as critical minerals source

1 week ago | afr.com | Lucy Slade |Phillip Coorey |Jessica Gardner

Kananaskis| Anthony Albanese has invoked the spectre of China manipulating its stranglehold over the global supply of critical minerals as he spruiked Australia as a reliable and trustworthy alternative. Addressing an energy forum at the Group of Seven summit in Alberta, Canada, the Prime Minister said critical minerals were the new drivers of energy security.
Anthony Albanese focuses on tariffs and security ahead of meeting Donald Trump in Canada

1 week ago | afr.com | Andrew Tillett |Phillip Coorey

Canberra/Calgary | Australia will open formal talks with Europe on a defence pact and aims to deepen military ties with Canada as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese strengthens security partnerships to counter US isolationism and unpredictability, Chinese militarism, Russian aggression and fresh Middle East turmoil. As Albanese and fellow democratic leaders gather for the Group of 7 summit in Canada, they are grappling with a world that is increasingly unstable, polarised and hostile geopolitically.
Richard Marles says Australia to crash through or crash on nuclear submarine plan

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Phillip Coorey |Jessica Gardner

Canberra/Los Angeles | Defence Minister Richard Marles has dismissed calls to develop a fallback plan in case the US reneges on a deal to provide nuclear-powered submarines, saying there can be no more chopping and changing.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s National Press Club speech says Labor will deliver on its promises

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Phillip Coorey

Jun 9, 2025 – 10.30pm 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 is hosing down expectations his government is about to embark on a bold new agenda just because it has a commanding majority, saying it must first deliver on what it has already promised so as not to sabotage voter goodwill.
$3 million super tax flew below the radar, but Labor has a mandate

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Phillip Coorey

Jun 9, 2025 – 3.50pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? When voters went to the polls on or before May 3, about half, or 49 per cent, were aware of the policy to double to 30 per cent the earnings tax on superannuation balances above $3 million. Support for the policy was lower at 38 per cent, while opposition was at 25 per cent. The other 37 per cent had no view either way.
Rio Tinto pushes for ‘eye-watering’ Tomago aluminium smelter bailout

3 weeks ago | afr.com | Ryan Cropp |Phillip Coorey

Jun 6, 2025 – 8.00pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Tomago aluminium smelter, the nation’s largest electricity user, is in urgent talks to secure billions of dollars in support from the NSW and federal governments to save it from collapse due to crippling energy costs.
Critical minerals PM’s main weapon in Trump tariff talks

3 weeks ago | afr.com | Phillip Coorey

Jun 6, 2025 – 12.02pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Convincing Donald Trump that Australia can guarantee America a reliable supply of critical minerals and rare earths remains Anthony Albanese’s best option of securing an exemption from the US president’s tariff war, the government is being advised.
Jim Chalmers’ proposed new Division 296 tax on superannuation balances above $3 million is not an isolated act

3 weeks ago | afr.com | Phillip Coorey

Jun 5, 2025 – 8.00pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? One of the more disingenuous arguments Labor is mounting in defence of its proposed new Division 296 tax on superannuation balances above $3 million is that there is no need to index the threshold because another government will eventually do it.
Super tax to catch 500,000 workers if not indexed

3 weeks ago | afr.com | Phillip Coorey

Jun 5, 2025 – 8.00pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? More than 500,000 members of the current workforce, almost half of whom are under 30, will be affected by Labor’s proposed superannuation tax when they retire if the $3 million threshold is not indexed to inflation.