Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 hours ago)

Addressing Labor faithful on Sunday, the prime minister is sharpening his attack on One Nation and the Coalition after the successful passage of his contentious tax reforms.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (20 hours ago)

As Asian language enrolments wither Australia is failing to make lasting ties within our region. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (20 hours ago)

After guiding the country through a tumultuous six months, the Albanese government faces tough fiscal and political decisions. 

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (20 hours ago)

The ACT senator lost the balance of power at the last election. His team decided to sit down and thrash out a fresh strategy.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (20 hours ago)

Australian politics is in the chaotic phase. The ALP, One Nation and the Coalition compete. One party will be flung into oblivion.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (21 hours ago)

Critics say streaming services will be flooded with gambling ads when Labor's "opt-out” model starts allowing them to show ads in quarter-time and half-time breaks.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A day ago)

In life, the former Liberal federal vice-president pushed the party to the right. In death, she might take its base from underneath it.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has backed ASIO after China's ambassador lashed out at the spy agency.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

A vast array of ocean wanderers have been brought to Australia's doorstep. And we don't know why.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy has doubled down on calling former prime minister Robert Menzies a "Nazi appeaser" at the National Press Club.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

Among the most sustained features of John Howard's premiership was its attack on multiculturalism.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

After decades of growth, Australian house prices are slowing. Here's what a fall could look like.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

The proposed laws, which will force social media giants to crack down on anonymous accounts, have sparked warnings from privacy advocates.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

Calculated gambles are not really Anthony Albanese's political style. That's why his reluctance to grasp the nettle of gambling ads is curious.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

Australia's gas companies are poised to cash in on a huge revenue surge in the fallout from the Iran war, intensifying calls for higher taxes.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

Liberal MP Simon Kennedy argues the federal government's proposed changes to gambling advertising laws contain a streaming loophole.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

The change will guarantee an extra layer of human oversight when determining the appropriate level of care for older Australians.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

Anthony Albanese loves winning, whether it be elections or tennis. But the government lost a few games this week.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

A key ALP conference will be the launchpad for a new platform arguing for workers to have a stronger voice in how technology is deployed.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

A mortgage broker forked out $16,500 on Canberra's night of nights to take his grudge about budget tax directly up to the prime minister in a tennis match at the Lodge.   

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

The Coalition demanded Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy apologise for calling the country's longest serving prime minister a "Nazi appeaser”.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

Pauline Hanson said her party had complained to Meta, and she believed those behind the posts were chasing money "using my name which gets clicks”.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy cut his Dublin trip short as the strikes trapped paramedics and drivers at an ambulance station. 

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

Senior economics correspondent Shane Wright breaks down the impacts of interest rate rises and changes to tax breaks.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

Frontbench MP Andrew Hastie vowed to stay on and contest the next election for the Liberals as the party attempts to turn around its fortunes.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

"Massola identified in exceptional detail the factional figures in the Labor and the Liberal parties and their roles in policy and leadership debates,” the judges said.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

Liberal frontbencher James Paterson says Pat Conroy should apologise for comments made about former prime minister Robert Menzies. Take a look back at the day's coverage here.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

The slight recovery in Labor's polling shifts assumptions about what's in store for the remainder of this parliamentary term.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

At its current processing rate, the scheme will not be able to clear its backlog before it closes.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

The Albanese government will target social media influencers and individuals who promote gambling on social media as part of its proposed laws restricting advertising.   

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

On the day Andrew Hastie vowed to die before kneeling to One Nation, Angus Taylor was squirming over whether he supported multiculturalism or monoculturalism.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

Australian mortgages are so large that the nation's interest bill is higher than when official interest rates were almost 20 per cent.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy is set to appeal to the Labor faithful to get behind AUKUS as he announces a defence shake-up targeting wasteful spending. 

