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• Aping Trump, or Trumpism, will spell disaster for the Coalition

  26-09-2025 21:00 via smh.com.au
  
  The US alliance with Australia is fraying because of Donald Trump. The Coalition now needs to decide whether it stands for Australian values or whether it’s an accessory to autocracy.
  
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• Nauruan president makes secretive parliament visit amid bikie contract claims

  11-11-2025 05:20 via abc.net.au
  
  Nauru's president has made a secretive visit to Parliament House in Canberra amid allegations that bikie gangs won a lucrative contract to provide security for former immigration detainees.
  
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• Taxpayers foot $1.4m in expenses for our former PMs

  11-11-2025 03:45 via smh.com.au
  
  The perks of being a former PM do not include the pensions or the cost of the staff they are entitled to.
  
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• Entry-level house prices rising fastest in inner cities and growth towns

  11-11-2025 03:34 via abc.net.au
  
  Inner cities, wealthy suburbs and fast-growing regional centres top the list of house price growth in October, according to a new deep dive focused on homes covered by the 5 per cent deposit scheme.
  
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• Paul Keating says he'd have arrested John Kerr

  11-11-2025 01:33 via smh.com.au
  
  The former prime minister said the governor-general's decision to dismiss Gough Whitlam was so bad police should've been involved.
  
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• What we know about the deadly car explosion near Delhi's Red Fort

  11-11-2025 01:27 via abc.net.au
  
  Investigators are piecing together what happened after an explosion in a densely populated area of India's capital killed at least eight people.
  
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• Keating reveals he told Whitlam to have Kerr sacked, or arrested

  11-11-2025 00:57 via smh.com.au
  
  “You’d have to have the soldiers with you for this to happen,” Keating said, warning that the governor-general could have turned to the army for support.
  
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• Chalmers’ $2 billion subsidy for power bills runs out January 1 - he’s under pressure to spend it again

  11-11-2025 00:35 via smh.com.au
  
  Federal energy subsidies worth $75 a quarter are due to end this year. But there is a push for them to continue into 2026.
  
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• Live: Whitlam dismissed, Fraser caretaker PM — how the day unfolded in 1975

  10-11-2025 23:10 via abc.net.au
  
  Fifty years ago today, prime minister Gough Whitlam was dismissed by governor-general Sir John Kerr. To mark the anniversary, we're putting you right there as it happened, covering the key moments of that fateful day in 1975 in real time.
  
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• Live: Follow how the Whitlam Dismissal unfolded in real time, 50 years on

  10-11-2025 23:10 via abc.net.au
  
  Fifty years ago today, prime minister Gough Whitlam was dismissed by governor-general Sir John Kerr. To mark the anniversary, we're putting you right there as it happened, covering the key moments of that fateful day in 1975 in real time.
  
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• Live: Taylor says Ley challenge 'not something we're planning'

  10-11-2025 21:03 via abc.net.au
  
  Angus Taylor says his party is not planning a challenge to Opposition Leader Sussan Ley's leadership ahead of a party meeting on climate and energy. Follow live. 
  
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• Live: Albanese says Whitlam dismissal was 'calculated plot'

  10-11-2025 21:03 via abc.net.au
  
  Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says the dismissal of Gough Whitlam's government in 1975 was a "partisan political ambush". Follow live. 
  
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• Warning signs for Coalition as young voters drift further away

  10-11-2025 20:07 via abc.net.au
  
  As Liberals prepare to fly to Canberra to hash out their net zero stance, results from the Australian Election Study suggest those under 45 have continued to drift away from the Coalition.
  
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• New figures show only one in five millennials voted for the Coalition in 2025

  10-11-2025 20:07 via abc.net.au
  
  As Liberals prepare to fly to Canberra to hash out their net zero stance, results from the Australian Election Study suggest those under 45 have continued to drift away from the Coalition.
  
