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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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• Taylor scoffs at property group’s claim his migration policy a ‘flat tyre’

  07-10-2026 01:23 via smh.com.au
  
  Angus Taylor’s dismissal of “vested interests” comes as one Labor figure describes the Coalition’s new migration policy as looking like it was written by AI.
  
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• Taylor scoffs at business group’s claim his migration policy a ‘flat tyre’

  07-10-2026 01:23 via smh.com.au
  
  Angus Taylor’s dismissal of “vested interests” comes as one Labor figure describes the Coalition’s new migration policy as looking like it was written by AI.
  
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• ATO won't budge on credit card ban after snap meeting with business groups

  07-10-2026 00:57 via abc.net.au
  
  Small business groups say the ATO has indicated it will not be reversing its decision to stop accepting credit card payments.
  
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• ATO won't budge on credit card ban after meeting with business groups

  07-10-2026 00:57 via abc.net.au
  
  Small business groups say the ATO has indicated it will not be reversing its decision to stop accepting credit card payments.
  
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• ATO will not budge on credit card ban after meeting with business groups

  07-10-2026 00:57 via abc.net.au
  
  Small business groups say the ATO has indicated it will not reverse its decision to stop accepting credit card payments.
  
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• ATO convenes snap meeting over credit card ban

  07-10-2026 00:57 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia's tax chief calls a snap meeting with business groups after the tax office faces backlash over its decision to stop accepting credit card payments.
  
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• Live: Taylor says 'vested interests' won't stop Coalition from cutting migration

  06-10-2026 22:00 via abc.net.au
  
  Angus Taylor has hit back at business sector criticism of the Coalition's plan to bring down net overseas migration. Follow live.
  
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• Live: Confusion over impact to aged care workers under Coalition migration cuts

  06-10-2026 22:00 via abc.net.au
  
  Angus Taylor says aged care workers will not be impacted by the Coalition's changes to migration despite telling the ABC last night that "some" would be. Follow live.
  
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• More than $1.2bn announced for NSW regional road upgrades

  06-10-2026 20:58 via abc.net.au
  
  The Albanese government is tipping in $674 million, while the Minns government is investing $610 million towards the upgrades. 
  
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• More than $1.2b announced for NSW regional road upgrades

  06-10-2026 20:58 via abc.net.au
  
  The Albanese government is tipping in $674 million, while the Minns government is investing $610 million towards the upgrades. 
  
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• You need women like me to have a third child. Here’s how you can convince me

  06-10-2026 20:00 via smh.com.au
  
  I’ve tried valiantly to do my bit by having two children. Naturally, my primary motivation in doing so was to make a future treasurer’s job easier by bolstering the tax-paying workforce.
  
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• You need me to have a third child. Here’s how you can convince me

  06-10-2026 20:00 via smh.com.au
  
  I’ve tried valiantly to do my bit by having two children. Naturally, my primary motivation in doing so was to make a future treasurer’s job easier by bolstering the tax-paying workforce.
  
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• Taylor concedes aged care workers would be hit by migration plan

  06-10-2026 20:00 via abc.net.au
  
  Angus Taylor acknowledges that some aged care workers would be affected by the Coalition's proposed migration changes as business and education groups warn of wider economic damage.
  
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• My ovaries are nearly at extinction point. But I’m open to bribes

  06-10-2026 20:00 via smh.com.au
  
  I’ve tried valiantly to do my bit by having two children. Naturally, my primary motivation in doing so was to make a future treasurer’s job easier by bolstering the tax-paying workforce.
  
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• Labor stripped funding for a crisis directory used millions of times. Now these charities are fighting back

  06-10-2026 20:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Ask Izzy handled 9.1 million searches for food, housing and violence support last year. Without ongoing support, 24 charities say it will soon fall out of date.
  
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• ‘Cost-of-living nightmare’: Consumer confidence slumps to historic low

  06-10-2026 20:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Households will face “recession-like” conditions next year, a leading forecaster has warned, as evidence shows consumers are losing confidence in the economy.
  
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• Best of cartoons, October 7, 2026

  06-10-2026 11:50 via smh.com.au
  
  The news of the day as interpreted by our talented artists, illustrators and cartoonists.
  
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• Fire, cyclones, extreme heat: Albanese’s hellish summer forecast

  06-10-2026 11:12 via smh.com.au
  
  The prime minister told a gathering of Pacific leaders in Fiji that a combination of climate change and a monster El Nino would hit Australia hard.
  
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• A year after Hastie’s warning, Taylor has a solid migration plan. Hanson has the voters

  06-10-2026 10:30 via smh.com.au
  
  The Coalition has been looking for its white whale: a credible migration policy that swims with the currents of conservative politics without sinking the economy.
  
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• Taylor enters three-way migration battle with 100,000 target as Labor and One Nation fire back

  06-10-2026 10:07 via smh.com.au
  
  Angus Taylor wants to slash temporary visa holders by around 650,000 over four years under a “budget-neutral” plan.
  
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• ‘The world will never be the same again’: How October 7 changed Israel, Gaza and Australia

  06-10-2026 09:51 via smh.com.au
  
  Three years after the Hamas gunshots rang out across southern Israel, the world is still living in the October 7 era.
  
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• Pacific leaders demand an end to fossil fuel addiction

  06-10-2026 09:32 via smh.com.au
  
  On the tiny island of Tuvalu, the Albanese government has said the Pacific region was “unified, not uniform” on its response to climate issues.
  
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• Immigration set to be battleground issue in next election

  06-10-2026 08:28 via smh.com.au
  
  The Coalition aims to stop One Nation’s momentum by seizing the day on immigration. But the debate must not be allowed to degenerate into racist mud-slinging.
  
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• Here's how Labor, the Coalition and One Nation's migration cuts compare

  06-10-2026 08:22 via abc.net.au
  
  One Nation wants negative migration in its first years, the Coalition has promised to more than halve it, while Labor has announced measures to ensure migration actually falls to its target of 225,000. Here is what the parties want to do on migration, and how they propose to do it.
  
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• PM Anthony Albanese declines floral head garland in Tuvalu

  06-10-2026 04:20 via abc.net.au
  
  Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Energy Minister Chris Bowen have declined to put on the hand-made floral head garland that was handed out to leaders as part of their traditional welcome in Tuvalu. 
  
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• ‘A home not a hotel’: Coalition promises largest migration cut in Australian history

  06-10-2026 03:15 via smh.com.au
  
  Angus Taylor wants to slash temporary visa holders by around 650,000 over four years under a “budget-neutral” plan.
  
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• ‘I’m not going to be salty’: Hanson-Young breaks silence on Greens’ leadership showdown

  06-10-2026 02:36 via smh.com.au
  
  The South Australian senator says progressive forces must unite to stop Pauline Hanson and One Nation from “wrecking this nation”.
  
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• Soldier who'd give 'shirt off his back' to mates killed in NT training exercise

  06-10-2026 00:29 via abc.net.au
  
  The Australian soldier who died in a military training exercise near Darwin yesterday has been identified as 28-year-old Corporal Brendan Hannam.
  
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• Live: Army chief speaks on death of 28yo male soldier in vehicle rollover

  06-10-2026 00:29 via abc.net.au
  
  The Chief of Army is speaking after an Australian Army soldier died and five others were injured in a vehicle rollover during a training exercise at Mount Bundey, south-east of Darwin.
  
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