Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (44 minutes ago)

David Speers interviews Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations Murray Watt. The West Australian's Katina Curtis is joined by the ABC's Jane Norman and Gary Adshead to discuss the week in politics.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 hours ago)

The post-pandemic phenomenon has changed our working lives. Now, its pros and cons will be debated as an election issue.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 hours ago)

David Speers interviews Employment Minister Murray Watt.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 hours ago)

Insiders panel, Jane Norman, Katina Curtis and Gary Adshead join host David Speers to discuss the week in politics.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 hours ago)

Mike Bowers dissects the week in political cartoons and satire with host of ABC's Question Everything, Jan Fran.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (5 hours ago)

Labor polled much better than expected — and they were always tipped to win. Another disaster showing for the Liberals could trigger a fourth Labor term come 2029. But there's an undercurrent neither party expected, and which could shape WA's political landscape for years to come.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (8 hours ago)

Election analyst Antony Green says the result for the Liberals is a "disaster" for the Liberals, as Labor — led by Roger Cook — secures another thumping victory in the west.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (8 hours ago)

Coalition public service spokeswoman Jane Hume confirmed the sector would be subject to right-to-disconnect laws being repealed under a Liberal-National government. 

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (9 hours ago)

One does get weary of Liberals weaponising the Whitlam government's economic record – they've been doing it for almost half a century.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (10 hours ago)

WA Labor has secured a third successive term, as high-profile candidate Basil Zempilas wins the seat of Churchlands for the Liberal Party.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (14 hours ago)

Labor secures a comfortable victory in the WA election, giving Roger Cook his first win as premier after taking over from Mark McGowan.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (18 hours ago)

Experts aren't predicting another WA election wipe-out today, but there is a clear winner. Here's everything you need to know ahead of today's poll.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (21 hours ago)

Natural disasters require politicians — along with everyone else — to try to lift themselves out of the political twirl and into more conspicuous leadership roles.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (24 hours ago)

After Prime Minister Anthony Albanese confirmed there would not be an April 12 election, he shut down any questions on what people could expect from the March budget.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (24 hours ago)

Roger Cook's a shoo-in at today's WA election — but will it help Anthony Albanese's fortunes?

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A day ago)

David Speers in conversation with the ABC's Chief Elections Analyst Antony Green.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A day ago)

The Arab Peace Initiative has been floated for the past two decades and it offers to resolve conflict in accordance with international law, guarantee Israel's security and normalise relations with all its Arab neighbours, but neither Donald Trump or Benjamin Netanyahu back it.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A day ago)

US President Donald Trump says he wants to begin selling gold cards for $5 million to foreigners who want to move the the US and create jobs. 

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A day ago)

With the nation on cyclone watch, climate change is back on the political agenda. But geopolitical disturbances may yet shift key votes.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

Star's thousands of employees do not deserve to be punished for the failings of management, board members and regulators, but will inevitably bear the brunt of any collapse.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

Jim Chalmers is due to deliver a budget in weeks, with the government now readying for a May election. A key budget watcher says the treasurer is sitting on a $24 billion tax windfall.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese had planned to call the election on Sunday for an April 12 poll, but is delaying the announcement due to Cyclone Alfred's expected landfall on Saturday. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

After years of problems in WA's youth justice system making headlines, how do each of the major parties plan to fix it?

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

There's been fierce debate over the location of WA's new $1.8 billion maternity hospital. So what will people be voting for in tomorrow's state election, which the Liberals have branded a "referendum on newborn safety".

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese had planned to call the election on Sunday for an April 12 poll, but that now appears unlikely due to Cyclone Alfred's expected landfall on Saturday. 

