Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (55 minutes ago)

The Productivity Commission has proposed a revolutionary overhaul of the company tax system – something no other nation has implemented.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (An hour ago)

Australia's top domestic spy chief Mike Burgess has used a speech to give his most detailed account yet of the scale of the threat of foreign interference. 

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 hours ago)

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 hours ago)

More than 35,000 Australians have exposed themselves to danger by boasting on professional networking sites that they have access to sensitive information.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 hours ago)

The Albanese government has considered itself a friend of Israel. But Benjamin Netanyahu's callous mistreatment of Palestinians has gone too far.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 hours ago)

The United States president has warned that Palestinian recognition could threaten talks as Labor ministers on Thursday welcomed international momentum for a two-state solution.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (5 hours ago)

Gareth Ward is expected to be stripped of his seat in parliament, his salary, and entitlements when the NSW government exercises a power for the first time in more than a century to expel him from the lower house.  

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (5 hours ago)

The government's pre-election pledge to cut student loans by 20 per cent proved incredibly popular with voters. But will it help to fix issues in the tertiary education system?

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (5 hours ago)

Kash Patel, who is a loyalist of US President Donald Trump, quietly stopped in Sydney before travelling to New Zealand to announce the United States would expand its FBI office in Wellington.  

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (5 hours ago)

France, the United Kingdom and now Canada say they will recognise a Palestinian state at the next United Nations General Assembly in September, putting pressure on Australia to explain its own timeline.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (6 hours ago)

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke has confirmed he had dinner with FBI director Kash Patel in Sydney, saying he "enjoyed" his meeting with the Donald Trump appointee.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (8 hours ago)

Western leaders are vowing to recognise Palestine for different purposes, but some advocates for the cause have come to believe it is a sideshow.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (8 hours ago)

More seats have been confirmed as vote counting continues following the Tasmanian state election. Former Labor leader, now independent David O'Byrne has finished ahead of current leader Dean Winter, and Liberals Simon Behrakis and Nic Street have lost their seats.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (11 hours ago)

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says the move is predicated on the Palestinian Authority's commitment to reforms, including general elections in 2026 without Hamas's involvement.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (11 hours ago)

An interim report by Queensland's productivity commission estimates productivity in the construction industry has fallen by about 9 per cent since 2018.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (11 hours ago)

Labor senator Josh Dolega has used his first speech in the Senate to "give a sense of hope" to young queer people who have ambitions to enter politics.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (12 hours ago)

Zali Steggall warns that the costs of climate change must be a focus at the government's productivity roundtable, with the issue already costing billions. She says a levy on fossil fuel exports could help fund climate disaster prevention. 

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (12 hours ago)

Anthony Albanese's economic roundtable has been inundated with ideas to lift Australians' living standards. Here are nine that would actually work.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (13 hours ago)

One year since governments responded to the disability royal commission, those who poured their heart into it are wondering what has come of their efforts.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (14 hours ago)

Giving his first speech in the Senate, Tasmanian Labor's Josh Dolega tells young queer people: "I hope you know that you're seen, that you're understood and you are represented."

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (15 hours ago)

WA recorded the highest inflation rate in the country over the past year, despite state government claims "the inflation beast has been tamed". 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (17 hours ago)

Local government elected officials in Victoria say they are being threatened, abused and harassed online and in person, but they have no protection.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (19 hours ago)

The Greens have 10 senators and the balance of power. But leader Larissa Waters has a task ahead of her with a party split over transgender rights and a bleed of supporters to the teals.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (19 hours ago)

Donald Trump has appointed ambassadors to more than 50 countries, including New Zealand. But Australia is not among them.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (19 hours ago)

Australia now has some cover to follow the UK and France on a Palestinian state without fearing a backlash from the US.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (19 hours ago)

Australia is months away from implementing its world-first social media ban for teens. But questions still remain around how the restrictions will work. 

