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• ‘I’m not the finance minister’: Albanese gets angry over expenses questions

  11-12-2025 04:07 via smh.com.au
  
  Senior politicians with an uncapped spousal travel allowance have billed taxpayers more than $660,000 since the start of the Albanese government.
  
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• Anti-corruption boss in open dispute with deputies over defence recusal

  11-12-2025 09:01 via abc.net.au
  
  The anti-corruption watchdog chief personally drafted lines in a media release saying his recusal from defence cases was "unnecessary". His deputies have publicly disagreed.
  
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• Albanese bristles at expenses questions, Wells faces having to hand over metadata

  11-12-2025 08:31 via smh.com.au
  
  The prime minister has ducked responsibility for the widening MPs’ expenses saga by claiming he was not in charge of the rules in a tense press conference in Canberra.
  
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• Usually confident Albanese puts a wrong foot forward

  11-12-2025 07:40 via smh.com.au
  
  Prime Minister Anthony Albanese passes the buck on MP expenses.
  
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• Albanese is getting close to his ‘I don’t hold a hose’ moment

  11-12-2025 07:35 via smh.com.au
  
  The prime minister’s sudden insistence the expenses saga has nothing to do with him has left even some of his own colleagues blinking.
  
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• ‘Wild conspiracies’: Anti-corruption boss under fire over potential conflicts of interest

  11-12-2025 06:49 via smh.com.au
  
  The head of the national anti-corruption body said he believed he was being targeted by people seeking to stymie investigations into alleged war crimes in Afghanistan.
  
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• China's impressive trade surplus is making things hard for trading partners

  11-12-2025 06:03 via abc.net.au
  
  China's record breaking one trillion-dollar trade surplus shows Trump's tariffs have done little to tame Beijing's export juggernaut. In fact, they might have turbocharged it instead.
  
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• ‘I’m not the finance minister’: Albanese angry with expenses questions in tense press conference

  11-12-2025 05:19 via smh.com.au
  
  Senior politicians with an uncapped spousal travel allowance have billed taxpayers more than $660,000 since the start of the Albanese government.
  
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• 'I'm not the finance minister': PM

  11-12-2025 03:53 via smh.com.au
  
  Anthony Albanese has fired up during a press conference when questioned about MP entitlements, amid revelations Labor minister Anika Wells has spent significant taxpayer money on flights for her family and transport.
  
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• Prime minister offers extra money to states for public hospitals

  11-12-2025 03:51 via abc.net.au
  
  The prime minister wrote to states and territories this week, upping the Commonwealth's offer for public hospital funding.
  
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• 'Christmas Grinch': States lash PM’s latest public hospital offer

  11-12-2025 03:51 via abc.net.au
  
  The prime minister wrote to states and territories this week, upping the Commonwealth's offer for public hospital funding.
  
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• PM accused of shirking responsibility on Wells controversy

  11-12-2025 03:36 via abc.net.au
  
  Pressed on whether his government should review the rules that allow politicians to fly their families around the country in business class, the prime minister says his focus is on the social media ban.
  
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• 'Not my focus': PM distances himself from politician spending rules

  11-12-2025 03:36 via abc.net.au
  
  Pressed on whether his government should review the rules that allow politicians to fly their families around the country in business class, the prime minister says his focus is on the social media ban.
  
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• Plan for Perth to host landmark AC Milan game hits major obstacle

  11-12-2025 02:31 via abc.net.au
  
  Plans to host seven-time European champions AC Milan in Perth for an Italian league game are in trouble, with growing concerns soccer's global governing body will not sign off on the event.
  
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• Perth's bid to host AC Milan Serie A soccer match in serious doubt

  11-12-2025 02:31 via abc.net.au
  
  Plans to host seven-time European champions AC Milan in Perth for an Italian league game are in trouble, with growing concerns soccer's global governing body will not sign off on the event.
  
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• Teenagers can get jobs before 16. But what happens now to those who rely on social media for an income?

