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• Australians face a 'binary choice' as One Nation soars, says Chalmers

  11-06-2026 11:24 via abc.net.au
  
  Treasurer Jim Chalmers has hit ut at Pauline Hanson's ties to Gina Rinehart and questioned whether she actually stands for battling Australians.
  
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• Labor ramps up Hanson attacks, as Taylor rebukes ally in phone call

  11-06-2026 14:00 via smh.com.au
  
  The Coalition has also gone on the attack about Pauline Hanson’s admission on the Inside Politics podcast that her party was being “infiltrated by extremists”.
  
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• Best of cartoons, June 12, 2026

  11-06-2026 12:38 via smh.com.au
  
  The news of the day as interpreted by our talented artists, illustrators and cartoonists.
  
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• ‘Simply wrong’: former Queensland premier says Hanson was not jailed in a ‘witch hunt’

  11-06-2026 11:45 via smh.com.au
  
  The One Nation leader on Thursday accused Beattie and Liberal Party president Tony Abbott of orchestrating a “political witch hunt” that led to her 11-week imprisonment.
  
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• One Nation can be defanged by some truth-telling. But only one other major party’s doing that

  11-06-2026 11:30 via smh.com.au
  
  Can Pauline Hanson’s momentum be stopped? Only if her political opponents get fair dinkum with the electorate.
  
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• Shorten’s Trump fears on AUKUS revealed

  11-06-2026 10:02 via smh.com.au
  
  The former Labor leader raised concerns about the prospect of Donald Trump being elected and compromising the AUKUS deal in a cabinet meeting in 2023.
  
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• Pauline Hanson emotional as she speaks on brief stint in jail

  11-06-2026 10:02 via abc.net.au
  
  One Nation leader Pauline Hanson gets emotional as she speaks about her brief stint in jail.
  
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• Breaking: BHP bracing for strike after WA workers back industrial action

  11-06-2026 09:59 via abc.net.au
  
  Unionised workers at BHPs operations in Port Hedland could walk off the job as soon as next week after endorsing protected industrial action.
  
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• BHP bracing for strike after WA workers back industrial action

  11-06-2026 09:59 via abc.net.au
  
  Unionised workers at BHPs operations in Port Hedland could walk off the job as soon as next week after endorsing protected industrial action.
  
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• Hanson gets emotional revisiting decades-old Abbott feud

  11-06-2026 09:05 via abc.net.au
  
  As Anthony Albanese stood in front of a Medicare banner and Pauline Hanson put her hand out for donations, voters could be forgiven for thinking the election was two months, not two years, away.  
  
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• National security risk as parliamentary network fails seven out of eight basic cyber checks

  11-06-2026 08:35 via smh.com.au
  
  A damning report from the auditor-general reveals deep vulnerabilities across critical federal government safeguards, amid warnings the system may no longer be fit for purpose against sophisticated foreign espionage.
  
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• One Nation has six more months to raise uncapped political donations

  11-06-2026 08:13 via smh.com.au
  
  Nobody can see detail of who donated what to Pauline Hanson’s party this financial year until February 1.
  
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• Chalmers mocks Taylor for ‘failing upwards’ in most impassioned defence of budget yet

  11-06-2026 07:38 via smh.com.au
  
  The Treasurer has justified his contentious tax changes on the basis that “not everybody is born already at the top of the ladder like Angus Taylor”.
  
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• ‘Don’t blow this opportunity’: Labor legends split over AUKUS

  11-06-2026 06:26 via smh.com.au
  
  Labor’s longest serving foreign minister says the submarine plan is likely to be regarded as one of Australia’s worst foreign policy and defence errors.
  
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• ‘Significant risk’: Disability ministers defy Butler’s NDIS overhaul

  11-06-2026 04:29 via smh.com.au
  
  State and territory ministers say NDIS participants will be left in inappropriate settings under Mark Butler’s reforms.
  
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• Taylor shoots down One Nation seat-sharing deal as PM dismisses $1.5m fundraising surge

  11-06-2026 04:09 via smh.com.au
  
  Liberal frontbencher Tony Pasin has urged his party to negotiate with Pauline Hanson so that Liberal and One Nation candidates do not cannibalise each other’s vote.
  
