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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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• This former lawyer and single mum wants the Greens to be a constructive force

  16-05-2025 09:12 via smh.com.au
  
  With the Greens set to hold more power in the Senate, new leader Larissa Waters says Labor has no excuses: “We are here saying ‘we want to get work done for you’.”
  
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• Surprise twist in Bradfield nail-biter vote count

  16-05-2025 07:52 via smh.com.au
  
  While postal votes closed off on Friday, it could be another week before the winner of the battle for Bradfield is known.
  
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• Murray Watt to overhaul environment laws Albanese once blocked

  16-05-2025 07:50 via smh.com.au
  
  New environment minister says tough negotiations will deliver wins and losses for all stakeholders.
  
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• Not for turning: Chalmers rounds on super critics and stands by his plan

  16-05-2025 07:24 via smh.com.au
  
  Critics have mounted a loud last-minute campaign to force changes to Jim Chalmers’ plan to change superannuation taxes. He says he’s not for turning.
  
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• Another round of climate wars? "Oh God no!" | Insiders On Background

  16-05-2025 06:30 via abc.net.au
  
  After a bruising election defeat, the Coalition is putting all of its policies up for review - including net zero. One of the biggest supporters of net zero by 2050 is big business. Australian Industry Group's Innes Willox tells David Speers to "reopen the climate wars... is like reopening an old wound."
  
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• North Sydney's controversial 90pc rates hike plan knocked back

  16-05-2025 02:10 via abc.net.au
  
  North Sydney Council has lost its contentious bid to hit ratepayers with a massive hike, instead being told it can only raise them by 4 per cent. 
  
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• Live: Goldstein vote count narrows to 258 lead for Liberal with 500 votes left to tally

  15-05-2025 23:03 via abc.net.au
  
  The race for Goldstein has narrowed to 258, with independent Zoe Daniel trailing Liberal Tim Wilson. There are just 500 votes left to tally. Follow live.
  
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• Live: Goldstein vote count narrows to 206 lead for Liberal with 260 votes left to tally

  15-05-2025 23:03 via abc.net.au
  
  The race for Goldstein has narrowed to 258, with independent Zoe Daniel trailing Liberal Tim Wilson. There are just 500 votes left to tally. Follow live.
  
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• Live: 'Different styles, different personalities': Ley outlines post-Dutton Liberal leadership

  15-05-2025 23:03 via abc.net.au
  
  New leader of the opposition Sussan Ley says she will bring a different approach to the Liberal Party leadership. Follow live.
  
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• Goldstein vote count narrows to 206 lead for Liberal with 260 votes left to tally — as it happened

  15-05-2025 23:03 via abc.net.au
  
  The race for Goldstein has narrowed to 206, with independent Zoe Daniel trailing Liberal Tim Wilson. There are just 260 votes left to tally.
  
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• 'I'm set up to fail': Foster carer quits after three weeks of caring for young boy

  15-05-2025 21:35 via abc.net.au
  
  Oliver arrived at Elaine's on the eve of his 7th birthday, with a black bin bag in tow. With no training to be a foster carer, she quit after three weeks.
  
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• ‘It’s part of who I am’: PM heads for Rome as questions raised about his faith

  15-05-2025 21:30 via smh.com.au
  
  Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has cited his Catholic childhood as a key influence on his approach to government as he heads to Rome for the inaugural mass of Pope Leo XIV.
  
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• Trump’s luxury jet ‘gift’ shows world leaders how easily the deal-lover can be pacified

  15-05-2025 21:00 via smh.com.au
  
  It’s said the cover-up is worse than the crime. For Trump, there is no cover-up because there’s no sense of the original crime.
  
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• Ley, Littleproud at loggerheads as Liberals call for radical inquiry into party’s future

  15-05-2025 20:50 via smh.com.au
  
  Littleproud travelled from Canberra to Albury to meet with Ley, who is in her home town to be with her dying mother, about the future of the Coalition pact.
  
