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One Nation is also now Australia's preferred party by primary vote, overtaking Labor for the first time.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (11 hours ago)

Health Minister Mark Butler is open to adjusting the proposed National Disability Insurance Scheme changes, but insists the government is on the right track.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (13 hours ago)

The Tasmanian senator gave a parting warning to his colleagues, as he announced his plan to step away from politics to spend more time with his family.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (17 hours ago)

Elizabeth Watt spent years fighting the federal agency after being denied her pre-parental leave role. Her case exposes a loophole that experts say leaves mothers lagging the rest of the world.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (17 hours ago)

As the secretive sect insists it had no role in campaigning for the Coalition, leaked recordings of a recent crackdown point to strict top-down control.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (17 hours ago)

Fuel suppliers and the federal government are preparing for another surge in petrol demand before a popular tax break is wound up at the end of the month.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (17 hours ago)

The actor has fronted an ad campaign for Israeli real estate and declared herself an "independent”. People are outraged.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (17 hours ago)

Allegations of sexism no longer spark political movements. Voters' focus is on something else.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A day ago)

The One Nation leader last night told a political fundraiser she would work with the Coalition to oust Labor at the upcoming state election.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A day ago)

In his first round of interviews as Australia's Ambassador to the US, Greg Moriarty has signalled there will be "robust" negotiations to push back on new tariffs proposed by Donald Trump.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A day ago)

Youth Beat workers take to Perth streets at night to help young people who have nowhere else to go. 

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

Secrecy in policy development is rarely justified – and it certainly isn't for AUKUS, our eye-wateringly expensive defence deal with the US and UK.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

Tony Abbott has been back in the political cycle for barely a fortnight and already the air is redolent with garment-rending, ancient feuds, biblical comeuppance and a listening tour.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

The prospect of nuclear weapons being used in either Ukraine or the Middle East, rather than being fired between Moscow, Washington or Beijing has risen.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

She plays the suffering outsider, yet she's an insider now, and says she could be prime minister.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

Australia's ability to tap Ukraine's expertise in drones and other advanced technologies is being hampered by delays in striking a security pact.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

The One Nation leader's suggestion that her daughter could succeed her has prompted Coalition MPs to warn her about Barnaby Joyce's leadership plans.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

The Canberra Liberals and the ACT Greens issue their responses to the ACT budget, criticising the government's fiscal plan, principally around cost of living, transport and overall management of the territory's finances.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

A Tasmanian senator will not recontest her seat in 2028, meaning it is up for the taking by Liberal colleagues and possibly a resurgent One Nation.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

A One Nation fundraiser in Melbourne has been moved after several protest groups vowed to demonstrate outside, according to police.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

For years, the Northern Territory government has been locked in a legal battle with Claravale Station over allegations its owners cleared hundreds of hectares without a permit. But it is not the first time the government has announced the settlement deal.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

The One Nation leader posted a report about its fundraising campaign on social media after Albanese questioned its veracity, Hanson saying it proved the money was "ridgy-didge”.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

A major overhaul of the parliamentary pass system will force the public disclosure of business representatives roaming private corridors.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

The opposition leader has brushed away questions on a preference deal with One Nation at the next election.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

It's been two weeks since Madeleine Ogilvie resigned from Tasmanian cabinet, and the saga is reaching a tipping point. What could happen when parliament returns?

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

The idea that One Nation could come close to the government benches was absurd six months ago, but it is a prospect Victorian Labor MPs and insiders are increasingly discussing. 

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

People keen to write off One Nation as the party of angry, old, white men are now demonstrably wrong in the same way Democrats were wrong about Donald Trump in 2024.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

The Coalition has also gone on the attack about Pauline Hanson's admission on the Inside Politics podcast that her party was being "infiltrated by extremists”.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

The One Nation leader on Thursday accused Beattie and Liberal Party president Tony Abbott of orchestrating a "political witch hunt” that led to her 11-week imprisonment.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

Can Pauline Hanson's momentum be stopped? Only if her political opponents get fair dinkum with the electorate.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

Treasurer Jim Chalmers hits out at Pauline Hanson's ties to Gina Rinehart and questions whether she actually stands for battling Australians.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson gets emotional as she speaks about her brief stint in jail.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

Unionised workers at BHP's operations in Port Hedland could walk off the job as soon as next week after endorsing protected industrial action.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

As Anthony Albanese stood in front of a Medicare banner and Pauline Hanson put her hand out for donations, voters could be forgiven for thinking the election was two months, not two years, away.  

