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• Fusion-power deal heralds beginning of next great energy transition

  28-09-2025 21:00 via abc.net.au
  
  China is driving hard to supplant the US in this new military industrial complex, and has already achieved leadership in electric vehicles, batteries, drones and renewable energy.
  
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• Live: Liberals gather in Canberra to thrash out position on net zero

  11-11-2025 20:59 via abc.net.au
  
  Federal Liberals have gathered in Canberra to thrash out a policy on net zero, climate and energy ahead of a Coalition meeting on the weekend. Follow live. 
  
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• Are first home buyers getting a head start in a race to the bottom?

  11-11-2025 19:56 via abc.net.au
  
  It will be some time before the full effects of the government's expanded first home buyer support scheme become clear, but young Australians across the country say it is still a tough market. 
  
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• 5pc deposits a dream for some, but housing nightmare continues for others

  11-11-2025 19:56 via abc.net.au
  
  It will be some time before the full effects of the government's expanded first home buyer support scheme become clear, but young Australians across the country say it is still a tough market. 
  
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• Nationals to send net zero hardliner into talks with Liberals

  11-11-2025 19:36 via abc.net.au
  
  One of the Nationals' most strident opponents of net zero will attend talks on a final Coalition policy position. Before then, the Liberals must decide their own stance — but conservatives are now confident net zero will be dropped.
  
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• Third of voters want net zero gone as Coalition meets to decide position

  11-11-2025 19:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Almost one in three Australians want the federal government to dump its commitment to net zero emissions by 2050, as the Coalition meets to decide on its heavily contested climate policy.
  
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• Turkish military cargo plane crashes with at least 20 on board

  11-11-2025 17:00 via abc.net.au
  
  Türkiye's defence ministry said 20 of its personnel were on board, but did not provide any details on whether there were passengers from other nationalities on board.
  
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• Best of cartoons, November 12, 2025

  11-11-2025 11:48 via smh.com.au
  
  The news of the day as interpreted by our talented artists, illustrators and cartoonists.
  
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• Ley leadership to be put to the test in crunch talks

  11-11-2025 09:03 via smh.com.au
  
  Two Liberals in the nucleus of the opposition said they gauged about a month ago that Ley believed ditching net zero was politically workable.
  
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• Wong, Burke admit to secret meetings with Nauru president

  11-11-2025 08:31 via smh.com.au
  
  Wong’s office said she “raised recent media reports” with Nauru President David Adeang on Monday, but not until after he was photographed entering Parliament House on Tuesday.
  
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• Nauru president quietly arrives at Parliament House

  11-11-2025 06:13 via smh.com.au
  
  David Adeang was photographed by the ABC entering Parliament House days after this masthead revealed allegations of corruption in the federal government’s offshore detention regime.
  
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• No honour in honouring a dishonourable former member

  11-11-2025 06:04 via smh.com.au
  
  A state funeral for ALP kingmaker Graham Richardson is not appropriate for a man of such dubious achievements.
  
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• RSL president warns PM that soldiers are at risk unless defence spending increased

  11-11-2025 06:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Major General Greg Melick used his Remembrance Day address to warn that armed forces personnel are being let down by inadequate defence spending.
  
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• 'We want a better future': 'Climate-ravaged’ communities launch court appeal

  11-11-2025 05:38 via abc.net.au
  
  Two Torres Strait Islander uncles are appealing a federal court ruling that the Commonwealth does not owe a duty of care to protect their people from the impacts of climate change.
  
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• 'We want a better future': 'Climate-ravaged' communities launch court appeal

  11-11-2025 05:38 via abc.net.au
  
  Two Torres Strait Islander uncles are appealing a federal court ruling that the Commonwealth does not owe a duty of care to protect their people from the impacts of climate change.
  
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• 'Facing an existential threat': Landmark climate case appeal lodged

  11-11-2025 05:38 via abc.net.au
  
  Two Torres Strait Islander uncles are appealing a federal court ruling that the Commonwealth does not owe a duty of care to protect their people from the impacts of climate change.
  
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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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• Nauru 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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• Breaking: Nauru 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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• PM Gough Whitlam was sacked 50 years ago today. How the constitutional crisis unfolded

  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: 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: 'We want Gough': Dismissed PM Whitlam to address crowd outside Parliament House

  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: PM Gough Whitlam was sacked 50 years ago today. How the constitutional crisis unfolded

  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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