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• How One Nation is winning over the bush

  22-07-2026 20:41 via abc.net.au
  
  One Nation has some of its strongest support in outback Australia and recent polling shows it could win over 30 regional seats. So what's winning over regional Australians when it comes to Pauline Hanson's party?
  
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• Ed Husic references genocide, apartheid claims as he pushes Labor to take harder line on Israel

  24-07-2026 07:51 via smh.com.au
  
  Foreign Minister Penny Wong is scrambling to shepherd through a compromise position, but a former cabinet colleague is calling for tougher language.
  
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• Major report finds flaws in Australia's spy laws

  24-07-2026 04:46 via abc.net.au
  
  A major review warns parts of Australia's national security laws could undermine democracy and press freedom.
  
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• Donald Trump’s trade war is costing the world a fortune – and the cost is going up

  24-07-2026 03:58 via smh.com.au
  
  Trump’s war on the global economy continues, from oil prices to tariffs. They will just leave us all poorer.
  
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• Donald Trump’s trade war is costing the world a fortune - and the cost is going up

  24-07-2026 03:58 via smh.com.au
  
  Trump’s war on the global economy continues, from oil prices to tariffs. They will just leave us all poorer.
  
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• Labor National Conference LIVE updates: NDIS, gambling on agenda as protests erupt outside Adelaide Convention Centre on day two

  24-07-2026 01:10 via smh.com.au
  
  Follow out live coverage from the 50th Labor Party national conference.
  
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• Labor National Conference LIVE updates: Day two of Adelaide event continues after moves on super for teenagers, Fair AI taskforce

  24-07-2026 01:10 via smh.com.au
  
  Follow out live coverage from the 50th Labor Party national conference.
  
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• Live: Push for stronger gambling regulations on track for Labor platform

  23-07-2026 23:06 via abc.net.au
  
  A Labor push to strengthen gambling regulation is expected to be included in the party's platform after a deal was struck on the sidelines of its national conference. Follow live.
  
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• Live: Push for stronger gambling regulations added to Labor platform

  23-07-2026 23:06 via abc.net.au
  
  A Labor push to strengthen gambling regulation will be included in the party's platform after a deal was struck on the sidelines of its national conference. Follow live.
  
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• Live: New US tariff on Australia 'makes no sense', defence minister says

  23-07-2026 23:06 via abc.net.au
  
  Defence Minister Richard Marles has defended Australia's modern slavery laws after the US said it would slap 12.5 per cent tariffs on Australia. Follow live. 
  
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• Live: Labor platform commits to telehealth access to voluntary assisted dying

  23-07-2026 23:06 via abc.net.au
  
  Labor's national conference commits the party to change federal laws relating to voluntary assisted dying, allowing terminally ill patients to use telehealth services. Follow live.
  
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• Live: Gambling the focus at second day of Labor National Conference

  23-07-2026 23:06 via abc.net.au
  
  A push to strengthen the government's action to reduce gambling harm will be the focus on the second day of Labor's National Confernece. Follow live. 
  
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• Live: Angus Taylor dismisses Trump's 'forced labour' tariff justification

  23-07-2026 23:06 via abc.net.au
  
  Opposition Leader Angus Taylor says he's "dead against" the Trump administration's tariffs on Australian goods set to come into force later today, dismissing the notion it has anything to do with modern slavery laws. Follow live.
  
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• The text warnings about a looming Liberal Party corruption scandal

  23-07-2026 21:08 via abc.net.au
  
  Nineteen months before making the parliamentary speech that sparked a corruption inquiry into NSW Liberal figures and their relationship with a fugitive property developer, parliamentary secretary Ray Williams sent an urgent text message to his boss, premier Gladys Berejiklian.
  
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• How a series of urgent texts warned of a major corruption scandal

  23-07-2026 21:08 via abc.net.au
  
  Nineteen months before making the parliamentary speech that sparked a corruption inquiry into NSW Liberal figures and their relationship with a fugitive property developer, parliamentary secretary Ray Williams sent an urgent text message to his boss, premier Gladys Berejiklian.
  