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

A damning report from the auditor-general reveals deep vulnerabilities across critical federal government safeguards, amid warnings the system may no longer be fit for purpose against sophisticated foreign espionage.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

Nobody can see detail of who donated what to Pauline Hanson's party this financial year until February 1.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

The Treasurer has justified his contentious tax changes on the basis that "not everybody is born already at the top of the ladder like Angus Taylor”.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

One of Pauline Hanson's closest advisers says One Nation "stole" its donation campaign slogan from Sky News host Peta Credlin.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

State and territory ministers say NDIS participants will be left in inappropriate settings under Mark Butler's reforms.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

The former Labor leader raised concerns about the prospect of Donald Trump being elected and compromising the AUKUS deal in a cabinet meeting in 2023.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

Opposition leader Angus Taylor says the Coalition has no plan to share the seats the party targets at the next federal election with One Nation as Pauline Hanson's party says it has raised $2 million since launch.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

Liberal frontbencher Tony Pasin has urged his party to negotiate with Pauline Hanson so that Liberal and One Nation candidates do not cannibalise each other's vote.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

One of Pauline Hanson's closest advisers says One Nation "stole" its donation campaign slogan from Sky News host Peta Credlin. Follow live. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

A Tasmanian senator will not recontest her seat in 2028, meaning it is up for the taking by Liberal colleagues and possibly a resurgent One Nation.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

The former Liberal staffer has been appointed executive director of the progressive Vida Fund, launching a direct campaign against One Nation and the "new right”.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

When a majority of voters have considered the Coalition, they've found it difficult to determine what it is they'd be supporting. In other words, based on past performance, what's the plan?

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

The Albanese government is paying an economic and political toll for an ongoing and deeply unpopular war.  

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

Office workers who fall for hacking attempts are to blame for nearly two-thirds of all successful online attacks, which cost the economy $25 billion per year.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

A crowd of about 400 protesters demonstrates against One Nation's Pauline Hanson as she speaks at a sundowner event in Perth's eastern suburbs.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

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As US states block data centre construction, Labor's AI guru Andrew Charlton says Australia's approach should be "neither boosterism nor alarmism”.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

Australia and India struck a historic deal to allow uranium exports in 2014, but there have been only negligible shipments since. That might be about to change.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

The short-term rental market may be shaken up by the federal government's property tax changes, with investors looking back to permanent rentals.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

A plan by hardware giant Bunnings move its Bunbury store 10km to a neighbouring shire has angered and concerned residents and businesses.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

The judgment could pave the way for more cases against the government.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson's latest fundraising play underscores her surging popularity.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

Foreign Minister Penny Wong and her counterparts from France, the UK, Canada and Norway said: "For too long, violent settlers have been able to act with near impunity.”

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

Tasmanian Premier Jeremy Rockliff says he "dropped the ball" regarding the allegations against a former minister, likening it to a "pile of crap" he has to clean up from "time to time".

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

Global trade is trying to rebalance due to the economic carnage of the US and Israel's war with Iran. That means Australia is getting oil from some very unlikely places.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

A Federal Court judge has dismissed an appeal against a judgement which ordered New South Wales MP Mark Latham to pay $140,000 to independent MP Alex Greenwich over a homophobic tweet in 2023. 

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

Speaking in Washington, former prime minister and new party president Tony Abbott said he thought the Liberal Party had "quite a long way to go” if the polls are to be believed.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (5 days ago)

NSW Health Minister Ryan Park has aired his frustrations over the issue of people stuck in hospital beds waiting for a spot in aged care or an NDIS placement. 

