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• Plibersek laughs off awkward exchange with Albanese at Labor launch

  14-04-2025 02:14 via smh.com.au
  
  Plibersek has made fun of her awkward greeting with the prime minister at Labor’s campaign launch on Sunday, saying she “should’ve done an elbow bump” instead.
  
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• Live: Albanese and Dutton make Anzac Day statements as campaign continues

  24-04-2025 22:38 via abc.net.au
  
  Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will spend Anzac Day morning in Canberra, while Opposition Leader Peter Dutton is campaigning in his home city of Brisbane. Follow live.
  
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• Former treasury boss looking past logging to 'grow money on trees'

  24-04-2025 22:01 via abc.net.au
  
  Former treasure secretary Ken Henry is pushing a new effort to protect native forests from logging and keep carbon stored in living trees.
  
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• How can you tell you’re in a teal seat? Dutton is nowhere to be seen

  24-04-2025 21:00 via smh.com.au
  
  The Liberals have changed their strategy in the so-called teal seats. But once again, the party leader is seen as kryptonite for Liberal challengers.
  
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• Dutton almost had a good policy. Here’s why he probably chickened out

  24-04-2025 21:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Have you ever noticed politicians are always announcing tax cuts, but never tax increases?
  
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• Dutton must target backpackers to deliver promised cuts to migration

  24-04-2025 20:55 via smh.com.au
  
  Surging numbers of working holidaymakers would have to be drastically curtailed for Opposition Leader Peter Dutton to achieve his promise of driving down overall migration levels.
  
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• Coalition vow to end EV lease discount may inflate prices $15K

  24-04-2025 20:39 via abc.net.au
  
  The Coalition's promise to end electric vehicle subsidies could drive up prices for popular EVs by more than $15,000 under a typical novated lease and have an almost immediate effect on sales.
  
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• Anzac Day 2025 LIVE updates: Albanese, Dutton attend dawn services amid federal election campaign

  24-04-2025 20:39 via smh.com.au
  
  Follow the federal election campaign and Anzac Day commemorations live.
  
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• Israeli tank fire responsible for deadly strike at UN facility in Gaza

  24-04-2025 18:53 via abc.net.au
  
  The strike on a "well known" United Nations compound last month left one employee of the organisation dead and forced the UN to temporarily reduce its staffing in Gaza.
  
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• Best of cartoons, April 25, 2025

  24-04-2025 13:24 via smh.com.au
  
  The news of the day as interpreted by our talented artists, illustrators and cartoonists.
  
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• Victoria’s hot seats LIVE updates: Gaza a flashpoint as Labor under fire; After 23 days, Bruce candidate Safi finally speaks

  24-04-2025 11:51 via smh.com.au
  
  Follow our rolling in-depth coverage of key Victorian seats in this federal election campaign.
  
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• Dutton confirms public service job losses would be confined to Canberra

  24-04-2025 11:21 via abc.net.au
  
  Peter Dutton has confirmed his plans to shrink the public service would be confined to Canberra, with the city to lose 60 per cent of its public sector workforce, if the Coalition wins government.
  
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• John Howard says the Liberal Party must be a broad church. Does Peter Dutton agree?

  24-04-2025 11:07 via smh.com.au
  
  Is Peter Dutton a shape-shifting pragmatist or a true conservative?
  
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• Federal election 2025 as it happened: Rinehart calls for massive defence spending boost at Anzac service; Kooyong forum crashed by far-right

  24-04-2025 10:43 via smh.com.au
  
  Follow live as we bring you all the news from week four of the election campaign.
  
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• Rinehart uses Anzac Day service to push for enormous increase in defence spending

  24-04-2025 10:42 via smh.com.au
  
  Australia’s richest person has called for a gargantuan rise in defence spending to 5 per cent of GDP at a sunset vigil before Anzac Day.
  