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• Hanson’s version of domestic violence is too simplistic and corrosive

  23-07-2026 21:00 via smh.com.au
  
  The One Nation leader court more controversy with her blinkered views on domestic violence
  
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• Albanese has finally realised that AI might not be our friend

  23-07-2026 21:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Following the initiative of its social media ban, the Albanese government boasts that it is leading the world once again.
  
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• The new threat haunting Labor’s record electoral dominance

  23-07-2026 20:13 via smh.com.au
  
  As delegates gather in Adelaide to toast a historic victory, party leaders are quietly grappling with a shifting electorate – and a rival movement taking direct aim at their working-class base.
  
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• Billions in new funding for AUKUS shipyards in Adelaide

  23-07-2026 14:30 via abc.net.au
  
  The billions of dollars in additional funding is another step towards making Australia's nuclear submarine program "a reality".
  
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• Best of cartoons, July 24, 2026

  23-07-2026 13:40 via smh.com.au
  
  The news of the day as interpreted by our talented artists, illustrators and cartoonists.
  
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• Ed Husic has taken on the role of Labor’s conscience. Will it last?

  23-07-2026 11:31 via smh.com.au
  
  Far from sulking on the sidelines, Husic has turned into the chief irritant within Labor’s caucus and, at this week’s national conference, the lead advocate on issues of importance to the Labor base.
  
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• Labor grassroots push on green agenda faces resistance from senior MPs

  23-07-2026 11:15 via smh.com.au
  
  Senior MPs from resource states are staring down environmental advocates and insist that Labor is not about to embark on a radical green agenda.
  
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• ‘I failed as a parent’: Lesli’s children didn’t feel safe in their own home during Bondi attack

  23-07-2026 09:05 via smh.com.au
  
  A father fought back tears at the antisemitism royal commission as he recounted how his children had feared for their lives in their own home.
  
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• Why Barnaby barking at his dog was a political masterstroke

  23-07-2026 07:30 via smh.com.au
  
  Pauline Hanson’s lieutenant is hardly courting the votes of inner-city types fixated on their bespoke-oodle pets.
  
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• ‘He fears for his life’: Calls for ASIO whistleblower to be given visa to appear at royal commission

  23-07-2026 07:25 via smh.com.au
  
  The former ASIO agent, known as Marcus, was denied a visa by the Department of Home Affairs to appear in person before the antisemitism royal commission.
  
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• Rate hike fear grows as nation adds 76,000 jobs in June

  23-07-2026 07:20 via smh.com.au
  
  A possible rate rise could come at the worst possible time for borrowers, with warnings petrol prices could again push through $2 a litre.
  
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• Fair Work Court to assist Australian workers with employment, underpayment issues

  23-07-2026 06:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Labor kick-started its national conference with the news that it will reinstate a special workers’ court after the last one was abolished by former prime minister John Howard in 1997.
  
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• Woodside fails in court to force activists to hand over stink-bomb plans

  23-07-2026 05:31 via abc.net.au
  
  Energy giant Woodside fails in its Supreme Court bid to force climate activists to hand over documents about the planning of a stink-bomb protest which prompted the evacuation of its Perth headquarters.
  
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• Judge rejects Woodside's attempt to uncover stink-bomb protest organisers

  23-07-2026 05:31 via abc.net.au
  
  Energy giant Woodside fails in its Supreme Court bid to force climate activists to hand over documents about the planning of a stink-bomb protest which prompted the evacuation of its Perth headquarters.
  
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• Breaking: Woodside fails in court to force activists to hand over stink-bomb plans

  23-07-2026 05:31 via abc.net.au
  
  Energy giant Woodside fails in its Supreme Court bid to force climate activists to hand over documents about the planning of a stink-bomb protest which prompted the evacuation of its Perth headquarters.
  
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