Launch editor @POLITICO_AUS. You know me from @axios, AI Leadership Lab, @EU_Commission and @UKgovcomms 🏳️🌈 🇦🇺 🇧🇪
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Late to my own news here: I'm re-joining @politico, to launch the company into Australia.
We're heading heading Down Under🇦🇺 first with a Canberra Playbook.
More here politico.com/blogs/politico-…
How to watch the US midterms like a pro
politico.eu/newsletter/forec…
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New @CookPolitical: our final Senate ratings are live. We're projecting a Dem gain of 3-6 seats, and #MISEN moves from Toss Up to Lean D. Full analysis by @JessicaTaylor: cookpolitical.com/analysis/s…
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Anthony Albanese has defended his trip to the Caribbean after joining King Charles III and mining billionaire Andrew Forrest aboard Fortescue’s Green Pioneer vessel via @caitlynrintoul thewest.com.au/politics/fede…
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OFFICIAL NEW YORK TIMES LIST OF THE BIGGEST MIDTERMS DONORS:
1. Elon Musk, $446 million
2. Dick + Liz Uihlein, $150 million
3. One Nation, $138 million
4. Marc Andreessen + Ben Horowitz, $116 million
5. Jeff Yass, $110 million
6. Majority Forward, $104 million
7. George + Alex Soros, $103 million
8. House Majority Forward, $97 million
9. Mike Bloomberg, $85 million
10. Ripple Labs + Chris Larsen, $73 million
11. Miriam Adelson, $68 million
12. American Action Network, $64 million
13. Coinbase, $55 million
14. Paul Singer, $54 million
15. Cameron + Tyler Winklevoss, $53 million
16. Greg + Anna Brockman, $50 million
17. American Prosperity Alliance, $48 million
18. Koch Inc., $47 million
19. Reid Hoffman, $42 million
20. Economic Opportunity Fund, $42 million
Will Trump lash out is an expected midterms drubbing occurs? politico.eu/article/allies-f…
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CHOGM and the Commonwealth are a right royal mess.
My piece in @TheNightlyAU: latika.me/4eejuwS
Democrats have been here before ... but whoah
NEWS: The last Senate polls of 2026 from NYT/Siena:
From me and @RuthIgielnik
nytimes.com/2026/11/01/us/po…
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More Liberals call on their old party to pass the EU trade deal.
The rural National Party has led the Coalition's opposition to the agreement.
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Australian Labor’s free-market turn risks a backlash fueled by nostalgia
politico.com/news/2026/10/29…
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New @CSIS @AustraliaChair article by @WarintheFuture.
One of the most important elements of modern warfare is “fast following”-the deliberate practice of observing an innovation proven by someone else, then copying, improving, and fielding it at speed. @WarintheFuture here on rebuilding a Western edge in learning & adaptation through the systemic incorporation of fast following:
csis.org/analysis/fast-follo…
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A number of good reasons offered in this article to cast doubt on the transfer of Virginia-class submarines to Australia. Yet it's all couched in curiously upbeat terms... theaustralian.com.au/special…
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Australia's per capita economy is worse than it appears.
As the composition of the population changes over time, children become a smaller and smaller proportion of the population.
This effectively results in children being replaced proportionally by working age people, who overwhelmingly have jobs or welfare payments to fund their consumption.
If you divide total GDP by the working age population, not the entire population, it presents an even worse picture of the last four years than the headline per capita figure.
It also further reveals the gulf between the pre-GFC era economy when it worked for the average person and the post-GFC era where it really hasn't.
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In today's @POLITICO_AUS Canberra Playbook
— Departments to front AI inquiry promising “inclusive growth”
— Zoe McKenzie contrasts colleagues’ blokefest EU trade deal press conference
— PM drives One Nation wedge with staffing offer to David Farley
politico.com/newsletters/can…
Christine Lagarde avoids Ruth Bader Ginsburg's tactical error ... and gives herself a way to run for French President
politico.eu/article/ecb-pres…
How Labor became the last party standing defending neoliberalism - great insights from @Paul_Karp politico.com/news/2026/10/29…
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🏗️ Nine storeys, assembled in just 5 days. That’s what modular construction has achieved in Melbourne.
At @ASBEC1 I argued that factory-built housing can help Australia build homes faster and more affordably.
Better building methods mean more homes for Australians andrewleigh.com/speech_build… #auspol
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Taxation Commissioner Rob Heferen admitted he wrongly assumed those who used their credit card to pay their tax bill were financially struggling buff.ly/Edx89tl
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I’ve covered dozens if not hundreds of Trump rallies and I can’t recall him ever holding one in a room as small as this arena in Chillicothe, Ohio. It’ll be packed and loud- but maybe 1000 people will fit.
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For the economic illiterates out there, here's the maths.
Tobacco makes up 1.87% of the CPI basket.
Based on ABS data, the price of illegal ciggies are about 70% lower than the legal ones.
With around 80% of sales the illegal product, the actual price paid by smokers is around 60% lower than the ABS CPI figure
1.87 x 60 = 1.122
If the ABS had moved to use the actual price paid in September (which is said it will not do), tobacco would cut 1.12ppts from the CPI, so instead of headline inflation being 4.34%, it would be 3.22%
