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• ‘The race is on’: Australia follows Ukraine into the drone-killing era

  06-12-2025 09:30 via smh.com.au
  
  At a remote military site in the outback, cutting-edge drone technology pioneered in the war in Ukraine is being trialled by the Australian army.
  
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• Teen seriously injured in e-bike crash in Perth's western suburbs

  06-12-2025 08:27 via abc.net.au
  
  A 14-year-old boy suffers serious injuries in an e-bike crash in Perth's western suburbs, just two days after a parliamentary inquiry into WA's e-rideable laws made 33 recommendations in a bid to make the devices safer.
  
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• Trump's new security strategy warns Europe faces 'civilisational erasure'

  06-12-2025 04:00 via abc.net.au
  
  The Trump administration releases a document saying its goal is to "help Europe correct its current trajectory", adding that it faces "civilisational erasure" due in part to "mass migration".
  
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• Asbestos found in new ECU city campus, but won't be removed before it opens

  06-12-2025 01:10 via abc.net.au
  
  WA's parliament is told asbestos has been discovered in fire doors at Edith Cowan University's flagship new campus in Perth's CBD, and it won't be removed until after the first semester next year.
  
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• Roger Cook wants to use parliament to avoid FOMO. Not everyone is on board

  06-12-2025 01:04 via abc.net.au
  
  The WA premier is seeking wide-reaching powers to change the rules on approvals for "big, shiny, job-creating projects" — but it has prompted concern from the opposition, environmentalists and even lawyers.
  
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• Critics line up as WA premier seeks to change the rules to avoid FOMO

  06-12-2025 01:04 via abc.net.au
  
  The WA premier is seeking wide-reaching powers to change the rules on approvals for "big, shiny, job-creating projects" — but it has prompted concern from the opposition, environmentalists and even lawyers.
  
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• Who will lead the SA Liberal Party to the next state election?

  05-12-2025 21:20 via abc.net.au
  
  SA Liberal leader Vincent Tarzia has stepped down. Pressure had been mounting in the lead-up to the 2026 state election, and predictions for the Liberal Party's chances are not looking promising.
  
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• Under deadline, Trump is remaking the White House in his own image

  05-12-2025 20:52 via abc.net.au
  
  The US president has spent much of his first year back in office changing the historic building he fought to reclaim in a bid to cement his legacy.
  
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• Trump is remaking the White House in his own image before it is too late

  05-12-2025 20:52 via abc.net.au
  
  The US president has spent much of his first year back in office changing the historic building he fought to reclaim in a bid to cement his legacy.
  
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• Australia's youngest senator was catfished on social media as a teen

  05-12-2025 20:21 via abc.net.au
  
  As the social media ban for teens looms, the parliament's most recent senator reveals she knows firsthand the dangers that can confront young people online.
  
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• 'World's first drone war': Russia-Ukraine war pits technology against manpower

  05-12-2025 19:00 via abc.net.au
  
  When it comes to weaponry, Russia has strength in manpower despite Ukraine's early technological edge while Europe's arms production efforts are running into infrastructure hurdles. 
  
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• Porridge is on the menu but budget politics is about to get spicier

  05-12-2025 19:00 via abc.net.au
  
  How does a treasurer tell households the government will no longer continue a $300 energy rebate when it's happy to blow $100,000 on three flights?
  
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• ‘Horribly, sexually violent’: How Australia’s women leaders deal with rising abuse

  05-12-2025 19:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Women across the political spectrum are calling out the harassment that spreads online and spills into real life.
  
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• Here’s an unpopular view about politicians: we need to give them post-politics jobs

  05-12-2025 19:00 via smh.com.au
  
  When most MPs leave office, they’re unpopular and almost unemployable. If we want to stop them becoming lobbyists, we need to give them something to do.
  
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• Expensive flights don't pass the pub test in the age of belt-tightening

  05-12-2025 19:00 via abc.net.au
  
  How does a treasurer tell households the government will no longer continue a $300 energy rebate when it's happy to blow $100,000 on three flights?
  
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• Europe faces obstacles in preparing for Russian aggression

  05-12-2025 19:00 via abc.net.au
  
  When it comes to weaponry, Russia has strength in manpower despite Ukraine's early technological edge while Europe's arms production efforts are running into infrastructure hurdles. 
  
