Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (13 minutes ago)

The March 21 poll is a referendum on the viability of Australia's existing two-party system.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (13 minutes ago)

Some call for the families to be rescued from the camps in Syria. Others, haunted by their own suffering at the hands of Islamic State, are afraid of their return.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (12 hours ago)

The review received hundreds of submissions and was finished months ago, but today the Liberal Party's federal executive revealed it would never be made public.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (12 hours ago)

The deposed Liberal leader closes the door behind her and a byelection will test the mettle of those who plotted against her.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (14 hours ago)

The review has become mired in controversy since Peter Dutton raised serious concerns over its contents in December.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (14 hours ago)

Police said they were called to the scene after the National Workers Alliance, an ethno-nationalist organisation, gatecrashed a community event held by Shadow Treasurer Tim Wilson in Melbourne on Thursday night.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (14 hours ago)

Negative gearing is back on the agenda. Labor says it's just looking at possible policy. The Greens are squeezing the government for big changes. Here's what it all means.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (17 hours ago)

Like many Australians, dairy farmer Nick Flanagan finds his WhatsApp group chat is a good barometer of what people are thinking about politics. Its contents will worry the Coalition.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (19 hours ago)

A government source said it would make sense to consider changes to negative gearing and capital gains tax together, but that no decision was close to being made.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (19 hours ago)

Sussan Ley's resignation has triggered a brutal byelection battle – with One Nation to test its recent polling success against both Coalition parties and popular independents.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (19 hours ago)

Government sources have confirmed Treasury is examining possible changes to negative gearing which would limit the practice to two properties per investor.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (22 hours ago)

Two weeks after losing the Liberal leadership, Sussan Ley officially handed in her resignation letter. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (22 hours ago)

Behind the scenes, the troops are carefully managed. Opinions are expressed at factional meetings and the prime minister meets with the factional conveners. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (23 hours ago)

Student protesters gather in Tehran, shouting "Long Live the Shah!"

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (24 hours ago)

The government is warning the Environmental Defenders Office it risks losing its funding after a series of high-profile court cases against a major gas producer.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (24 hours ago)

Voters want their political leaders to keep it real, but the PM and the opposition leader don't always pass that test.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (24 hours ago)

If you're an Australian republican, you might see this scandal involving the man Anthony Albanese has called a "grub” as a pivotal moment.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A day ago)

The anti-immigrant populist leader has used online posts recently to falsely claim Labor's post-Bondi hate crimes laws were being used by "political elites” to jail her.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A day ago)

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A day ago)

Nine childcare services that have failed to lift standards will only be named if the federal government decides to cut their taxpayer funding.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A day ago)

New laws will grant immunity to security officers testifying at the Royal Commission on Anti-Semitism and Social Cohesion.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A day ago)

ASIO has cleared this cohort of security concerns but the government still insists it will not bring back anyone – women or children.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

Jacinda Ardern had been living with her family in the US, but a spokesperson says they are now "basing themselves out of Australia".  

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

The prime minister was this week evacuated from the Lodge over a bomb threat and later got stuck in a tit-for-tat with a former Australian of the Year.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

Anthony Albanese knew what he was saying and who he was saying it to when he chose to describe Grace Tame as "difficult”.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

WA Opposition Leader Basil Zempilas apologises to a Labor backbencher who says she felt "intimidated" by him when he stood over her in parliament on Wednesday afternoon.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

The fate of the "ISIS brides" is inextricably linked to constitutional facts but the debate about their future is not taking place in a legal chamber — it is being fought in the court of public opinion.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

The children of women with ISIS links stuck in a Syrian refugee camp talk about their attempt to leave last week, saying they dream of one day buying toys and ice cream in Australia.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

Grace Tame criticises Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's qualified apology after he described her as "difficult", saying "what a patronising cop-out".               

