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• Live: Taylor signals support for changing laws to charge OpenAI over hack

  24-09-2026 22:59 via abc.net.au
  
  Angus Taylor has signalled the Coalition would be open to changing laws following the OpenAI hack. Follow live.
  
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• Best of cartoons, October 1, 2026

  30-09-2026 13:38 via smh.com.au
  
  The news of the day as interpreted by our talented artists, illustrators and cartoonists.
  
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• David Shoebridge is one of parliament’s best operators. His new task as Greens leader is far broader

  30-09-2026 11:09 via smh.com.au
  
  Shoebridge echoed the populist catch cries of Zohran Mamdani and Zack Polanski as he became Greens leader. Can he deliver the same electoral success?
  
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• Our parliamentary speeches are literally robotic

  30-09-2026 10:41 via smh.com.au
  
  Australian federal MPs are world leaders in using AI for political speeches.
  
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• Shoebridge vows to ‘replace’ Labor as Faruqi vents after Greens leadership defeat

  30-09-2026 07:36 via smh.com.au
  
  In a rare public display of internal dissent within the Greens, defeated candidate Senator Mehreen Faruqi took to Instagram to express her disappointment.
  
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• Shoebridge says Greens must ‘replace’ Labor in first speech as leader

  30-09-2026 05:47 via smh.com.au
  
  NSW senator David Shoebridge was elected in a rare contested ballot on Wednesday, seeing off challenges from leadership aspirants Mehreen Faruqi and Sarah Hanson-Young.
  
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• David Shoebridge named new Greens leader in hotly contested ballot

  30-09-2026 04:37 via abc.net.au
  
  After a rare leadership ballot for the Greens, the NSW senator becomes the sixth leader in the party's history.
  
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• Breaking: David Shoebridge named new Greens leader after three-way contest

  30-09-2026 04:37 via abc.net.au
  
  After a rare leadership ballot for the Greens, the NSW senator becomes the sixth leader in the party's history.
  
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• Online safety boss flags exit, notes power imbalance between big tech and regulator

  30-09-2026 04:11 via smh.com.au
  
  “With this new digital duty of care and this new era coming about, I think it will be great to have new leadership,” the eSafety Comissioner says.
  
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• David Shoebridge elected new leader of the Greens

  30-09-2026 04:11 via smh.com.au
  
  The NSW senator saw off challenges from leadership aspirants Mehreen Faruqi and Sarah Hanson-Young.
  
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• Inflation jumps to four-month high a day after RBA rate rise

  30-09-2026 03:48 via smh.com.au
  
  The consumer price index climbed from 3.5 per cent in July to 4 per cent in August. Higher housing costs and elevated petrol prices are to blame.
  
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• ‘Bludgeoned with platitudes’: Australian politicians lead the English-speaking world in AI speeches

  30-09-2026 03:45 via smh.com.au
  
  MPs and former prime ministerial speechwriters have since weighed in on what role, if any, AI should play in political speeches.
  
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• Almost half the Greens partyroom is contesting in leadership showdown

  30-09-2026 00:41 via smh.com.au
  
  Senator David Shoebridge will run against state colleague Mehreen Faruqi and South Australia’s Sarah Hanson-Young for the top leadership position in this week’s vote.
  
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• Queensland government department loses $800k in cyber attack

  30-09-2026 00:38 via abc.net.au
  
  The review, released on Friday, said no government data or sensitive information was compromised during the incident.
  
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• Live: Taylor blames 'home-grown inflation' for 15-year-high rate hike

  29-09-2026 23:11 via abc.net.au
  
  The opposition leader says the government is not in control of inflation and interest rates. Follow live.
  
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• Live: PM flags cost-of-living relief ahead of expected inflation spike

  29-09-2026 23:11 via abc.net.au
  
  Anthony Albanese has flagged the mid-year budget update in December will include measures to tackle the cost of living. Follow live.
  
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• Live: Greens senator 'disappointed' by leadership ballot, calls for member vote

  29-09-2026 23:11 via abc.net.au
  
  Mehreen Faruqi says she is disappointed by the result of the Greens leadership ballot, following the election of David Shoebridge as leader. Follow live.
  
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• Live: David Shoebridge chosen as Greens leader

  29-09-2026 23:11 via abc.net.au
  
  The Greens have chosen David Shoebridge as their new federal leader after Larissa Waters stepped down earlier this week. Follow live.
  
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• Greens senator 'disappointed' by leadership ballot, calls for member vote — as it happened

  29-09-2026 23:11 via abc.net.au
  
  Mehreen Faruqi says she is disappointed by the result of the Greens leadership ballot, following the election of David Shoebridge as leader. 
  
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• The Greens are about to pick a new leader. Who are the contenders?

  29-09-2026 21:22 via abc.net.au
  
  The Greens will select a new leader after the shock resignation of Larissa Waters, as the party considers its future direction amid a surging One Nation.
  
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• ‘Pay for slay’: Debate erupts over key condition for Palestinian statehood

  29-09-2026 21:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Israel has accused Foreign Minister Penny Wong of using a “blatant lie” in a speech to the United Nations, straining already frayed relations.
  
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• Rate hike puts pressure on Labor over inflation

  29-09-2026 20:49 via abc.net.au
  
  Another interest rate rise has turned attention to government spending, weak productivity and other domestic pressures contributing to inflation.
  
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• Labor defends economic record following interest rate hike

  29-09-2026 20:49 via abc.net.au
  
  Another interest rate rise has turned attention to government spending, weak productivity and other domestic pressures contributing to inflation.
  
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• Best of cartoons, September 30, 2026

  29-09-2026 14:11 via smh.com.au
  
  The news of the day as interpreted by our talented artists, illustrators and cartoonists.
  
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• To avoid another rate rise, things might have to get worse

  29-09-2026 11:40 via smh.com.au
  
  Unemployment is climbing and house prices are sinking, so the RBA knew this rate rise would need a lot of explaining.
  
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• She’s an Australian law professor. Her husband says they ‘don’t do consent’

  29-09-2026 11:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Dr Joanna Howe, a Rhodes scholar, has become one of Australia’s most recognisable, prolific, and aggressive anti-abortion activists.
  
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• RBA governor warns there could be further rate hikes, even if it tips Australia into recession

  29-09-2026 10:36 via smh.com.au
  
  In a blunt message that challenges Labor’s argument that inflation was driven primarily by the war, Bullock said domestic pressures had a role.
  
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• Greens leadership showdown: Faruqi and McKim take on Hanson-Young as members demand a say

  29-09-2026 09:54 via smh.com.au
  
  Greens firebrand Max Chandler-Mather has urged the MPs to give all its grassroots members a say in choosing their next leader.
  
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• Second brick plant no quick fix for WA housing shortage

  29-09-2026 08:39 via abc.net.au
  
  Taxpayers are funding the reopening of the Austral factory, which the government hopes will help address the shortage of bricks plaguing the construction industry.
  
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• Brick shortage prompts $4 million sweetener to get factory reopened

  29-09-2026 08:39 via abc.net.au
  
  Taxpayers are funding the reopening of the Austral factory, which the government hopes will help address the shortage of bricks plaguing the construction industry.
  
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