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• Live: Parliament cancels normal business to let politicians speak on Helen Haines

  25-10-2026 21:15 via ABC News
  
  Parliamentary business will be suspended so MPs can share messages of support for Helen Haines and her family, however Question Time will go ahead as planned. Follow live.
  
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• Live: MPs urged to 'let light win over darkness' as politicians speak on Helen Haines

  25-10-2026 21:15 via ABC News
  
  Parliamentary business will be suspended so MPs can share messages of support for Helen Haines and her family, however Question Time will go ahead as planned. Follow live.
  
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• Live: 'Horrific' Haines attack should not discourage women from entering politics, Plibersek says

  25-10-2026 21:15 via ABC News
  
  The social services minister says women in politics "can't vacate the field to the people who would stop us" as Question Time turns to the risk of violence against women and public officials. Follow live.
  
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• Live: Haines attack shouldn't stop women from entering politics, Plibersek says

  25-10-2026 21:15 via ABC News
  
  The social services minister says women in politics "can't vacate the field to the people who would stop us" as Question Time turns to the risk of violence against women and public officials. Follow live.
  
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• Live: Crossbenchers back call for MPs to sign civility pledge

  25-10-2026 21:15 via ABC News
  
  As parliament returns without Helen Haines, federal MPs are being encouraged to sign a civility pledge that the independent MP backed. Follow live.
  
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• Haines attack shouldn't stop women from entering politics, Plibersek says — as it happened

  25-10-2026 21:15 via ABC News
  
  The social services minister says women in politics "can't vacate the field to the people who would stop us" as Question Time turns to the risk of violence against women and public officials.
  
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• Haines attack shouldn't stop women from entering politics, Plibersek says

  25-10-2026 21:15 via ABC News
  
  The social services minister says women in politics "can't vacate the field to the people who would stop us" as Question Time turns to the risk of violence against women and public officials.
  
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• Security increased in parliament as MPs return

  25-10-2026 19:30 via ABC News
  
  Parliament returns today with a markedly different tone, as MPs reconvene without one of the chamber's most respected members.
   
  
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• Security increased as parliament returns without MP Helen Haines

  25-10-2026 19:30 via ABC News
  
  Parliament returns today with a markedly different tone, as MPs reconvene without one of the chamber's most respected members.
   
  
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• Politicians vow to honour MP Helen Haines as parliament returns

  25-10-2026 19:30 via ABC News
  
  Parliament returns today with a markedly different tone, as MPs reconvene without one of the chamber's most respected members.
   
  
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• Politicians vow to honour Haines as parliament returns

  25-10-2026 19:30 via ABC News
  
  Parliament returns today with a markedly different tone, as MPs reconvene without one of the chamber's most respected members.
   
  
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• Haines's seat will be empty today as politicians return to Canberra

  25-10-2026 19:30 via ABC News
  
  Parliament returns today with a markedly different tone, as MPs reconvene without one of the chamber's most respected members.
   
  
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• A third of households struggling to feed themselves

  25-10-2026 14:01 via Sydney Morning Herald - Politics / Federal
  
  The rising cost of living crisis has left many in food insecurity.
  
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• Best of cartoons, October 26, 2026

  25-10-2026 13:58 via Sydney Morning Herald - Politics / Federal
  
  The news of the day as interpreted by our talented artists, illustrators and cartoonists.
  
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• Voters call for local AI safeguards as data centre concern rises

  25-10-2026 12:30 via Sydney Morning Herald - Politics / Federal
  
  Voters want local laws to constrain AI as fears mount that data centres will hurt communities, a Resolve Political Monitor survey has found.
  
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• MPs urged to sign civility pledge that only Haines had backed in return to parliament

  25-10-2026 08:37 via Sydney Morning Herald - Politics / Federal
  
  AFP chief Krissy Barrett said growing “abuse that is targeted at female parliamentarians is … sexual violence threats.”
  
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• Hanson hits back at AFP chief’s cartoon claims as MPs urged to sign civility pledge

  25-10-2026 08:37 via Sydney Morning Herald - Politics / Federal
  
  AFP chief Krissy Barrett said growing “abuse that is targeted at female parliamentarians is … sexual violence threats.”
  
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• Hanson hits back at AFP chief’s cartoon claims

  25-10-2026 08:37 via Sydney Morning Herald - Politics / Federal
  
  AFP chief Krissy Barrett said growing “abuse that is targeted at female parliamentarians is … sexual violence threats.”
  
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• ‘Precious, irreplaceable’: Howard headlines eclectic rally against Victoria Barracks sale

  25-10-2026 07:03 via Sydney Morning Herald - Politics / Federal
  
  Protesters from all sides, including Greens and One Nation, gathered to oppose the sale of the historic Paddington defence facility.
  
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• What would you cut? Chalmers challenges critics of government spending

  25-10-2026 06:50 via Sydney Morning Herald - Politics / Federal
  
  Jim Chalmers has used an interview to reject calls for him to set a spending cap as he worries over the economic fallout from the war against Iran.
  
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• When tragedy demands women be treated better, men twist it into an excuse to treat them worse

  25-10-2026 06:30 via Sydney Morning Herald - Politics / Federal
  
  Again and again we see that if women demand respect, it is not long before men will find a way to blame men’s failure to show respect on the fact it was asked for in the first place.
  
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• Hasty reactions to the Helen Haines attack reveal a deeper public rage

  25-10-2026 06:30 via Sydney Morning Herald - Politics / Federal
  
  Again and again we see that if women demand respect, it is not long before men will find a way to blame men’s failure to show respect on the fact it was asked for in the first place.
  
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• Soul searching for lawmakers as political debate becomes more 'extreme'

  25-10-2026 03:13 via ABC News
  
  After the attacks on Helen Haines and the office of Hannah Beazley, lawmakers in Western Australia are growing worried about the rising political tensions, and want more ways to defuse them. 
  
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• 'More and more challenging to do this job': MPs fear rising political tensions

  25-10-2026 03:13 via ABC News
  
  After the attacks on Helen Haines and the office of Hannah Beazley, lawmakers in Western Australia are growing worried about the rising political tensions, and want more ways to defuse them. 
  
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• Federal police chief links threats against MPs directly to political debate

  25-10-2026 02:57 via ABC News
  
  AFP Commissioner Krissy Barrett says there is an "immediate" and "direct connection" between heated moments of political discourse and the number of threats reported against politicians.
  
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• AFP chief reveals scale of threats to MPs

  25-10-2026 02:52 via Sydney Morning Herald - Politics / Federal
  
  Krissy Barrett echoed ASIO in saying that language and announcements from the nation’s leaders had an observable effect on the volume and nature of threats.
  
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• WA's young female politicians will not give up despite rise in abuse

  25-10-2026 02:11 via ABC News
  
  Amid an increase in abuse and harassment of female MPs, young women in Western Australia say they are not intimidated.
  
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