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

The Coalition senator has had to repay expenses she improperly claimed from the taxpayer 13 times totalling almost $11,000.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

Peter Dutton has yet to respond after the Australian Financial Review reported he had flown to a private event at the Sydney home of venue magnate Justin Hemmes on Tuesday. It is understood the opposition leader is back home in Brisbane.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

Liberal candidate Ro Knox alleged Spender's team had covered up a poster supporting Israeli hostages with a campaign sign, which Spender denied with evidence. Knox has since doubled down.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says global warming makes weather events more extreme and that not cutting emissions carries a significant cost.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

Labor had planned calling a federal election in the coming days but Prime Minister Anthony Albanese should delay pulling the trigger.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

As Western Australians go to the polls this Saturday, Premier Roger Cook will be well placed to maintain his massive majority in parliament. Elections analyst Casey Briggs says the Liberals and Nationals face an uphill battle to win government.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

Who's funding the WA state election? Which seats are in play? How could the opposition win? We dive into the numbers behind the WA state election.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

Deputy Liberal leader Sussan Ley has defended Peter Dutton attending a fundraiser in Sydney instead of staying with his community that's being impacted by Cyclone Alfred. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

The Australian Law Reform Commission set out to try and address the strikingly low rate of reporting of sexual offences and even lower rates of prosecution and convictions.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

Both parties are using advertising and public rhetoric to focus attention on the negatives aspects of their opponents.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

Muslim Australia has a deeply entrenched conviction that the country simply doesn't care about anything that happens to them.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

Anthony Albanese says Australia must consider supporting Europe by sending peacekeepers to Ukraine. Peter Dutton's been too hasty in retreat on that prospect.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

The leaders of the major parties are acutely aware that a misstep when responding to a natural disaster can have major political consequences. 

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

Australia's top law reform agency wants all police, prosecutors and defence lawyers to go through mandatory training on rape myths, in one of several steps to reform a failing justice system.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

Anthony Albanese hasn't ruled out calling the federal poll this weekend, but insists he's focused solely on Cyclone Alfred and its aftermath.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

As WA's election day nears, the campaign has grown increasingly bumpy for both Labor and the Liberals with some unwanted distractions.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

Against a backdrop of Trump-driven global chaos, a group of mostly female MPs will decide which major party forms a minority government at the coming election.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

Opposition finance spokeswoman Jane Hume said it was important to meet "the expectations of our strategic partners”, flagging a major rise in defence spending if Peter Dutton wins power.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

While it's true Labor has hired 36,000 public servants since 2022, most of them aren't located where the Coalition leader believes them to be.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

President Donald Trump's pick to lead US Pentagon policy expressed concern over Australia's low defence spend. The prime minister insists significant investment has been made and defence spending will continue to rise.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

The opposition leader flew to Sydney on Tuesday and attended a Liberal fundraiser at a $100 million harbourside mansion.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

The prime minister has left himself the option of calling the election this weekend, as Tropical Cyclone Alfred bears down on Queensland and northern NSW.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

As the latest federal election approaches, the sort of political certainty that once hoisted Bob Hawke to a long prime ministership is in short supply.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

Workplaces in the US are witnessing a mass reversal of diversity, equity and inclusion programs following President Donald Trump's return to power. Could the same thing happen here in Australia?

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

The prime minister and opposition leader will be keeping an eye on Western Australia's election results for swings that could offer clues for the fate of the federal poll. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

Australians at threat of a disaster will have to rely on text message warnings from existing state-led services, with the federal government conceding its replacement service is not yet operational. 

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

A long-running survey of Australians has found inequality has shot up, just as young people find themselves shut out of the housing market.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

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

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

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

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

Political support federal and state Labor has sunk in Victoria over the past 18 months, adding urgency to the case for new federal funding for Victorian roads.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

In a fiery speech filled with heckling and recriminations, Donald Trump defended his second term agenda and urged Americans to bear with "a little disturbance" from his economic policies. These were the big moments of his address to a joint session of congress.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

One of Trump's top Pentagon picks, Elbridge Colby, made the United States' first explicit call for Australia to massively increase defence spending to counter China.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

A record seven quarters of falling GDP per person has finally ended, with new figures showing the economy improving in late 2024.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

Independent candidate Alex Dyson has amassed almost 100 times more in donations than the amount he spent during his first attempt at unseating Liberal Dan Tehan.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

The number of nuclear weapons "available for use" continues to rise, with new research showing China, North Korea, India and Pakistan are increasing their stockpiles.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

Albanese and Dutton have embraced a strategy that helped return Trump to the White House: courting influencers who lob soft questions for audiences who don't follow mainstream news.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

WA Premier Roger Cook says his depiction of US Vice-President JD Vance as a "knob" was a lighthearted comment not meant to cause offence.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

After decades of cultural division over the date chosen to celebrate Australia Day, hip hop artist Rulla Kelly-Mansell proposes a different date that marks one of the most unifying moments in the country's history.   

