Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (10 hours ago)

December 4 marked the unofficial start of the teen social media ban. Here's everything you need to know.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (11 hours ago)

Moderate and conservative Liberals are locked in an existential tug-of-war over climate change and migration. That's about to spread further into cultural and national identity.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (12 hours ago)

Australia will begin manufacturing multiple-rocket guided missiles this month with the opening of a new factory in South Australia.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (12 hours ago)

The Victorian government has backed down on key parts of an unpopular tax used to fund the state's emergency services as part of its budget update.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (13 hours ago)

A deal for the sale of operations at Ayers Rock Resort, near Uluru, and the Mossman Gorge Cultural Centre, in Far North Queensland, is one step closer after the Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation reached an agreement with Journey Beyond, an Australian-based "experiential tourism" company owned by an American private equity firm.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (13 hours ago)

South Australian Liberal leader Vincent Tarzia will step down from the leadership, just three months out from the next state election. He told a press conference he made the decision on Friday morning.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (14 hours ago)

Senators are seeing massive spikes in social media views and followers as they mimic the combative style of US congresspeople.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (16 hours ago)

The minister attended the event celebrating a Labor figure while taking part in official business in June.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (18 hours ago)

The Liberals argue Labor's industrial relations concessions to the unions are a "handbrake on productivity" but this area has been tricky for the Coalition since John Howard's disastrous overreach. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (18 hours ago)

A new report from Australia's peak doctors' body says private health insurance is increasingly failing to deliver value to the roughly 15 million Australians who hold a policy.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (19 hours ago)

Pornographic image results will be blurred and searches for self-harm information will redirect to mental health supports under new Australian online safety codes.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (21 hours ago)

The Albanese government is considering a first-ever national scheme to stop factories closing due to high-energy bills.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (21 hours ago)

Pauline Hanson's chief of staff, James Ashby, claims that a couple of "big names” will be joining in the new year.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A day ago)

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A day ago)

A $1.13 billion stadium on the edge of the Hobart CBD has been approved by Tasmania's upper house, satisfying a key condition for the state's AFL licence.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A day ago)

The WA government is urged to toughen penalties for e-rideable offences and punish retailers who help people modify e-rideables to break the rules, after an inquiry sparked by the death of a Perth father.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A day ago)

The acting prime minister says the United States is fully supportive of AUKUS and has thanked it for providing a review.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A day ago)

Improvements in the bulk-billing rate last month are being overshadowed by a bigger fight over hospital bed block.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A day ago)

Parliamentary travel rules say ministers must achieve value for money when going on international trips. The government said on Thursday no rules were broken.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A day ago)

The Coalition seizes on meeting notes from June to claim the government is working to return Australian children and partners of Islamic State fighters. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A day ago)

After being named leader of the Canberra Liberals last month, Mark Parton announces a reshuffled shadow cabinet after Leanne Castley stepped down from the role.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A day ago)

The retirement of the army's fleet of Tiger attack helicopters could be fast-tracked.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A day ago)

The federal, state and territory governments are now on track to spend more on the interest repayments on debt than on the NDIS.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

Documents released in Senate estimates show the 37 Australian women and children could be extracted from Syria by the US military with one simple move by Australia.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

From December 10, young people will lose access to part of their online world. Here's how to support them.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

Belgium is pushing back on a European proposal to use frozen Russian assets to help financially support Ukraine.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

An independent audit of the National Redress Scheme has found wait times are increasing and causing significant distress to survivors of child sexual abuse.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

Despite holding a commanding position, Anthony Albanese knows the global trend of sliding trust in government isn't one to be taken lightly.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

The government is under pressure to keep ailing smelters, concrete makers and plastics firms alive, as well as keep a lid on household power bills.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

Opposition Leader Sussan Ley says Australia's social media ban will not work under Labor, as the federal government rejects YouTube's claim it will make kids "less safe". 

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

Same-sex couples, single people, transgender and intersex West Australians will be able to access assisted reproductive technology and surrogacy, almost a decade after reforms were first promised.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

Dozens of oil tankers in Russia's "shadow fleet” will be hit by Australian sanctions as the federal government announces its first military support package for Ukraine in over a year.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

With just two refineries left and 80 per cent of liquid fuel being imported, experts are warning Australia is increasingly vulnerable to global supply shocks.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

The government today warned social media companies could expect $50 million fines if they fail to kick children off their platforms. Jacob Greber reports. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

YouTube agrees to comply with Australia's under 16s social media ban but repeats its criticism of the law and says it "won't keep teens safer online".