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A day ago)

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A day ago)

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A day ago)

Australia will recognise a Palestinian state, it is only a matter of when and how as the PM bides his time waiting for the right moment.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A day ago)

Rock band The Rubens were scheduled to play for Google on Wednesday night, but the company pulled the show, saying it risked being disrespectful.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A day ago)

Footage shows cassowaries crossing Kennedy Highway before and after the AI technology's use.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A day ago)

The planned cuts of around 100 non-teaching jobs at TAFE NSW has been announced despite the Minns Labor government adding 500 positions to the institution since 2023.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A day ago)

Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen says Australia can't "wish away fossil fuels" to reduce carbon emissions, and must build more renewable energy infrastructure.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A day ago)

The Zionist Federation of Australia says it is important to recognise the suffering of innocent civilians in Gaza while seeking to remove Hamas from power.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A day ago)

Atlassian co-founder Scott Farquhar says Australia should seek to host data centres for governments around the world and wants politicians to use AI every day.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A day ago)

The Reserve Bank was split on its decision to hold rates earlier this month. In two weeks, it will have no choice but to cut.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A day ago)

NSW MP Gareth Ward has been taken into custody following his conviction for sexually abusing two young men. A judge has revoked his bail ahead of sentencing. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A day ago)

Champion greyhound Raider's Guide died following a race fall in Launceston on Monday night, prompting renewed calls to shut down the industry in Tasmania.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A day ago)

Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen says Australia can't "wish away fossil fuels" to reduce carbon emissions, and must build more renewable energy infrastructure. Follow live.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A day ago)

Federal Liberal MP Andrew Hastie says he is "disappointed" by WA Liberal leader Basil Zempilas's comments on a motion to scrap a target of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A day ago)

Anthony Albanese will present world leaders with Australia's ban on under-16s using apps such as YouTube and Instagram at an event in New York.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A day ago)

The prime minister vows not to be intimidated by Google, as the tech giant threatens to sue over the government's decision to ban YouTube for children under 16.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A day ago)

In a joint statement with 14 countries including several who already recognise a Palestinian state, Australia welcomed a series of commitments by the Palestinian Authority which could pave the way to recognition.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

The Office of Local Government suspends councillor Andrew Thaler for another three months, adding he failed to "express or demonstrate any remorse" for his behaviour.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

US President Donald Trump has told reporters aboard Air Force One that Jeffrey Epstein "took" young woman from his Mar-a-Lago spa.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

Both Anthony Albanese and Sussan Ley are past convenors of the Parliamentary Friends of Palestine group when they were backbenchers, more than two decades ago.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

Australia's second-biggest bank wants workers to pay less tax by increasing thresholds to keep up with inflation.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification — a global initiative that assesses the extent of hunger suffered by a population — says the worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

Australians Robert Martin and Tan Safi are among activists who remain in Israel after being detained while trying to transport aid to Gaza.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

The MPs demanded ambition as leading economist Ross Garnaut said Australia's renewable energy transition was "sick”.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

Anthony Albanese brings out his Medicare card again as Labor is grilled in parliament about its bulk-billing pledge.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

After a federal election dominated by housing policy, the Coalition's first move is to try to reverse a tax incentive that the building industry believes will ease the rental squeeze.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

Australian officials do not know how high a tariff Donald Trump will place on the country's exports to the US and there are no signs a deal is imminent.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

The approval of a solar farm in just 30 business days is an example of how the renewables rollout could be sped up if Australia's ageing environment laws were rewritten, the government says. 

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

Australia has taken comfort in the fact it had the lowest tariff for exports to the United States, but the risk of that changing leaves the Prime Minister exposed.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

Anthony Albanese expresses his astonishment at claims made by Israel's prime minister that "there is no starvation in Gaza", telling Labor MPs that statement is "beyond comprehension".

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

Anthony Albanese has rubbished claims from the Israeli embassy on Monday that there was no starvation in Gaza.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

The Victorian government will move to make it even harder for repeat offenders to get bail when parliament resumes today, while the opposition and Greens will scrutinise scandals in the childcare sector.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

NSW Premier Chris Minns said the "unplanned disruption" would risk public safety as the Palestinian Action Group called on authorities to "stand on the right side of history". 