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• Liberal moderate speaks out on Indigenous acknowledgments at events

  05-12-2025 05:30 via smh.com.au
  
  Moderate and conservative Liberals are locked in an existential tug-of-war over climate change and migration. That’s about to spread further into cultural and national identity.
  
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• Government freezes controversial levy for farmers in budget update

  05-12-2025 03:51 via abc.net.au
  
  The Victorian government has backed down on key parts of an unpopular tax used to fund the state's emergency services as part of its budget update.
  
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• Ayers Rock Resort operation being sold to US company

  05-12-2025 03:01 via abc.net.au
  
  A deal for the sale of operations at Ayers Rock Resort, near Uluru, and the Mossman Gorge Cultural Centre, in Far North Queensland, is one step closer after the Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation reached an agreement with Journey Beyond, an Australian-based "experiential tourism" company owned by an American private equity firm.
  
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• SA Opposition Leader Vincent Tarzia says he is 'not bitter' as he steps down from leadership

  05-12-2025 02:22 via abc.net.au
  
  South Australian Liberal leader Vincent Tarzia will step down from the leadership, just three months out from the next state election. He told a press conference he made the decision on Friday morning.
  
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• Breaking: SA Opposition Leader Vincent Tarzia steps down from leadership

  05-12-2025 02:22 via abc.net.au
  
  South Australian Liberal leader Vincent Tarzia will step down from the leadership, just three months out of the next state election.
  
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• Breaking: SA Opposition Leader Vincent Tarzia says he is 'not bitter' as he steps down from leadership

  05-12-2025 02:22 via abc.net.au
  
  South Australian Liberal leader Vincent Tarzia will step down from the leadership, just three months out of the next state election. He told a press conference he made the decision on Friday morning.
  
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• ‘Conflict bait’: How MPs are turning tedious hearings into social media gold

  05-12-2025 01:57 via smh.com.au
  
  Senators are seeing massive spikes in social media views and followers as they mimic the combative style of US congresspeople.
  
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• Wells attended friend’s birthday party during $3600 taxpayer-funded trip

  04-12-2025 23:52 via smh.com.au
  
  The minister attended the event celebrating a Labor figure while taking part in official business in June.
  
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• Australia to manufacture precision-guided missiles at new factory — as it happened

  04-12-2025 21:28 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia will begin manufacturing multiple-rocket guided missiles this month with the opening of a new factory in South Australia.
  
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• Industrial relations should be Coalition's core business but it's risky

  04-12-2025 19:56 via abc.net.au
  
  The Liberals argue Labor's industrial relations concessions to the unions are a "handbrake on productivity" but this area has been tricky for the Coalition since John Howard's disastrous overreach. 
  
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• Industrial relations are tricky for the Liberals since John Howard's disastrous overreach

  04-12-2025 19:56 via abc.net.au
  
  The Liberals argue Labor's industrial relations concessions to the unions are a "handbrake on productivity" but this area has been tricky for the Coalition since John Howard's disastrous overreach. 
  
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• Search engines will soon have to blur porn image results in Australia

  04-12-2025 19:51 via abc.net.au
  
  Pornographic image results will be blurred and searches for self-harm information will redirect to mental health supports under new Australian online safety codes.
  
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• Next, a Hanson-branded sandwich press and more defectors to follow Barnaby Joyce

  04-12-2025 19:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Pauline Hanson’s chief of staff, James Ashby, claims that a couple of “big names” will be joining in the new year.
  
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• Labor plan to buy gas to stop factory closures as prices soar

  04-12-2025 19:00 via smh.com.au
  
  The Albanese government is considering a first-ever national scheme to stop factories closing due to high-energy bills.
  
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• Best of cartoons, December 5, 2025

  04-12-2025 14:22 via smh.com.au
  
  The news of the day as interpreted by our talented artists, illustrators and cartoonists.
  
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• Value of private health insurance 'eroding' as doctors urge reform

  04-12-2025 14:01 via abc.net.au
  
  A new report from Australia's peak doctors' body says private health insurance is increasingly failing to deliver value to the roughly 15 million Australians who hold a policy.
  
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• 'Read the fine print': Insurers are short-changing patients, doctors say

  04-12-2025 14:01 via abc.net.au
  
  A new report from Australia's peak doctors' body says private health insurance is increasingly failing to deliver value to the roughly 15 million Australians who hold a policy.
  