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

Trade Minister Don Farrell hopes Australia can dodge a higher tariff rate being imposed by the US, saying trade officials overnight confirmed the tariff rate on Australia would remain at 10 per cent — at least for now.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles says the situation in the Middle East is "fast-moving" as the government moves to evacuate dependents of Australian diplomats from Israel and Lebanon.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

The hints are getting less subtle and Labor's plans on capital gains tax are becoming clearer, but a proposal laden with compromises risks undermining any intergenerational argument.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

It's tempting to treat the evacuation of the prime minister from the Lodge this week as a bizarre outlier but that would miss the point.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

Just a day before being sworn in as the Northern Territory's new representative for King Charles III, NT Administrator David Connolly has apologised over a social media furore.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

Donald Trump's showmanship and supreme confidence can easily distract from the fact that he had a lot riding on his State of the Union address.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

The Tasmanian government has labelled claims it reneged on a pay agreement as "incorrect" and says it is disappointed the unions are labelling recent talks in that way.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

WA's political leaders are at odds over the sentence given to obstetrician Rhys Bellinge for a fatal drunken car accident, with Premier Roger Cook backing it and Opposition Leader Basil Zempilas saying it was "on the light side."

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

Opposition leader Angus Taylor responds to SA Liberal leader Ashton Hurn's criticism of her federal counterparts, as he joins her on the state campaign trail in Adelaide.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

Four million people are tipped to live in Western Australia by 2043 according to a new report which warns the boom could be derailed by a housing shortage. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

Donald Trump takes a swipe at the US Supreme Court's 'unfortunate' ruling against his administration's tariff policy in State of the Union address.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

Donald Trump invites Olympic gold medal-winning US men's hockey team to Congress during his State of the Union address.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has been listed as a terror group, but there are concerns those with close links to the entity have entered Australia.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

Anthony Albanese said he meant the former Australian of the Year had had a difficult life, after labelling her "difficult”.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

The federal government will test a new national warning system on Monday, July 27. You won't be able to opt out.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

Zvi Yehezkeli, who said 100,000 Palestinians should have been killed at the start of the war in Gaza, is scheduled to visit Australia for events in March.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

After years in a wind-blown camp in north-eastern Syria, the girls say they just want to come back to this country.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

If the government doesn't seize this opportunity, take a big risk and invest its political capital in fixing the generational inequity diminishing our society, it will have wasted its moment.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

The nation's peak veterans' organisation argues delays are sapping morale and unfairly smearing those who have served in uniform. 

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

The bomb threat that forced Anthony Albanese to evacuate The Lodge is the latest sign of a political climate growing steadily harsher, where threats are harder to dismiss as isolated incidents.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

In a letter published in the Sydney-based Middle East Times newspaper in April last year, Rifi urged voters in Burke's electorate of Watson to reject a hardline pro-Palestinian independent campaign to unseat him.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

The Reserve Bank is under increasing pressure to consider a rate rise before the budget in May after new figures showed inflation growing through the start of the year.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

Dozens of new seats could be created under a Labor plan, allowing the Liberals to inject fresh blood into their party room. But the opposition is split on whether to support the move.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

Council amalgamation is being discussed in South Australia, where multiple local governments have been ranked as unsustainable.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has called for the heat to be taken out of political debate following a bomb threat on The Lodge.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

Vested interests on both sides are lining up to lob accusations at each other with all the subtlety and nuance of a UFC cage fight.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says his ministers must find savings for a May budget that insiders say will be pitched as a belt-tightening exercise.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

The rising popularity of EVs has reversed a stubborn trend in the nation's pollution.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

The incident at Mr Albanese's Canberra residence led to the prime minister being taken to another location for several hours.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been forced to evacuate from The Lodge, his residence in Canberra, while police searched the premises following a security threat. 

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

Margaret Tighe's lifelong fight against abortion, euthanasia and stem cell research reshaped state and federal elections, hardened political debate and enraged her opponents.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

Virginia Bell delivered a reality check on the royal commission's first day. She is operating in a constrained environment and cannot make everyone happy. 

