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• Albanese stumbles while descending escalator at conference

  23-07-2026 05:19 via abc.net.au
  
  Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was nearly sent tumbling at Labor's national conference as an escalator stopped suddenly during his descent.
  
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• Live: New US tariff on Australia 'makes no sense', defence minister says

  23-07-2026 23:06 via abc.net.au
  
  Defence Minister Richard Marles has defended Australia's modern slavery laws after the US said it would slap 12.5 per cent tariffs on Australia. Follow live. 
  
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• Live: Gambling the focus at second day of Labor National Conference

  23-07-2026 23:06 via abc.net.au
  
  A push to strengthen the government's action to reduce gambling harm will be the focus on the second day of Labor's National Confernece. Follow live. 
  
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• The text warnings about a looming Liberal Party corruption scandal

  23-07-2026 21:08 via abc.net.au
  
  Nineteen months before making the parliamentary speech that sparked a corruption inquiry into NSW Liberal figures and their relationship with a fugitive property developer, parliamentary secretary Ray Williams sent an urgent text message to his boss, premier Gladys Berejiklian.
  
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• How a series of urgent texts warned of a major corruption scandal

  23-07-2026 21:08 via abc.net.au
  
  Nineteen months before making the parliamentary speech that sparked a corruption inquiry into NSW Liberal figures and their relationship with a fugitive property developer, parliamentary secretary Ray Williams sent an urgent text message to his boss, premier Gladys Berejiklian.
  
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• Hanson’s version of domestic violence is too simplistic and corrosive

  23-07-2026 21:00 via smh.com.au
  
  The One Nation leader court more controversy with her blinkered views on domestic violence
  
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• Albanese has finally realised that AI might not be our friend

  23-07-2026 21:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Following the initiative of its social media ban, the Albanese government boasts that it is leading the world once again.
  
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• The new threat haunting Labor’s record electoral dominance

  23-07-2026 20:13 via smh.com.au
  
  As delegates gather in Adelaide to toast a historic victory, party leaders are quietly grappling with a shifting electorate – and a rival movement taking direct aim at their working-class base.
  
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• Billions in new funding for AUKUS shipyards in Adelaide

  23-07-2026 14:30 via abc.net.au
  
  The billions of dollars in additional funding is another step towards making Australia's nuclear submarine program "a reality".
  
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• Best of cartoons, July 24, 2026

  23-07-2026 13:40 via smh.com.au
  
  The news of the day as interpreted by our talented artists, illustrators and cartoonists.
  
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• Ed Husic has taken on the role of Labor’s conscience. Will it last?

  23-07-2026 11:31 via smh.com.au
  
  Far from sulking on the sidelines, Husic has turned into the chief irritant within Labor’s caucus and, at this week’s national conference, the lead advocate on issues of importance to the Labor base.
  
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• Labor grassroots push on green agenda faces resistance from senior MPs

  23-07-2026 11:15 via smh.com.au
  
  Senior MPs from resource states are staring down environmental advocates and insist that Labor is not about to embark on a radical green agenda.
  
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• ‘I failed as a parent’: Lesli’s children didn’t feel safe in their own home during Bondi attack

  23-07-2026 09:05 via smh.com.au
  
  A father fought back tears at the antisemitism royal commission as he recounted how his children had feared for their lives in their own home.
  
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• Why Barnaby barking at his dog was a political masterstroke

  23-07-2026 07:30 via smh.com.au
  
  Pauline Hanson’s lieutenant is hardly courting the votes of inner-city types fixated on their bespoke-oodle pets.
  
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• ‘He fears for his life’: Calls for ASIO whistleblower to be given visa to appear at royal commission

  23-07-2026 07:25 via smh.com.au
  
  The former ASIO agent, known as Marcus, was denied a visa by the Department of Home Affairs to appear in person before the antisemitism royal commission.
  
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• Rate hike fear grows as nation adds 76,000 jobs in June

  23-07-2026 07:20 via smh.com.au
  
  A possible rate rise could come at the worst possible time for borrowers, with warnings petrol prices could again push through $2 a litre.
  
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• Fair Work Court to assist Australian workers with employment, underpayment issues

  23-07-2026 06:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Labor kick-started its national conference with the news that it will reinstate a special workers’ court after the last one was abolished by former prime minister John Howard in 1997.
  
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• Woodside fails in court to force activists to hand over stink-bomb plans

  23-07-2026 05:31 via abc.net.au
  
  Energy giant Woodside fails in its Supreme Court bid to force climate activists to hand over documents about the planning of a stink-bomb protest which prompted the evacuation of its Perth headquarters.
  
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• Judge rejects Woodside's attempt to uncover stink-bomb protest organisers

  23-07-2026 05:31 via abc.net.au
  
  Energy giant Woodside fails in its Supreme Court bid to force climate activists to hand over documents about the planning of a stink-bomb protest which prompted the evacuation of its Perth headquarters.
  
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• Breaking: Woodside fails in court to force activists to hand over stink-bomb plans

  23-07-2026 05:31 via abc.net.au
  
  Energy giant Woodside fails in its Supreme Court bid to force climate activists to hand over documents about the planning of a stink-bomb protest which prompted the evacuation of its Perth headquarters.
  
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• Labor debates future, Liberals hold up pamphlet

  23-07-2026 05:22 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia's two major parties are deliberating their futures this week with Labor's national conference and the Liberal Party's glossy new pamphlet. 
  
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• ‘Wind it back’: Pauline Hanson takes aim at child support and DV ‘holiday’ leave

  23-07-2026 05:07 via smh.com.au
  
  In a newly surfaced podcast, the One Nation leader claimed family violence laws were a “cash cow” for women and that DV laws were diverting police from “real crime”.
  
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• Labor National Conference LIVE updates: PM announces Fair Work Court, expands health student prac support in address to party’s 50th National Conference in Adelaide

  23-07-2026 03:52 via smh.com.au
  
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• Labor National Conference as it happened: PM announces Fair Work Court, expands health student prac support in address to party’s 50th National Conference in Adelaide

  23-07-2026 03:52 via smh.com.au
  
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• Labor National Conference LIVE updates: Health student prac support expansion announced as PM prepares to address party’s 50th National Conference in Adelaide

  23-07-2026 02:25 via smh.com.au
  
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• Labor National Conference LIVE updates: Gas tax, AI on agenda as PM set to address party’s 50th National Conference in Adelaide

  23-07-2026 01:16 via smh.com.au
  
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• Live: PM announces Fair Work Court, defends tax changes at ALP national conference

  22-07-2026 23:09 via abc.net.au
  
  Speaking at the ALP national conference, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says the federal government will create a Fair Work Court. Follow live.
  
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• Live: Labor to extend paid placements to more care industry students

  22-07-2026 23:09 via abc.net.au
  
  Anthony Albanese will announce an expansion of the Commonwealth's "paid prac" scheme at Labor's National Conference. Follow live. 
  
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• Live: Floor fight on gas tax evaporates as Labor spruiks new workers' court at ALP conference

  22-07-2026 23:09 via abc.net.au
  
  A much-hypothesised floor fight on calls from Labor members for a gas export tax has failed to materialise at the ALP national conference. Follow live.
  
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• Live: ALP's national conference kicks off with bingo cards and a Barnaby joke

  22-07-2026 23:09 via abc.net.au
  
  The Labor party's three-day national conference is underway in Adelaide. Follow live.
  
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