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• Breaking: One Nation's Melbourne fundraiser moved over protest concerns

  12-06-2026 06:45 via abc.net.au
  
  A One Nation fundraiser in Melbourne has been moved to an undisclosed location after several protest groups vowed to demonstrate outside, the party says.
  
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• One Nation's Melbourne fundraiser moved over protest concerns

  12-06-2026 06:45 via abc.net.au
  
  A One Nation fundraiser in Melbourne has been moved to an undisclosed location after several protest groups vowed to demonstrate outside, the party says.
  
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• NT government says Claravale land-clearing dispute is now settled

  12-06-2026 05:05 via abc.net.au
  
  For years, the Northern Territory government has been locked in a legal battle with Claravale Station over allegations its owners cleared hundreds of hectares without a permit. But it is not the first time the government has announced the settlement deal.
  
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• Hanson scoffs at Albanese’s scepticism of One Nation fundraising, releases audit

  12-06-2026 03:53 via smh.com.au
  
  The One Nation leader posted the report on social media and said it proved the millions raised in her Fire the Liar campaign were “ridgy didge”.
  
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• Decades of secrecy to end with Parliament House lobbyists unmasked

  12-06-2026 03:45 via smh.com.au
  
  A major overhaul of the parliamentary pass system will force the public disclosure of business representatives roaming private corridors.
  
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• Live: NDIS inquiry told 240,000 people to be 'exited' from scheme

  11-06-2026 23:20 via abc.net.au
  
  A Senate inquiry into the government's National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) changes has been told 240,000 people will be "exited" from the scheme. Follow live. 
  
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• Live: Angus Taylor brushes away questions on One Nation preference deal

  11-06-2026 23:20 via abc.net.au
  
  Opposition Leader Angus Taylor has brushed away questions on a preference deal with One Nation. Follow live.
  
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• Angus Taylor brushes away questions on One Nation preference deal — as it happened

  11-06-2026 23:20 via abc.net.au
  
  The opposition leader has brushed away questions on a preference deal with One Nation at the next election.
  
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• What happens next for Madeleine Ogilvie's legal fee saga?

  11-06-2026 21:20 via abc.net.au
  
  It's been two weeks since Madeleine Ogilvie resigned from Tasmanian cabinet, and the saga is reaching a tipping point. What could happen when parliament returns?
  
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• How One Nation could disrupt Australia's progressive stronghold

  11-06-2026 21:03 via abc.net.au
  
  The idea that One Nation could come close to the government benches was absurd six months ago, but it is a prospect Victorian Labor MPs and insiders are increasingly discussing. 
  
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• Why One Nation can win the next federal election

  11-06-2026 21:00 via smh.com.au
  
  People keen to write off One Nation as the party of angry, old, white men are now demonstrably wrong in the same way Democrats were wrong about Donald Trump in 2024.
  
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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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• Australians face 'binary choice' as One Nation soars, says Chalmers

  11-06-2026 11:24 via abc.net.au
  
  Treasurer Jim Chalmers hits out at Pauline Hanson's ties to Gina Rinehart and questions whether she actually stands for battling Australians.
  
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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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• 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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