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

AI regulation will be the union's key demand to Treasurer Jim Chalmers' economic reform round table in August.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

For the first time, the two leading human rights organisations have called for the international community to put pressure on the Netanyahu government to change course in the Palestinian territory.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

The Israeli embassy has rejected Anthony Albanese's claim that Israel has breached international law in Gaza, branding news of starvation as propaganda.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

Pauline Hanson wants to take advantage of Sussan Ley's move to a more centrist style, describing herself as Australia's answer to Nigel Farage, leader of the UK's Reform.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

From Sudan to Vietnam and Gaza, images of suffering children have become totems of humanitarian catastrophes and prompted hard questions about photographic ethics.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese tells Question Time the government is in discussions with other countries about the recognition of the State of Palestine. Take a look back at the day's coverage.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

It was John Howard who described the Liberal Party as a "broad church" of voters, but its inability to agree on climate policy could narrow it considerably, writes Keane Bourke. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

One of the world's top climate diplomats has urged the federal government to commit to an ambitious 2035 target to cut carbon emissions.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese tells Question Time the government is in discussions with other countries about the recognition of the State of Palestine. Follow live.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

The government says the move is designed to ensure that crossbench MPs are represented in parliamentary committees that scrutinise legislation.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

French President Emmanuel Macron's move to announce France's intention to recognise Palestine in September renews conversations about the issue in Australia.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

The Coalition demands Prime Minister Anthony Albanese "produce the facts", challenging his assertion that Israel has "clearly" breached international law by blocking aid into Gaza.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

The outcome appears set to lift prices for American consumers and hurt foreign sales for European companies.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

At least 30 people are dead and more than 200,000 people displaced as the two South-East Asian neighbours accuse each other of launching artillery strikes across contested territory.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

MP Kate Chaney is set to introduce a bill to criminalise the use of AI tools purpose-built to create child sexual abuse material, with the independent saying the urgent issue cannot wait for the government's wider response to artificial intelligence.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

The deal, which sees European imports to the US levied a flat 15 per cent tariff, will affect a third of global trade. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

Anthony Albanese signals a focus on Labor's election promises even as speculation builds about tax changes planned for August's roundtable.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has rightly condemned Israel for breaching international law, but damning statements alone will not stop the killing.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

Australians are voicing a strong desire for the country to assert more independence from the United States amid Donald Trump's turbulent presidency.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

The prime minister wants to recognise Palestine. The question is one of timing and how to ensure an Australian intervention has the maximum diplomatic impact. 

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

The prime minister accused Israel of breaking international law in Gaza, but poured cold water on the idea that Australia will imminently recognise Palestine.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

Labor's decision to make YouTube's threat public before the platform itself shows its resolve in taking on tech giants whose power has grown under the Trump administration.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

The prime minister says Australia would not recognise a Palestinian state "imminently" but would "work constructively" towards doing so. 

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

Don Farrell has U-turned on his claim that US President Donald Trump raised restrictions on beef imports with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

Vowing to be a modern, optimistic and visible governor-general, Sam Mostyn has adopted a "culture of care" as a key focus of her term. So how has she done that over her first year in the job? And can she help Australia during these polarised times? 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

Insiders host David Speers discusses the week in politics with Samantha Maiden, Paul Sakkal and Shalailah Medhora.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

A confronting report from the prisons inspector this week laid bare the desperate conditions endured by WA inmates — and the blame lies at the feet of the WA government, writes Keane Bourke.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says the decision to remove restrictions on US beef imports was made "independently" of government.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (5 days ago)

Mike Bowers talks the week in political cartoons with Brendan Esposito.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (5 days ago)

It was a big week for the re-elected Albanese government. The new parliament sat for the first time, with Labor's dominance on show, and an old argument over climate targets erupted, exposing divisions in a demoralised Coalition.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (5 days ago)

