Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (14 minutes ago)

The account was hacked in March as part of a phishing scheme believed to have been orchestrated by Russia and leading to WhatsApp being blocked on parliamentary laptops.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (44 minutes ago)

Mr Brereton was found in 2024 to have engaged in officer misconduct in his role as head of the NACC and has since faced pressure over his defence connections. 

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (44 minutes ago)

Teal MPs are reportedly talking about creating a new political party. The result could be good for democracy.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (An hour ago)

A heated exchange prompted a Liberal senator to step in and call point of order on the Labor chair after several insults directed at Nationals senator Bridget McKenzie, before a brief suspension.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 hours ago)

A group of women and children linked to Islamic State fighters are expected to arrive home within days after purchasing flights to Australia. 

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 hours ago)

As Labor MPs grumbled about the messy public messaging after this month's budget, tempers flared and Anthony Albanese warned Angus Taylor over his leadership prospects.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 hours ago)

Australia will spend nearly $150 million on Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen's novel role as president of negotiations at the United Nations' next climate conference.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 hours ago)

A teal political party could give the crossbench more power and influence. But it comes with big risks too.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 hours ago)

Independent MPs Zali Steggall, Allegra Spender and David Pocock have confirmed they are in conversations about a potential party of independents in response to the rising popularity of One Nation.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 hours ago)

A report into a second alleged potential conflict of interest for NACC boss Paul Brereton had been handed over in recent days, according to a source.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 hours ago)

Pauline's party may have no answer to why a generation cannot afford a house, but unlike the majors, One Nation is not pretending otherwise.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 hours ago)

Israel's ambassador to Australia said "no one was hurt” when 428 participants were intercepted at sea and detained. The Australians who have just been released from prison say otherwise.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (5 hours ago)

Labor senator Glenn Sterle and Nationals senator Bridget McKenzie were involved in a heated argument in the Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport committee during budget discussions.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (5 hours ago)

The possible release of wife killer Gerard Baden-Clay next year could be pushed back by up to a decade under proposed changes to Queensland's parole laws.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (8 hours ago)

Independent MPs Zali Steggall, Allegra Spender and David Pocock have confirmed they are in conversations about a potential party of independents in response to the rising popularity of One Nation. 

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (9 hours ago)

The former prime minister said the Liberals had left a political vacuum by tacking too far to the right.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (12 hours ago)

National Anti-Corruption Commission chief Paul Brereton has resigned, three years into his term.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (13 hours ago)

Israel goes from looking like the new regional hegemon to looking like it is under greater threat now than it has in years, while Iran now has room to rebuild its proxies.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (13 hours ago)

Australia's biggest business groups warn of an increasingly unpredictable tax system as the backlash against the capital gains tax overhaul continues.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (14 hours ago)

US President Donald Trump was yesterday touting an end to the war in Iran, but declaring mission accomplished in Washington will not spare Australian consumers, and politicians, from the economic fallout of the conflict. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (14 hours ago)

The raid marks the end of a three-day stand-off between members of the opposition CHP party and police. 

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (14 hours ago)

A powerful coalition has stepped up pressure on the government to introduce tougher laws, three years after a review found Australia's legal framework had failed to create meaningful change.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (14 hours ago)

The Albanese government faces renewed pressure to deliver on an election promise after serious allegations regarding a federal judge were left unaddressed for a decade.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (14 hours ago)

Both sides of this debate are mangling their case, but the Albanese government needs to maintain the courage of its convictions.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (21 hours ago)

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (23 hours ago)

Secret deliberations to launch the party within weeks have come to light after Senator David Pocock shared his involvement in discussions on Sunday.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A day ago)

Tony Abbott, the most effective opposition politician Australia has ever seen, is about to become Liberal Party president. Labor's Jim Chalmers is the Liberals' other great asset.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A day ago)

The independent senator says Australians are frustrated with a political system that "does not work for them". 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

After losing hundreds of thousands of dollars due to power outages, Yorke Peninsula businesses say SA Power Networks' $10 million action plan should have come a long time ago.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

Labor is banking on younger generations, who are overwhelmingly wage earners, being more interested in owning their own home than pocketing higher profits on a lucky crypto trade.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

A bruising byelection and brutal polling show the Liberals heading off a cliff. Labor's budget may have given them a ladder, but can Angus Taylor win back Hanson voters without tearing his own party apart?

