It’s hard not to be cynical about the August productivity roundtable Anthony Albanese announced on Monday. After all, the ...

As parliament prepares to return at the end of July, 17 enthusiastic new MPs will arrive in Canberra as the face of Labor’s ...

Jim Chalmers should take up the offer of Coalition shadow treasurer James Patterson to consider genuine and substantial tax ...

The irony is remarkable. When Jim Chalmers first became Treasurer, his mentor Wayne Swan likely would have told him two ...

Kevin Rudd says he should have chosen Lindsay Tanner over Wayne Swan as treasurer and that Tanner had warned him against aligning himself with Julia Gillard. Picture: Supplied Mr Rudd is also very ...

Every lamp was turned off. I looked at the discrete plaque that read ‘Kevin Rudd. Prime Minister’. All of the ministerial wing was darkened, but for the light coming from Wayne Swan’s office. It ...

The Coalition has lashed Kevin Rudd and other Aussie diplomats ... worth of death and disability claims in a timely manner. Wayne Swan, the chair of Cbus and the former Labor treasurer, is one ...

When Kevin Rudd and Wayne Swan proposed tapping into the Future Fund to pay for the national broadband network in 2007, Peter Costello accused the pair of stealing from the future. “The first ...

Namely, a political criticism which was a lead-in to Rudd’s attacks on his Labor Party colleagues – including Wayne Swan, Don Farrell ... Former PM Kevin Rudd. This was the most recent example ...

Cbus chairman Wayne Swan pushed to attend inquiry ... Acting Prime Minister Richard Marles says US ambassador Kevin Rudd has been “doing a great job representing Australia’s interests”.

The following is an extract from Kim Carr’s new book A Long Marc h (Monash University Publishing). Factional warlord. Dominant backroom operator. Kingmaker. Just about every time my name ...

Chalmers used to be a political staffer to Wayne Swan - the sum total of his pre ... The party has given Kevin Rudd all the opportunities in the world and he wasted them with his dysfunctional ...