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• It's a 'Yes'. Hobart's AFL stadium gets final parliamentary approval

  04-12-2025 13:02 via abc.net.au
  
  A roofed $1.13 billion stadium on the edge of the Hobart CBD has been approved by Tasmania's upper house and will be built, satisfying a key condition for the state's AFL licence.
  
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• Labor claims Wells broke no rules with $100,000 New York flight bill

  04-12-2025 07:22 via smh.com.au
  
  Parliamentary travel rules say ministers must achieve value for money when going on international trips. The government said on Thursday no rules were broken.
  
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• This $8.5b Medicare promise was at the heart of Labor’s election pitch. How’s it working?

  04-12-2025 07:11 via smh.com.au
  
  Improvements in the bulk-billing rate last month are being overshadowed by a bigger fight over hospital bed block.
  
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• Full speed ahead with Ukraine war supplies as Australia receives Trump’s AUKUS report card

  04-12-2025 06:03 via smh.com.au
  
  The retirement of the army’s fleet of Tiger attack helicopters could be fast tracked.
  
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• Wong will not say if further Islamic State family members on track to return

  04-12-2025 05:25 via abc.net.au
  
  The Coalition seizes on meeting notes from June to claim the government is working to return Australian children and partners of Islamic State fighters. 
  
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• Harsher penalties for e-rideable offences needed, WA inquiry finds

  04-12-2025 04:23 via abc.net.au
  
  The WA government is urged to toughen penalties for e-rideable offences and punish retailers who help people modify e-rideables to break the rules.
  
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• E-rideables school ban announced as inquiry calls for legislation change

  04-12-2025 04:23 via abc.net.au
  
  The WA government is urged to toughen penalties for e-rideable offences and punish retailers who help people modify e-rideables to break the rules, after an inquiry sparked by the death of a Perth father.
  
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• E-rideables inquiry calls for wide-ranging changes to WA laws

  04-12-2025 04:23 via abc.net.au
  
  The WA government is urged to toughen penalties for e-rideable offences and punish retailers who help people modify e-rideables to break the rules, after an inquiry sparked by the death of a Perth father.
  
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• Government interest bills soar as public debt tracks $1 trillion

  04-12-2025 04:08 via smh.com.au
  
  The federal, state and territory governments are now on track to spend more on the interest repayments on debt than on the NDIS.
  
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• Canberra Liberals leader Mark Parton announces new shadow cabinet

  04-12-2025 03:50 via abc.net.au
  
  After being named leader of the Canberra Liberals last month, Mark Parton announces a reshuffled shadow cabinet after Leanne Castley stepped down from the role.
  
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• Cain, Lee return to shadow cabinet in Canberra Liberals reshuffle

  04-12-2025 03:50 via abc.net.au
  
  After being named leader of the Canberra Liberals last month, Mark Parton announces a reshuffled shadow cabinet after Leanne Castley stepped down from the role.
  
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• EU proposes using frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine

  03-12-2025 21:54 via abc.net.au
  
  Belgium is pushing back on a European proposal to use frozen Russian assets to help financially support Ukraine.
  
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• Marles says he is 'working through' AUKUS review from the US – as it happened

  03-12-2025 21:10 via abc.net.au
  
  The acting prime minister says the United States is fully supportive of AUKUS and has thanked it for providing a review.
  
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• Live: Marles says he is 'working through' AUKUS review from the US

  03-12-2025 21:10 via abc.net.au
  
  The acting prime minister says the United States is fully supportive of AUKUS and has thanked it for providing a review. Follow live.
  
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• Live: Marles says he is 'working through' a AUKUS review from the US

  03-12-2025 21:10 via abc.net.au
  
  The acting prime minister says the United States is fully supportive of AUKUS and has thanked it for providing a review. Follow live.
  
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• Live: Marles says 'completely supportive' US has sent Australia AUKUS review

  03-12-2025 21:10 via abc.net.au
  
  The acting prime minister says the United States is fully supportive of AUKUS and has thanked it for providing a review. Follow live.
  
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• Live: Marles says Australia will stay with Ukraine for 'as long as it takes'

  03-12-2025 21:10 via abc.net.au
  
  Acting Prime Minister Richard Marles says Australia will stay with Ukraine for as long as it takes, after announcing an additional $95 million in military assistance. Follow live.
  
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