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

Labor's contentious NDIS overhaul has met pushback from the government's own disability advisory group, while the Coalition has issued an ultimatum in exchange for its support.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

If you want to "catch fire on the internet”, don't let the facts get in the way of the story. That's the sad lesson of a post-budget onslaught of memes.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

Anthony Albanese believes he understands the economic desires of young Australians. But what if he's got it all wrong?

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

The remaining Australian women linked to Islamic State have left the al-Roj camp in Syria, but the Australian government refuses to let one of them back into the country.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

One Nation would win dozens of seats if a federal election was held today, according to a major opinion poll.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

The prime minister became visibly emotional on Saturday as he used a speech to Labor Party faithful to defend his government's controversial reform plans.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

Defence industry experts argue Australia should consider how to prevent a naval "capability gap" — or risk being left exposed.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

Start-up founders say the federal government's CGT changes may see investment in new businesses go offshore. But Airtree Ventures co-founder Daniel Petre is warning against a scare campaign. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

With the rise of One Nation's popularity and younger voters increasingly turning to the Greens, the traditional two-party system in Australian politics has been dismantled, a former political strategist argues. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

Labor's capital gains tax changes have set off a firestorm of debate about the implications for small businesses, start-ups, share owners and plenty more. Here's who will really pay more. 

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

Instead of a battle with the Coalition over housing, Anthony Albanese is facing a mutiny by Millennial entrepreneurs weaponising social media.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

Kevin Rudd has been so right about many of the great matters of our time. His tragedy is that he alienated some of the very people he most needed to fulfil his ambitions.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

In the wake of an outcry over its treatment of detained activists, Israel has focused on messaging as its actions undermine its support from the international community. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

As debate over the federal government's budget tax hit on wealth and assets continues to reverberate, one can't help but wonder how it's going down among the gen Zs and millennials it's designed to impress.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

Former prime minister Tony Abbott will be nominated unopposed to become the next federal president of the Liberal Party.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

As Anthony Albanese once again performed apoplexy, Syria allowed the women and children to leave with relatives. Family ties clearly smoothed the way.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

After leaving the al-Roj refugee camp on Thursday, a group of seven Australian women and 14 children has arrived in the Syrian capital, Damascus.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

While the Nationals leader said he didn't agree with everything the controversial podcast host said, it was "good” that he was expressing his views.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

The release of a corruption report into Victorian government has been blocked, but the public has been denied the right to know by whom.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

A secret party is trying to block the release of a report from Victoria's corruption watchdog, which examined allegations involving the state government and firefighters.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

Roger Cook raises the prospect of gas fracking in WA's Kimberley region, warning the state could face future energy shortfalls if Woodside Energy's massive Browse project does not proceed.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

It's been labelled "dysfunctional" and "diabolical". What does the lord mayor have to say about the embattled City of Perth?

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

The al-Roj camp has confirmed the movement of the women overnight from the camp towards Damascus, where they are expected to be met by representatives of their Australian supporters.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has left the door open to tweaking a proposed change to how a discretionary trust is taxed. 

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

Labor has delivered the most disruptive, controversial budget since at least Abbott's 2014 offering. Labor is under siege, and yet the situation is deceptively complex.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

John Howard won his fourth election on this virtue. Albanese is confident he can deploy the same tactic to claim a third term in 2028.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

The renewables project's chief executive, Dennis Barnes, received $323,000 in bonus pay on top of his $1.69 million salary last financial year, while four other senior executives received about $919,000 in "variable pay".