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

A ministerial trip to sell Australia's teen social media ban in the US raises questions about government integrity.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

It's the simple scandals – the ones voters can explain to each other in a supermarket queue – that bring ministers undone.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

Communications Minister Anika Wells didn't rule out increasing the age children will be allowed on social media platforms.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

Communications Minister Anika Wells didn't rule out increasing the age children will be allowed on social media platforms.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

Taxpayers footed almost $100,000 for flights and $70,000 for an event during Communications Minister Anika Wells' trip to New York in the days after the Optus outage.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

The War Memorial's governing council rejected celebrated journalist Chris Masters' book about war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith despite an independent judging panel choosing him as the winner.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

Future Fund chief executive Raphael Arndt sent his executive assistant on a business class trip overseas to inspect hotel rooms.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

Lynelle Briggs' report found that cronyism in public appointments is real, entrenched, and corrosive to public trust.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

Australia's GDP grew by a less-than-expected 0.4 per cent in the September quarter, but there are more signs the private sector is supporting the economy.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

Tasmania's stadium minister and former federal politician Eric Abetz reflects on holding a press conference standing alongside the CFMEU — the construction union he has spent decades in the Senate attacking.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

Social media platforms Lemon8 and Yope are put on notice about age limit laws as both apps surge in popularity ahead of a ban for under 16s.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

The figure has been provided to a Senate estimates hearing, where the media regulator appeared on Tuesday.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

The transfer would help make amends for the much-criticised decision to dispose of the army's fleet of Taipan helicopters instead of sending them to Ukraine.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

New Delhi wants a government app installed on all of the country's mobile phones, but opposition MPs and privacy advocates have voiced concerns about surveillance.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

Private firm Starboard Maritime Intelligence says it has used satellite technology to track down the People's Liberation Army Navy task group.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

Children have already started migrating to apps not yet caught up in the teen social media ban, but Communications Minister Anika Wells said she wouldn't hesitate to add more platforms to the list.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

Robert Kennedy tends his resignation as WA electoral commissioner, nine months after a state election that was plagued by issues including long wait-times to vote, and polling booths running out of ballot papers.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

Leaked elements of the yet-to-be-released probe found the Donald Trump effect, poor decisions and failed communication fuelled the rapid unravelling of the Coalition's campaign.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

An incident at a Tasmanian youth detention centre where a detainee had an improvised spit hood put over his head while being transported by a contracted security company, has been criticised for being "entirely incompatible" with human rights.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

Staff at the former ABC studios in Elsternwick were exposed to asbestos over an extended period.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

The veterans' affairs minister says Defence personnel who commit sexual violence will have their convictions recorded on their national criminal history check.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

The recommendations of a long-awaited review into political appointments have been set aside by the federal government.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

Minister Matt Keogh is addressing the National Press Club a year after the government responded to the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

Telehealth has turbocharged several Australian medical sectors – including cannabis. The regulator has warned it's also enabling unchecked prescribing and unsafe care as oversight struggles to catch up.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

The government is falling further behind on its 1.2 million home target. It's not hurting the value of our real estate, which is now at $12 trillion.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

The BoM's new chief said cost blowouts were within the normal range as senators grilled the agency over its $866 million security upgrade.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

Australia, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia have started holding annual defence ministers meetings to build trust and boost military cooperation, while PNG proposes building a 10km-wide demilitarised "buffer zone" along its border with Indonesia. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

A report into government appointments to boards savages the system, which it says too often allows governments to award friends or pick candidates for political purposes, eroding trust with the public.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

The federal government's long-awaited National AI Plan will seek to accelerate the growth of artificial intelligence in Australia, and largely leverage existing laws to protect against its worst harms.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

The country's outgoing intelligence chief has accused China of seeking to coerce Australia by sending a naval flotilla to circumnavigate the continent.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

Following decades of procurement delays and costs blowouts, the Department of Defence pays the price.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

About 70 per cent of Australians live in standalone houses. A new report says one change to what owners can do with their properties could help build 1 million new homes.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

Tech giants who want to build data centres for the AI boom in Australia could be pushed by the Albanese government to build their own renewable energy sources.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

Defence Minister Richard Marles also announced the government was monitoring a Chinese naval flotilla that may be en route to the waters surrounding Australia.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

Australia is monitoring a Chinese task group in the Philippine Sea, Defence Minister Richard Marles says.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

Australians will bear the cost of preventing heightened risk of blackouts from 2027, when the nation's biggest coal plant shuts.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

Three groups within Defence will be rolled into one entity as part of a sweeping restructure of the department. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

US President Donald Trump says Venezuela's airspace should be considered closed. According to international law, it's not that simple. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

The energy grid is not ready for the closure of the Eraring coal plant, the energy operator has warned, raising the threat of widespread blackouts in eastern Australia.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (5 days ago)

The team of a contractor that was the victim of a Russia-linked hack did not have the necessary security clearance when it received thousands of sensitive communications between politicians and parliamentary staff, in a mistake the department has now conceded.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (5 days ago)