  11-12-2025 02:25 via smh.com.au
  
  Olympic athletes need sponsorships to pursue their sport. Some Australian families pay bills because their kids create content. Australia’s world-leading social media ban, however, may jeopardise that.
  
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• Some teens make a living from social media. They aren’t letting the ban stop them

  11-12-2025 02:25 via smh.com.au
  
  Olympic athletes need sponsorships to pursue their sport. Some Australian families pay bills because their kids create content. Australia’s world-leading social media ban, however, may jeopardise that.
  
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• The senior politicians with ‘uncapped’ access to taxpayer-funded family travel

  11-12-2025 02:14 via smh.com.au
  
  Senior politicians with an uncapped spousal travel allowance have billed taxpayers more than $660,000 since the start of the Albanese government.
  
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• What happens when WA's housing crisis collides with its DV crisis

  10-12-2025 22:08 via abc.net.au
  
  The WA government is talking up its efforts to stamp out domestic and family violence, but there is one fundamental roadblock to alleviating the situation for women in crisis, and that is the state's housing crisis.
  
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• DV crisis response failing to overcome the roadblock of housing

  10-12-2025 22:08 via abc.net.au
  
  The WA government is talking up its efforts to stamp out domestic and family violence, but there is one fundamental roadblock to alleviating the situation for women in crisis, and that is the state's housing crisis.
  
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• Live: PM says social media ban will 'save lives'

  10-12-2025 22:07 via abc.net.au
  
  Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says the federal government's social media ban will "will save lives and it will change lives for this and future generations". Follow live.
  
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• Live: PM says he 'completely' understands controversy around travel expenses

  10-12-2025 22:07 via abc.net.au
  
  Prime Minister Anthony Albanese again defends the communication minister's use of travel entitlements but says he understands why it is controversial. Follow live.
  
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• Live: Coalition accuses PM of 'running away from responsibility' on expenses

  10-12-2025 22:07 via abc.net.au
  
  Prime Minister Anthony Albanese again defends the communication minister's use of travel entitlements but says he understands why it is controversial. Follow live.
  
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• Coalition accuses PM of 'running away from responsibility' on expenses — as it happened

  10-12-2025 22:07 via abc.net.au
  
  Prime Minister Anthony Albanese again defends the communication minister's use of travel entitlements but says he understands why it is controversial.
  
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• NACC chief updates official declaration of interests to disclose Defence link

  10-12-2025 21:08 via abc.net.au
  
  National Anti-Corruption Commission chief Paul Brereton has formally disclosed his consulting work for the Defence watchdog after the ABC revealed the links. 
  
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• Fears gas reservation plan will not lower prices as hoped

  10-12-2025 21:05 via abc.net.au
  
  A long-awaited scheme to force east coast energy giants to set aside gas for Australian use is being finalised in down-to-the-wire negotiations between half a dozen cabinet ministers grappling with concerns it may not lower prices as much as hoped.
  
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• Australia's gas shortage blamed on 'stupid decisions' under Howard

  10-12-2025 21:05 via abc.net.au
  
  A long-awaited scheme to force east coast energy giants to set aside gas for Australian use is being finalised in down-to-the-wire negotiations between half a dozen cabinet ministers grappling with concerns it may not lower prices as much as hoped.
  
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• Australia's social media experiment is live. Teens say nothing has changed

  10-12-2025 20:28 via abc.net.au
  
  After a year of waiting, Australia's world-leading laws to block kids from accessing social media are officially enacted. But the teens they're meant to impact say not much has actually changed.
  
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• Former SA deputy premier points out the great divide in Australia's schools

  10-12-2025 20:12 via abc.net.au
  
  South Australia's former deputy premier Susan Close has called out what she describes as "extreme" socio-economic segregation in Australian schools.
  
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• Australia's education system is out of step, former SA deputy premier says

  10-12-2025 20:12 via abc.net.au
  
  South Australia's former deputy premier Susan Close has called out what she describes as "extreme" socio-economic segregation in Australian schools.
  
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