Anthony Albanese says Israel's decision to stop food deliveries into the Gaza strip is an international law violation.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (5 days ago)

This week David Speers interviews Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

As China seeks to expand its influence, the Albanese government has found a new way to help a critical neighbour.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

The Labor optics of dynamism and the Coalition optics of renewal only emphasise the ways in which both parties are falling short.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

The federal government had $637 million in active consulting contracts in the last six months, compared to $514 million in the half year before that.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (5 days ago)

The WA Liberal Party supports a motion to abandon a target of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, putting added pressure on Australian Opposition Leader Sussan Ley to drop the policy for the federal party

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (5 days ago)

Voters in Taiwan are casting ballots on whether to recall one-fifth of the island's parliament, all from the major opposition party, in a move supporters hope will send a message to China. 

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

If anything, the moral outrage over Trump's doings only galvanises his fervent supporters in his defence.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (6 days ago)

TasWater has provided details on where the $1.7 billion in revenue — gained through proposed water bill hikes — would be spent. The utility argues its trying to break the cycle of underinvestment.  

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (6 days ago)

US President Donald Trump says Hamas didn't want to make a ceasefire deal in Gaza.  

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (6 days ago)

The Centre for Policy Development's Andrew Hudson joins David Speers.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (6 days ago)

Conservative lobby group Advance used unblurred images of children taken from the YouTube accounts of education organisations without their consent, an ABC NEWS Verify investigation has found.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (6 days ago)

Anthony Albanese's second term and commanding majority provide the chance to make structural change to keep Australia's wealth machine going.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (6 days ago)

In the weeks since securing an election triumph, dozens of senior political staff with decades of experience have quit the Albanese government.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (6 days ago)

The prime minister stopped short of following France and moving to recognise a Palestinian state as Gaza faces a "humanitarian catastrophe”.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (6 days ago)

The group of friends who grew up with the future prime minister recall his humble origins, but also his teenage declaration that he would be a politician.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (6 days ago)

The Albanese government has insisted the move has nothing to do with trade talks with the US but the White House has vowed to use it to pressure other countries.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (6 days ago)

Three commissioners tasked with getting the trouble-plagued Nedlands council in order say the referral of the local government to WA's corruption watchdog came as "a surprise".

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (6 days ago)

US President Donald Trump has celebrated Australia's decision to lift biosecurity import restrictions on US beef, saying his country will "sell so much" beef to Australia.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (6 days ago)

The prime minister says the conflict in Gaza has stolen "far too many innocent lives", repeating his desire to see a two-state solution after France moved to recognise a Palestinian state.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (6 days ago)

Colleagues and friends remember a thoughtful man of the law, champion of the Antarctic and "one of the funniest men".

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (6 days ago)

US President Donald Trump has celebrated Australia's decision to lift biosecurity import restrictions on US beef, saying his country will "sell so much" beef to Australia. Follow live.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (6 days ago)

Parties across the political spectrum are planning to back a Coalition plan to make decisions on MP staffing allocations independent of politics.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Data collected from 30,000 households failed to meet the Australian Bureau of Statistics' standards and was never released. It's a particularly bad time for it, too.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

US President Donald Trump and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell have voiced disagreement in front of journalists during a visit to the Federal Reserve building.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

There is concern that invitees to Labor's Economic Reform Roundtable are not diverse enough.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

It comes a month after the US president and the world's richest man publicly clashed over a controversial tax and spending bill.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Business, university, technology and farming groups have combined to propose a raft of solutions to Australia's growth malaise.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

At least 12 people, including a boy, have been killed in escalating border clashes, the Thai government says.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

The government insists the move to allow US beef into Australia is the result of a biosecurity review rather than trade talks, but the Trump administration undercut that on Thursday.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

An Albanese government assistant minister has used a parliamentary speech to call out the campaign, saying he hoped the police were able to "out" the people behind it.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

After repeatedly arguing it wouldn't trade away biosecurity standards to assuage Trump, the government now argues it is satisfied with improvements in US cattle traceability. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Tony Simpson says it is well within the WA government's power to authorise the effective takeover of the Shire of Coolgardie by the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

