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• Federal election 2025 LIVE updates: RBA holds interest rates at 4.1 per cent; Dutton pledges $2.2b Suburban Rail Loop funding cut

  01-04-2025 09:13 via smh.com.au
  
  Stay across all the headlines from day four of the 2025 federal election campaign. Follow live.
  
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• 'Delulu with no solulu': the influencer network that is changing the way our politicians engage

  12-04-2025 21:00 via abc.net.au
  
  Politicians are on a mission this election to connect with voters online like never before. It is opening the door for podcasters and social media personalities to have increasing political influence.
  
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• 'Delulu with no solulu': The influencer network changing the way politicians engage

  12-04-2025 21:00 via abc.net.au
  
  Politicians are on a mission this election to connect with voters online like never before. It is opening the door for podcasters and social media personalities to have increasing political influence.
  
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• Dutton offers $1200 tax cut against Albanese’s 100,000 homes in defining election pitch

  12-04-2025 14:30 via smh.com.au
  
  Both leaders will use their campaign launches to unveil $10 billion policies, which also include a Labor plan to allow most first home buyers to enter the market with a 5 per cent deposit.
  
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• Dutton pledges one-off $1,200 tax offset to half of taxpayers

  12-04-2025 14:29 via abc.net.au
  
  The full offset would be available to those who earn between $48,000 and $104,000. 
  
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• Jacinta Price pledges to ‘make Australia great again’

  12-04-2025 09:05 via smh.com.au
  
  The firebrand Coalition senator echoed Donald Trump’s signature pledge during a campaign where Labor has been trying to link the opposition to the US president.
  
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• Dutton had a decision to make. On Saturday, he chose Jacinta Price

  12-04-2025 08:35 via smh.com.au
  
  The opposition leader could have reined in Price after she vowed to “make Australia great again”. Instead, Peter Dutton gave her carte blanche.
  
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• As it happened: Jacinta Price vows to ‘make Australia great again’, PM slams Dutton’s ‘dangerous nonsense’ on defence

  12-04-2025 08:14 via smh.com.au
  
  Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton are into week three of the federal election campaign. Follow live.
  
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• LNP senator vows to 'make Australia great again', dismisses Trump link

  12-04-2025 07:02 via abc.net.au
  
  The Coalition's spokesperson for government efficiency, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, told a crowd of supporters the party would "make Australia great again". Less than an hour later she said she didn't realise she had echoed Donald Trump's rallying cry.
  
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• Coalition senator vows to 'make Australia great again', dismisses Trump link

  12-04-2025 07:02 via abc.net.au
  
  The Coalition's spokesperson for government efficiency, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, told a crowd of supporters the party would "make Australia great again". Less than an hour later she said she didn't realise she had echoed Donald Trump's rallying cry.
  
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• Coalition MP vows to 'make Australia great again', says she didn't mean to echo Trump

  12-04-2025 07:02 via abc.net.au
  
  Coalition frontbencher Jacinta Nampijinpa Price vowed to "make Australia great again" in a rousing speech to supporters and then less than an hour later said she didn't realise she had echoed the US president's renowned rallying cry.
  
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• Jacinta Price pledges to ‘make Australia great again’ in WA

  12-04-2025 05:57 via smh.com.au
  
  The firebrand Coalition senator echoed Donald Trump’s signature pledge during a campaign where Labor has been trying to link the opposition to the US president.
  
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• Federal election 2025 LIVE updates: PM campaigns in Perth; Dutton pledges $1.5m to stop coward punch

  12-04-2025 03:38 via smh.com.au
  
  Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton are into week three of the federal election campaign. Follow live.
  
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• Allegra Spender disusses collaborating with influencers on social media

  12-04-2025 03:11 via abc.net.au
  
  Independent MP Allegra Spender discusses paying an agency to commission social media content as she collaborates with influencer Milly Rose Bannister.
  
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• Tanya Plibersek discusses uncertainty of the markets from Trump tariffs

  12-04-2025 02:20 via abc.net.au
  
  Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek discusses Labor's environment policies and the uncertainty in the markets from Donald Trump's tariffs. 
  
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• WA Greens want cheaper housing, renewables action but say they won't be blockers

  12-04-2025 02:05 via abc.net.au
  
  With the Greens almost certain to form the biggest crossbench voting bloc in WA's upper house, leader Brad Pettitt outlines how his party plans to use that power.
  
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• How the WA Greens plan to use its crossbench power in the state's new parliament

  12-04-2025 02:05 via abc.net.au
  
  With the Greens almost certain to form the biggest crossbench voting bloc in WA's upper house, leader Brad Pettitt outlines how his party plans to use that power.
  
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• US-China trade war worsens as Wall Street closes after rollercoaster week

  12-04-2025 00:36 via abc.net.au
  
  US President Donald Trump is confident a deal with China will be reached on tariffs as the trade war between Washington and Beijing worsens. 
  
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• Peter Dutton says people are in tears over cost of living — as it happened

  12-04-2025 00:10 via abc.net.au
  
  Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton both started their day in Perth.
  
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• Live: Price declines to repeat 'Make Australia Great Again' comments

  12-04-2025 00:10 via abc.net.au
  
  Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton have both started their day in Perth. Follow live.
  
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• Live: Peter Dutton says people are in tears over cost of living

  12-04-2025 00:10 via abc.net.au
  
  Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton have both started their day in Perth. Follow live.
  
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• Live: Parties try to woo the West ahead of key campaign launches

  12-04-2025 00:10 via abc.net.au
  
  Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton have both started their day in Perth. Follow live.
  
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• Live: Dutton says people are in tears over cost of living as Price's comments are questioned

  12-04-2025 00:10 via abc.net.au
  
  Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton have both started their day in Perth. Follow live.
  
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• Live: Albanese and Dutton both on campaign trail in Perth

  12-04-2025 00:10 via abc.net.au
  
  Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton have both started their day in Perth. Follow live.
  
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• Lawyer says project to protect women at work ended in 'perfect failure'

  12-04-2025 00:09 via abc.net.au
  
  A high-profile lawyer asked to oversee the delivery of a $800,000 Victorian workplace safety project says she left early, after it instead left her feeling "victimised" in her own job.
  
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• Federal election 2025 LIVE updates: PM campaigns in Perth; ASX closes in the red, Wall St lifts after week of Trump tariff chaos

  12-04-2025 00:09 via smh.com.au
  
  Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton are into week three of the federal election campaign. Follow live.
  
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• Federal election 2025 LIVE updates: PM campaigns in Canberra, Perth; ASX closes in the red, Wall St lifts after week of Trump tariff chaos

  12-04-2025 00:09 via smh.com.au
  
  Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton are into week three of the federal election campaign. Follow live.
  
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• 'A perfect failure': Project to protect women in the workplace derailed

  12-04-2025 00:09 via abc.net.au
  
  A high-profile lawyer asked to oversee the delivery of a $800,000 Victorian workplace safety project says she left early, after it instead left her feeling "victimised" in her own job.
  
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• ‘We don’t need more vanilla’: Liberals are asking whether Peter Dutton can still win

  11-04-2025 23:25 via smh.com.au
  
  The opposition leader has endured a torrid first two weeks of the 2025 campaign. What are his chances of victory?
  
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• The politics of grievance was a winner for Trump. It’s not working for Dutton

  11-04-2025 21:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Excited by dominance in meaningless midterm polls, misled by the false analogy of Trump’s political success, the Coalition allowed itself to think it could win without doing the work required.
  
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