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

Before the budget, Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers knew they would be hit by criticism for its broken promises, but they underestimated the extent and ferocity of the backlash.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

The Productivity Commission was not asked to model how changes to capital gains tax would impact Australia's economy. Business groups say Treasurer Jim Chalmers must explain how the government concluded its tax changes would ultimately be a boon to productivity. 

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

Bill Shorten told this masthead's Inside Politics podcast that there was lots of "noise” from critics but said Labor could win the long-term argument.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

But the Medical Research Future Fund won't reach its promised $1 billion in investments for another four years.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has denied that she agreed with a podcaster saying Australia should stop 'flooding' Australia with migrants from Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

For a group of people who declared they were prepared to tackle a post-budget scare campaign, the government has looked anything but in control this week.  

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price said she hadn't intended to endorse "every point raised across a lengthy monologue”, in which the podcaster also raised an extremist concept for deporting non-white migrants.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

In 2015 the Barnett government abandoned plans to merge Perth councils — but now the idea has reared its head again. Here's what you need to know.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

Benjamin Netanyahu has condemned a video of his national security minister taunting activists, including Australians, who have been detained. But it's the prime minister who allowed this behaviour to percolate.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

New Zealand is hoping to attract Australian entrepreneurs nervous about incoming changes to capital gains tax.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

New Zealand is hoping to attract Australian entrepreneurs nervous about incoming changes to capital gains tax.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

The Iran War and inflation are starting to hit Australia's jobs market. Experts say this has effectively killed the likelihood of another rate rise next month.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

Former prime minister Paul Keating says the government's changes to capital gains tax are "structurally sound" and seek to "arrest" the growth in house prices.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

Gen Zs who take a lottery ticket approach to investing in the stock market will likely pay more tax under the capital gains tax changes being proposed by the government. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (5 days ago)

As health leaders face deadly outbreaks of Ebola and hantavirus, a major report finds the world's response system remains dangerously underprepared.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (5 days ago)

In an already difficult post-budget week, Labor isn't being helped by some of its "friends". But it has won an important endorsement from one powerful voice.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (5 days ago)

Tuvalu is building new land to hold back rising sea levels, but the majority of its people are applying to relocate to Australia. As they do, many are confronting a disturbing question. 

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

Trump promised a short war. Three months ago. The current situation is eerily similar to how the world was travelling in 2006, before we all got whacked by the global financial crisis.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

Worried about capital gains tax or high-priced petrol? Frontbencher Andrew Leigh says Australia is facing bigger problems.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

Minns' intervention on the need to let workers keep more of what they earn came on top of his refusal to endorse Chalmers' changes to the CGT discount.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

The backlash over his decision to overhaul the CGT discount for shareholders and business owners could prompt young voters to desert Labor.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (5 days ago)

Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping agreed to a raft of deals in front of invited press less than a week after Donald Trump left China's capital with no confirmed deals.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

The prime minister visited Alice Springs on Wednesday to meet with the five-year-old's family.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (5 days ago)

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says Australia stands with the family of a five-year-old Aboriginal girl, whose body was found on the outskirts of Alice Springs last month.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

One Nation will call on the government to take equity in major offshore energy developments and scrap a tax on petroleum.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

The prime minister has previously faced criticism for calling former Australian of the Year Grace Tame "difficult”.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (5 days ago)

Questioned by senators, acting attorney-general Todd Blanche said people involved in the January 6 riots and Trump campaign donors could be eligible for payments.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and key ministers have spent the morning fighting a growing view their tax changes will crush ambition.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

A social media campaign has depicted an AI-generated Anthony Albanese joining a range of different businesses as co-founder, riffing on the prospect of a maximum 47 per cent capital gains tax for some businesses announced in the budget.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (5 days ago)

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has rejected NSW Premier Chris Minns's comments on bracket creep. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (6 days ago)

Labor MPs are gearing up for a hard sell on the impact of the federal government's tax changes on some small businesses, trusts and shares, despite many reporting "positive" feedback on housing reforms.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (6 days ago)

Jotham Napat has confirmed Vanuatu has agreed to two pacts with both countries, but is not happy with either party.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (6 days ago)