The early childhood education minister is refusing to say whether the federal government will establish an independent review of childcare standards.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (5 days ago)

A new eSafety advisory warns Australians about technology-facilitated abuse and provides advice on how to protect themselves from it.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

Concerns grow over maintaining stable electricity flow after the closure of the nation's biggest coal plant, Eraring, in 2027.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (5 days ago)

With AI deepfakes causing confusion and harm online, the federal government tells tech developers that AI content should be clearly labelled, ahead of a National AI Plan due to be released. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (5 days ago)

As the social media ban comes into effect, experts are worried children and families will be left vulnerable to age verification scams. Here's why. 

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

Anthony Albanese and Jodie Haydon, joined by about 70 guests, celebrated their wedding until the early hours of Sunday morning.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

There are tentative signs the nation's two biggest markets may be losing some heat. For now.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

Almost all Australians buy goods and services online. But many are caught by hard-edge tricks, which are set to face new restrictions.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (5 days ago)

Local patrons at Albanese's favourite pub in Marrickville react to the news of his wedding to partner Jodie Haydon.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (5 days ago)

New opposition leader Jess Wilson will retain shadow treasurer responsibilities under a reshuffle, while also keeping multiple former opposition leaders in the fold.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (6 days ago)

In a scathing rebuke of their own watchdog, WA lawyers claim the state's Legal Practice Board is causing them psychological harm amid calls for urgent reform.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (6 days ago)

Sussan Ley says migration tensions in Australia are not the fault of migrants, but a stronger "Australian values" test for those seeking to move here could form part of the Coalition's coming migration policy.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (6 days ago)

Demographic threats to the Liberal and National parties – in terms of age and gender – appear existential. Millennials are turning away from the Coalition as they get older.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (6 days ago)

We are getting more details about the first wedding of a sitting prime minister. A two-tiered wedding cake was on the menu.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (6 days ago)

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese marries his partner Jodie Haydon in a private ceremony at his official Canberra residence, after details of the wedding were kept top secret.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (6 days ago)

Until Saturday, an Australian head of government had never got hitched while in office.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (6 days ago)

It was the worst-kept secret in political circles, but somehow, everyone agreed to stay shtum about the wedding.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (6 days ago)

Conservative elements of the Coalition seem to have interpreted a bump in polling for One Nation as proof they should tack farther to the right. It makes little rational sense.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (6 days ago)

The job title of "first lady” does not exist in our democracy, but Haydon brings something unique to her role as the prime minister's bride.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (6 days ago)

Anthony Albanese and Jodie Haydon tied the knot on Saturday, nearly two years after their engagement in February 2024.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (6 days ago)

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Jodie Haydon have tied the knot at The Lodge in Canberra.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (6 days ago)

Anthony Albanese and Jodie Haydon can trace their relationship back five years, but the historic nature of their secretly planned wedding at The Lodge runs far deeper.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (6 days ago)

The guest list for Anthony Albanese's wedding to Jodie Haydon was small – no world leaders, no TV celebrities, no former prime ministers. See who made the cut.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (6 days ago)

From a love of music to shared Labor values, Jodie Haydon and Anthony Albanese have lots in common. But their marriage gives her a very public role.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Many of the people who managed to escape the Wang Fuk Court fires in Hong Kong believe the disaster could have been prevented, saying they had flagged safety concerns more than a year ago.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

The prime minister cancelled his MPs' summer holidays and told them to work. But they want to know – what's the agenda for the rest of the term?

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Pauline Hanson grabbed the spotlight this week through her anti-Islam antics and attempts to wedge the Coalition, exposing a new schism in the opposition.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

There has been a shift in the power dynamic between Labor and the mining industry. This week's environmental law reform is its embodiment.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Environment Minister Murray Watt is so worried that farmers will rush to bulldoze swaths of trees on their land that he is ordering laws signed off on Friday morning to come into force within days.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

The federal government's overhauled national environment laws have passed parliament.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Pauline Hanson's One Nation posted its strongest national performance in nearly three decades at the federal election. Can it sustain the momentum?

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

For all the gains women have made, girls are growing up in a digital age that allows men – and boys – to enact new forms of harm.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

A dumped cabinet minister is speaking out and daring his Labor colleagues to do the same.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Tensions between Donald Trump and Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Moros have been escalating after months of launching lethal air strikes on vessels accused of shipping deadly drugs north to the US.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Not all Australians aged under 16 will "magically disappear overnight" from social media, the nation's online safety regulator says, amid a legal challenge to pause the start of the federal government's ban.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

A major review into preventing violence against women and children called for changes to immediate alcohol home delivery

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

The environmental deal is a major win for a government whose critics on the left are calling for it to be more reformist.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Opposition Leader Sussan Ley will release new policies to woo back women voters and reverse years of reluctance to fight Labor on industrial relations.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

In his deal with the Greens, Environment Minister Murray Watt has just scraped off one of the biggest barnacles clinging to parliament. 