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

As sure as night follows day, within a few months the predictions of doomsday currently dominating sections of our media will have proved to be illusory.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

Both major parties are losing votes to One Nation, but I know whose problem I'd prefer to have.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

Labor MPs in key inner-city marginal seats say younger voters in the street and at less-competitive auctions are giving the government credit for its tax overhaul.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

As the nation grapples with how to extract economic uplift from AI investment, 640 of Australia's top researchers have united.

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One Nation's polling surge, which has pushed it above Labor and the Coalition, has focused attention on the right-wing populist party's policy platform.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

The opposition leader may have a spring in his step and the ammunition from Labor to attack. But he's facing battles on multiple fronts and a race against time.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (5 days ago)

WA prisoners are being subjected to "cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment" because the state government has allowed prisons to become "almost fundamentally broken", according to the Inspector of Custodial Services. 

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

The Reserve Bank has lifted interest rates at its past three meetings. But the NAB believes its next move will be a cut to prop up a struggling economy.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

The major parties must stop trying to capture the "women's vote” – they might just begin to win women's trust.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (5 days ago)

One of Australia's largest medical imaging providers, Integral Diagnostics, says it will look into allegations of improper Medicare billing at a regional WA public hospital where the company provides radiology services. 

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

Fighting for cut-through policies in its battle with both Labor and One Nation, the Coalition will instead consider tax deductions for childcare costs, among other options.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (5 days ago)

As Basil Zempilas flirts with One Nation, will the right-wing populist party drag the WA Liberals down again, or will it become a life raft on the way to a political resurrection?

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (6 days ago)

Anthony Albanese says the Coalition is at risk of becoming "indistinguishable" from One Nation after the opposition leader did not rule out a preference deal. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (6 days ago)

Taipei sits at the physical centre of the global AI economy but remains shut out of the diplomatic rooms where its sovereign rights are negotiated, often by others.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (6 days ago)

After a fourth poll showed One Nation inching ahead of Labor, Angus Taylor told this masthead that Labor's budget had "further eroded trust in the political system”.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (6 days ago)

Australians, particularly those trying to get into their own home, are increasingly dissatisfied with their lives. And it's hitting the political system.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (6 days ago)

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (6 days ago)

The government is playing a long game in responding to the surge of support for One Nation. It has little other choice.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (6 days ago)

A sign is just a sign. Hopefully, this one won't be around for long. But a sign can be read as a portent too.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (6 days ago)

WA Opposition Leader Basil Zempilas says One Nation deserves "respect" and he is open to finding a way of working with the right-wing populist party as support for it grows.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (6 days ago)

After politicians from all sides condemned billboards portraying Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan as a witch, Albanese made an impassioned request for media outlets to stop portraying politicians in a personal manner.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Premier Jacinta Allan has been joined by Anthony Albanese, Julia Gillard and other politicians — not including Pauline Hanson — in denouncing the language used to describe her on political signs seen in the Melbourne CBD.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Coalition strategists believe that linking the rising populist leader to the US president is one of the best ways to diminish her standing among voters.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

The rapid expansion in global data centres could be the single largest economic lift since the railroad construction boom of the 1880s and 1890s, surpassing even the mining explosion of the 2010s.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

This is how much kids cost. Even without accounting for private school fees, piano lessons and braces, parents are feeling it.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Former Coalition frontbencher Paul Scarr says inflammatory migration rhetoric is taking a toll on migrant communities. His warning comes as both major parties wrestle with populist pressures.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

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The prime minister says the Coalition and One Nation are chasing each other down a "rabbit hole” over immigration.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Greens defence spokesman David Shoebridge says it is "ridiculous" to think Australia's military could defend the nation's global trade lanes, and acquiring nuclear-powered submarines under AUKUS only invites Australia to a conflict between the United States and China.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

The Trump administration is pushing for a return to pre-Nixon days when US presidents could do whatever they wanted with presidential records.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

India's largest online youth movement has taken to the streets for the first time, calling for the resignation of the education minister.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

