Politics news

• How would your social feed look if you controlled what you saw?

  07-12-2025 23:46 via abc.net.au
  
  Sexual violence prevention group Teach Us Consent is pushing for Australians to have the choice to "opt-in" to social media algorithms.
  
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• Less than a third of parents will enforce social media ban, new poll finds

  07-12-2025 22:54 via smh.com.au
  
  Nearly 70 per cent of voters back the world-leading policy, but most are sceptical it can even work.
  
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• Hanson travels to Joyce’s hometown as One Nation switch looms

  07-12-2025 22:13 via smh.com.au
  
  Joyce has been dangling the prospect of defecting to One Nation for weeks since this masthead reported in early October that he was in negotiations with Hanson.
  
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• Live: Ministers support Wells amid family travel entitlements criticism

  07-12-2025 22:03 via abc.net.au
  
  Government ministers throw their support behind Communications Minister Anika Wells amid criticism of her use of a family travel entitlement. Follow live.
  
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• Live: Minister defends Anika Wells's use of taxpayer money to attend events with family

  07-12-2025 22:03 via abc.net.au
  
  Employment Minister Amanda Rishworth defends Anika Wells's use of taxpayer money to bring her family with her on work trips. Follow live.
  
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• Live: Barnaby Joyce joins One Nation, weeks after leaving Nationals

  07-12-2025 22:03 via abc.net.au
  
  Former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce has joined One Nation after leaving the Nationals. Follow live.
  
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• Barnaby Joyce joins One Nation weeks after leaving Nationals — as it happened

  07-12-2025 22:03 via abc.net.au
  
  Former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce has joined One Nation after leaving the Nationals.
  
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• Wells billed taxpayers to fly husband to two Boxing Day Tests

  07-12-2025 19:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Sports Minister Anika Wells charged taxpayers more than $4000 in flights for her husband to join her at two Boxing Day Tests and at a Sydney event at the PM’s residence.
  
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• ‘National pride’: Albanese hails teen social ban, but parents may not force kids to follow the law

  07-12-2025 19:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Nearly 70 per cent of voters back the world-leading policy, which is set to take full effect on Wednesday.
  
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• Albanese is miles ahead, right? Hastie may yet expose this as an illusion

  07-12-2025 19:00 via smh.com.au
  
  As Paul Keating said, in politics you want to be like the roadrunner: announcing policies, burning up the road behind you. Oppositions can do this too.
  
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• Best of cartoons, December 8, 2025

  07-12-2025 12:33 via smh.com.au
  
  The news of the day as interpreted by our talented artists, illustrators and cartoonists.
  
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• Budget will remain in deficit forever without change

  07-12-2025 12:30 via smh.com.au
  
  The Albanese government delivered the first budget surpluses in 15 years. But they may be the last according to a Deloitte Access Economics report.
  
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• How $2b could be redirected from the NDIS and help 230,000 more people

  07-12-2025 11:00 via smh.com.au
  
  As health ministers prepare to meet, this blueprint says they don’t need to spend more to fix a gaping hole in support for 230,000 people with debilitating mental illnesses.
  
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• Coalition vote crashes to record low, One Nation surges amid housing anger: poll

  07-12-2025 08:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Exclusive polling shows support for Pauline Hanson’s party has risen to a record high as fears over the housing market and infrastructure fuel frustration over immigration.
  
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• Liberals ignore, despise and knife their leaders – and drive their party over a cliff

  07-12-2025 03:55 via smh.com.au
  
  Unlike the Labor Party, which mythologises even its pedestrian leaders, the Liberal Party celebrates only Menzies and Howard.
  
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• Wide-ranging findings to be handed down on 16yo's youth detention death

  07-12-2025 01:11 via abc.net.au
  
  The coroner investigating WA’s first recorded death in youth detention is expected to hand down wide-ranging findings and recommendations following the death of 16-year-old Cleveland Dodd in 2022. Here's everything you need to know.
  
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• Wide-ranging findings set to be handed down on death of 16yo in youth detention

  07-12-2025 01:11 via abc.net.au
  
  The coroner investigating WA’s first recorded death in youth detention is expected to hand down wide-ranging findings and recommendations following the death of 16-year-old Cleveland Dodd in 2022. Here's everything you need to know.
  
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• Findings set to reveal dysfunction that led to WA's first youth detention death

  07-12-2025 01:11 via abc.net.au
  
  The coroner investigating WA’s first recorded death in youth detention is expected to hand down wide-ranging findings and recommendations following the death of 16-year-old Cleveland Dodd in 2022. Here's everything you need to know.
  
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• ‘I don’t write the rules’: Wells, PM defend using taxpayer funds to bring family to ski resort

  07-12-2025 00:46 via smh.com.au
  
  Labor is defending the sport and communications minister’s family reunion on the slopes after earlier revelations of six-figure claims for international travel.
  
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• Prime minister's office approved Wells's almost-$100,000 flights

  07-12-2025 00:39 via abc.net.au
  
  The furore over Communications Minister Anika Wells's expenses continues, with just three days until the government's much-anticipated social media ban for under 16s comes into force. 
  
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• PM's office approved almost $100k in flights for communications minister

  07-12-2025 00:39 via abc.net.au
  
  The furore over Communications Minister Anika Wells's expenses continues, with just three days until the government's much-anticipated social media ban for under 16s comes into force. 
  
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• ‘I don’t write the rules’: Wells defends claiming expenses to take family to ski resort

  07-12-2025 00:10 via smh.com.au
  
  Labor is defending the sport and communications minister’s family reunion on the slopes after earlier revelations of six-figure claims for international travel.
  
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