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• $5000 for lunch with the PM, $16k for VIPs: what it costs to dine with Labor MPs

  20-10-2024 23:51 via smh.com.au
  
  Leaked emails reveal Labor is raising hundreds of thousands of dollars through its Federal Business Forum while it prepares a donations crackdown.
  
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• The battlelines for two elections have been drawn in WA. Did Peter Dutton's visit help his state counterparts?

  20-10-2024 23:05 via abc.net.au
  
  The state and federal elections will be very different affairs, given Peter Dutton's team is far stronger than the WA Liberals, who have just a handful of MPs. But leader Libby Mettam is talking up her party's chances. 
  
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• Here's how the Liberal Party plans to win back Western Australia

  20-10-2024 23:05 via abc.net.au
  
  The battlelines for two elections were drawn this weekend, and while they'll be very different affairs given Peter Dutton's team is far stronger than the WA Liberals, state leader Libby Mettam is talking up her party's chances.
  
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• Inside the abortion law debate that has been creeping into Australian politics

  20-10-2024 20:38 via abc.net.au
  
  Labor is accusing conservatives of using abortion as a "political football" while the LNP believes Labor is running a scare campaign.
  
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• Debates in Queensland and South Australia indicate abortion rights are not forever settled

  20-10-2024 20:38 via abc.net.au
  
  Labor is accusing conservatives of using abortion as a "political football" while the LNP believes Labor is running a scare campaign.
  
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• Abortion access — an issue many thought was done and dusted in Australia — is back on the political agenda

  20-10-2024 20:38 via abc.net.au
  
  Labor is accusing conservatives of using abortion as a "political football" while the LNP believes Labor is running a scare campaign.
  
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• Coalition's half-a-million homes claim based on building industry estimate, but councils say the problem is real

  20-10-2024 20:35 via abc.net.au
  
  The plan would devote $5 billion to enabling infrastructure to 'unlock' new housing developments.
  
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• Coalition says $5b can 'unlock' 500,000 new homes, based on property industry advice

  20-10-2024 20:35 via abc.net.au
  
  The plan would devote $5 billion to enabling infrastructure to 'unlock' new housing developments.
  
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• So many people are heading to Samoa for CHOGM that a cruise ship has been brought in to house them all

  20-10-2024 20:31 via abc.net.au
  
  The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) kicks off in Apia as Samoa prepares to host leaders and senior politicians from 56 countries — including three monarchs.
  
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• Climate change at forefront of upcoming CHOGM gathering in Samoa

  20-10-2024 20:31 via abc.net.au
  
  The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) kicks off in Apia as Samoa prepares to host leaders and senior politicians from 56 countries — including three monarchs.
  
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• Three course cabinet: What it costs to dine with a Labor minister

  20-10-2024 20:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Leaked emails reveal Labor is raising hundreds of thousands of dollars through its Federal Business Forum while it prepares a donations crackdown.
  
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• Albanese wants to hit us where we live. It’s a do-or-die strategy

  20-10-2024 20:00 via smh.com.au
  
  The prime minister is banking on his faith that voters will value Labor’s strategies to help them financially.
  
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• Stamp duty, councils and big business’s $10bn shot at the housing crisis

  20-10-2024 13:30 via smh.com.au
  
  The nation’s peak business group will propose a $10 billion federal plan to build more homes and slash the cost of construction.
  
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• Stamp duty, councils and big business’s $10b shot at the housing crisis

  20-10-2024 13:30 via smh.com.au
  
  The nation’s peak business group will propose a $10 billion federal plan to build more homes and slash the cost of construction.
  
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• Best of cartoons, October 21, 2024

  20-10-2024 13:01 via smh.com.au
  
  The news of the day as interpreted by our talented artists, illustrators and cartoonists.
  
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• Prabowo Subianto sworn in as Indonesia's eighth president

  20-10-2024 10:57 via abc.net.au
  
  A new political era in Indonesia has begun as Prabowo Subianto is sworn in as president, pledging to make Indonesia an economic powerhouse.
  
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• Prabowo Subianto sworn in as Indonesia's eight president

  20-10-2024 10:57 via abc.net.au
  
  A new political era in Indonesia has begun as Prabowo Subianto is sworn in as president, pledging to make Indonesia an economic powerhouse.
  
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• Will King Charles apologise for colonialism in Australia?

  20-10-2024 04:08 via abc.net.au
  
  Royal biographer Julia Baird says the monarch has an opportunity to distinguish himself from his mother Queen Elizabeth II.
  
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• King Charles congratulates NSW legislative council on bicentenary

  20-10-2024 03:27 via abc.net.au
  
  King Charles gifts the upper house of the NSW parliament with an hourglass to mark its bicentenary.
  
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• Why some of Australia’s biggest polluters are celebrating this week

  20-10-2024 02:23 via abc.net.au
  
  New laws have stripped WA's environmental watchdog of its power to consider carbon emissions when approving high-polluting projects. So is the EPA now a toothless tiger?
  
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• The WA government just handed some of Australia's biggest polluters something they have wanted for years

  20-10-2024 02:23 via abc.net.au
  
  New laws have stripped WA's environmental watchdog of its power to consider carbon emissions when approving high-polluting projects. So is the EPA now a toothless tiger?
  
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• Independent Jacqui Scruby on track to become NSW's first teal MP

  20-10-2024 01:42 via abc.net.au
  
  Ms Scruby is projeted to win the NSW Northern Beaches seat of Pittwater from the Liberal party with a 6 per cent swing.
  
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• King and Queen arrive at church service in Sydney

  20-10-2024 01:41 via abc.net.au
  
  King Charles and Queen Camilla receive a warm welcome from Sunday school children at the St Thomas' Anglican Church in North Sydney.
  
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• What to expect from King Charles' first public appearance on his Australia tour

  20-10-2024 01:13 via abc.net.au
  
  Royal commentator Juliet Rieden says many look forward to seeing the monarch in real life.
  
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• ACT election sees Labor’s seventh consecutive win, independent surge

  20-10-2024 00:07 via abc.net.au
  
  Labor has clinched a seventh consecutive victory in the ACT election while independents Thomas Emerson and Fiona Carrick won seats.
  
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