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

Seemingly innocuous legislative changes could hamper the military's ability to fight terrorist groups, a former air force commander has warned.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

The best Herald artworks of the week from across the board.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

Lorraine Finlay said introducing tougher penalties and stronger powers without sufficient scrutiny was unlikely to fix weaknesses in the Albanese government's social media ban.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

Many households are hearing unwelcome news when they contact their electricity retailers as power retailers increase rates outside the free midday window.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

Senator David Pocock has accused the government of entertaining the idea of weakening copyright laws for AI giants.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

Last year, disaster was coming from higher house prices. Now it's disaster as prices fall. Australia needs to find some consistency.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

A major south-east Queensland water retailer has backed down on a planned price hike, which left the government's key cost-of-living measure in tatters.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

Randwick councillors vote against a plan to introduce hundreds of parking meters at some of Sydney's popular eastern beaches, with council staff to now look for other ways to improve the turnover of parking spaces.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

China's ambassador to Australia attacks ASIO over allegations of foreign interference aired in a video played at an agency event.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

Although a big moment in diplomacy, the Vanuatu agreement has come at a clear reputational cost to Australia.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

An international hackathon hosted at an Australian university has drawn protests from Ukraine after organisers ignored pleas to bar the Russian delegation.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

The Liberals, it seems, can't resist returning to damaging infighting, even in the one part of the country where things have been going quite encouragingly for them.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

Anthony Albanese has sidestepped questions about whether house prices will continue falling, following the release of data today showing a 0.4 per cent drop in home values.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

Coalition talking points, obtained by the ABC, make almost no direct mention of One Nation despite the minor party surging in the polls.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

China's top diplomat attended a speech by ASIO boss Mike Burgess last week, sitting in the second row. He didn't like what he saw.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

Accounting firms could be asked to split their lucrative consulting services from their audit functions and individual firm partners could face far greater scrutiny and penalties for legal breaches, under a shake up of the industry being consulted on by the federal government.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

A new federal report recommends a serious crackdown on election campaigners' behaviour: "It is only a matter of time before someone is seriously injured.”

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

Home owners and renters could save hundreds of dollars by opting into a new scheme available to all electricity customers.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

Rate rises, unaffordable homes and the government's tax changes are behind another fall in value of the nation's homes.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

When Liberal backbencher Simon Kennedy was a teenager, one of his high school teachers asked to borrow money for his gambling addiction. He says he ended up accompanying the teacher to Gamblers Anonymous meetings.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

Australia's peak Jewish group is urging Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke to deny a visa to a prominent comedian who has accused Israel of bombing its own embassy.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

A handful of Liberal MPs told a Coalition party room meeting that the opposition should take a strong line on gambling reform rather than wave Labor's laws through.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

A network of paid overseas influencers is targeting Australian voters to turbocharge support for One Nation. And it seems to be working.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

The Melbourne childcare provider has been cut off under new powers that allow the federal government to withdraw funding due to safety breaches.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

Australia's peak Jewish group is urging Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke to deny a visa to prominent comedian Bassem Youssef.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

From tax cuts to wage increases, here are some of the changes starting July 1.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

Angus Taylor claimed bureaucrats let catastrophic 2003 fires rip. That narrative has been rejected by the man who led the containment effort, who also demanded an apology.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

Police believe the person has sent more than 100 threatening letters to parliamentarians over the past decade, and they have "very real concerns” about the content.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

Former talkback host turned ACT Liberal leader Mark Parton has labelled Pauline Hanson's One Nation a "whingeing, grievance echo chamber”.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (5 days ago)

Liberal MP Garth Hamilton has been suspended from the House of Representatives for 24 hours after an outburst during Question Time.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (5 days ago)

The Victorian Forestry Transition Program is ending. In the regions that relied on the timber trade, the question is whether it worked.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

The invention of the wheel helped transform the world, but it seems too many Australian businesses would rather re-invent the wheel than use it.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

The government has introduced laws allowing the eSafety Commissioner to compel companies to hand over internal documents to prove they tried to enforce the under-16 ban.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

