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• Labor says Dutton’s public service cuts are from the ‘DOGE’ handbook. Here’s where jobs could go

  01-04-2025 19:54 via smh.com.au
  
  Just 7000 new public service jobs have been created in Canberra under Labor, forcing the Coalition to cut 34,000 jobs from the rest of Australia or gut the capital.
  
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• Coalition softens plan to force public servants back into office

  05-04-2025 05:28 via abc.net.au
  
  Peter Dutton has partially walked back his party's plan to force federal public servants back into the office full time, now saying the edict will only apply to Canberra-based workers.
  
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• Coalition partially walks back public service work-from-home vow

  05-04-2025 05:28 via abc.net.au
  
  Peter Dutton has partially walked back his party's plan to force federal public servants back into the office full time, now saying the edict will only apply to Canberra-based workers.
  
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• Peter Dutton injures cameraman after wayward footy kick

  05-04-2025 03:37 via abc.net.au
  
  Peter Dutton has injured a camera operator after a wayward footy kick.
  
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• Victoria’s hot seats LIVE updates: Goldstein rematch heats up in first week of campaign

  05-04-2025 03:36 via smh.com.au
  
  Join us over the next five weeks for an in-depth look at the candidates, hot-button issues, and a breakdown of the policies and campaign promises in four key electorates.
  
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• Dutton says advice on Darwin Port has changed since he was defence minister

  05-04-2025 03:33 via abc.net.au
  
  Peter Dutton revealed he disagreed with advice he received as defence minister that there was no need to act on Darwin Port being leased to a Chinese-owned company, as he announced he would now return the port to Australian ownership if elected.
  
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• Cameraman left bloodied after Dutton’s football kick goes astray

  05-04-2025 03:30 via smh.com.au
  
  The ball went straight towards a cameraman filming the exchange, resulting in a bloodied forehead.
  
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• Dutton accidentally leaves cameraman’s forehead bloody with footy kick

  05-04-2025 03:19 via smh.com.au
  
  Opposition leader Peter Dutton accidentally leaves cameraman’s forehead bloody with a footy kick.
  
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• Ain’t that a kick in the head: Dutton’s footy collides with cameraman

  05-04-2025 03:12 via smh.com.au
  
  The ball went straight towards a cameraman filming the exchange, resulting in a bloodied forehead.
  
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• National AEC spokesperson urges Australians to enrol to vote

  05-04-2025 02:42 via abc.net.au
  
  National AEC spokesperson Evan Ekin-Smyth has encouraged Australians to properly enrol to vote in the Federal Election as the registration deadline looms. 
  
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• Coalition and Labor pledge to retake control of Port of Darwin

  05-04-2025 02:32 via abc.net.au
  
  Political correspondent Greg Jennett analyses Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton's pledge to retake control of Port of Darwin.
  
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• WA Treasurer Rita Saffioti says state is ready for stormy economic seas

  05-04-2025 02:04 via abc.net.au
  
  WA's economic good times could be in the rear-view mirror, with the price of iron ore and Donald Trump's tariffs creating a bumpy road. But WA Treasurer Rita Saffioti is confident the state can withstand the shocks.
  
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• How WA's treasurer is planning for economic storms ahead

  05-04-2025 02:04 via abc.net.au
  
  WA's economic good times could be in the rear-view mirror, with the price of iron ore and Donald Trump's tariffs creating a bumpy road. But WA Treasurer Rita Saffioti is confident the state can withstand the shocks.
  
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• Yoon Suk Yeol apologises as court upholds his impeachment

  05-04-2025 00:13 via abc.net.au
  
  South Korea's impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol has apologised for failing to live up to the nation's expectations.
  
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• Judge orders return of US man mistakenly deported to El Salvador

  05-04-2025 00:12 via abc.net.au
  
  A federal judge in the United States has ordered the Trump administration arrange for the return of a Maryland father who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador.
  