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• Dutton says Albanese ‘trashing his own credibility’ defending fake Nazi meme candidate

  24-04-2025 10:29 via smh.com.au
  
  The prime minister backed the Labor candidate for Dickson, who had posted faked images of Peter Dutton as a Nazi. He also equivocated about whether he had fallen off a stage.
  
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• Federal election 2025 LIVE updates: Rinehart calls for massive defence spending boost at Anzac service; Kooyong forum crashed by far-right

  24-04-2025 09:59 via smh.com.au
  
  Follow live as we bring you all the news from week four of the election campaign.
  
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• The places your political leaders have been avoiding this election

  24-04-2025 09:41 via abc.net.au
  
  Peter Dutton and Anthony Albanese have yet to set foot in an Indigenous community during their election campaigns. However, both have made multiple visits to Melbourne. 
  
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• The places political leaders have been avoiding this election

  24-04-2025 09:41 via abc.net.au
  
  Peter Dutton and Anthony Albanese have yet to set foot in an Indigenous community during their election campaigns. However, both have made multiple visits to Melbourne. 
  
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• ACT politicians hit out at Peter Dutton after commitment to cut Canberra-based public service jobs

  24-04-2025 09:01 via abc.net.au
  
  Opposition leader Peter Dutton made the comments about public service jobs while at a press conference in Tasmania.
  
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• Motorists have thousands of dollars at stake in this election

  24-04-2025 08:26 via smh.com.au
  
  The Coalition has thrown down the gauntlet to Labor on EVs, with the two parties offering vastly different visions for the transport sector.
  
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• Victoria’s hot seats LIVE updates: After 23 days, Bruce candidate Safi finally speaks; Chaos as far-right agitators crash Kooyong forum

  24-04-2025 07:50 via smh.com.au
  
  Follow our rolling in-depth coverage of key Victorian seats in this federal election campaign.
  
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• Experts 'shocked' as Coalition plans to scrap electric vehicle tax break

  24-04-2025 07:20 via abc.net.au
  
  Taxation expert Anna Mortimer says Dutton's plan to scrap a popular election vehicle subsidy will slow Australia's already lagging EV uptake.
  
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• Public service cuts only for Canberra, Dutton says, which Labor calls 'impossible'

  24-04-2025 06:47 via abc.net.au
  
  Peter Dutton said some of the 41,000 cuts would be achieved by not proceeding with unfilled vacancies, but political opponents and experts say the numbers don't add up.
  
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• 'Pretty devastating': Dutton's commitment to cut Canberra public service slammed

  24-04-2025 06:29 via abc.net.au
  
  ACT politicians Andrew Leigh and David Pocock slam Peter Dutton's commitment today to cut 41,000 Canberra-based public service jobs.
  
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• Pocock, Leigh slam Dutton's commitment to cut Canberra public service

  24-04-2025 06:29 via abc.net.au
  
  ACT politicians Andrew Leigh and David Pocock slam Peter Dutton's commitment today to cut 41,000 Canberra-based public service jobs.
  
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• 'Mathematical innumeracy': Dutton's commitment to cut Canberra public service slammed

  24-04-2025 06:29 via abc.net.au
  
  ACT politicians Andrew Leigh and David Pocock slam Peter Dutton's commitment today to cut 41,000 Canberra-based public service jobs.
  
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• Albanese defends Labor candidate who posted Dutton Nazi meme

  24-04-2025 06:16 via smh.com.au
  
  The prime minister backed the Labor candidate for Dickson, who had posted faked images of Peter Dutton as a Nazi. He also equivocated about whether he had fallen off a stage.
  
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• Trump wants our minerals but giving them to him is harder than it sounds

  24-04-2025 04:08 via abc.net.au
  
  The phrase "critical minerals" reflects the demand for them around the world, but China's market dominance means there are traps for new players such as Australia.
  
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• Australia wants to be a critical minerals superpower, but China stands in the way

  24-04-2025 04:08 via abc.net.au
  
  The phrase "critical minerals" reflects the demand for them around the world, but China's market dominance means there are traps for new players such as Australia.
  
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