Vanuatu's prime minister vowed to release the text of a similar agreement with China "once I get a clearance from Beijing”.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (5 days ago)

A South Australian couple who spent $250,000 on fertility treatments say the government's IVF rebate will make a "huge difference" for people trying to conceive.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (6 days ago)

State Liberal MP Moira Deeming says she misunderstood the meaning of the term "headlock", after alleging her party room colleague Matthew Guy assaulted her.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (6 days ago)

Regional West Australian courts closed amid a stoush over security services are set to reopen about a month earlier than originally planned.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (6 days ago)

The Reserve Bank created $500 billion and slashed interest rates to deal with the pandemic. It might do things very differently during the next crisis.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (6 days ago)

Liberal frontbencher Andrew Hastie has dismissed Hanson's monoculture as '80s nostalgia, saying: "Are we going to watch reruns of Neighbours?”

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (6 days ago)

Liberal frontbencher Melissa McIntosh says her party needs a rebrand after support for the Coalition hit a new low in the latest opinion polls.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (6 days ago)

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (6 days ago)

S&P Global predicts service cuts across the country as interest bills on record debts finally start to bite. See how your state compares to the rest.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (6 days ago)

Two things happened last week that give us a much clearer picture of what the world is going to be like from now on.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (6 days ago)

Santos, BHP, Woodside and others have an "extensive presence" in childhood settings through more than 260 programs, a new report identifies, as senators say classroom programs and lessons written by the industry should be examined through a senate inquiry.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (6 days ago)

The PM displays a new optimism – in both the rationality of Australians and his government's ability to convince them what must change.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (6 days ago)

In a deeply personal account to the antisemitism royal commission, the former federal attorney-general has called for an overhaul of hate speech laws.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (6 days ago)

A crowd-funded probe into the $368 billion submarine pact will hear expert warnings that Australia is completely unprepared for a worst-case radiation emergency at HMAS Stirling.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (6 days ago)

The Bank of International Settlements has predicted major economic damage from the boom in artificial intelligence, and it's been correct before.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

The conventional wisdom is that Canberra is a largely left-leaning city, but the national capital is now among places in One Nation's sights as support for the party surges across the country.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

We've come a long way since it was Pauline Hanson who didn't know the meaning of big words.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Karl Stefanovic has dressed up a blatant grab for attention as a free-speech crusade. It's laughable.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Four months ago, as Pauline Hanson's party surged, I thought it would hit its limits. It kept on surging. But is it risking that by trying to appeal to the middle ground.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Six months into Australia's world-first social media ban for under-16s, the federal government has announced tougher laws that it says will hold big tech to account and keep kids safe online.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Tech giants will be more harshly investigated and will face $99 million fines if they fail to comply with the government's social media age limit.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Community Strong Australia will seek to bring Zoe Daniel and Kylea Tink back into the fold, and to convince independent MPs to back the party in the Senate.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

The end of a financial year isn't just the time to cruise the stocktake sales, it also ushers in several substantial legal and financial changes.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Revelations about an NT shadow minister's dicey driving history — and the Opposition Leader's failure to disclose it — come as another blow to NT Labor.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

The Victorian Liberal Party is competitive in the polls just months out from the November state election. But will party infighting blunt its winning edge?

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

An unfortunate side effect of the incompetent and erratic negotiating tactics of the Trump administration is that some of the underlying stories in the global economy can get overlooked.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Zali Steggall and Allegra Spender have launched a new political party, Community Strong Australia. It marks another step in the restructuring of our politics.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Critics say the scheme, which offers subsidised home loans, lumps Defence members and veterans with uncompetitive rates.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

The biggest reform package in a generation was made law this week. Now the battle for the prime minister is to see it work on the property market.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Homeless people in Wagga Wagga's Wilks Park camping area have been ordered to remove all personal belongings by July 7. 

