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🇦🇺 Hello from POLITICO Australia.

We’re here to be your guide to the people, policy fights and political dynamics shaping Canberra and its global relationships.

That starts every morning with Canberra Playbook — and the first edition is out now 🧵👇
https://t.co/ymS5aPcTUF

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You think Trump does sports diplomacy? Australia does it better. https://t.co/QXP8ixwuVY

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The federal Liberal executive committee is debate taking over its South Australian branch — a big deal for the famously federated and autonomous Libs.

More in today's Canberra Playbook👇
https://t.co/kSNt67FPEe

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Australians see AI as a risk, but not for the reasons you might think.

New polling shows that misinformation, rather than jobs and data center risks, are top of mind. https://t.co/wJriByiWlP

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Australia is pushing sporting diplomacy to new levels in the Pacific.

Canberra is turning rugby league, military recruitment and Pacific migration into tools of regional influence as it competes with Beijing.
https://t.co/PECudtxIRd

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What's the biggest story in Australian politics right now?

Our @politicoryan gives his take on that and more in a 200-second interview with @DashaBurns on what Washington should be watching in Australian politics.👇

Read the latest in Canberra Playbook: https://t.co/NYvJ4E6Xtu

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Today in Canberra: Party room meetings will progress the debate on gambling reform, while Opposition Leader Angus Taylor awaits a response on his NDIS ultimatum to PM Anthony Albanese.

Sneak peak in Canberra Playbook👇

🔗 Read & subscribe: https://t.co/40Y1lHq068

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Paul Keating brought a memo to Kirribilli House, with the key points highlighted in yellow for emphasis, for a 2-3 hour meeting with Albanese on ideas for handling China's President Xi.

He wanted Albo to agree to:
1. “engagement,” meaning greater foreign investment by China into Australia;
2. back China’s membership of the upgraded Trans-Pacific Partnership;
3. that the two countries establish a joint commission on energy and climate cooperation; and
4. Albanese tell the Chinese Australia will not “automatically dovetail in with the U.S. in the event of a war over Taiwan.”

The story in @POLITICO_AUS
https://t.co/1iiN4pnXep

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PM Anthony Albanese has increasingly turned to Paul Keating for advice on managing Australia’s relationships with China and the U.S. after his 2025 reelection.

Inside Keating’s private push to steer Albanese on China and Trump👇
https://t.co/CZIpKEr7vu

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Andy Burnham and Anthony Albanese found something few world leaders can replicate: a shared rugby league obsession.

That deep love of the sport is “one of the many reasons the friendship between our two countries runs as deep as it does," Burnham told us.
https://t.co/Tet5s8PLqE

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POLITICO launches in Australia. Read the first Canberra Playbook. https://t.co/VCGociexrf via @politicoryan @FinnianMchugh @miriamlwebber

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Paul Keating has a thing for lobbying for big changes at Kirribilli House.

In our first day at @POLITICO_AUS - we look with James Curran, his biographer, at how he coached Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on how to handle Xi Jinping and Donald Trump

https://t.co/8UBYCoLKfK

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This is just the beginning.

Follow @POLITICO_AUS to stay looped into ourreporting, scoops and analysis on Australian politics and policy — and the global forces shaping both.

See you around Canberra. 🇦🇺

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🇦🇺 Hello from POLITICO Australia.

We’re here to be your guide to the people, policy fights and political dynamics shaping Canberra and its global relationships.

That starts every morning with Canberra Playbook — and the first edition is out now 🧵👇
https://t.co/ymS5aPcTUF

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Meet the POLITICO Australia team, led by @politicoryan:

➡️ Canberra Playbook Editor @Paul_Karp

➡️ Canberra Playbook co-authors @FinnianMchugh & @miriamlwebber

Want more? You can follow all their coverage in one place, right here on X: https://t.co/HqPYzyaMOc

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@POLITICO_AUS is now live

Check out the first ever Canberra Playbook here, where we explain How Keating Coached Albo on China and Trump, and much more! https://t.co/2K3OJbMKkW

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Hello, Canberra 👋🇦🇺

 We’re getting ready to bring you the inside track on Australian politics, policy and power — every morning with Canberra Playbook.

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