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• PM declares Labor-Greens deal a 'yesalition' as environment bill passes — as it happened

  27-11-2025 21:10 via abc.net.au
  
  The federal government's overhauled national environment laws have passed parliament.
  
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• Live: PM declares Labor-Greens deal a 'yesalition' as environment bill passes

  27-11-2025 21:10 via abc.net.au
  
  The federal government's overhauled national environment laws have passed parliament. Follow live.
  
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• Live: Nationals senator hopes party leader will entice Barnaby Joyce back

  27-11-2025 21:10 via abc.net.au
  
  Nationals senator Matt Canavan says he will try to convince Barnaby Joyce to return to the National party after his departure yesterday. Follow live.
  
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• Greens out-step flat-footed Liberals on crucial deal

  27-11-2025 20:22 via abc.net.au
  
  The environmental deal is a major win for a government whose critics on the left are calling for it to be more reformist.
  
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• Ministers must answer for inaction on alcohol laws, anti-DV advocates say

  27-11-2025 19:58 via abc.net.au
  
  A major review into preventing violence against women and children called for changes to immediate alcohol home delivery
  
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• Trump could soon attack this nation. These flashpoints explain why

  27-11-2025 19:52 via abc.net.au
  
  Tensions between Donald Trump and Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Moros have been escalating after months of launching lethal air strikes on vessels accused of shipping deadly drugs north to the US.
  
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• How decades of flashpoints could see Trump soon attack this nation

  27-11-2025 19:52 via abc.net.au
  
  Tensions between Donald Trump and Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Moros have been escalating after months of launching lethal air strikes on vessels accused of shipping deadly drugs north to the US.
  
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• Decades of flashpoints could see Trump soon attack this nation

  27-11-2025 19:52 via abc.net.au
  
  Tensions between Donald Trump and Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Moros have been escalating after months of launching lethal air strikes on vessels accused of shipping deadly drugs north to the US.
  
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• Social media ban implementation will 'vary' across platforms, regulator warns

  27-11-2025 19:48 via abc.net.au
  
  Not all Australians aged under 16 will "magically disappear overnight" from social media, the nation's online safety regulator says, amid a legal challenge to pause the start of the federal government's ban.
  
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• She’s survived the killing season with her leadership intact; now she’s planning her next battle

  27-11-2025 19:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Opposition Leader Sussan Ley will release new policies to woo back women voters and reverse years of reluctance to fight Labor on industrial relations.
  
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• Gas, gambling and negative gearing: Husic challenges Albanese over policy ambition

  27-11-2025 19:00 via smh.com.au
  
  The dumped cabinet minister is speaking out and daring his Labor colleagues to do the same.
  
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• It’s taken 100 years but sparkies may soon be able to work everywhere

  27-11-2025 12:30 via smh.com.au
  
  A patchwork of state laws make it costly for tradies to work across the country. The first step to ending this century of trouble may be taken today.
  
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• Best of cartoons, November 28, 2025

  27-11-2025 11:55 via smh.com.au
  
  The news of the day as interpreted by our talented artists, illustrators and cartoonists.
  
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• Murray Watt has just cemented his reputation as a 'fixer'

  27-11-2025 07:40 via abc.net.au
  
  In his deal with the Greens, Environment Minister Murray Watt has just scraped off one of the biggest barnacles clinging to parliament. 
  
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• One Nation is thriving despite the abhorrent stunts

  27-11-2025 06:21 via smh.com.au
  
  A small group of very disgruntled people have breathed new life into One Nation.
  
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• Always the exception, never the rule, Joyce writes his own eulogy and plans his next comeback

  27-11-2025 05:57 via smh.com.au
  
  In the end, Barnaby Joyce didn’t so much leave the Nationals as quietly concede they’d already left him.
  
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• ‘This is the ejector seat’: Joyce lashes out as he resigns from Nationals, clears way for One Nation move

  27-11-2025 05:34 via smh.com.au
  
  Barnaby Joyce has formally resigned from the Nationals, ending his 20-year parliamentary career with the party and clearing the way for him to join One Nation.
  
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• Barnaby Joyce quits Nationals, will sit as independent

  27-11-2025 05:06 via abc.net.au
  
  The former leader and deputy prime minister has confirmed his long-awaited political move.
  
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• Pump the brakes: Lending restrictions slapped on banks as property risks grow

  27-11-2025 04:48 via smh.com.au
  
  The banking regulator is stepping in to cap new lending to highly geared borrowers, amid warnings of risks in the property market.
  
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• ‘They’ve lost their way’: Turnbull unveils portrait, lets rip at former party

  27-11-2025 04:38 via smh.com.au
  
  Anthony Albanese revealed that Malcolm Turnbull had reached out to comfort him at a difficult time in his personal life.
  
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• Barnaby Joyce quits the Nationals

  27-11-2025 04:06 via smh.com.au
  
  The Member for New England explained his reasons for quitting the Nationals in the House of Representatives.
  
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• Barnaby Joyce resigns from Nationals

  27-11-2025 03:48 via smh.com.au
  
  Barnaby Joyce has formally resigned from the Nationals, ending his 20-year parliamentary career with the party and clearing the way for him to join One Nation.
  
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• Waits on housing and renewables may have just gone from years to months

  27-11-2025 02:35 via abc.net.au
  
  Major housing, renewables and mining projects often get bogged down for years by Australia's aging environment laws. Now a deal to rewrite them could change that.
  
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• High Court challengers of teen social media ban want Musk, Google to fund case

  27-11-2025 02:21 via smh.com.au
  
  A group run by a Libertarian NSW MP has put forward two teenagers to act as plaintiffs in a bid to stop the teen social media ban from beginning next month.
  
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• Government projected to badly miss 2035 climate target, fall shy of 2030

  27-11-2025 02:02 via abc.net.au
  
  The Environment Department projects Australia is expected to fall well short of its commitment to cut emissions by 62 to 70 per cent by 2035 — though the minister notes that is before accounting for a number of recent commitments.
  
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• Breaking: Government projected to badly miss 2035 climate target, fall shy of 2030

  27-11-2025 02:02 via abc.net.au
  
  The Climate Change Authority projects Australia is expected to fall well short of its commitment to cut emissions by 62 to 70 per cent by 2035 — though the minister notes that is before accounting for a number of recent commitments.
  
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• Labor and Greens agree on extra ABC funding for kids' programs

  27-11-2025 01:32 via abc.net.au
  
  A deal between the federal government and the minor party will see an extra $50 million go to the public broadcaster to facilitate passage of a bill to impose local content requirements on streaming platforms.
  
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