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Angus Taylor's leadership is now being openly discussed by Liberal colleagues, just four months after becoming leader.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Microparties can, in time, grow into a significant political force. Look at One Nation.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Basil Zempilas has had his first brush with the political truism "disunity is death" after MP Jonathan Huston quit the WA Liberal Party, but he's unlikely — at this stage at least — to be the one left in a political grave.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Listening to the culture war showman schtick he has so quickly adopted, Karl Stefanovic is now less a newsman than an ideological performer.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

The H5N1 virus has landed in Australia, via seabirds from the Antarctic, and pet owners have been warned to brace for an almost inevitable outbreak.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says the government will look to strengthen the powers of the eSafety Commissioner to enforce an under-16s social media ban.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Legal experts say the Commonwealth would have risked losing a High Court challenge to counterterrorism laws if it stopped the Australian woman from returning home. 

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Following the opposition leader's blunder on multiculturalism this week, one Liberal said: "I don't know if he can think on his feet.”

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Advocates are warning many parents' budgets are at breaking point after the maximum amount centres can raise fees was lifted.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Whistleblowers were at risk of "procedural burnout” while waiting for the National Anti-Corruption Commission, a parliamentary inquiry has been told.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

For all the talk of fraud and fakes, it's everyday profiteering that threatens this vital scheme. People like my twin sister need precious NDIS dollars to work for them.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

The prime minister flagged a fresh tightening of the world-first social media restrictions on Thursday amid growing concern about online pornography, "nudify” apps and violent material.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Parliament House has been Pauline's World lately but increased visibility comes with increased scrutiny and this week revealed that One Nation is not untouchable.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

It is the fifth substantial change that Labor will make to its tax legislation after handing down a contentious budget last month.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

While Community Strong Australia will remain leaderless, the party's constitution says its two MPs oversee who is in and who is out.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

The teal independents have confirmed they are forming a new political party, Community Strong Australia, but are yet to convince crossbench colleagues to join what they call a "responsible alternative" to the major parties.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

The parliamentary committee investigating the last election says it's prepared to summons the Brethren and the lobby group, triggering a dispute over their willingness to attend the inquiry.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Australia's home affairs minister approves the return of a woman who has links to Islamic State and has been in a Syrian refugee camp, saying the government plans to have her under high-level surveillance.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Hodan Abby has been granted permission to return from Syria, but will face "significant and invasive surveillance” upon arrival.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

The government's signature budget bill, which includes changes to capital gains tax, negative gearing and a Working Australian Tax Offset (WATO), has passed federal parliament. Take a look back at how the day unfolded.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Teena McQueen, who served as the federal Liberal Party vice-president from 2017 to 2023, died on Wednesday after a battle with a short but severe medical condition.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Pauline Hanson has chosen one of Australia's most popular national sporting brands and visible expressions of cultural diversity in her pitch for a "monoculture". 

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Let us project forward. It's early 2028, and the unofficial campaign for the federal election, due in May, has well and truly begun. Pauline Hanson is helping rule Victoria and has done well in NSW. Will she ride the wave into the Lodge?

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Barrister Geoffrey Watson SC and business leaders warn that federal laws favouring union-backed businesses for taxpayer-funded work could lead to corruption.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Independents Zali Steggall and Allegra Spender will form a new political party, Community Strong Australia, hoping to gain a spot in the Senate.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Energy use is being revolutionised on the home front as families adopt solar panels, but massive data centres will contribute to overall grid demand doubling over 25 years.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

The former Conservative UK prime minister, beaming into the McKinnon Prize ceremony in Canberra, also called for centrist parties to unite against the rising tide of populism.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

The Liberal senator, who has been awarded the 2026 McKinnon Prize for political leader of the year, now wants to take the fight to One Nation.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

In a speech to the Senate, Pauline Hanson says the Socceroos are the perfect example of her vision for a 'monocultural Australia'.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

The Victorian Liberal Party is in chaos after an MP claimed they were assaulted by a member of their own party room.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Mike Burgess said he fears a shadowy Iranian-linked group that has attacked Jewish sites in Europe could start terrorising Australians.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Pauline Hanson is concerned about the cost of paying for new parents going on leave. Has she considered the consequences if we don't cover that cost?