The rapid drift to Pauline Hanson's party hasn't been from the Coalition alone, but from Labor too – and the government should be very afraid.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Conservative female politicians are slow to champion feminism, but none more so than populist strongwomen such as Pauline Hanson.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Some say Australia's new deal is akin to forfeiting a deposit on a new Renault to get a top-of-the-range Tesla, but receiving a second-hand model with 200,000 kilometres on the clock.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Campaign mastermind Isaac Levido says the rise of Donald Trump and Pauline Hanson is not an unexpected phenomenon, but a direct consumer backlash against sluggish governments.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Global volatility and economic turbulence have dominated annual talks between the leaders of Australia and New Zealand, Anthony Albanese and Christopher Luxon.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

The prime minister and his Kiwi counterpart have traded light-hearted barbs in Noosa, masking a deep divide over capital gains tax as both leaders face looming domestic battles.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Victoria's democratic system is a bit dodgy. That's not a view from a keyboard warrior, but one shared by many across the political spectrum.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Federal Liberal president Tony Abbott said the appointment of Lincoln Folo was part of an urgent organisational renewal effort to combat the rising threat of minor parties.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

The government's proposed crackdown on gambling ads doesn't go as far as most Australians want. When you run the numbers, it's a win for the betting industry.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

The new Women's and Children's Hospital was priced at $3.2 billion in 2022, before inflation and other pressures sent costs in the construction industry soaring.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

This week the Coalition's weakness in Question Time reminded onlookers of Albanese's command of the Westminster system, while Labor insiders expressed their anxieties about One Nation's polling surge.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Pauline Hanson's decision to speak at the National Press Club this month shows the political landscape in Australia has changed. Has she changed with it?

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Both Labor and the Coalition are losing support to One Nation. But desperate voters are sending a clear signal to the other major parties. They want hope.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Anthony Albanese, probed about his overhaul of negative gearing and the CGT discount, said the need to "deliver real change for the better” justified changes.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Former prince Andrew pocketed income from cottages on the Windsor estate while living at Royal Lodge under a lease that required virtually no rent, a watchdog report has found.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

The rise of One Nation is partly behind the government's decision to take on tax reform in this year's budget, the prime minister has admitted.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

After Barnaby Joyce needed a do-over interview to explain One Nation's housing policy, a senator's interview was terminated after it turned into a 'train wreck'.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Ordinary Australians would probably be surprised by the collection of right-wing forces, particularly online, barracking for the One Nation leader.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Outspoken comments by the bureaucrat in charge of implementing the federal government's ban have stirred up opposition to the scheme.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

The inclusion of permanent residents in One Nation's foreign home ownership policy needed clarification after a series of confused interviews on Thursday and Friday.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Australia's sex discrimination commissioner condemns a proposal to reinstate biological definition of sexes as a "step back" for women.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce was caught short on Sky News last night when Andrew Bolt pressed him for details of the party's call to outlaw foreign ownership of housing in Australia.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Anthony Albanese says the government's tax reforms are proof it is "not here to simply occupy the space or pass the time".

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Clare Huppatz, the first woman to be appointed WA's chief health officer, takes up her role at a time when Ebola, diphtheria and the flu are public health concerns.  

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Politicians have been hesitant to say whether prices should rise or fall, as both sides of politics feel the pressure of trying to appease voters who own and voters who are trying to buy.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Former Nationals premier of Queensland Rob Borbidge says alarm bells are ringing within conservative ranks over surging support for One Nation, but he believes there is still time to prevent what some opinion polls suggest could be an electoral wipe-out. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

While Labor is increasingly concerned about the long-term threat of One Nation, this week its attention was squarely on more immediate problems. 

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

The "sheep” on Labor's backbench will become lambs to the slaughter if they can't find their voice before the next election.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

In an open letter, opposition MPs including frontbencher Andrew Hastie and deputy Nationals leader Darren Chester said: "Your proposed reforms do not go far enough.”

