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• AUKUS will not run on time or on budget, Christopher Pyne says

  16-07-2026 07:58 via smh.com.au
  
  The former defence minister said that Donald Trump’s “instincts are basically right” even if he is “a little garish” for Australian tastes.
  
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• Top One Nation staffer breaks silence on Hanson’s UK trip as Joyce fumes back home

  16-07-2026 11:30 via smh.com.au
  
  After a week of sliding poll numbers and reporting of antisemitic views of a One Nation senator, the party distanced itself from a decision to meet anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson.
  
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• ‘More questions than answers’: Albanese’s data-centre vision risks renewables rollout

  16-07-2026 09:56 via smh.com.au
  
  The PM’s pledge to ensure the AI boom would not drive up power bills has hit a renewable energy snag.
  
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• Hanson has a support base. But could it slip on a Sicilian pool deck?

  16-07-2026 07:56 via smh.com.au
  
  Detailed polling shows what voters like about Pauline Hanson, and many are clearly interested in some of her offerings – but can she ride the wave to 2028?
  
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• University defends action on alleged Nazi salute, pro-Palestine encampment

  16-07-2026 07:43 via smh.com.au
  
  Another university has apologised to Jewish students and staff over pro-Palestinian protests on campus, saying they feared US-style violence breaking out.
  
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• Albanese makes AI plan, Hanson and Rinehart enjoy Sicily

  16-07-2026 06:33 via abc.net.au
  
  It might not have been a sitting week but it has been a busy few days in politics with the prime minister's AI announcement, a raft of politicians inking book deals and a spotting of Pauline Hanson and Gina Rinehart in Sicily. 
  
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• We’ll all get this annoying alarm. But what could it be used for?

  16-07-2026 06:25 via smh.com.au
  
  An emergency alert will sound on virtually every Australian phone, at the same time, as the government tests its new warning system.
  
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• Aussie battler: Hanson joins Gina poolside on White Lotus holiday in Sicily

  16-07-2026 03:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Photos posted to Instagram show Hanson spending time poolside at the Grand Hotel San Pietro in the resort town of Taormina, while Rinehart swims. 
  
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• Australian companies could face criminal charges over forced labour in global supply chains

  16-07-2026 02:17 via smh.com.au
  
  The proposed changes come after Australia was singled out by the Trump administration last month for failing to do enough to stop imports made with forced labour.
  
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• Chalmers gives financial regulators fresh marching orders

  16-07-2026 01:42 via smh.com.au
  
  The nation’s corporate and banking regulators are being told to give more attention to growing the economy under new directions issued today.
  
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• Pauline Hanson spotted with Gina Rinehart at luxury hotel in Sicily

  16-07-2026 01:17 via smh.com.au
  
  Photos posted to Instagram show Hanson spending time poolside at the Grand Hotel San Pietro in the resort town of Taormina, while Rinehart swims. 
  
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• Scars of alleged Invasion Day terror attack run deep six months on

  15-07-2026 23:15 via abc.net.au
  
  The scars left by what police described as a potential "mass-casualty event" which threatened to devastate the crowd of Perth's Invasion Day rally still run deep, even nearly six months later.
  
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• PM defends breaking last year's promise to attend Garma Festival — as it happened

  15-07-2026 23:08 via abc.net.au
  
  Anthony Albanese defends his decision to break a promise by not attending the Garma Festival this year.
  
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• Live: PM defends decision not to attend Garma Festival

  15-07-2026 23:08 via abc.net.au
  
  Anthony Albanese defends his decision to break a promise and not to attend the Garma Festival this year. Follow live. 
  
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• Live: PM defends breaking promise made last year to attend Garma Festival

  15-07-2026 23:08 via abc.net.au
  
  Anthony Albanese defends his decision to break a promise by not attending the Garma Festival this year. Follow live. 
  
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• Live: PM defends breaking last year's promise to attend Garma Festival

  15-07-2026 23:08 via abc.net.au
  
  Anthony Albanese defends his decision to break a promise by not attending the Garma Festival this year. Follow live. 
  
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• Live: Minister accuses Coalition of being 'juvenile' for AI office criticism

  15-07-2026 23:08 via abc.net.au
  
  Tim Ayres has accused the Coalition of being "juvenile" for criticising the establishment of an Office of AI in the prime minister's department. Follow live. 
  
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• Fresh condemnation for Malcolm Roberts over notorious antisemitic mural post

  15-07-2026 21:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Pressure is mounting over the One Nation senator’s repeated promotion of conspiracy theories after Jewish leaders condemned him for posting and praising a notorious antisemitic mural.
  
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• Albanese rolls out rule book and red carpet for AI companies

  15-07-2026 21:00 via abc.net.au
  
  If Australia is truly going to coax major AI companies to choose us rather than the other suitor nations with similar ambitions, some tough decisions need to be made soon.
  
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• Albanese rolls out a rule book and a red carpet for AI companies

  15-07-2026 21:00 via abc.net.au
  
  If Australia is truly going to coax major AI companies to choose us rather than the other suitor nations with similar ambitions, some tough decisions need to be made soon.
  
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• A generations-long shibboleth about house prices has just been shattered

  15-07-2026 21:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Until this week, there was a view shared among almost every member of the federal parliament, the shock jock community and the angry columnists of newspapers and pay TV channels.
  
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• A generations-long belief about house prices has just been shattered

  15-07-2026 21:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Until this week, there was a view shared among almost every member of the federal parliament, the shock jock community and the angry columnists of newspapers and pay TV channels.
  
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• PM backs copyright as artists seek voice on AI

  15-07-2026 20:42 via abc.net.au
  
  The creative sector hopes there is a space to contribute to the Office of AI, given its content powers a lot of these tools.
  
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• Artists seek ‘seat at table’ in AI office

  15-07-2026 20:42 via abc.net.au
  
  The creative sector hopes there is a space to contribute to the Office of AI, given its content powers a lot of these tools.
  
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• Artists seek 'seat at table' in AI office

  15-07-2026 20:42 via abc.net.au
  
  The creative sector hopes there is a space to contribute to the Office of AI, given its content powers a lot of these tools.
  
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• Best of cartoons, July 16, 2026

  15-07-2026 14:52 via smh.com.au
  
  The news of the day as interpreted by our talented artists, illustrators and cartoonists.
  
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• ‘Create jobs, not replace them’: PM flags crackdown on data centres and AI copyright

  15-07-2026 10:25 via smh.com.au
  
  As One Nation starts to campaign against data centres, Albanese pledged to “ensure data centres do not increase power prices for Australians”.
  
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• For the true believers: Albanese echoes Pope Leo in his own AI missive

  15-07-2026 09:50 via smh.com.au
  
  As technology threatens to upend life as we know it, Albanese came with a message of reassurance and calm, on a mission to lower the collective heart rate.
  
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• Labor’s reforms harm the people they’re supposed to help: aged care watchdog

  15-07-2026 09:47 via smh.com.au
  
  The outgoing aged care watchdog said user co-payments and long wait times for home care packages were driving people into nursing homes and costing taxpayers.
  
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• ‘I’m sorry’: Uni of Sydney boss apologises to Jewish students over protest camp

  15-07-2026 09:47 via smh.com.au
  
  Mark Scott was questioned intently at the royal commission into antisemitism, where he said removing protesters may have inflamed tensions.
  
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