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• Labor luminary says AUKUS has turned country into ‘compliant cash cow’

  11-06-2026 02:34 via smh.com.au
  
  Labor’s longest serving foreign minister says the submarine plan is likely to be regarded as one of Australia’s worst foreign policy and defence errors.
  
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• Taylor rules out One Nation seat carve-up as party raises $2m

  11-06-2026 01:27 via abc.net.au
  
  Opposition leader Angus Taylor says the Coalition has no plan to share the seats the party targets at the next federal election with One Nation as Pauline Hanson's party says it has raised $2 million since launch.
  
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• Taylor rules out One Nation seat carve-up as party raises $1.6m

  11-06-2026 01:27 via abc.net.au
  
  Opposition leader Angus Taylor says the Coalition has no plan to share the seats the party targets at the next federal election with One Nation as Pauline Hanson's party says it has raised $1.6 million in a day.
  
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• Taylor rules out non-compete agreement with One Nation as party raises $1.6m

  11-06-2026 01:27 via abc.net.au
  
  Opposition leader Angus Taylor says the Coalition has no plan to share the seats the party targets at the next federal election with One Nation as Pauline Hanson's party says it has raised $1.6 million in a day.
  
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• ‘No plan’: Taylor shoots down One Nation seat-sharing deal

  11-06-2026 01:01 via smh.com.au
  
  Liberal frontbencher Tony Pasin has urged his party to negotiate with Pauline Hanson so that Liberal and One Nation candidates do not cannibalise each other’s vote.
  
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• Live: One Nation fundraising drive receives $1.6m in donations

  10-06-2026 23:05 via abc.net.au
  
  One Nation says it has received $1.6 million in donations after launching a drive in response to a Labor fundraising campaign. Follow live. 
  
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• Live: Hanson adviser says One Nation 'stole' donation slogan from Sky News host

  10-06-2026 23:05 via abc.net.au
  
  One of Pauline Hanson's closest advisors says One Nation "stole" its donation campaign slogan from Sky News host Peta Credlin. Follow live. 
  
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• Live: Angus Taylor says 'no plan' for Liberals to carve up seats with One Nation

  10-06-2026 23:05 via abc.net.au
  
  Opposition Leader Angus Taylor says the Liberals have "no plan" to carve up seats with Pauline Hanson's One Nation at the next election. Follow live. 
  
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• Hanson adviser says One Nation 'stole' donation slogan from Sky News host — as it happened

  10-06-2026 23:05 via abc.net.au
  
  One of Pauline Hanson's closest advisers says One Nation "stole" its donation campaign slogan from Sky News host Peta Credlin.
  
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• Senator Wendy Askew won't seek re-election. Liberals, One Nation eye seat

  10-06-2026 21:26 via abc.net.au
  
  A Tasmanian senator will not recontest her seat in 2028, meaning it is up for the taking by Liberal colleagues and possibly a resurgent One Nation.
  
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• Senator Wendy Askew resigns with fellow Liberals, One Nation eyeing seat

  10-06-2026 21:26 via abc.net.au
  
  A Tasmanian senator will not recontest her seat in 2028, meaning it is up for the taking by Liberal colleagues and possibly a resurgent One Nation.
  
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• Reality is coming fast for Angus Taylor. The next step for the Liberals is extinction

  10-06-2026 21:00 via smh.com.au
  
  When a majority of voters have considered the Coalition, they’ve found it difficult to determine what it is they’d be supporting. In other words, based on past performance, what’s the plan?
  
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• Brittany Higgins returns to frontline politics to fight ‘rising tide’ of misogyny

  10-06-2026 21:00 via smh.com.au
  
  The former Liberal staffer has been appointed executive director of the progressive Vida Fund, launching a direct campaign against One Nation and the “new right”.
  
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• Albanese's frustration with Trump is becoming harder to hide

  10-06-2026 21:00 via abc.net.au
  
  The Albanese government is paying an economic and political toll for an ongoing and deeply unpopular war.  
  
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