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• Coalition 'indistinguishable' from One Nation, PM says — as it happened

  08-06-2026 23:07 via abc.net.au
  
  Anthony Albanese says the Coalition is at risk of becoming "indistinguishable" from One Nation after the opposition leader did not rule out a preference deal. 
  
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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 $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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• 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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• Labor counters Chinese threats to sea cables, as it creates hacking ‘human firewall’

  10-06-2026 20:45 via smh.com.au
  
  Office workers who fall for hacking attempts are to blame for nearly two-thirds of all successful online attacks, which cost the economy $25 billion per year.
  
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• Hundreds protest against Pauline Hanson as WA Labor seats on 'hit list'

  10-06-2026 15:58 via abc.net.au
  
  A crowd of roughly 400 protesters demonstrates against One Nation's Pauline Hanson as she speaks at a sundowner event in Perth's eastern suburbs.
  
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• Best of cartoons, June 11, 2026

  10-06-2026 14:58 via smh.com.au
  
  The news of the day as interpreted by our talented artists, illustrators and cartoonists.
  
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• Labor to force data centres to wind down energy use at peak times

  10-06-2026 14:00 via smh.com.au
  
  As US states block data centre construction, Labor’s AI guru Andrew Charlton says Australia’s approach should be “neither boosterism nor alarmism”.
  
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• Hanson’s fundraising blitz raises more than $1 million on day of launch

  10-06-2026 12:42 via smh.com.au
  
  One Nation leader Pauline Hanson’s latest fundraising play underscores her surging popularity.
  
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• Modi wants Australia’s uranium to power India’s data centre boom

  10-06-2026 11:42 via smh.com.au
  
  Australia and India struck a historic deal to allow uranium exports in 2014, but there have been only negligible shipments since. That might be about to change.
  
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• The short-term stay that tax reform may make permanent

  10-06-2026 11:30 via smh.com.au
  
  The short-term rental market may be shaken up by the federal government’s property tax changes with investors looking back to permanent rentals.
  
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• Hanson’s fundraising blitz raises more than $945,000 on day of launch

  10-06-2026 10:38 via smh.com.au
  
  One Nation leader Pauline Hanson’s latest fundraising play underscores her surging popularity.
  
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• Home Affairs could pay out tens of millions to former detainees, criminals, after High Court ruling

  10-06-2026 08:23 via smh.com.au
  
  The judgment could pave the way for more cases against the government.
  
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• Why Bunnings moving a store 10km down the road has caused such a stir

  10-06-2026 08:18 via abc.net.au
  
  A plan by hardware giant Bunnings move its Bunbury store 10km to a neighbouring shire has angered and concerned residents and businesses.
  
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• How the relocation of a Bunnings store ignited a furore in this town

  10-06-2026 08:18 via abc.net.au
  
  A plan by hardware giant Bunnings move its Bunbury store 10km to a neighbouring shire has angered and concerned residents and businesses.
  
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• Hanson’s fundraising blitz raises over $600,000 in eight hours

  10-06-2026 07:04 via smh.com.au
  
  One Nation leader Pauline Hanson’s latest fundraising play underscores her surging popularity.
  
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• Hanson’s fundraising blitz raises half a million in eight hours

  10-06-2026 07:04 via smh.com.au
  
  Pauline Hanson’s latest fundraising play raised more than half-a-million dollars in just eight hours, underscoring the renegade politician’s surging popularity.
  
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• Israel lashes Australia for ‘disgraceful’ sanctions on extremist settlers

  10-06-2026 06:35 via smh.com.au
  
  Foreign Minister Penny Wong and her counterparts from France, the UK, Canada, and Norway said: “For too long, violent settlers have been able to act with near impunity.”
  
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• 'A pile of crap': Premier's mea culpa over Ogilvie scandal

  10-06-2026 05:25 via abc.net.au
  
  Tasmanian Premier Jeremy Rockliff says he "dropped the ball" regarding the allegations against a former minister, likening it to a "pile of crap" he has to clean up from "time to time".
  
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