Treasurer Jim Chalmers got on the front foot on Tuesday following scrutiny over Labor's decision to remove the CGT discount on shares and companies.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (6 days ago)

Reports have been circulating that the ICC is preparing to issue warrants against Israel's far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (6 days ago)

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (6 days ago)

In the midst of a housing crisis, research shows laws requiring car parks are pushing up house prices – and many spaces are not being used for cars.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (6 days ago)

Higher interest rates and changes to taxes around housing are likely to cool the housing market.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (6 days ago)

A massive program of upgrades to Australia's aging fleet of Collins Class submarines, aimed at keeping them in the water a decade longer, is being scaled back.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (6 days ago)

Collins class submarines will get a scaled-back upgrade to keep them at sea while Australia waits for the first nuclear submarines to be delivered.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (6 days ago)

One Nation has joined the fight to demand the prime minister increase staffing allocations.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (6 days ago)

A social media campaign has depicted an AI-generated Anthony Albanese joining a range of different businesses as co-founder, riffing on the prospect of a maximum 47 per cent capital gains tax for some businesses announced in the budget.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (6 days ago)

The former acting chief executive of the Bureau of Meteorology is leaving the organisation almost seven months after a disastrous website refresh.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (6 days ago)

Labor's housing and migration projections nearly converge by 2028, posing a challenge to the opposition leader's vow to slash migration.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (6 days ago)

Tim Bull has announced he will not contest the November election, after representing Gippsland East for the National Party for 16 years.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (6 days ago)

Changes are being made to massive program aiming to upgrade and extend the life of Australia's aging fleet of Collins Class submarines, Defence Minister Richard Marles has confirmed. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

The NSW government will permit secondary dwellings such as granny flats in some areas affected by noise from Western Sydney International Airport. 

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

The prime minister and treasurer overhauled the property price-fuelling combination of negative gearing and the 50 per cent CGT discount last week.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Voters in the region of Andalusia have sent the ruling Spain's Socialists yet another warning, adding to concerns Pedro Sánchez's government could suffer an electoral wipe-out in a nationwide vote.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Jim Chalmers' fifth budget is the least popular economic statement he has released, according to the Resolve Political Monitor.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Australia suspends private colleges from applying to offer new courses to international students as part of a crackdown on abuse in the student visa system.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

The Coalition seizes on the federal government's broken tax promises, claiming a "death tax" has been sneaked into changes to trusts passed on through inheritance. The treasurer says that is a scare campaign.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Taylor's campaign on a new "death tax” is disingenuous, and he knows it. It smacks of opportunism from a party trailing both Labor and One Nation in the polls.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

A politically poisonous campaign has been relaunched as the Albanese government fights to stay on message on housing tax changes.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has rejected suggestion the government's planned tax on discretionary trusts amounts to a so-called "death tax".

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

More than $170,000 in donations from developers has been given to Queensland state politicians since laws banning developer donations were overturned in March. 

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Like Bob Hawke and Paul Keating before them, the prime minister and treasurer cannot now relinquish the responsibility they have taken on.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

What can the government ever really rule out or in now that it has broken its election pledges? The test is if people really care.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

The government was marked down by voters for breaking election vows not to touch tax breaks for negative gearing or capital gains, with 36 per cent saying their view of Labor had been damaged.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Seek founder Paul Bassat, who sits on the AFL commission, said the change would have a "profound” effect on the economy.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

He described his vow to "protect single-sex spaces across Australian life”  as a "common-sense” response to the highly charged debate over gender identity. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Jim Chalmers says it is better for young people to invest based on economic rather than tax outcomes, and argued they can still access negative gearing by buying up new homes.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

With only six months before the state election, the Victorian government struggles to devise new donation laws after the High Court found previous laws unconstitutional.  

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

The government says the changes are aimed at levelling the playing field for young buyers bidding against property investors, while the opposition is pledging to undo the reforms, citing their potential to raise rents.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

The states are once again on the hook for disability services due to the Commonwealth's drastic NDIS cuts. Can the mistakes of the past be avoided?