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

There is a fundamental frustration that AUKUS seems to be something that just happened. We woke up one morning and there it was. A surprise to the Australian people, a surprise to France, a surprise to Labor.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Anti-slavery commissioner Chris Evans said the Trump administration had conducted a "show trial” before proposing its new tariff.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

The former national security adviser, who served in Donald Trump's first administration, is now a prominent critic of the president.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Barnaby Joyce returns to Sky News to correct previous comments made about One Nation's housing policy.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Foreign Minister Penny Wong has told a parliamentary hearing she believes the allegations of Australian activists, who say they were sexually assaulted while detained by Israeli forces.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Barnaby Joyce tells Sky News that under One Nation, permanent Australian residents would not be able to buy a house. One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has said that under One Nation, foreign owners would be forced to sell.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Analysts have raised concerns the country could face a recession and stagflation due to the Iran war. But Michele Bullock is not one of them.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

The foreign minister defended her feminist credentials in a fiery Senate exchange in which she said she was open to meeting the flotilla activists.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

The 72-year-old Pauline Hanson says she hasn't changed, rather Australia just caught up to her. And she addresses talk of her becoming PM.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

The One Nation leader told the Inside Politics podcast that she would stand up to anyone if she were to lead the country.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Former West Australian editor Brett McCarthy, now an adviser to shadow attorney-general Michaelia Cash, praised Roberts-Smith despite his arrest on five counts of the war crime of murder.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Aged Care Minister Sam Rae has strongly defended an assessment tool for at-home funding support after ordering its urgent review.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

The Senate could team up to derail Labor's agenda, with the Coalition seeking a longer tax inquiry while the Greens want more time to investigate sweeping changes to the NDIS.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Australia's record of buying used naval boats is chequered, to say the least. Its decision to acquire three second-hand nuclear-powered submarines carries real risks.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

A cohort of former detainees deported to Nauru by the federal government have faced threats of violence and verbal abuse, independent MP Andrew Wilkie has revealed under parliamentary privilege.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 weeks ago)

The planned new tariff is to be slapped on dozens of countries that have allegedly failed to take action to prevent slavery and forced labour. 

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 weeks ago)

The prime minister defended the government's anti-slavery response, the justification of the US's latest tranche of tariffs

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 weeks ago)

The foreign minister tells Senate estimates her position is to believe the women who "come forward with these assertions" after activists aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla alleged sexual assault by Israeli forces. Look back on today's federal politics blog.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 weeks ago)

South Australia's Electoral Commission was aware that forcing First Nations voters to queue twice for the Voice election would be perceived as "discriminatory behaviour". Despite that, voters say it still happened and, in some cases, they were turned away.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 weeks ago)

There are so many angry, frustrated, pessimistic voters in Australia that One Nation, a party whose defining credo is racist and bigoted, will end up the official opposition. Enter Tony Abbott.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 weeks ago)

Most Australians appear to distrust and dislike artificial intelligence despite using technology more than people in other countries.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 weeks ago)

Fresh access to AI deemed too dangerous for public release has ramped up pressure on the government to respond to possible risks.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 weeks ago)

Hanson says women are voting for her in greater numbers because "women voters are seeing what I've warned about when it comes to these woke ideologies”.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 weeks ago)

In an interview with a US podcast, the US president says he was frustrated that Benjamin Netanyahu was "constantly fighting with Lebanon".

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 weeks ago)

The mega-project, one of the world's biggest pumped hydro schemes, will provide cheaper energy and prevent blackouts when coal exits, Snowy says.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 weeks ago)

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 weeks ago)

The ex-chief of Indonesia's free school meals program linked to food poisoning cases has been arrested after a corruption probe.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 weeks ago)

After the death of Kumanjayi Little Baby, the state of Alice Springs's town camps shocked the nation. Now, the man in charge of servicing them is speaking out.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 weeks ago)

AI is promising an economic and medical nirvana. But from Gandalf to people watching new data centres in their communities, fear of AI is growing.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 weeks ago)

New evidence pulled from the nation's sewers reveals just how dominant the illegal tobacco market is – with up to four in five cigarettes now of the illicit variety.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 weeks ago)

Scrutiny of AUKUS's delivery reveals two "optimal pathways" for Australia's submarines.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 weeks ago)

The Trump administration has proposed an extra 12.5 per cent tariff on Australia, angering the federal government.

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