Tom Rabe

WA Political Correspondent at Australian Financial Review

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Anthony Albanese needs to be ‘hands-on’ to avoid WA another backlash

4 days ago | afr.com | Tom Rabe |Mark Wembridge

May 11, 2025 – 3.56pm 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 mining industry and the Western Australian government want Anthony Albanese to take a hands-on role in any overhaul of federal environment laws in Labor’s second term, to avoid a repeat of the breakdown in relations with the sector that occurred under Tania Plibersek as minister.
North Sydney Bears deal done to make team NRL’s 20th team, based in Perth

1 week ago | afr.com | Tom Rabe |Zoe Samios

May 7, 2025 – 4.10pm 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 chairman of a new NRL team based in Western Australia will be based in the state and the government will not pay a licensing fee for what will be the 20th club in the increasingly national competition.
Carney meets Trump, tells him Canada will never be for sale

1 week ago | afr.com | Lucy Slade |Tom Rabe |Paul Karp |Sumeyya Ilanbey

5 mins ago – 7.11AMCarney meets Trump, tells him Canada will never be for saleCanadian Prime Minister Mark Carney visited the White House on Tuesday for his firsttalks with Donald Trump and bluntly told the US president that Canada would never be for sale. Carney won the April 28 election on a promise to stand up to Trump, who has imposed tariffs on some Canadian products and often muses about annexing the country.
Tim Wilson ousts Zoe Daniel in Goldstein and gives the Liberals some hope against teal independents

1 week ago | afr.com | Tom Rabe |Paul Karp |Sumeyya Ilanbey

Tom Rabe, Paul Karp and Sumeyya IlanbeyMay 6, 2025 – 7.24pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Tim Wilson has ousted Zoe Daniel from her prized Melbourne seat, and in Sydney, the Liberals were on track for a second claw-back victory against a teal independent, even as the Climate 200 group flagged it would broaden its scope and bankroll more candidates in Labor territory.
Gina Rinehart laments Liberals’ fear of Trump politics

1 week ago | afr.com | Tom Rabe

Tom RabeWA political correspondentMay 5, 2025 – 5.09pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Gina Rinehart believes the Liberal Party was chased away from supporting Trump-style politics by a left-wing media campaign and has described the election rout as devastating and emotionally exhausting.
grassroots movement leader Charlotte Mortlock says Coalition must learn from the ‘kick up the arse’ voters gave it, suggests Sussan Ley as leader

1 week ago | afr.com | Ronald Mizen |Tom Rabe

May 5, 2025 – 3.22pm 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 leader of a grassroots movement focused on recruiting women into the Liberal Party says its parliamentarians would be morons to elect two men into the leadership and anything less than gender quotas for future candidates would be insulting.
Business calls for productivity push, more gas in Labor’s second term

1 week ago | afr.com | Michael Smith |Michaël Smith |Tom Rabe |Carrie LaFrenz

Michael Smith, Tom Rabe and Carrie LaFrenzMay 4, 2025 – 4.49pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Australia’s business chiefs are calling on Labor to prioritise a productivity agenda which unlocks long-term economic growth and use its strong mandate to make tough decisions on workplace reform, overhaul the tax system and remove regulatory barriers.
Basil Zempilas laments Liberal failure as teal Chaney holds Curtin

1 week ago | afr.com | Tom Rabe

Tom RabeWA political correspondentMay 4, 2025 – 12.10am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? West Australian Liberal leader Basil Zempilas says his party is no longer relevant to enough Australians and the federal opposition bungled its nuclear power policy, after the Coalition fell to a crushing election defeat.
Teal roll-back fails to materialise as Climate 200-backed independents eye four possible gains from Liberals and Labor

1 week ago | afr.com | Paul Karp |Tom Rabe

Paul Karp, Tom Rabe and Gus McCubbingMay 3, 2025 – 10.50pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? The Coalition has failed to win back its heartland back from teal independents, was behind in Bradfield and faces the possible loss of Forrest in Western Australia either to Labor or an independent.
West coast spending spirals as Liberals and teals battle for ‘the golden prize’

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Tom Rabe

Tom RabeWA political correspondentMay 1, 2025 – 7.15pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Spending by the WA Liberal Party and teal independent Kate Chaney has reached unprecedented levels in the battle for the prized seat of Curtin, with millions of dollars being poured into campaigning across Perth’s most affluent coastal suburbs.