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• One Nation accuses PM of playing 'dirty games' with staffing — as it happened

  29-10-2026 22:20 via ABC News
  
  One Nation senator Sean Bell says the prime minister should not determine staffing levels for other parties, after Anthony Albanese offers One Nation senator David Farley extra support. 
  
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• Live: One Nation accuses PM of playing 'dirty games' with staffing

  29-10-2026 22:20 via ABC News
  
  One Nation senator Sean Bell says the prime minister should not be determining staffing levels for other parties, after Anthony Albanese offered One Nation senator David Farley extra support. Follow live.  
  
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• Live: Federal government launches probe into future of Australia Post

  29-10-2026 22:20 via ABC News
  
  Communications Minister Anika Wells says a parliamentary inquiry will examine whether Australia Post is keeping pace with Australians' needs for the future. Follow live.  
  
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• ‘This really is Albo’s cabinet’: How the PM’s razor gang hindered the treasurer’s saving plans

  29-10-2026 18:43 via Sydney Morning Herald - Politics / Federal
  
  Jim Chalmers had often advocated for the lowest-cost option when proposals came to the cabinet’s expenditure review subcommittee, but it hasn’t always backed them.
  
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• Best of cartoons, October 30, 2026

  29-10-2026 13:47 via Sydney Morning Herald - Politics / Federal
  
  The news of the day as interpreted by our talented artists, illustrators and cartoonists.
  
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• WA Labor MP vows to 'vigorously defend' US lawsuit over $1m loan

  29-10-2026 12:30 via ABC News
  
  A Western Australian MP embroiled in a legal dispute over a million-dollar loan in the United States insists everything he did was above board. 
  
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• One Nation MP rejects $200,000 staffer as Hanson accuses PM of meddling

  29-10-2026 08:50 via ABC News
  
  One Nation says it will not be bought or divided by the prime minister as a bitter dispute over his power to allocate parliamentary staff intensifies.
  
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• Payman and Hanson are right. Albanese should forget the king rat

  29-10-2026 08:09 via Sydney Morning Herald - Politics / Federal
  
  The two women have formed an unlikely alliance to try and pressure the prime minister to change his mind. Here’s why it’s not working.
  
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• Albanese offered One Nation MP an extra staffer. Hanson says it’s an attempt at undue influence

  29-10-2026 07:30 via Sydney Morning Herald - Politics / Federal
  
  A letter authorising Farley to hire an additional staff member on a $200,000 package was delivered to the MP’s Parliament House office on Monday.
  
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• The stink, the septic system and the $6m question: Inside Albanese’s Marrickville mess

  29-10-2026 06:26 via Sydney Morning Herald - Politics / Federal
  
  A request for $269,500 worth of sewerage repairs has morphed into a $6 million funding controversy that has ensnared the prime minister and annoyed club members.
  
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• Military top brass to be spared from further Afghanistan war crimes action

  29-10-2026 04:03 via Sydney Morning Herald - Politics / Federal
  
  It comes after the partial release of a long-suppressed report that found commanders ignored warning signs and tolerated serious misconduct.
  
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• Albanese bets on trade brawl to bash Coalition amid inflation woes

  29-10-2026 01:00 via Sydney Morning Herald - Politics / Federal
  
  The prime minister has seized on Coalition dissent after this masthead revealed one Liberal warned the Nationals’ position on the EU free trade deal was “nutty”.
  
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