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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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