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

RN Breakfast's Melissa Clarke says standing up to US President Donald Trump has paid domestic dividends for these politicians.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

Justin Wolfers, from the University of Michigan, says the cost of fruit and vegetables from Mexico, and cars imported from Canada, will be among the first goods to rise in cost as Trump's tariffs take effect.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

A Labor frontbencher says speculation the arrival of Cyclone Alfred could delay Prime Minister Anthony Albanese calling the election as "really crass". As it happened.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

NSW schools will get a boost of nearly $5 billion over the next decade, after the state government signed the Commonwealth's funding deal.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

In a plan designed to end Australia's reliance on offshore IV fluids, the federal government will spend $20 million to expand the production facilities of the only local manufacturer of the essential medicine. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

As the Tasmanian salmon industry battles to control the fallout from dead fish washing up on local beaches and revelations the state's environmental watchdog is clueless as to how many fish have died, a joint letter to the PM has called for a tightening of regulations for foreign-owned aquaculture companies. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

Shadow Finance Minister Jane Hume pointed to Stanford Research when arguing that working from home hurt productivity. That same research found working from home part-time actually saw productivity gains.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

The prime minister's offer to consider sending peacekeeping troops to Ukraine if a request is made has sparked warnings about Australia's capacity to assist with a major new military deployment.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

Justin Trudeau says further tariffs against American products will be introduced in coming weeks, labelling the trade war launched by Donald Trump as "dumb".

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

Emails obtained by this masthead reveal that Coalition MPs are urging supporters to come forward with projects they want funded from the Commonwealth cash.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

As Labor plots a restriction on teens using social media, Donald Trump is threatening tariffs against countries that target American tech firms.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

The parliament's speaker says one politician has been left in a critical condition after suffering a stroke during the chaos, which comes amid mass anti-government protests in the country.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

The RBA says rates could rise again as it reveals growing concern about the fallout from Donald Trump's tariff plans.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

Labor insiders are worried that severe flooding could prevent Prime Minister Anthony Albanese from leaving the disaster zone to call the poll.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

The prime minister's comments showed a shift from a day earlier but his Coalition counterpart feels differently.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

Commonwealth federal servants have the right to work from home and three out of five do, at least some of the time. Dutton says this is unacceptable.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (5 days ago)

Roger Cook, who is in the final week of the state election campaign that culminates on Saturday, called JD Vance a "knob" during a rapid-fire "finish the sentence" game in front of an audience of hundreds of people.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (5 days ago)

Tasmania's government will consider selling off government businesses and assets to reduce the state's spiralling debt levels, Premier Jeremy Rockliff has announced.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (5 days ago)

High-level discussions between the Northern Territory and federal governments are set to take place this week over the future of the Darwin Port, as the NT treasurer calls for certainty about Commonwealth plans for the facility.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (5 days ago)

SA Police has told the Royal Commission into Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence, victims will wait longer for background checks on abusive partners without additional government funding.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

The former Victorian CFMEU boss said a non-union member could work on a big build site, but predicted they would soon join.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (5 days ago)

Western Australia's Premier Roger Cook has called US Vice-President JD Vance a "kn*b" during a leadership forum in Perth. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (5 days ago)

In small towns across Australia, the lack of funding for infrastructure like sewerage, water supply and power is holding back projects that locals say could make a big difference in increasing the housing supply. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (5 days ago)

Negotiations between prosecutors and lawyers for former South Australian opposition leader David Speirs are underway, as his drugs charges are confirmed in court.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (5 days ago)

Ballarat council has allegedly stripped an environmental group of a $285,000 grant following claims of antisemitism levelled at a former board member by a climate-change-denying councillor. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (5 days ago)

As the live music scene faces immense pressures, community and council-run gigs seem to be filling a void left by cancelled festivals.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (5 days ago)

From Donald Trump to the housing crisis and the cost of living to aged care, voters have their say and tell us what matters most to them in the coming federal election.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (5 days ago)