China has been ramping up its military and diplomatic pressure campaign against Taiwan.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Australia lifts biosecurity restrictions on beef imports from the United States, one of the key grievances that led the Trump administration to impose tariffs on Australia.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

The focus on improving access is only one part of the problem when it comes to child care, as the government has discovered.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

International students spend twice as much as Australian residents and work fewer hours on average, but they were just one of many factors that fuelled inflation.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Donald Trump has been peeved by restrictions on beef exports to Australia, but a change to biosecurity rules is unlikely to prove a tariff game changer.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Julie Collins has been peppered with questions before cutting her press conference short, over the government's decision to allow US beef imports into Australia.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Anthony Albanese's three-day talkfest on the economy is heavy on tax and policies. But it's missing what has made our lives better for 200 years - invention.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Candace Owens, a right-wing American podcaster, has repeatedly claimed the French president's wife used to be a man.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Workers employed under the award system could not have penalty or overtime rates bargained away under new government legislation to be introduced today.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Labor refused freedom of information requests in its first term more often than the Morrison government despite campaigning on a platform of integrity.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

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

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

The news of the day as interpreted by our talented artists, illustrators and cartoonists.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

David Littleproud says achieving the 2050 goal is "tearing apart” regional communities "for an ideology that is not going to sustain an energy grid”.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Almost 80 Labor branches have passed motions calling for Australia to impose sanctions on the Netanyahu government and sever military ties with Israel.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has told the ABC's Afternoon Briefing that a second $800 million AUKUS payment was made to the US earlier this year, as scheduled. Take a look back at the day's coverage here.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

By the time the prime minister called an end to Question Time, all those who'd started the proceedings had survived the debut outing for the 48th parliament. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

A powerful commission of inquiry into Queensland's child safety sector holds its first public hearing, promising to review the hundreds of children reported missing from placements.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Australia's small and once-influential political parties have turned to their own internecine wars on the day the lopsided 48th federal parliament opened for business.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

The inevitable dull roar from opposition benches signalled question time was back. Emphasis on dull. And roar? An exaggeration.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Nedlands council elections are being delayed until March, after the council was sacked and administrators appointed to step in amid a departmental investigation.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

US President Donald Trump accuses predecessor of being 'seditious' over allegations of Russian interference.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

New wind turbines, solar panels and big batteries might be the shiny face of the renewable energy transition, but it won't mean much without a lot more transmission lines. Will WA's latest plan help?

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

US President Donald Trump announces a trade deal with Japan that he says will result in Japan investing $US550 billion ($842 billion) into the United States and paying a 15 per cent reciprocal tariff.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Donald Trump, who has a history of attacking his predecessor, reposts on his Truth Social account a fake video showing Obama being arrested in handcuffs in the Oval Office.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

One of the first pieces of legislation from the re-elected Albanese government could lead to the effective forced closure of childcare centres that cannot guarantee child safety.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

In Israel, the idea the war has gone on for too long is utterly mainstream, as is the idea Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is at least partly to blame.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Donald Trump says DOJ interviewing Ghislaine Maxwell "would be appropriate". 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

As parliament returns this week for the first time since the election, the top item of business for Labor is its election promise to reduce student loans by 20 per cent. 

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Following his expulsion over comments on transgender rights, the co-founder of the Australian Greens claims dozens have been expelled for speaking their mind.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Childcare centres could have their funding stripped over a single breach of quality standards under new powers to be introduced to parliament today.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Labor MP Ali France has paid tribute to her late son in her first parliamentary speech.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

The IHRA working definition of antisemitism is a lighthouse, not a bludgeon. Antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal has called for punitive action when patterned institutional antisemitism is not dealt with.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Demonstrating the political gulf over climate action, Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce declared he would use the new term to campaign for the scrapping of the Paris Agreement.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Labor's Ali France says beating Peter Dutton at the May election was an "epic" seven-year journey against "one of the most prolific politicians of our time."

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