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• Federal election 2025 LIVE updates: Trump tariff fallout lingers as PM, Dutton continue campaigns; protester crashes Treasurer’s press conference

  04-04-2025 23:17 via smh.com.au
  
  Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton launch into the second week of their campaign.
  
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• Can a former incumbent unseat a sitting MP in this marginal SA seat?

  04-04-2025 22:28 via abc.net.au
  
  Ahead of the federal election, the Liberal candidate for Boothby, Nicolle Flint, reflects on the factors behind her decision to leave — and now return to — politics.
  
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• ‘He’s match fit’: Albanese takes out first week of race, but many voters probably didn’t notice

  04-04-2025 20:54 via smh.com.au
  
  The prime minister has been disciplined while Dutton’s supporters are looking for him to improve.
  
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• We've talked about potential Trump consequences. Now they're happening

  04-04-2025 20:00 via abc.net.au
  
  We've all talked about the potential strategic and economic ramifications for Australia of Trump's America First policies. Well, they are now happening. And the whole world will never be the same. 
  
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• We've all talked about potential consequences of Trump. Now they're happening here

  04-04-2025 20:00 via abc.net.au
  
  We've all talked about the potential strategic and economic ramifications for Australia of Trump's America First policies. Well, they are now happening. And the whole world will never be the same. 
  
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• Trump wants to close off America. If he succeeds, the global consequences will be catastrophic

  04-04-2025 20:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Under Donald Trump, the country that created the global free market is bringing it to an end, not soberly but vengefully. The entire episode would be comically clownish if it weren’t so serious.
  
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• Trump is happening — and the whole world will never be the same

  04-04-2025 20:00 via abc.net.au
  
  We've all talked about the potential strategic and economic ramifications for Australia of Trump's America First policies. Well, they are now happening. And the whole world will never be the same. 
  
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• Labor primary vote exposed in key states despite recovery this year

  04-04-2025 20:00 via smh.com.au
  
  An exclusive survey shows the Labor primary vote has fallen in NSW and Victoria from the level the party reached at the last election.
  
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• Defence not a "bargaining chip" in Trump negotiations || Insiders On Background

  04-04-2025 11:56 via abc.net.au
  
  Former Prime Minister John Howard says defence should never be used as a bargaining chip in negotiating exemptions from Donald Trump’s tariffs. Speaking to the Insiders on Background podcast, Mr Howard says the "Liberation Day" tariffs are “bad economics”, predicting it will ultimately cost President Trump politically.
  
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• What we know about UK's AUKUS inquiry and what it means to Australia

  04-04-2025 10:54 via abc.net.au
  
  Britain's parliamentary inquiry is into the AUKUS partnership amid geopolitical shifts. Should Australia be worried about its $368 billion deal? Here is what we know.
  
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• What the UK’s inquiry into $368b AUKUS deal could mean to Australia

  04-04-2025 10:54 via abc.net.au
  
  Britain's parliamentary inquiry is into the AUKUS partnership amid geopolitical shifts. Should Australia be worried about its $368 billion deal? Here is what we know.
  
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• Chinese firm Landbridge set to be stripped of its controversial lease of the Port of Darwin

  04-04-2025 09:38 via smh.com.au
  
  The Coalition will use its first major national security policy of the election campaign to announce that in government it would seize control of the port if required.
  
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• As it happened: ASX falls sharply as fallout continues from Trump tariffs; worst trading day on Wall Street since 2020 as $2.4 trillion wiped

  04-04-2025 09:37 via smh.com.au
  
  Read all the headlines from day eight of the 2025 federal election campaign on Friday, April 4.
  
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• Labor names late-starter candidates in 'unwinnable' SA seats

  04-04-2025 08:49 via abc.net.au
  
  Labor has selected candidates to "fly the flag" in safe federal Liberal seats Grey and Barker a month before Australians go to the polls. 
  
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• Petro Georgiou, the ‘conscience of the Liberal Party’, dies at 77

  04-04-2025 08:27 via smh.com.au
  
  Petro Georgiou, who stood up to John Howard on asylum seekers, dies at 77.
  
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