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• Live: Taylor accuses PM of creating 'office inside his office' to deal with AI

  14-07-2026 23:12 via abc.net.au
  
  Angus Taylor says Anthony Albanese is adding to bureaucracy by creating an Office of AI within his department to deal with artificial intelligence policy. Follow live.
  
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• Live: More people will take up smoking if tobacco excise is reduced, minister says

  14-07-2026 23:12 via abc.net.au
  
  Clare O'Neil says reducing the tobacco excise to address the rising take-up of illicit tobacco will not help Australians give up smoking. Follow live. 
  
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• Live: Minister pushes back on calls to cut tobacco excise as black market grows

  14-07-2026 23:12 via abc.net.au
  
  Clare O'Neil says reducing the tobacco excise to address the rising take-up of illicit tobacco will not help Australians give up smoking. Follow live. 
  
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• Live: Labor to force data centres to minimise water, underwrite own power

  14-07-2026 23:12 via abc.net.au
  
  The PM has announced new artificial intelligence data centres will be forced to underwrite or supply their own power and minimise their use of water under new AI standards to be introduced to parliament. Follow live.
  
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• Live: Anthony Albanese charts AI, data centre future in speech

  14-07-2026 23:12 via abc.net.au
  
  The PM is is outlining a national framework to deal with the emergence of artificial intelligence. Follow live.
  
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• Labor to force data centres to minimise water, underwrite own power — as it happened

  14-07-2026 23:12 via abc.net.au
  
  The PM has announced new artificial intelligence data centres will be forced to underwrite or supply their own power and minimise their use of water under new AI standards to be introduced to parliament. 
  
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• Suspected Widdecombe murder being treated as a targeted attack

  14-07-2026 21:41 via abc.net.au
  
  After initially saying the alleged murder of British former politician Ann Widdecombe was not politically motivated, police now say they believe it was a targeted attack.
  
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• Counterterrorism police treating Widdecombe death as a targeted attack

  14-07-2026 21:41 via abc.net.au
  
  After initially saying the alleged murder of British former politician Ann Widdecombe was not politically motivated, police now say they believe it was a targeted attack.
  
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• Coal plants would cut power costs by 2050, but with a massive price to pay

  14-07-2026 16:01 via smh.com.au
  
  The political war over net zero is set to be fought over the costs of fossil fuels and renewables, following the latest CSIRO report.
  
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• Albanese in charge of AI revolution as 200 experts release dire warning

  14-07-2026 14:30 via smh.com.au
  
  The prime minister will emphasise the technology’s “pivotal” role in resuscitating productivity and warn of extremists and hostile states using it “to spread disinformation that targets democracies”.
  
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• Anthony Albanese maps out AI future with new national framework

  14-07-2026 14:29 via abc.net.au
  
  Labor will develop a new national framework in response to artificial intelligence as it seeks to address the technology’s growing economic and social impacts.
  
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• Best of cartoons, July 15, 2026

  14-07-2026 12:45 via smh.com.au
  
  The news of the day as interpreted by our talented artists, illustrators and cartoonists.
  
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• Budget loses billions, nation in deeper debt: The cost of cutting migration

  14-07-2026 11:30 via smh.com.au
  
  Plans to cut migration further would hit the budget’s bottom line – forcing One Nation and the Coalition to cut spending or raise taxes elsewhere according to independent costings.
  
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• Spy agency warns active Russian hackers targeting Australian industry

  14-07-2026 08:28 via abc.net.au
  
  The Australian Signals Directorate says hackers are trying to access information through network devices, such as laptops, which use old software and predictable passwords.
  
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• ‘He’s earned my respect’: One Nation senator praised Putin over Ukraine invasion

  14-07-2026 07:30 via smh.com.au
  
  The comments are the latest fringe views expressed by Malcolm Roberts to have intensified scrutiny of the Queensland senator and his party.
  
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• The tax bill for working Australians is in the mail – and it’s growing

  14-07-2026 06:59 via smh.com.au
  
  The May budget will improve the nation’s finances over the coming decade. But surpluses will be built on the back of working Australians.
  
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• ‘Your work will break your soul’: Professor describes masked campus protest

  14-07-2026 05:31 via smh.com.au
  
  A University of Melbourne academic has spoken of the moment he found masked protesters occupying his office and saying he was guilty of genocide.
  
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• ‘TikTok dances in the car parks of Auschwitz’: Universities slammed at royal commission

  14-07-2026 05:31 via smh.com.au
  
  Jewish university staff and students have spoken of “a crisis of antisemitism” on campuses during the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion’s second day of Melbourne hearings.
  
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