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Hanson gave a watered-down explanation for the term "monoculture”, while moderate Liberal MPs stepped forward to support multiculturalism after Angus Taylor stumbled over the question.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

After a day of uproar from miners, farmers and conservatives, One Nation MP David Farrer wants to correct the record.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Clare O'Neil has acknowledged that the property market is undergoing a correction, but says the government's proposed tax changes are not the sole cause.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

In a speech to the Senate, Pauline Hanson has blasted critics of her vision for a 'monoculture' Australia, saying the Socceroos are a perfect example of that vision.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 weeks ago)

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has likened her vision of a "monocultural" Australia to the Socceroos as Opposition Leader Angus Taylor clarifies that he would still seek "a version" of multiculturalism.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 weeks ago)

Inflation fell to 4 per cent in May. However, there are signs that underlying price pressures remain a problem for the economy.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 weeks ago)

Former Manchester mayor Andy Burnham says it is 'surreal' to return to London as an MP in a video released on his X account.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 weeks ago)

Two Queensland men are sentenced after pleading guilty to defrauding a major Queensland construction company in an insider plot. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 weeks ago)

Hanson says she is "delighted" monoculturalism is being debated and says the Australian soccer team represents her vision for a national "monoculture". Take a look back at how the day unfolded.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 weeks ago)

Senator Raff Ciccone has launched a blistering attack on former Labor ministers, accusing them of viewing national security through the lens of a bygone era.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 weeks ago)

A party of independent MPs is expected to form as soon as this week, but approaches to strong candidates and sitting state MPs have not been made.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 weeks ago)

When Pauline Hanson said Australia must be a monoculture, not multicultural, she laid out a dichotomy – and another minefield for Taylor to dance around.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 weeks ago)

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 weeks ago)

David Farley said on Tuesday he meant to vote for a cap on the fuel tax credit scheme.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 weeks ago)

A planned appearance by decorated soldier turned accused war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith threatened to turn the event into a media frenzy, but in the end he could not come.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 weeks ago)

Far-right activist Tommy Robinson praised Pauline Hanson in the interview with Nine Network star Karl Stefanovic, who said he admired Robinson's "tenacity” and "courage”.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 weeks ago)

The opposition leader, pressed multiple times on whether his party still supported multiculturalism or endorsed One Nation leader Pauline Hanson's vision of a "monoculture", refused to commit to either.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 weeks ago)

Seabirds such as wandering albatross could continue to bring the deadly H5N1 bird flu from the Antarctic outbreak to Australia.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 weeks ago)

Last year's election win was the largest Labor victory since 1943. It paved the way for Anthony Albanese's tax package.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 weeks ago)

The Greens pledge their support in exchange for an end to an exemption that allows self-managed super funds to borrow money to invest in residential property, and a delay on the overhaul of the NDIS. 

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 weeks ago)

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson appeared to walk back her parental leave stance on Tuesday after accusations she did not understand the policy.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 weeks ago)

"I would rather get taken out in a box than bend the knee to One Nation,” Hastie told the Coalition party room, saying he believed he was targeted over his role as a potential witness in the Ben Roberts-Smith case.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 weeks ago)

Pauline Hanson has clarified she would not seek to cut government-funded paid parental leave if One Nation were in power after opening the door to a wind-back at her National Press Club address last week.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 weeks ago)

The crossbench party agreed to vote for the budget tax package in exchange for extending an inquiry into the government's NDIS overhaul by two months.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 weeks ago)

Victoria Cross recipient and alleged war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith will no longer attend an event at the Australian War Memorial tonight. Take a look back at how the day unfolded.

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