Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (11 minutes ago)

Sweeping new hate speech laws banning certain expressions in a way that makes a member of the public feel menaced, harassed or offended have passed in Queensland parliament.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 hours ago)

This week in Canberra, Tim Wilson did his best Billy Joel impression, the opposition leader went hard on the government over the cost-of-living crisis and the Canadian prime minister popped into Parliament.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 hours ago)

The Queensland senator defended her attendance at the Victorian event celebrating the contribution from Australia's richest person.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 hours ago)

China will boost defence spending by 7 per cent in 2026, still outpacing wider economic growth targets at a time of growing regional tension, including over Taiwan.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 hours ago)

Anthony Albanese and Mark Carney stop short of calling for a ceasefire in the Middle East as the war widens, with Iran launching missiles at Türkiye and a United States submarine sinking an Iranian navy vessel off Sri Lanka.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 hours ago)

The Queensland government says it will quickly consider a raft of recommendations aimed at tightening laws around the use of e-bikes and e-scooters, including banning the devices for under-16s.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 hours ago)

Question time returns to the House of Representatives after Canadian leader Mark Carney addressed a joint sitting of parliament earlier today.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (7 hours ago)

Barnaby Joyce told this masthead that David Littleproud's remarks about the upcoming Farrer byelection, to be held days before the federal budget, were remarkable.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (8 hours ago)

The Canadian prime minister said smaller nations were concluding that they must pursue "greater strategic autonomy” in an era of great power competition.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (9 hours ago)

Liberal senator Andrew Bragg has revealed a negotiating tactic from the government in seeking support for the controversial bill that was shelved on Thursday.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (11 hours ago)

Flaws in the Corruption and Crime Commission's finance systems left it vulnerable to "fictitious or fraudulent transactions" for at least three years, according to WA's financial scrutineer.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (11 hours ago)

Artists and copyright advocates say big tech is again pushing to loosen Australia's copyright rules as artificial intelligence companies expand.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (12 hours ago)

The PM confirms military assets deployed to the Middle East to help stranded Australians.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (13 hours ago)

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and senior Canadian administration figures are in Canberra with defence and security expected to dominate the discussions there.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (14 hours ago)

Smart Liberals believe the coming Farrer byelection could be a two-horse race, with neither horse wearing Liberal or National colours. That would be bad enough. What would be worse, for everyone, is if One Nation won. That too is possible.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (20 hours ago)

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (20 hours ago)

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (22 hours ago)

Controversial new NT Administrator David Connolly was sworn in last week against the backdrop of a furore over his divisive past social media posts. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (23 hours ago)

Figures from the expenses watchdog confirm Attorney-General Michelle Rowland has repaid about $8,000 spent on flights for family travel from Perth to Sydney.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (23 hours ago)

A high-level delegation of Ukrainian MPs has arrived in the capital to urge the federal government to maintain military support, warning that a Russian victory would reshape global security far beyond Europe.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (24 hours ago)

Australian and Canadian troops would move easily between each other's facilities under a new agreement being pushed by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A day ago)

The federal government has cancelled a grant for an Islamic community association in Melbourne citing "social cohesion concerns" after claims surfaced the group was mourning the death of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A day ago)

In an interview on this masthead's Inside Politics podcast, the under-pressure leader denied that he split the Coalition in January to blow up Sussan Ley's leadership.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A day ago)

The committee has made a total of 28 recommendations covering the issues of safety, the risk of lithium-ion battery fires, the retail of devices, enforcement and community awareness and education.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A day ago)

The federal government is sending six crisis response teams to the Middle East to help thousands of Australians stranded in the region, while the foreign minister continues to brush off questions about whether the US and Israel's strikes on Iran were legal.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A day ago)

Asked why he was talking bill shock in a suburb where the median house price is $2.1 million, the opposition leader said "nobody was immune”.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A day ago)

The shadow treasurer butchered some lyrics from We Didn't Start The Fire to attack the government's economic management

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A day ago)

Question time returns to the House of Representatives with the new Coalition frontbench put to its first test.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A day ago)

Australia's social services minister urged parents to stop their children watching Married at First Sight, the nation's most popular reality-TV show.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A day ago)

Spending, especially among the states, is also growing on everyday services including health, education and policing.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A day ago)

Price hikes will flow to consumers as global trade chaos derails everything from farmers plans for their paddocks and international mail.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A day ago)

Western Australia is transitioning to tougher firearms laws — but despite the changes, 20-year-old Jayson Joseph Michaels and his father were allowed to keep their collection of seven guns at the family's Bindoon home.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A day ago)

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese calls for Iran to 'cease attacks immediately' on civilian areas.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

There were a few surprises when the final list of candidates was revealed for the 2026 state election. Here are four quick takeaways. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

Liberals say billionaire James Packer's first political donation in 12 years to a conservative lobby group should be a cause for concern, saying the rise of Advance could push the party further from the mainstream. 

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

The cost to the budget of a tax break for the purchase of EVs has blown out by billions due to high demand – mostly from high-income earners.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

Senior decision makers responsible for the Liberal Party's disastrous federal election defeat largely failed to critically assess their own performance in the aftermath, according to a controversial internal review.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

The changes would allow first-time offenders a single chance to be referred to a drug diversion program with subsequent offending attracting fines or criminal charges.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

Just like his tariffs, Donald Trump's mixed messages on the conflict with Iran will mean upheaval for Australia's economy.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

Israel's new ambassador to Australia seeks to discredit the United Nations by claiming the country "can't take them seriously".