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• New figures show Coalition's 'existential' millennial problem getting worse

  10-11-2025 20:07 via abc.net.au
  
  As Liberals prepare to fly to Canberra to hash out their net zero stance, results from the Australian Election Study suggest those under 45 have continued to drift away from the Coalition.
  
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• The Dismissal: Norman Gunston’s moment, while a boy got high on a king

  10-11-2025 19:50 via smh.com.au
  
  November 11, 1975, wasn’t merely high political drama. Tony Wright remembers the surreal performative nature of the day he witnessed from the parliamentary lawn.
  
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• 'The bastards have sacked us!': What it was like to be there for The Dismissal

  10-11-2025 19:41 via abc.net.au
  
  After Gough Whitlam was sacked, a crowd formed. They could have stormed the building. Fifty years on, this photo tells the story of The Dismissal.
  
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• 'All hell broke loose': What it was like to be there for The Dismissal

  10-11-2025 19:41 via abc.net.au
  
  After Gough Whitlam was sacked, a crowd formed. They could have stormed the building. Fifty years on, this photo tells the story of The Dismissal.
  
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• Professors urge governments to overhaul 'broken' childcare system

  10-11-2025 19:38 via abc.net.au
  
  Some of Australia's leading early childhood education professors join forces to release a six-point action plan to help fix the country's "broken" childcare system.
  
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• Professors release six-point plan to fix 'broken' childcare system

  10-11-2025 19:38 via abc.net.au
  
  Some of Australia's leading early childhood education professors join forces to release a six-point action plan to help fix the country's "broken" childcare system.
  
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• Best of cartoons, November 11, 2025

  10-11-2025 13:03 via smh.com.au
  
  The news of the day as interpreted by our talented artists, illustrators and cartoonists.
  
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• Trump pardons Rudy Giuliani and others involved in efforts to overturn 2020 election

  10-11-2025 12:29 via abc.net.au
  
  The US president has pardoned his former lawyer Rudy Giulian and others who were involved in trying to overturn the 2020 election.
  
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• Breaking: Trump pardons Rudy Giuliani and others involved in trying to overturn 2020 election

  10-11-2025 12:29 via abc.net.au
  
  The US president has pardoned his former lawyer Rudy Giulian and others who were involved in trying to overturn the 2020 election.
  
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• ‘A partisan ambush’: Albanese maintains the Whitlam rage

  10-11-2025 08:30 via smh.com.au
  
  Anthony Albanese has marked the 50th anniversary of the dismissal of the Whitlam government by describing it as a partisan ambush.
  
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• Nampijinpa Price pulls out of rally with far-right activist Tommy Robinson

  10-11-2025 08:28 via abc.net.au
  
  Jacinta Nampijinpa Price was due to speak at the Put Australia First event later this month alongside Tommy Robinson, a one-time member of a fascist political party. 
  
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• Who is Australia's new top diplomat in the UK?

  10-11-2025 07:52 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia's next high commissioner to the United Kingdom's time in politics was defined by consultative leadership, pizza politics and a gatecrashed press conference.
  
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• ‘Dirty deals’: Nauru rorting, bikie gang allegations to be referred to NACC

  10-11-2025 07:29 via smh.com.au
  
  Allegations of rorting, graft and bikie gangs infiltrating critical border security operations are set to be referred to the national anti-corruption watchdog.
  
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• Revolt of the mods: Kovacic, Ruston, Wilson could quit frontbench if net zero dumped

  10-11-2025 05:59 via smh.com.au
  
  Three allies of embattled Opposition Leader Sussan Ley could walk from the shadow ministry if net zero is dumped.
  
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• Energy relief on the cards as cost of living bites

  10-11-2025 05:42 via smh.com.au
  
  Federal energy subsidies worth $75 a quarter are due to end this year. But there is a push for them to continue into 2026.
  
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• Why Whitlam’s dismissal was a blow to women’s rights

  10-11-2025 05:30 via smh.com.au
  
  Gough Whitlam’s policies transformed many women’s lives. His legacy lives on.
  
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