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

Former Reserve Bank governor Bernie Fraser also told the inquiry a cartel "including politicians” was opposed to anything that would cut house prices.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

It took 15 months to narrow a field of 270 AI experts to 12 appointees for an AI authority, at a cost of almost $200,000, before it was suddenly scrapped by the federal government.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

A tense political fight is brewing over the future of laws to compensate survivors of institutional child sexual abuse, as the government faces pressure to expand its scope beyond just churches and religious institutions.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

In his first public comments, Jamal Rifi, the Sydney doctor organising the families' return, said the prime minister's tough talk was "the biggest obstacle”.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

The South Australian Liberal Party has indicated it may direct preferences to One Nation ahead of Labor and the Greens. It comes as prominent Liberal senator Alex Antic was spotted having drinks with One Nation's lead SA candidate Cory Bernardi, amid speculation over a possible defection.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

Authorities in Solomon Islands deny claims that Chinese police will run a new police post in Honiara's Chinatown district, but say Chinese police will instead "visit" the site.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

The prime minister has revealed he voluntarily wrote to his UK counterpart to offer his support for removing Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor from the line of succession.  

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

Major upgrades to Hobart's power grid to supply the Macquarie Point stadium are yet to be finalised or costed, with the final estimate for the precinct's energy demand increasing by almost 50 per cent in a year.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

The former prince, stripped of his royal title last year over connections to Jeffrey Epstein, is eighth in line to the throne after the families of princes William and Harry.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

For 30 years, Hanson has gone out of her way to divide Australians. The Coalition of 2026 are falling for it.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

Liberal leader Angus Taylor spent the first week of his tenure talking about the group in Syria to make his case that Australia must "shut the door”.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (5 days ago)

Tougher WA driving laws are expected to be introduced to parliament after a drunk driver, who was charged with killing a 32-year-old, was allowed to drive just two months after the incident.  

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

The investigation into the December 14 massacre begins public hearings this week with a statement by Virginia Bell, the former High Court judge who will head the inquiry.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

Bill Kelty was instrumental to the tax reforms of the 1980s and 1990s. He says old people like himself don't need more out of the tax system.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (5 days ago)

Save the Children calls on political parties to "dial down the political rhetoric" and says no Australian child should be left "stranded".

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

The government is lobbying the US for an exemption from its new round of "unjustified” tariffs as it considers a similar move to protect local industry.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (5 days ago)

The completion of the new Midland train station brings an end to Labor's landmark Metronet project. At a cost of $15 billion, the project's final test now begins — whether West Australians believe it was money well spent.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (5 days ago)

Anthony Albanese says the upcoming by-election will be a test for both Angus Taylor and David Littleproud in how they handle One Nation. Follow live. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (5 days ago)

Mike Huckabee suggests Israel could claim a biblical right to territory far beyond its borders in the Middle East.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (5 days ago)

A key government commitment to protect children from sexual predators will not be "fully functional" for at least three years.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

A planned visit to Australia in March by a controversial Israeli journalist is in doubt because of inflammatory remarks about the war in Gaza.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

The pull of the past can be deceptive. It is not only that the past was not the same for everyone. It was often not the past we think we remember, either.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

The college of GPs has been influential over government policy. Its latest call would dampen future election fights over Medicare by taking key decisions out of government hands.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (6 days ago)

As an eating disorder clinic prepares to open its doors near Mandurah south of Perth, a residential eating disorder clinic is still in the planning stages despite being on the cards for years. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (6 days ago)

Tony Burke has also provided an update on the cohort of 34 Australians seeking to leave a Syrian refugee camp.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (6 days ago)

The Coalition wants laws targeting NGOs and individuals who help people linked to terrorism back into the country.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (6 days ago)

A UK nuclear-powered attack submarine will spend a month in Australia despite the problems plaguing the British navy's ability to send its vessels to sea.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (6 days ago)

In the final week before the election writs were issued, the SA Premier trained his sights on One Nation while the Liberals fought for oxygen. Is it a sign of the campaign ahead?