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• Albanese has shied from culture wars. This one waits for him when parliament resumes

  15-05-2025 20:45 via smh.com.au
  
  Labor’s large majority is raising expectations the government will progress difficult issues such as a Religious Discrimination Act.
  
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• Greens leader Larissa Waters wants 'heart' in new term of parliament

  15-05-2025 20:33 via abc.net.au
  
  In one of her first interviews as leader, Larissa Waters tells the ABC of her desire for the next parliament to be more constructive, and have "heart", but says she won't shy away from the tough stance the Greens took on past issues like housing.
  
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• When home becomes hell: Inside one of the world's worst gender violence crises

  15-05-2025 20:32 via abc.net.au
  
  The ABC went on a multi-country investigation in the Pacific to understand one of the world's worst gender violence crises. What we found was much more complicated than a story about victimhood.
  
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• One of the world's worst gender violence crises is unfolding on our doorsteps

  15-05-2025 20:32 via abc.net.au
  
  The ABC went on a multi-country investigation in the Pacific to understand one of the world's worst gender violence crises. What we found was much more complicated than a story about victimhood.
  
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• 'I've seen girls raped, women tortured': Inside one of the world's domestic violence crises

  15-05-2025 20:32 via abc.net.au
  
  The ABC went on a multi-country investigation in the Pacific to understand one of the world's worst gender violence crises. What we found was much more complicated than a story about victimhood.
  
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• Best of cartoons, May 16, 2025

  15-05-2025 13:03 via smh.com.au
  
  The news of the day as interpreted by our talented artists, illustrators and cartoonists.
  
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• Larissa Waters to make the Greens’ progressive push from Paddington 

  15-05-2025 12:37 via smh.com.au
  
  Queensland is still home to federal party leaders. No sooner had Peter Dutton left the Liberal scene, the Greens looked north for their own champion.
  
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• Super tax changes the real test of Albanese’s election victory

  15-05-2025 11:45 via smh.com.au
  
  It’s been on the government’s agenda for two years, but the planned overhaul of tax on super accounts worth more than $3 million will be Albanese’s first test.
  
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• Larissa Waters chosen as new Greens leader

  15-05-2025 11:30 via abc.net.au
  
  The Greens have selected a new leader — Queensland senator Larissa Waters — as the party seeks to move on from its disappointing election result.
  
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• Albanese, the progressive patriot, now owns the centre. His next task? Holding on to it

  15-05-2025 11:30 via smh.com.au
  
  Anthony Albanese waited a long time to get to the top. Now that he’s there, he’s got a plan to make it last.
  
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• Greens new leader Larissa Waters, deputy Mehreen Faruqi double down on Gaza

  15-05-2025 10:39 via smh.com.au
  
  Greens senator Larissa Waters has been elected as the new leader of the minor party, with Mehreen Faruqi remaining as deputy.
  
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• Victoria hot seats LIVE results: Tim Wilson’s lead in Goldstein narrows further; Kooyong gave us a full-blown political melodrama; the Victorian seats yet to be called

  15-05-2025 10:11 via smh.com.au
  
  Tim Wilson’s lead over Zoe Daniel narrows yet again in Goldstein, Flinders called for the Liberal Party’s Zoe McKenzie, Calwell in northern Melbourne still a tight-run race.
  
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• Marles praises Dreyfus while refusing to acknowledge he deposed him

  15-05-2025 09:20 via smh.com.au
  
  Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles also rejected suggestions the move would backfire on either the government’s stability or his own leadership ambitions.
  
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• Larissa Waters elected new Greens leader

  15-05-2025 06:47 via smh.com.au
  
  Greens senator Larissa Waters is the new leader of the party, with Mehreen Faruqi to remain as the party’s deputy.
  
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• Larissa Waters becomes Greens leader in 'consensus' decision

  15-05-2025 06:46 via abc.net.au
  
  The Queensland senator will replace Adam Bandt in a "consensus" decision of the party room.
  
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