Geoff Chambers

@Chambersgc

Canberra bureau chief, The Australian

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
Joined September 2009

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  1. Jan 3

    Victorian Liberal Senator Jane Hume says she is still against quotas but that the party cannot wait in getting more women into the parliamentary ranks as their policy message is “getting lost”

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  2. Jan 3

    The Liberal Party needs to announce and implement a “Liberal alternative” to getting more women in the parliamentary party now, Victorian senator Jane Hume says

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  4. Jan 3

    Scores of east coast property development sites, some able to take 400-unit apartment towers, will hit the market within months as Chinese developers crippled by a lack of finance are forced to sell

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    Jan 3

    With all the talk about mistreatment of journalists, we should not forget about Nicaragua. The Ortega dictatorship is destroying what’s left of the free press. It’s a disaster for freedom in our hemisphere.

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  6. Jan 3

    New US Ambassador expected to attend “charm school”, where he will receive a crash course on how the US State Department works and how to run an embassy, before presenting his credentials to Governor-General Peter Cosgrove in early March

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  7. Jan 3

    Former Lendlease chairman David Crawford fears there may be many more buildings across Australia with serious defects like those found in Sydney’s Opal Tower, after a recent construction boom that has seen new players flood the sector with projects

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  8. Jan 3

    Josh Frydenberg has played down a brief “flash crash” in the dollar, which plunged to its lowest level in a decade briefly yesterday amid broader fears of an economic slowdown in China that could have the potential to hurt the local economy

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  9. Jan 3

    Josh Frydenberg has defended the prudential intervention in the housing market as having opened opportunities for first-home buyers, as he described Labor’s negative gearing proposals as “ill-suited for the times”

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  10. Jan 3

    NSW Liberal moderate Jason Falinski calls for an overhaul of the party’s candidate selection process to ensure more females enter parliament

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  11. Jan 3

    Frontbencher Sussan Ley has urged the NSW Libs to introduce quotas “as soon as possible” to boost the number of female MPs and fix an image problem, warning that the party’s low representation of women in parliament is putting off potential candidates

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  12. Jan 3

    Australia will fall behind emerging nations in major international sports over the next decade unless there is a “material increase” in corporate and government funding, the nation’s peak sporting chief has warned

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  13. Jan 3

    The nation’s new aged-care enforcer, Janet Anderson, has said she will target providers that show a pattern of abuses and compliance breaches and consider forcing them to publish staffing ratios

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  14. Jan 3

    A Greens bill banning thermal coalmining in Queensland’s Galilee Basin could increase global carbon emissions, the Mineral Council of Australia says

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  15. Jan 3

    Westpac chair Lindsay Maxsted has warned that a rising tide of banking regulation, ­including excessive restrictions on new loans in the wake of the royal commission, is tightening credit and causing the pace of lending to homeowners and businesses to slow

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  16. Jan 2

    Arthur Culvahouse Jr — a man with direct links to the White House — will make his way to Canberra after the US Senate approved his nomination to become America’s ambassador to Australia

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  17. Jan 2

    Female Liberal MPs are joining forces to shift any negative perception of the party’s treatment of women ahead of the federal election, with Nicolle Flint speaking out for the first time since the leadership spill to reject claims of a bullying culture

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  18. Jan 2

    Figures released today ­reveal tariffs have now been eliminated for 5418 Australian products under the Chinese FTA and for a further 10,872 products under the Korean FTA. Trade between Australia and China grew 11.7 per cent to $194.62 billion in 2017-18

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  19. Jan 2

    Trade Minister Simon Birmingham has launched an attack on union-backed changes to Labor’s trade policy, warning that Bill Shorten could put lucrative free-trade deals “in serious jeopardy”

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  20. Jan 2

    Donald Trump’s pick for the next US ambassador to Australia, Arthur Culvahouse Jr, could be appointed today but the partial government shutdown has triggered fears the US Senate may not vote on his nomination for several weeks

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