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• More cost-of-living relief risks making Labor's long-term challenge harder

  30-09-2026 20:48 via abc.net.au
  
  As political pressure mounts from the left and right, the risk is that pursuing more short-term relief will only make the government's long-term challenge harder.
  
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• ‘Shameful, repugnant’: Greens under fire over opposition to Ukraine military aid

  05-10-2026 19:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Australia would be handing Vladimir Putin a gift by cutting off military aid to Ukraine, both major parties and the Ukrainian diaspora say.
  
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• Best of cartoons, October 6, 2026

  05-10-2026 13:07 via smh.com.au
  
  The news of the day as interpreted by our talented artists, illustrators and cartoonists.
  
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• Taylor to slash migration by two-thirds in bid to rival One Nation

  05-10-2026 10:45 via smh.com.au
  
  International students would be forced to go offshore to apply for another visa, which could push temporary migrants to leave Australia.
  
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• ‘Performative promises … have no place’: Liberals slam Hanson’s call to jail Andrews, Allen

  05-10-2026 10:12 via smh.com.au
  
  Barnaby Joyce said it was just the One Nation candidate who called to lock up the ex-premiers by Christmas, but Pauline Hanson’s social media keeps repeating it.
  
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• ‘Performative promises … have no place’: Liberals slam Hanson’s call to jail Andrews, Allan

  05-10-2026 10:12 via smh.com.au
  
  Barnaby Joyce said it was just the One Nation candidate who called to lock up the ex-premiers by Christmas, but Pauline Hanson’s social media keeps repeating it.
  
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• Young Australian caught up in IS could soon come home on passport

  05-10-2026 06:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Yusuf Zahab, 23, will not be prosecuted because he was a minor during the conflict, two sources told this masthead.
  
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• Young Australian caught up in IS could come home on passport soon

  05-10-2026 06:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Yusuf Zahab, 23, will not be prosecuted because he was a minor during the conflict, two sources said.
  
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• Live: Joyce confirms Rinehart purchased $8m One Nation head office in Brisbane

  04-10-2026 22:14 via abc.net.au
  
  Barnaby Joyce has confirmed that billionaire Gina Rinehart purchased an $8 million office for One Nation's headquarters in Brisbane. Follow live.
  
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• Live: Chris Bowen won't detail final cost of pre-COP meeting

  04-10-2026 22:14 via abc.net.au
  
  Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen hasn't detailed the final cost of the pre-COP Pacific meeting starting today. Follow live.
  
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• Live: Albanese heads to pre-COP meeting in Fiji

  04-10-2026 22:14 via abc.net.au
  
  Anthony Albanese will attend a pre-COP meeting in Fiji today with Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen. Follow live.
  
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• Live: Albanese heads to pre-COP in Fiji, Tuvalu

  04-10-2026 22:14 via abc.net.au
  
  Anthony Albanese will attend a pre-COP meeting in Fiji and Tuvalu today with Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen. Follow live.
  
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• Joyce confirms Rinehart purchased $8m One Nation head office in Brisbane — as it happened

  04-10-2026 22:14 via abc.net.au
  
  Barnaby Joyce has confirmed that billionaire Gina Rinehart purchased an $8 million office for One Nation's headquarters in Brisbane. 
  
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• The Liberals and Greens appear to be heading in the same direction

  04-10-2026 20:27 via abc.net.au
  
  Albanese promised to be "the adult in the room" and govern from the centre. But is that still the political mood as we enter the last part of 2026? 
  
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• Federal government backs Queensland blueprint to hit illicit cigarette gangs

  04-10-2026 20:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Federal cabinet holds up Queensland’s 55 per cent surge in legal cigarette sales as proof that street-level enforcement can break the $8.5 billion black market.
  
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• Best of cartoons, October 5, 2026

  04-10-2026 11:38 via smh.com.au
  
  The news of the day as interpreted by our talented artists, illustrators and cartoonists.
  
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• Thousands of motorcyclists join pothole rally outside Victorian parliament

  04-10-2026 09:37 via abc.net.au
  
  Chants of "fix the roads" could be heard alongside the roar of motorbikes outside state parliament as more than 3,000 attendees joined the rally.
  
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• Treasurer downplays chance of cost-of-living relief amid surging debt

  04-10-2026 02:46 via abc.net.au
  
  It seems unlikely households will get cost-of-living relief this year after Treasurer Jim Chalmers revealed the government is looking to "tighten" the budget as borrowing costs boom. 
  
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• Chalmers warns higher yields likely to kill off cost-of-living help

  04-10-2026 02:39 via smh.com.au
  
  Treasurer Jim Chalmers says surging borrowing costs and high inflation will force a tight mid-year update, potentially killing off out major new spending despite growing political heat.
  
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• Tennessee prisons chief resigns after failed Christa Pike execution

  03-10-2026 22:50 via abc.net.au
  
  After the bungled execution of Christa Pike in Nashville, the head of Tennessee's prisons is stepping down. 
  
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• Jim in Japan: Treasurer to sell Australia as a safe bet in two-day Tokyo blitz

  03-10-2026 14:30 via smh.com.au
  
  Treasurer Jim Chalmers will travel to Tokyo, Bangkok and Hong Kong to spruik Australia as a safe harbour for investment amid global economic uncertainty.
  
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• Her great-great-grandfather helped create the National Party. Now she wants to ‘bury it’

  03-10-2026 05:40 via smh.com.au
  
  Less than three years after entering the Senate, Steph Hodgins-May is the Greens new deputy leader. Does she have what it takes?
  
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• Victoria is about to have the most unpredictable election in living memory

  02-10-2026 22:49 via abc.net.au
  
  Much has been written about the rise of Pauline Hanson's One Nation in the past 12 months. The Victorian election will give us our best look yet at the decline of the two-party system.
  
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• The world is changing rapidly. Albanese needs to follow suit

  02-10-2026 21:00 via smh.com.au
  
  The government must change from pleasing the electorate to actually doing something.
  
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• I am the child of an immigrant. So are 51 per cent of Australians

  02-10-2026 21:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Both major parties have failed to sell the story of Australia as an immigration nation.
  
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• The Greens’ defence red lines: No weapons for Ukraine, curtail the US alliance

  02-10-2026 20:24 via smh.com.au
  
  David Shoebridge believes the Greens can win votes by campaigning to scrap the AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine pact and legalise recreational cannabis.
  
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• New Greens leader: No weapons for Ukraine, curtail the US alliance

  02-10-2026 20:24 via smh.com.au
  
  David Shoebridge believes the Greens can win votes by campaigning to scrap the AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine pact and legalise recreational cannabis.
  
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• Hanson and Spender united in demand for tax office ban reversal

  02-10-2026 06:47 via smh.com.au
  
  In a rare unified moment, the two politicians have called for the Australian Taxation Office to reverse it’s plan to ban credit card payments
  
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• The Greens want to catch the Mamdani wave. But can the minor party really become ‘unashamedly populist’?

  02-10-2026 04:00 via smh.com.au
  
  New York City’s mayor and the UK’s Zack Polanski have tapped into anti-establishment anger. Australia’s new Greens leader, a hard man of the hard-left, wants to do the same.
  
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• Transformation of COVID quarantine centre into prison a step closer

  02-10-2026 03:17 via abc.net.au
  
  The Justice Department has signed an $87,000 contract with architects to explore converting an unused quarantine centre in Perth's north-east into a minimum-security prison.
  
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