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

The official review of the catastrophic 2025 election was always going to leak. The opposition leader, Angus Taylor was foolish, and/or naive in the extreme, to think that it could be kept secret.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

Question time returns to the House of Representatives as the war between the US, Israel and Iran rages on.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

The review also asserts that the "party's capacity to thoughtlessly offend” migrant voters was potentially a bigger problem than the desertion of Liberals by women.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

Defence Minister Richard Marles says Australian personnel are safe and accounted for after an air base used by Australian forces was hit by Iranian drones near Dubai. 

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

The former foreign minister's comments came after opposition frontbencher Andrew Hastie said he was comfortable with the US demonstrating its strength as a deterrence to adversarial nations.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (2 days ago)

From gambling harm to financial abuse, the government has failed to respond to 169 Senate reports on time. The opposition and independents are forcing the issue.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (2 days ago)

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has written to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission asking it to monitor fuel prices amid the unrest in the Middle East. Take a look back on the day's events.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

We're back with the second part of our test of your memory of some of the major events of the 2020s in pop culture, sport and world news. Your challenge is to pick which happened first.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

China's constitution suggests that party institutions elect the top leader. In practice, the process has always been political.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

A new index compiled by the Business Council of Australia shows Australia in the middle of the pack as an investment destination.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

Critics have argued inflation would be lower if interest rates had gone higher. The Reserve Bank has an answer to those critics – much higher unemployment.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

Former Coalition leader Peter Dutton has described the Liberal Party's suppressed election review as a gratuitously personal hit job after the full report was leaked to this masthead.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

Opposition Leader Angus Taylor has escalated his attack on the federal government over its response to the so-called "ISIS brides" cohort.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

The One Nation leader stormed out of the chamber before the vote, slapping herself on the wrist and labelling the proceedings a joke.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

Two Liberal senators cross the floor to vote for Labor's motion that censured the One Nation leader for "inflammatory and divisive comments" that sought to vilify Muslim Australians.  

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

Penny Wong said it would be "very difficult” to organise repatriation flights for Australians stuck in the region because of the closure of airspace.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (3 days ago)

Question time returns to the House of Representatives with a new leader of the opposition.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

The Albanese government is continuing to avoid questions about the legality of the joint US-Israeli attacks on Iran, while throwing support behind the strikes.  

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 days ago)

Liberals Paul Scarr and Andrew McLachlan have crossed the floor of the Senate to support the government's censure motion against Pauline Hanson.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

Cracks are appearing in Iran's regime, but sparking the change Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu want to see will likely take more than killing the Ayatollah.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

The opposition leader argued that winding back negative gearing and the capital gains tax discount would worsen the housing crunch.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

At the last two elections, the Coalition parties have remained largely immovable. Their voters, on the other hand, have been willing to shift.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

The nation's banking regulator is under pressure to clamp down on loans to investors, amid claims they have contributed to higher interest rates.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (4 days ago)

The new Liberal leader's stance towards One Nation and its attitudes on Muslim migrants will face an early test this week when Labor moves to censure Hanson.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

Offences like unlawful stalking and conspiring to murder are among the 12 to be added to the Queensland government's third expansion of the "adult crime, adult tme" policy. 

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

WA is desperate to retain the GST deal it struck with Scott Morrison as the Productivity Commission looks to rein in cost blowouts, and says exempting 25 per cent of mining revenues could help.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (4 days ago)

Foreign Minister Penny Wong has confirmed Australia was not involved in the major Israeli-United States operation in Iran that has reportedly decapitated its leadership.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

A new centrist party wouldn't have to do much to win my vote – a good start would be recruiting people who aren't in bed with big business or corrupt unions.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

How does the film depict an abusive hero, who is also a person of colour, in the age of both woke and Donald Trump? Actually, it doesn't.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

Lo and behold, the PM doesn't want the ISIS brides or their children to return to Australia. Labor's U-turn is highly suspect.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

Fuel importers have been warned they could be breaching Australian sanctions law by importing Russian-origin oil processed in third countries.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

The Anti-Slavery Commissioner has warned that Australia is falling behind global peers as $100 billion in imports are linked to modern slavery.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

The warning comes amid escalating threats towards federal politicians and after an alleged terror plot was foiled in WA.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (5 days ago)

The warning comes amid escalating threats towards federal politicians and after an alleged terror plot was foiled in WA.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (5 days ago)

The charging of two young West Australian men with terror offences show the challenges facing social cohesion, and solving the problem is not going to be easy.

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (6 days 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 (6 days 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 (6 days 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 (6 days 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 (6 days 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 (6 days 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 (6 days 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 (6 days 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 (6 days 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 (6 days 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 (6 days 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 (6 days ago)

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

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week 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 (A week ago)

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

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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 week 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 week ago)

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week 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 week 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 week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week ago)

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week ago)

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week ago)

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

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week ago)

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week ago)

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Sydney Morning Herald - Politics (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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 (A week 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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