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (6 days ago)

High-spending premiers remain popular and seemingly impervious to the rising cost-of-living anxiety piling pressure on the Albanese government.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (6 days ago)

The new Liberal Party leader wants to test how committed immigrants are to Australian values. But policing the values of freedom and tolerance can be precarious.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (6 days ago)

People earning less than $120,000 a year are being priced out of the property market as builders chase the high end, and governments support the poorest.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (6 days ago)

After a deadly Hong Kong fire that killed 168 people and left thousands homeless in November, authorities have announced a buy-out offer for owners. 

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Ahead of the royal commission starting on Tuesday, Josh Frydenberg has called for the inquiry to confront extremism and "rebuild a culture of tolerance”.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

While the wildlife of Heard and McDonald islands are likely to be spared another round of trade talks, the confusion of coming months will weigh on the economy.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Housing, health and household stress — that's what WA's opposition leader says he's focused on in 2026 as he and his party face an uphill battle against the state government.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

In the past few days, in a series of largely ignored milestones overshadowed by news of Angus Taylor's new frontbench, Albanese overtook Scott Morrison and John Curtin to become the 12th-longest serving prime minister.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Russian President Vladimir Putin is betting that the West and Ukraine will run out of resources first.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Buried in the fine print of Anthony Albanese's harsh words is a caveat: almost all of these people are entitled by law to come back to Australia from Syria.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Donald Trump is significantly more unpopular than Xi Jinping, with almost half of Australians considering the US an equally big or bigger threat than China.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Barnaby Joyce wants to transform the One Nation leader's party from personality cult to a modern political movement. But is it actually just one untransformable woman?

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

US President Donald Trump says he will direct federal agencies to begin "identifying and releasing" government files related to UFOs and aliens.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

One Nation senator Pauline Hanson accuses the government of trying to put her "back in jail", after police received reports of a crime in relation to the senator's inflammatory comments about Muslims during a media interview.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

The Liberal Party's new deputy leader made high-profile mistakes in the last election but she knows being disliked is part of the job.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Angus Taylor says the Coalition is willing to help the government strengthen legislation so women with ties to Islamic State are not issued Australian passports. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

The rifts in Australia's social cohesion can be seen in the blow-up over the so-called ISIS brides and their children, who want to come to Australia.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Can Angus Taylor re-establish the Coalition's credibility? He could start by turning the volume down and addressing the opposition's failings.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

This story is not merely about the possibility of the Coalition moving to the right. It's about One Nation outbidding them by moving even further that way too.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Three days of parliamentary hearings will take evidence from some of the nation's pre-eminent economists – and an international financial organisation – backing changes to capital gains tax.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

This week, the new opposition leader revealed his shadow cabinet while Pauline Hanson spun through a cycle she knows well. 

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

The opposition said not all Australians were entitled to receive a passport, calling for the government to "shut the door” on their attempted return.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

The last Grand Prix in Adelaide was held in 1995 before its move across the border to Victoria. Now, Adelaide has poached the MotoGP — but will it be enough to appease resentful SA Formula One fans?

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Roger Cook criticises Alcoa's environmental record for being "not at the level we expect", after the US mining giant agreed to pay $55 million for clearing a native jarrah forest in WA's south without approval.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

The prime minister condemned the One Nation leader's remarks about Muslims on Thursday, and a Muslim former One Nation candidate has done the same.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

When I travelled to Roj camp in 2022 I looked into the eyes of a girl whose frame was so small and frail that she looked much younger than my own daughter, who was five at the time. She was showing signs of stunting from poor nutrition.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

The prime minister says he has "nothing but contempt" for Australian women who travelled to Syria to join ISIS.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Religious groups and unions have expressed their concern about a Queensland government move to ban the use of certain phrases as part of an antisemitism crackdown.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Australia will cease to be a low-debt country and be more vulnerable in a future crisis without a combination of spending restraint and tax reform, a new report has warned.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

State and federal budgets will have been in the red for 20 years by 2028. A new report says workers face more tax to get them in the black.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

As the opposition's chief economic policymakers and advocates in the lead-up to the election just nine months ago, Taylor and Hume contributed mightily to the Coalition's landslide defeat. But let's face it: who hasn't made a mistake or two at work?