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

A patchwork of state laws make it costly for tradies to work across the country. The first step to ending this century of trouble may be taken today.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce quits the Nationals. Meanwhile, Labor is grilled on power prices in the final Question Time of 2025.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

In the end, Barnaby Joyce didn't so much leave the Nationals as quietly concede they'd already left him.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

A small group of very disgruntled people have breathed new life into One Nation.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

The former leader and deputy prime minister has confirmed his long-awaited political move.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Anthony Albanese revealed that Malcolm Turnbull had reached out to comfort him at a difficult time in his personal life.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

The banking regulator is stepping in to cap new lending to highly geared borrowers, amid warnings of risks in the property market.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Barnaby Joyce has formally resigned from the Nationals, ending his 20-year parliamentary career with the party and clearing the way for him to join One Nation.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

The Member for New England explained his reasons for quitting the Nationals in the House of Representatives.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

The Environment Department projects Australia is expected to fall well short of its commitment to cut emissions by 62 to 70 per cent by 2035 — though the minister notes that is before accounting for a number of recent commitments.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Major housing, renewables and mining projects often get bogged down for years by Australia's aging environment laws. Now a deal to rewrite them could change that.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

A group run by a Libertarian NSW MP has put forward two teenagers to act as plaintiffs in a bid to stop the teen social media ban from beginning next month.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

A deal between the federal government and the minor party will see an extra $50 million go to the public broadcaster to facilitate passage of a bill to impose local content requirements on streaming platforms.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

The years-long stalemate over reforms to environmental laws is set to clear in the final week of the parliamentary year.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

The Sunshine Coast Council has caved to public pressure and will resurrect its Mooloolaba midnight fireworks display, bringing the region into line with other Queensland towns.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

The abandonment of the Georgia case is the latest reflection of how the US president has emerged largely unscathed from a spate of prosecutions that once threatened to imperil his political career.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Almost one-in-five Kiwis don't live in New Zealand, with most calling Australia home. And there's a good chance they won't head back.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

The Albanese government has secured a historic deal with the Greens to pass major reforms to national environment laws.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

The level of the prime minister's reform appetite has been discussed and debated since roughly 9pm on election night in May, when Labor's massive win became clear. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

The abandonment of the Georgia case is the latest reflection of how the US president has emerged largely unscathed from a spate of prosecutions that once threatened to imperil his political career.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Coalition frontbencher Andrew Bragg has labelled Housing Australia, the embattled agency overseeing the $10 billion Housing Australia Future Fund, a "dysfunctional hellhole”.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Record output from renewable energy means emissions from coal plants are down as Australia's greenhouse output has fallen for the first time in years.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Greens senator David Shoebridge reads what he alleges to be extracts from a secret AUSTRAC report that has not been made public, in the Senate late on Tuesday. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Australia's social media age ban is being challenged in the High Court on the grounds that it restricts young teens' implied right to freedom of political communication.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

An apparent request across the public service to find and suspend low-priority spending would undermine security if applied to the AFP, according to its union.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Some MPs turned to their phone torch lights after the lights briefly turned off during Question Time.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

With the social media ban coming into effect on December 10, Anthony Albanese has been questioned by school students about its impact.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Matt Canavan says the party must fill the void left by Barnaby Joyce, even as Michael McCormack made a last-ditch plea to his former leadership rival to not join One Nation.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

In a major concern for the Reserve Bank, underlying inflation rose again to sit further above the RBA's 2-3 per cent inflation target.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Question time went dark as the lights went out in the House of Representatives prompting jeers from the opposition.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

With the social media ban coming into effect in two weeks, Anthony Albanese has been questioned by school students about it.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Nauru's current president along with a former president and his wife were suspected of money laundering and corruption by Australian authorities in 2022.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

The United Nations body charged with fighting the spread of HIV says the Trump administration's cuts to the US foreign aid budget have sent the global aid response into "crisis mode".

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

The results of Australia's most prominent election study show Peter Dutton was the least popular leader in four decades.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

For most, the absence of youth detention from the headlines after years of chaos would have been an indication things were working well — but Monday's troubling disturbance shows just how much still needs to be done.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Ambassador Amir Maimon is preparing to leave the country after a period that saw the biggest downturn in Israel-Australia relations.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

According to a long-running study, May's election was a record-breaking one for former opposition leader Peter Dutton – for all the wrong reasons.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

It comes after the six US politicians appeared in a social media video that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth described as "seditious".

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