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

US President Donald Trump said he asked "a guy who's unbelievable at doing swimming pools" to consider work on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

The unique health challenges of boys and men are worthy of attention from governments. But we need to be careful to get the facts straight, so we know exactly what we are dealing with.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Opposition Leader Angus Taylor has vowed to amend the Sex Discrimination Act after the Federal Court upheld a landmark ruling that the exclusion of a transgender woman from a female-only app was discriminatory.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Opposition Leader Angus Taylor has vowed to amend the Sex Discrimination Act after the Federal Court upheld a landmark ruling that the exclusion of a transgender woman from a female-only app was discriminatory.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

The Coalition is upping the ante with an aggressive energy policy designed to tackle the government's climate agenda and the One Nation insurgency.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

How Prime Minister Narendra Modi is turning India into a one-party nation.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Leaders from the Indian, Chinese and Lebanese diasporas have sounded the alarm over Angus Taylor's new policy, describing it as a threat to social cohesion.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Under the cover of budget day, the Albanese government this week dropped its long-awaited response to a gambling harm inquiry. Advocates say it has "failed miserably".

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

A thinner ex-PM cracks jokes as his bust is revealed, making him the 30th Australian leader with a likeness in Ballarat's Prime Ministers Avenue.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

"There are absolutely no statistics that say that because you sent your kid to a private school they're going to do better in life."

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Labor and the Coalition are both acutely mindful of One Nation's rise and its determination to take a decisive role in a future conservative government.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

The question for the Gulf states is whether they are happy for Israel to be the dominant player in the Middle East.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Almost 2000 homes will go under the hammer at the weekend. Anthony Albanese will be there in spirit as his tax changes hit the property market.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

With both government and opposition pitching serious proposals for change, our political system is actually offering hope.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Australian officials from the prime minister down will be relieved – and even delighted – by Matthew Wale's victory, but they cannot afford to be relaxed.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Despite assurances to the contrary, WA Treasurer Rita Saffioti has conceded it would be difficult for the government to stick to the $217.5 million budget for the Perth Park project.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

White Australia will be listed as a hate group, making it illegal to support the organisation in any way.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

The dispute over income tax figures heightens what has become a major political battleground after Tuesday's budget.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Universities are bracing for foreign student numbers to absorb the bulk of cuts under a Coalition migration plan, with experts warning skilled visas would be difficult to cull. 

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

The former bankrupt turned professor has cemented control of one of Australia's top religious bodies.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

The Coalition's plan to index tax brackets could cost $35 billion in the first four years, more than has been suggested, and $44 billion in one year alone in 2035-36.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

The government says work is already underway to honour the state's longest-serving Labor premier.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Immigrant families and their votes are critical to the Liberals' status as the alternative government. The party just formally walked away from them.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Joining or providing support to far-right group White Australia, previously known as the National Socialist Network, will be punishable by up to 15 years in jail.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Police say eight people have been arrested at the North Adelaide Golf Course redevelopment site this morning.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Fresh data shows Labor's efforts to control the NDIS have gone backwards this year, raising the stakes for the government and participants fighting against sweeping cuts.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

To appreciate how much times have changed, it is worth comparing the opposition leader's budget reply speech to Peter Dutton's.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

The prime minister says this budget is about fixing intergenerational inequality, but online, gen Z and the millennials are hearing a different narrative. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Roger Cook welcomes the federal budget's focus on housing, but he's less than thrilled about NDIS changes and the funding of infrastructure and aged care.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

The One Nation leader delivered her official response to the federal budget on Thursday evening after accusing the Coalition of adopting her policies.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke announces the organisation colloquially known as neo-Nazis has been listed as a prohibited hate group.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 weeks ago)

Chinese Australians have lashed the Coalition's plan to block non-citizens from accessing welfare services, likening the opposition's targeting of migrants to One Nation. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 weeks ago)

Labor and the Liberals are offering imperfect but undeniably bold alternative visions for the tax system. It's nice to have something to talk about.

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