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

The father of a Melbourne-born girl who died at 15 in a Jerusalem suicide bombing says Grace Tame's calls to "globalise the intifada” have grim consequences.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

New Liberal deputy leader Jane Hume says the Albanese administration is "the worst government in the nation's history”. Big call, given the competition.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

The oil industry says it is open to tough laws to prevent Russian-origin oil from entering Australia, increasing pressure on the government to take action.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

WA Labor MPs call on a Nationals member to apologise for what they say was a racist comment directed at one of their colleagues.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Peter Beattie and Bob Carr have called on Labor to run in the Farrer byelection and preference the Liberals ahead of Pauline Hanson's One Nation.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

On the same day Labor faced criticism for real wages falling for the first time in two years, Wilson made a striking call on how the nation could keep a lid on inflation.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Major car brands are staring down the barrel of multi-million-dollar penalties for exceeding their emissions, the first results of the federal government's climate laws for new vehicles have revealed.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Treasurer Jim Chalmers says Philip Lowe was critical of the government over spending because it did not re-appoint him as RBA governor. 

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Here are the five key Labor-Liberal ministerial match-ups that will help determine the success or failure of Angus Taylor's opposition.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

A Housing Industry Association report says rising land prices are blocking the construction of new homes.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

The One Nation leader qualified her earlier remarks, which had been met with condemnation, while reiterating calls for tougher vetting processes for Muslim migrants.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

The home affairs minister has temporarily blocked an Australian citizen linked to ISIS fighters from returning home from Syria.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

This southern New South Wales town of Gerogery is typically dead on a Monday night, but that all changed when One Nation came to town.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

At $90 billion, a Sydney-Newcastle high-speed rail link would be the most expensive single piece of infrastructure ever built.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Senior Liberal senator James Paterson has warned that his party is facing extinction. He has every right to be worried.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

The home affairs minister earlier confirmed he had used a temporary exclusion order to bar one of the 34 Australian citizens from returning home.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

One of Joe Biden's former top advisers says Australia, the US, Japan and the Philippines should move away from a "Frankenstein model of alliances” and unite.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Pauline Hanson's suggestion that there are no "good” Muslims was quickly condemned by Matt Canavan, while Hanson's colleague Barnaby Joyce appeared to equivocate when asked.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Eleven family groups – 34 individuals – who have been stuck in Syrian internment camps for years are trying to make their way home. Why were they in Syria in the first place?

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 weeks ago)

The government is facing a collapse in tobacco excise – $67 billion in a decade. A Liberal MP says it's time to cut the tax to undermine the illegal trade in cigarettes.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 weeks ago)

Opposition Leader Angus Taylor revealed his Liberal frontbench on Tuesday afternoon, four days after toppling Sussan Ley.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 weeks ago)

The new Liberal leader announces his shadow ministry, elevating prominent right-faction supporters including West Australian MP Andrew Hastie.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 weeks ago)

The effort to bring back the women and children is being organised by western Sydney doctor Jamal Rifi, who led Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke's re-election campaign.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 weeks ago)

Amid moves to increase penalties for those involved in the illegal tobacco trade, Western Australian authorities are slammed for handing out just $88,100 in fines last year.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 weeks ago)

Angus Taylor has unveiled his new-look front bench, promoting key allies and relegating backers of deposed Liberal leader Sussan Ley. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 weeks ago)

If migration is treated primarily as a cultural fault line, rather than an economic system embedded in national growth, the debate will remain loud. The structural reform will remain unfinished.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 weeks ago)

The Chaser's War on Everything didn't start the fire, but the embers from the beloved satirical current affairs show are still warm after two decades.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 weeks ago)

The former Gaza director of World Vision has rejected as "pure fabrications” newly released documents that show Hamas interrogated aid organisation staff.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 weeks ago)

Australians agree the government needs to cut spending. But a new poll confirms most of us want other people to feel the fiscal pain.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 weeks ago)

Nine in 10 cigarettes will be illegal by the end of the decade. New research suggests it's time to slash cigarette taxes and help save the budget.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 weeks ago)

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