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Wayne Swan
June 2024
‘I felt your pain’: Wayne Swan criticises Labor’s ‘future gas’ strategy in address to party activists
Exclusive: ALP president and former treasurer tells environment group he shared their disappointment over the contentious pre-budget announcement
June 2020
Wayne Swan warns against Labor bloodletting as focus moves to MP Anthony Byrne
Federal ALP president says acts of revenge are ‘entirely counterproductive’, after leaked texts further tarnish party’s image
May 2020
Already in this crisis we are slipping into over-optimism about the economy and over-pessimism about debt
Wayne Swan
Deep recessions have long shadows and already there is a gaping hole opening up in our pandemic response
February 2020
Morrison a ‘predatory’ centrist on climate policy with no plans for meaningful emissions reduction, says Swan
Labor president says party must work against PM’s PR strategy and get on with ‘solving the bloody problem’
December 2019
Breaking up social media giants an option to deal with misinformation, Labor says
Exclusive: Wayne Swan to issue a call to arms for progressive parties globally to fight back against threats to democracy
November 2019
Wayne Swan says Queensland Labor is no Bjelke-Petersen throwback
ALP president says it’s ‘ridiculous and damaging’ to compare current government to authoritarian Nationals era
August 2019
Wayne Swan warns climate change will reshape politics as much as 9/11
Exclusive: Labor president says although May election was a setback for climate action, it’s vital to stay the course
June 2019
Katharine Murphy on politics
Leaks and loose lips undermine Labor unity ahead of campaign postmortem
Katharine Murphy
Wayne Swan says combating inequality remains 'Labor’s sacred mission'
May 2019
Wayne Swan lashes out at Murdoch media's 'misuse of power'
Labor’s national president calls News Corp ‘an additional political party hiding behind the pretence of objectivity’
March 2019
Wayne Swan: history tells us flat wages growth is dangerous for Australia
The era of tolerating the rich getting richer at everyone else’s expense is over, the former treasurer says
February 2019
Wayne Swan warns against a resurgence of dog-whistle politics in valedictory speech
Former deputy prime minister says Coalition is intent on deploying same strategy as Tampa episode in 2001
December 2018
Bill Shorten gets smart on populism as Labor paints PM as a 'grinning fool in a baseball cap'
Katharine Murphy Political editor
The Labor leader’s pitch spoke directly to voters most at risk of peeling off and voting for One Nation or other populists
October 2018
Wayne Swan urges Labor to muscle up against rightwing thinktanks
Wayne Swan says Labor is being ‘outgunned’ when it comes to setting the reform agenda
July 2018
Wayne Swan: unions can tap into wage worries to win votes for Labor
Labor’s new national president says talking about rising inequality ‘cuts through in the community’
June 2018
Wayne Swan: ending progressive taxation will turn Australia into the US
New Labor national president says party’s task is to ‘tear down neoliberalism and trickle-down economics’
Labor MP Mark Butler attacks rightwing opponents of party reform
Leftwing frontbencher ups his push for democratisation ahead of NSW Labor conference
Wayne Swan outpolls Mark Butler to be elected Labor national president
The former treasurer ran on a progressive platform, despite being a member of the party’s right faction
May 2018
Labor leftwingers claim 'trickery' in contest for party president
Mich-Elle Myers has entered field to peel votes away from Mark Butler, some party figures say
April 2018
Wayne Swan joins tax thinktank over fears cuts will ‘turbocharge inequality’
Former treasurer says tax avoidance and evasion a ‘critical driver’ of global inequality
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