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• Live: PM questions One Nation's policy positions ahead of Hanson's press club address

  16-06-2026 23:03 via abc.net.au
  
  Anthony Albanese has questioned One Nation's policy positions on the minimum wage and workers' rights ahead of Pauline Hanson's address to the National Press Club today. Follow live. 
  
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• Live: Pauline Hanson's press club address interrupted by protest banner

  16-06-2026 23:03 via abc.net.au
  
  Pauline Hanson's first National Press Club address has been interrupted by protest banner. Follow live.
  
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• Live: Pauline Hanson to address National Press Club for first time

  16-06-2026 23:03 via abc.net.au
  
  Pauline Hanson will speak at the National Press Club for the first time since her entrance to politics in 1996. Follow live.
  
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• Live: Joyce cautions Hanson ahead of National Press Club address

  16-06-2026 23:03 via abc.net.au
  
  Barnaby Joyce has cautioned his leader Pauline Hanson against falling for "gotcha questions" during her address to the National Press Club today. Follow live. 
  
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• Live: Hanson calls for 'balance' between worker rights and business interests in Press Club address

  16-06-2026 23:03 via abc.net.au
  
  Pauline Hanson says industrial relations needs a "complete overhaul because it's not working". Follow live.
  
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• Live: Australia lowers travel warning for Middle Eastern nations

  16-06-2026 23:03 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia has lowered its travel advice warnings for several Middle Eastern countries following the signing of a ceasefire agreement between the US and Iran this week. Follow live. 
  
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• Live: Activist group claims credit for banner stunt at Pauline Hanson's Press Club address

  16-06-2026 23:03 via abc.net.au
  
  GetUp! says it is was responsible for the banner that unfurled during Pauline Hanson's first-ever address to the National Press Club. Follow live.
  
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• Government to extend pay subsidy to avoid childcare worker walk-off

  16-06-2026 22:21 via abc.net.au
  
  Early educators had threatened to walk off the job to keep a federally funded 15 per cent pay subsidy due to end in November.
  
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• Government to extend pay subsidy to avoid childcare worker walk off

  16-06-2026 22:21 via abc.net.au
  
  Early educators had threatened to walk off the job to keep a federally funded 15 per cent pay subsidy due to end in November.
  
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• Childcare workers scrap plan to walk off job as pay scheme extended

  16-06-2026 22:21 via abc.net.au
  
  Early educators had threatened to walk off the job to keep a federally funded 15 per cent pay subsidy due to end in November.
  
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• Hanson headache as rogue One Nation senator calls US world’s worst terrorists

  16-06-2026 22:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Senator Malcolm Roberts’ attack on the US military is at odds with the defence policies of his party’s leader, Pauline Hanson.
  
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• Hanson headache as rogue One Nation senator calls US world’s worst terrorist organisation

  16-06-2026 22:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Senator Malcolm Roberts’ attack on the US military is at odds with the defence policies of his party’s leader, Pauline Hanson.
  
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• ‘Global parasites since 1913’: One Nation senator calls US ‘world’s greatest terrorist organisation’

  16-06-2026 22:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Senator Malcolm Roberts’ attack on the US military is at odds with the defence policies of his party’s leader, Pauline Hanson.
  
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• Pensioner finds cheaper life in Thailand after rent squeeze

  16-06-2026 21:50 via abc.net.au
  
  Peter Stevenson says moving to Thailand has allowed him to live more comfortably on his Australian Age Pension after struggling to cover rent and essentials in regional Victoria.
  
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• 'I didn't have a life': Pensioner moves to Thailand for cheaper living

  16-06-2026 21:50 via abc.net.au
  
  Peter Stevenson says moving to Thailand has allowed him to live more comfortably on his Australian Age Pension after struggling to cover rent and essentials in regional Victoria.
  
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• Tim Wilson holds undisclosed shares in climate advisory firm through family trust

  16-06-2026 20:52 via abc.net.au
  
  The shadow treasurer's investment trust holds 15,000 shares in a small company called Gondwana Carbon, which helps developers to acquire land, develop carbon abatement projects, earn carbon credits and then trade them.
  