Elon Musk is following the "playbook" of Rupert Murdoch in influencing American politics, Silicon Valley insider Kara Swisher tells the ABC's Q+A. And she's worried he could choke Australia's internet access.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (5 days ago)

The spectacular theatre of the Trump-Zelenskyy confrontation is yet another reminder of the way Trump has up-ended most of the comfortable assumptions which have buttressed Australia's security for decades.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

Most countries do not officially recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital even though it is the site of the Israeli parliament.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (6 days ago)

Friedrich Merz, who is likely to be the next German chancellor, has been outspoken in his belief Europe needs to pursue greater independence from the US.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (6 days ago)

New South Wales has become the latest state to sign an education funding deal with the federal government, meaning most of the country's public schools will now be on track to achieve the minimum funding levels recommended by the Gonski review in 2012.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (6 days ago)

Jim McDowell, the Deputy Secretary Naval Shipbuilding and Sustainment, will leave his powerful position next month after warning of delays to selecting a winning design for the General Purpose Frigate fleet.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (6 days ago)

The federal government will lift its share of NSW school funding in a similar deal to a $2.5 billion agreement with Victoria five weeks ago.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (6 days ago)

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (6 days ago)

With an election likely to be called imminently for an April 12 election, both leaders are keen to be seen as up for the fight.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (6 days ago)

The bipartisan support was announced in the wake of the ugly White House confrontation between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (6 days ago)

Minister Don Farrell's office has accused the teals of berating government staff over donation reform. Teal MP Kate Chaney says the accusation smacks of sexism.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (6 days ago)

Britain hosted a summit to shore up support for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after an astonishing Oval Office meltdown that left many uncertain about where the once-staunch allies stood. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (6 days ago)

Former military lawyer David McBride challenges his jail sentence for distributing classified material to journalists over a ruling he says deprived him of a defence.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (6 days ago)

The health minister says a historical quirk is behind why two-thirds of existing and promised Medicare urgent care clinics are in Labor-held seats, and they are committed based on need.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (6 days ago)

Many Australians seem to have missed a salient fact – our own navy conducts navigation operations and live firing exercises in the South China Sea.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (6 days ago)

The PM and opposition leader have traded barbs over the previous Coalition government's handling of Chinese warships in Australian waters.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (6 days ago)

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says the UK, France and Ukraine will devise a peace plan to end the conflict, as European nations vow to join a "coalition of the willing" to help Ukraine. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (6 days ago)

Farmers say they are dealing with more "nuisance" complaints from neighbours who don't understand farm operations produce noise, dust, and smells.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (6 days ago)

Opposition to a controversial housing development in Perth's rural fringe has reached boiling point amid dual election campaigns, as politicians from all persuasions jump on the cause.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (6 days ago)

Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton send clear signals that we stand as a nation with Ukraine but they are not dealing with the deeper reality that our once reliable American partner is no longer reliable in the same way.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (6 days ago)

Britain hosts a summit to shore up support for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after an astonishing Oval Office meltdown that left many uncertain about where the once-staunch allies stood. Follow live.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (6 days ago)

Mark Butler says a federal election is likely to happen in six or 12 weeks' time.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (6 days ago)

Some business and climate groups have voiced their support for keeping one of the federal government's key climate policies in place, with the Coalition yet to commit to its future.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (6 days ago)

Membership of the RBA board and how it decides interest rates has been unknown to the public for 75 years. It's all about to change.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (6 days ago)

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has clashed with US President Donald Trump and Vice-President JD Vance in the Oval Office. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (6 days ago)

Frank and fearless advice about how Australia should navigate Trump's tariffs was lost in the din of election season.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (6 days ago)

The opinion polls remain close but political insiders have little idea what's happening outside and what will sway voters on election day.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

The RBA's first rate cut in almost five years has put a floor under the nation's property market, but rents continue to ease.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

With the election campaign just days from getting under way, the prime minister talks an upbeat lead-in, Donald Trump and Jodie Haydon.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

It comes after European leaders expressed "horror" at Friday's extraordinary scenes in the Oval Office, in which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy clashed with US President Donald Trump.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

In the fallout from a White House stand-off between Ukraine's leader and the US president, the prime minister signalled more financial and military support could be given to the war-torn nation.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Of the 20 electorates considered in play this election, at least half of them have a Chinese-Australian population that is well above the national average

