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• Live: Teal MPs launch new Community Strong Australia party

  24-06-2026 23:04
  
  Two Sydney teal independent MPs have launched a new centrist political party, with ambitions of picking up seats in the Senate. Follow live.
  
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• Does Pauline Hanson's claim of growing support in the ACT pass the pub test?

  27-06-2026 23:40
  The conventional wisdom is that Canberra is a largely left-leaning city, but the national capital is now among places in One Nation's sights as support for the party surges across the country.
  
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• Karl Stefanovic is free! To delete the podcast he made in the name of free speech

  27-06-2026 21:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Karl Stefanovic has dressed up a blatant grab for attention as a free-speech crusade. It’s laughable.
  
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• I have a confession to make about One Nation

  27-06-2026 21:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Four months ago, as Pauline Hanson’s party surged, I thought it would hit its limits. It kept on surging. But is it risking that by trying to appeal to the middle ground.
  
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• Hanson spawned the silliest semantic beard-stroking in 20 years

  27-06-2026 21:00
  
  We've come a long way since it was Pauline Hanson who didn't know the meaning of big words.
  
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• Hanson has perfected a three-step playbook and Liberals played right into it

  27-06-2026 21:00
  
  We've come a long way since it was Pauline Hanson who didn't know the meaning of big words.
  
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• Hanson has perfected a three-step playbook and Liberals played into it

  27-06-2026 21:00
  
  We've come a long way since it was Pauline Hanson who didn't know the meaning of big words.
  
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• Labor unveils new powers to strengthen social media ban

  27-06-2026 14:30
  
  Six months into Australia's world-first social media ban for under-16s, the federal government has announced tougher laws that it says will hold big tech to account and keep kids safe online.
  
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• ‘Doing the bare minimum’: Albanese blasts social media giants over age ban enforcement

  27-06-2026 14:30 via smh.com.au
  
  Tech giants will be more harshly investigated and will face $99 million fines if they fail to comply with the government’s social media age limit.
  
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• Steggall hopes fallen teals join party, seeks independents’ support in Senate

  27-06-2026 08:30 via smh.com.au
  
  Community Strong Australia will seek to bring Zoe Daniel and Kylea Tink back into the fold, and to convince independent MPs to back the party in the Senate.
  
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• Remember Labor promised you $5 extra a week? 14 changes starting July 1, from tax cuts to price hikes

  27-06-2026 06:00 via smh.com.au
  
  The end of a financial year isn’t just the time to cruise the stocktake sales, it also ushers in several substantial legal and financial changes.
  
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• A speeding shadow minister puts the brakes on NT Labor’s rebuild

  27-06-2026 01:04
  
  Revelations about an NT shadow minister’s dicey driving history — and the Opposition Leader's failure to disclose it — come as another blow to NT Labor.
  
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• Can the Victorian Liberal Party avoid falling apart again?

  26-06-2026 22:55
  
  The Victorian Liberal Party is competitive in the polls just months out from the November state election. But will party infighting blunt its winning edge?
  
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• Why hasn't the global economy completely collapsed?

  26-06-2026 21:00
  
  An unfortunate side effect of the incompetent and erratic negotiating tactics of the Trump administration is that some of the underlying stories in the global economy can get overlooked.
  
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• It’s party time for these two teals. Now they must find some movers and shakers

  26-06-2026 21:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Zali Steggall and Allegra Spender have launched a new political party, Community Strong Australia. It marks another step in the restructuring of our politics.
  
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• Defence home loan subsidy to change after veterans left worse off

  26-06-2026 20:41
  
  Critics say the scheme, which offers subsidised home loans, lumps Defence members and veterans with uncompetitive rates.
  
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• The caucus cheered Albanese’s tax changes – but will voters?

  26-06-2026 20:34 via smh.com.au
  
  The biggest reform package in a generation was made law this week. Now the battle for the prime minister is to see it work on the property market.
  
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• Wagga Wagga homeless told to leave camp or face enforcement action

  26-06-2026 10:09
  
  Homeless people in Wagga Wagga's Wilks Park camping area have been ordered to remove all personal belongings by July 7. 
  
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• Angus Taylor damaged, but he won’t be dumped – yet

  26-06-2026 09:45 via smh.com.au
  
  Angus Taylor’s leadership is now being openly discussed by Liberal colleagues, just four months after becoming leader.
  
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• As the first ‘teal’ MP for Wentworth, I have many questions about this new party

  26-06-2026 07:30 via smh.com.au
  
  Microparties can, in time, grow into a significant political force. Look at One Nation.
  
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• As the first teal MP for Wentworth, I have many questions about this new party

  26-06-2026 07:30 via smh.com.au
  
  Microparties can, in time, grow into a significant political force. Look at One Nation.
  
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• Disunity but not death for Basil Zempilas and WA Liberals after MP quits

  26-06-2026 05:11
  
  There are plenty of questions for Basil Zempilas and the WA Liberals after Jonathan Huston quit the party over a policy row — not least, whether it removes a rogue before too much damage is done.
  
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• Battle lost for Zempilas and WA Liberals in hope of winning war ahead

  26-06-2026 05:11
  
  Basil Zempilas has had his first brush with the political truism "disunity is death" after MP Jonathan Huston quit the WA Liberal Party, but he's unlikely — at this stage at least — to be the one left in a political grave.
  
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• Stefanovic's move to outsider politics follows a well-worn lucrative path

  26-06-2026 03:36
  
  Listening to the culture war showman schtick he has so quickly adopted, Stefanovic is now less a newsman than an ideological performer.
  
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• Bird flu can be fatal for cats and might stop off-leash dogs

  26-06-2026 02:25 via smh.com.au
  
  The H5N1 virus has landed in Australia, via seabirds from the Antarctic, and pet owners have been warned to brace for an almost inevitable outbreak.
  
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• PM flags strengthening eSafety powers for social media ban — as it happened

  25-06-2026 23:08
  
  Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says the government will look to strengthen the powers of the eSafety Commissioner to enforce an under-16s social media ban.
  
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• Live: Western Sydney MP hints at own version of new political party

  25-06-2026 23:08
  
  Independent MP Dai Le has hinted that she could possibly start her own Western Sydney political party. Follow live. 
  
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• Live: PM flags strengthening powers of eSafety commissioner for social media ban

  25-06-2026 23:08
  
  Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says the government will look to strengthen the powers of the eSafety commissioner to enforce an under-16s social media ban. Follow live. 
  
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• Barring 'ISIS bride' could have triggered High Court challenge

  25-06-2026 21:06
  
  Legal experts say the Commonwealth would have risked losing a High Court challenge to counterterrorism laws if it stopped the Australian woman from returning home.
  
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• On borrowed time? Why Liberals are starting to chatter about Angus Taylor

  25-06-2026 21:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Following the opposition leader’s blunder on multiculturalism this week, one Liberal said: “I don’t know if he can think on his feet.”
  
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