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Wayne Swan

June 2024

  • Wayne Swan speaks during the 49th ALP National Conference 2023 at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre in Brisbane, Thursday, August 17, 2023. (AAP Image/Jono Searle) NO ARCHIVING

    ‘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

  • Anthony Byrne

    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

  • Wayne Swan

    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

  • Wayne Swan

    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

  • Wayne Swan

    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

    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

    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

    Katharine Murphy on politics
    Leaks and loose lips undermine Labor unity ahead of campaign postmortem

    Katharine Murphy
  • The Labor party president Wayne Swan

    Wayne Swan says combating inequality remains 'Labor’s sacred mission'

May 2019

  • Wayne Swan

    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 has warned that ‘the lesson of history is that big economic shocks have big political consequences’

    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

  • In his valedictory speech Wayne Swan made reference to the divisive border protection debate and said the Tampa affair left ‘a scab that’s remained ever since’

    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

  • Katharine Murphy Political editor

    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

  • ALP president Wayne Swan.

    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

    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

  • Former Treasurer Wayne Swan speaks at the National Press Club in Canberra, Monday, Aug 18, 2014. Mr Swan today launched his new book ‘The Good Fight’. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

    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’
  • Mark Butler

    Labor MP Mark Butler attacks rightwing opponents of party reform

    Leftwing frontbencher ups his push for democratisation ahead of NSW Labor conference
  • Wayne Swan: Labor’s success ‘won’t be determined by tinkering with internal processes or by the outcome of votes over single issues at national 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

  • Mark Butler

    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

  • Former Treasurer Wayne Swan speaks at the National Press Club in Canberra, Monday, Aug 18, 2014. Mr Swan today launched his new book 'The Good Fight'. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

    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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