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• Best of cartoons, June 17, 2026

  16-06-2026 16:12 via smh.com.au
  
  The news of the day as interpreted by our talented artists, illustrators and cartoonists.
  
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• $3.6 billion childcare pay deal staves off pay cuts, fee hikes and a strike

  16-06-2026 14:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Funding for the two-year deal to give early educators a 15 per cent pay rise, announced ahead of the 2025 election, was set to expire in December.
  
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• Jacinta Allan refuses to admit cost of CFMEU corruption to taxpayers

  16-06-2026 13:20 via abc.net.au
  
  Embattled Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan has refused to answer repeated questions over how much CFMEU corruption has cost taxpayers in the state, a scandal that has put the government and her leadership under threat.
  
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• Taylor visits Alice Springs, renews call for Indigenous funding audit

  16-06-2026 10:13 via abc.net.au
  
  Federal Opposition Leader Angus Taylor has visited Alice Springs, where he has met family of Kumanjayi Little Baby and renewed the Coalition's calls for deeper scrutiny of federal funding directed to the region.
  
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• Opposition leader meets Kumanjayi Little Baby’s grandmother, calls for audits

  16-06-2026 10:13 via abc.net.au
  
  Federal Opposition Leader Angus Taylor has visited Alice Springs, where he has met family of Kumanjayi Little Baby and renewed the Coalition's calls for deeper scrutiny of federal funding directed to the region.
  
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• Jewish group links One Nation to neo-Nazis and antisemitism

  16-06-2026 07:56 via smh.com.au
  
  A submission to the royal commission says there is a “long history of One Nation members endorsing and promulgating antisemitic views”.
  
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• Townsville Mayor Nick Dametto breaks silence on assault investigation

  16-06-2026 07:48 via abc.net.au
  
  Queensland police are investigating an alleged altercation between the 42-year-old councillor and a 28-year-old man. 
  
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• Nick Dametto says reports he was involved in an alleged altercation were "over inflated".

  16-06-2026 07:48 via abc.net.au
  
  Townsville Mayor Nick Dametto says reports he was involved in an alleged altercation were "over inflated".
  
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• Flotilla activist: I was digitally raped, beaten for refusing to kiss Israeli flag

  16-06-2026 07:45 via smh.com.au
  
  The AFP has begun making enquiries into allegations by detained Australian activists of rape, torture and brutalisation by Israeli forces.
  
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• Reserve Bank keeps rates on hold but warns of future rate hikes

  16-06-2026 06:31 via smh.com.au
  
  The RBA has kept rates on hold for the first time this year and said people should not be alarmed by a slowing economy.
  
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• Reserve Bank keeps interest rates on hold at 4.35 per cent

  16-06-2026 06:31 via smh.com.au
  
  The Reserve Bank has kept interest rates on hold for the first time this year.
  
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• Jane Howlett's legal fees now $405,000, confirms Tasmanian premier

  16-06-2026 06:04 via abc.net.au
  
  Tasmanian Premier Jeremy Rockliff is asked in parliament how much now former minister Jane Howlett's legal fees amount to
  
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• Solomon Islands PM floats Pacific-wide security treaty in sharp pivot

  16-06-2026 03:56 via abc.net.au
  
  Solomon Islands's new prime minister raises the idea of a Pacific-wide security treaty while meeting Prime Minister Anthony Albanese this month. 
  
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• ‘Get a breathalyser’: Senior MPs in fiery on-air clash

  16-06-2026 03:08 via smh.com.au
  
  Shadow treasurer Tim Wilson accused the government of lies and censorship, and the employment minister of needing a breathalyser, in a heated exchange over tax.
  
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• Fiery confrontation between two MPs on live TV

  16-06-2026 02:36 via smh.com.au
  
  Things got heated between Labor's Amanda Rishworth and Liberal Tim Wilson on the Today Show with Wilson suggesting Rishworth needed a breathalyser.
  
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• Gavin Newsom tells Trump to leave his wife out of investigations

  16-06-2026 02:05 via abc.net.au
  
  The Governor of California Gavin Newsom has accused Donald Trump of politically motivated criminal investigations into him and his inner circle.
  
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