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

The federal opposition says it will reverse Labor's scrapping of extra F-35 fighter jets, pledging to increase Australia's fleet to 100 if it wins the looming election.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

David Speers discusses the weeks political news with Clare Armstrong, Michael Stutchbury and Shalailah Medhora.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

David Speers interviews Shadow Home Affairs Minister James Paterson.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Here are the top news photos across February, featuring a freak storm, the election campaign and the powerful impact of new technologies.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Treasurer Jim Chalmers wants to take on Angus Taylor three times during the campaign and put the state of the economy at the centre of the coming election.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Mike Bowers talks the week in political cartoons with Alex Ellinghausen.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

A wrap of this week's political news; Peter Dutton's share portfolio, the upcoming federal election and the Trump/Zelenskyy clash.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

The future rarely unfolds like we expect. Although Hollywood has given us plenty of technological tropes to worry about, our AI future is much more mundane and much more insidious.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

As the embattled Ukrainian leader prepares to meet with European leaders in London, tough questions will need to be asked about what steps the continent can take.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

There's evidence that children aged under three are more stressed in childcare centres than at home. Working parents need options.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

The pitch is designed to sharpen the ALP's contrast with Peter Dutton and takes Labor's Medicare pledges over recent weeks to nearly $10 billion.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

WA Liberal leader Libby Mettam has ruled out a review of abortion laws while distancing herself from comments made by Albany candidate Thomas Brough, who has also linked the LGBTQIA+ community with paedophiles.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

The prominent activist is seen participating in chants weeks after she spoke at the launch of The Muslim Vote, a movement targeting western Sydney Labor MPs.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Kimberley youth worker Tremane Baxter-Edwards says politicians are ignorant of what's happening on the ground.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

After a restraining order wasn't enough to protect Lucy from her abusive ex-partner, she realised offering him more support could have made a difference.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Anger over slashed government budgets, poor quality of life, career stagnation and rampant official corruption is motivating many Indonesians to fantasise about "running away" from the country.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Journalists leave the press gallery after Trump-Zelenskyy media conference was cancelled following a heated exchange. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Former US Ambassador to Ukraine Steven Pifer analyses Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy's heated clash at the White House. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Senator Lindsey Graham says Volodymyr Zelenskyy was very disrespectful and praised Donald Trump's stance in the heated meeting.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

The government will pause the biannual indexation of the draught beer excise for two years, a modest change that has been welcomed by the hotel industry. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Katter's Australian Party leader Robbie Katter represents the seat of Treager, which is more than 400,000 square kilometres and makes up roughly a quarter of Queensland.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

US Presdient Donald Trump clashed with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has left the White House after a bitter exchange with US President Donald Trump.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

US President Donald Trump says Volodymyr Zelenskyy is gambling with World War Three in a heated exchange at the Oval Office. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

US President Donald Trump has told Volodymyr Zelenskyy to "be thankful" in a heated exchange at the Oval Office. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he will never accept just a ceasefire deal, asking for more security guarantees. 

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Dangerous security and economic developments present a leadership opportunity for the PM as we close in on the election. Will he take it?

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

The decision about Australia's Venice Biennale exhibition is political but it reveals a cycle in which flaws are found in institutions that should be at arm's length from politics and leaves them too weak to do the job they were established for. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

David Speers finds out what exactly China is doing off the coast of Australia, with Lowy Institute's Richard McGregor.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Anthony Albanese will freeze the twice-yearly hike in beer tax in a bid to win voters and take pressure off brewers and the wider industry.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Offshore wind farm developer BlueFloat has paused its offshore wind project, as Opposition Leader Peter Dutton pledges to bar the industry in most locations.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Peter Dutton likes to say he grew up "working class”, with a bricklayer father and a secretary mother. His father, Bruce, is a huge part of the success he now enjoys.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week ago)

Farmers in Australia's largest wine grape regions are calling on the federal government to implement a mandatory code of conduct immediately to stop a mass exodus of growers.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

Hundreds of homes have been completed with work under way on thousands more across the country.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

The insouciant voyage by the Chinese around our waters must surely be the start of things to come.

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