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• The man suspected of a multi-million-dollar NDIS fraud

  01-04-2025 21:04 via abc.net.au
  
  On the western outskirts of Melbourne, where the paddocks meet new homes, lies the centre of an alleged NDIS fraudster's network. 
  
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• Dutton dumps controversial plans to axe bureaucrats and end working from home

  06-04-2025 14:30 via smh.com.au
  
  Dutton will face questions about whether the Coalition can find $7 billion in savings now that the party has ruled out forced redundancies from the public service.
  
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• Coalition commits extraordinary about-face on 'end' to work from home

  06-04-2025 14:30 via abc.net.au
  
  A Coalition promise to send public servants back to the office has been jettisoned, and plans to cut 41,000 Commonwealth jobs walked back significantly, in a mid-campaign backflip.
  
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• Best of cartoons, April 7, 2025

  06-04-2025 12:04 via smh.com.au
  
  The news of the day as interpreted by our talented artists, illustrators and cartoonists.
  
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• Coalition vows $5000 visa fee for international students at sandstone universities

  06-04-2025 11:31 via smh.com.au
  
  Peter Dutton’s plan to hike international student visa fees will cement Australia’s application costs as the most expensive in the world.
  
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• Big Labor rally targets battleground seat of Griffith as Green cries copycat

  06-04-2025 09:28 via smh.com.au
  
  Max Chandler-Mather scoffed as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese turned up in the Greens MP’s inner-city Brisbane seat.
  
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• Federal election 2025 as it happened: Libs dump candidate over sexist comments; Dutton spruiks foreign student cuts; PM campaigns on $4000 home battery subsidy

  06-04-2025 09:12 via smh.com.au
  
  Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton are into the second week of their campaigns. Follow our rolling coverage here.
  
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• Sector slams Coalition uni plan as 'out of Donald Trump's playbook'

  06-04-2025 08:20 via abc.net.au
  
  The international education sector says the Coalition's announcement of plans to cap overseas students at 25 per cent of university cohorts if elected in May came out of the blue.
  
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• Why is Myanmar's junta restricting aid to quake-hit regions?

  06-04-2025 06:43 via abc.net.au
  
  Former Australian human rights commissioner Chris Sidoti says Myanmar's military junta has a history exploiting catastrophes.
  
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• Embattled Liberal Bennelong candidate called Beijing-linked high roller ‘brother’

  06-04-2025 05:45 via smh.com.au
  
  A leaked video jars with previous claims by Scott Yung that he does not know Xie Xiongming, a former associate of banned political donor, billionaire Huang Xiangmo.
  
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• Battleground Victoria: Why these candidates may hold the key to the federal election result

  06-04-2025 05:39 via smh.com.au
  
  The major parties are facing a fight for heartland seats, while challengers are ready to reverse the teal tsunami of the past election. This is where the fiercest battles will be fought.
  
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• Prime minister promises to partially subsidise home batteries if re-elected

  06-04-2025 05:11 via abc.net.au
  
  Anthony Albanese pledges to make the cost of solar battery storage systems 30 per cent cheaper at an election rally in Brisbane.
  
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• Anti-Trump protests erupt in US and around the world

  06-04-2025 04:05 via abc.net.au
  
  The ‘Hands Off’ rallies voiced opposition to the Trump administration’s economic policies and plans to downsize the government.
  
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• Interview with Penny Wong

  06-04-2025 03:00 via abc.net.au
  
  David Speers interviews Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong.
  
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• Protesters take to Chicago streets to oppose Trump's policies

  06-04-2025 02:31 via abc.net.au
  
  Thousands of demonstrators march on the streets of Chicago in a nationwide 'Hands Off' movement against the Trump administration.
  
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• Opposition leader blames international students for hefty rents

  06-04-2025 02:30 via abc.net.au
  
  Peter Dutton attributes high rental prices to an increase in the number of foreign student enrolments in major cities.
  
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• Federal election 2025 LIVE updates: Dutton spruiks foreign student cuts to get young Australians into homes; Albanese campaigns on $4000 home battery subsidy

  06-04-2025 00:49 via smh.com.au
  
  Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton are into the second week of their campaigns. Follow our rolling coverage here.
  
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• Protesters rally to oppose Donald Trump's policies

  06-04-2025 00:46 via abc.net.au
  
  Protesters amass in Washington DC and Paris to oppose the Trump administration's plan to overhaul the government and upgrade presidential authority.
  
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• Coalition vows to limit international student enrolments to 240,000 a year

  06-04-2025 00:25 via abc.net.au
  
  Peter Dutton will pledge to cap the number of international students able to start study in Australia each year at 240,000, after blocking Labor's attempts to introduce legislation to limit enrolments last year.
  
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• Coalition vows to cap international student enrolments at 240,000 a year

  06-04-2025 00:25 via abc.net.au
  
  Peter Dutton will pledge to cap the number of international students able to start study in Australia each year at 240,000, after blocking Labor's attempts to introduce legislation to limit enrolments last year.
  
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• Federal Election Campaign: Week One

  06-04-2025 00:13 via abc.net.au
  
  Trump's Tarifff's dominated the news this week, while stock markets have plunged, China has retaliated, strategic concerns have been heightened, right in the middle of the election campaign.
  
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• Federal election 2025 LIVE updates: Labor’s $4000 home battery subsidy; Liberal candidate named in settlement; ‘Dad vote’ crucial for Albanese

  06-04-2025 00:12 via smh.com.au
  
  Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton are into the second week of their campaigns. Follow our rolling coverage here.
  
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• Inside these homes, the cost of alleged NDIS fraud is laid bare

  05-04-2025 23:09 via abc.net.au
  
  People with mental illness are getting lost in the NDIS system, isolated from friends and family and abandoned while their lucrative government funding is drained. This is how they're living.
  
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• Inside a squalid house linked to a suspected NDIS fraudster

  05-04-2025 23:09 via abc.net.au
  
  People with mental illness are getting lost in the NDIS system, isolated from friends and family and abandoned while their lucrative government funding is drained. This is how they're living.
  
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• 'The message is being received': Anger over politicians at prayers boils over

  05-04-2025 22:26 via abc.net.au
  
  It's not unusual for a federal election campaign to overlap with Eid al-Fitr, one of the most important days in the Muslim calendar. It is the absence of many senior politicians at traditional community events that raises eyebrows. 
  
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• Eid and elections often collide. But this week something was different

  05-04-2025 22:26 via abc.net.au
  
  It's not unusual for a federal election campaign to overlap with Eid al-Fitr, one of the most important days in the Muslim calendar. It is the absence of many senior politicians at traditional community events that raises eyebrows. 
  
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• Olympics boss promises affordable tickets for Brisbane 2032

  05-04-2025 21:21 via abc.net.au
  
  Andrew Liveris says an affordable ticket would be between $30 and $50 — or "something like that". 
  
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• The ‘dad vote’ crucial to Labor’s polling rebound

  05-04-2025 21:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Support for left wing parties among young men is little different to young women, defying a trope that they have become starkly more conservative.
  
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• Star Liberal candidate named in ‘discrimination’ settlement

  05-04-2025 21:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Former Liberal staffer Rachelle Miller accused the party’s candidate in a key seat of discriminating against her at work years ago and received a big payout without anyone admitting wrongdoing.
  
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• Are boys really toxic or are we in a moral panic?

  05-04-2025 21:00 via smh.com.au
  
  A crisis in masculinity? Young men should get off the internet and meet women in real life.
  
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