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• Pauline Hanson’s deleted post deepens One Nation’s migration muddle

  24-08-2026 06:06 via smh.com.au
  
  While Barnaby Joyce said 130,000 had been One Nation’s migration target “all along”, Pauline Hanson deleted a social media post saying otherwise. The difference is more than 200,000 people.
  
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• Federal Darwin MP charged with breaching bail after alleged assault on King’s representative

  25-08-2026 10:30 via smh.com.au
  
  Federal Labor MP Luke Gosling has been charged with breaching bail in relation to the ongoing allegations he assaulted Northern Territory Administrator David Connolly.
  
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• ‘The longer this goes, the harder it gets’: Industry scrambles as Labor agonises over immigration

  25-08-2026 09:53 via smh.com.au
  
  The federal government’s migration reforms could be pushed back up to a month, with industry group seizing on the delay to lobby against reducing temporary worker numbers.
  
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• ‘George will be George’: One Nation MP brushes off order to ‘shut up about immigration’

  25-08-2026 09:17 via smh.com.au
  
  Christensen, a one-time One Nation senate candidate who campaigned for David Farley, says David Farley was warned repeatedly about talking about immigration.
  
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• Good character references to be scrapped in all WA criminal cases

  25-08-2026 03:24 via abc.net.au
  
  The WA government will scrap the use of good character references in court cases, which allow convicted criminals to receive reduced sentences. 
  
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• ‘Farley needs to shut up’: George Christensen takes aim at One Nation MP

  25-08-2026 01:53 via smh.com.au
  
  Christensen, a one-time One Nation senate candidate who campaigned for Farley, says he warned the MP more than once to “shut up about immigration”.
  
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• PM defends attending $10k-per-head fundraising dinner — as it happened

  24-08-2026 23:09 via abc.net.au
  
  Anthony Albanese has defended his attendance at a $10,000-per-head fundraising dinner in Perth ahead of a cabinet meeting.
  
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• Live: Taylor indicates Coalition's migration target could fall 'well below' 200,000

  24-08-2026 23:09 via abc.net.au
  
  Angus Taylor says the Coalition's migration target could be "well below" 200,000 as the opposition develops a policy to tie migration to housing construction. Follow live.
  
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• Live: PM defends attending $10,000-per-head fundraising dinner in Perth

  24-08-2026 23:09 via abc.net.au
  
  Anthony Albanese has defended his attendance at a $10,000-per-head fundraising dinner in Perth ahead of a cabinet meeting. Follow live.
  
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• PM faces further GST backlash after standing by lucrative WA deal

  24-08-2026 22:22 via abc.net.au
  
  Anthony Albanese is still facing pressure from Labor and Liberal states to overhaul the GST carve-up after declaring he was sticking by Western Australia's lucrative funding deal.
  
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• SA Liberal president Leah Blyth in preselection battle as Antic supporters claim 'betrayal'

  24-08-2026 22:06 via abc.net.au
  
  Some supporters of rebel South Australian Senator Alex Antic want to demote SA Liberal President Leah Blyth to an unwinnable senate spot, claiming a "betrayal" on conservative causes.
  
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• The surprising figure One Nation supporters back more than anyone apart from Hanson

  24-08-2026 21:00 via smh.com.au
  
  No.1 among One Nation voters is, as you’d expect, Pauline Hanson. But No.2 is not Barnaby Joyce or Donald Trump or any conventional political figure.
  
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• Forecasts reveal effect of data centre rush on electricity grid

  24-08-2026 20:41 via abc.net.au
  
  The rush of AI data centres is expected to put a larger burden on the electricity grid than previously estimated, with projects in development more than doubling in a year.
  
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• Data centres to use nearly as much power as every NSW and Victorian home by 2036

  24-08-2026 20:41 via abc.net.au
  
  The rush of AI data centres is expected to put a larger burden on the electricity grid than previously estimated, with projects in development more than doubling in a year.
  
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• 1000 One Nation voters said why they were voting for Hanson – and what it would take to switch

  24-08-2026 16:05 via smh.com.au
  
  New research finds that about half of Pauline Hanson’s large, new support base could be persuaded back to the major parties if they address concerns about high migration.
  
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• 1000 One Nation voters said why they were voting for Hanson - and what it would take to switch

  24-08-2026 16:05 via smh.com.au
  
  New research finds that about half of Pauline Hanson’s large, new support base could be persuaded back to the major parties if they address concerns about high migration.
  
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• Tax attack: Business to serve it up to PM over dinner after Labor’s budget changes

  24-08-2026 14:30 via smh.com.au
  
  After years of claims that it has been hoodwinked into close cooperation by Labor, the business lobby is gearing up for a fight.
  
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• Tax attack: big business to serve it up to PM over dinner after Labor’s budget changes

  24-08-2026 14:30 via smh.com.au
  
  After years of claims that it has been hoodwinked into close cooperation by Labor, the business lobby is gearing up for a fight.
  
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• Best of cartoons, August 25, 2026

  24-08-2026 13:20 via smh.com.au
  
  The news of the day as interpreted by our talented artists, illustrators and cartoonists.
  
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• Unleashed | Barnaby Joyce

  24-08-2026 12:01 via abc.net.au
  
  Barnaby Joyce's defection to One Nation struck some as opportunism, others as evidence of an unrivalled political radar. But is the party big enough for him and Pauline Hanson?
  
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• Angus Taylor organised taxpayer grants for Brethren charity backing Pollie Pedal

  24-08-2026 11:29 via smh.com.au
  
  The Plymouth Brethren Christian Church’s charity organisation, the Rapid Relief Team, received hundreds of thousands of dollars in government grants, some in Taylor’s seat of Hume.
  
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• PM backs GST deal, leaves future taxpayers on the hook for billions

  24-08-2026 10:03 via smh.com.au
  
  An independent report into the $60 billion GST deal is still months away from being finished, but Anthony Albanese has left it dead in the water.
  
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• In a slump: Warning house prices won’t rebound until 2028

  24-08-2026 09:45 via smh.com.au
  
  House prices are turning down across the country. A prominent economist warns they could keep falling until the RBA puts rate cuts on the agenda.
  
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• ‘It’s made it worse’: Second aged care insider condemns Labor’s reforms as a failure

  24-08-2026 08:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Former acting inspector-general of aged care Ian Yates accused the government of playing down wait lists, which he said had blown out to “unprecedented” levels.
  
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• ‘Could see myself sitting here’: One Nation MP Farley gatecrashes Liberal meeting

  24-08-2026 07:30 via smh.com.au
  
  Farrer MP David Farley said his quip was a joke, but Liberals were astonished when he wandered into a private meeting.
  
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• ‘Oppressive’: Why this Liberal senator crossed the floor on expanding ASIO powers

  24-08-2026 04:03 via smh.com.au
  
  A bipartisan bid to expand ASIO’s powers was opposed by an unusual array of opponents, including two Liberal senators. One of them said he will do it again.
  
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• Pauline Hanson’s deleted tweet deepens One Nation’s migration muddle

  24-08-2026 03:58 via smh.com.au
  
  While Barnaby Joyce said 130,000 had been One Nation’s migration target “all along”, Pauline Hanson deleted a social media post saying otherwise. The difference is more than 200,000 people.
  
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• PM 'signed people's body parts' that he would not change GST deal — as it happened

  23-08-2026 23:40 via abc.net.au
  
  Anthony Albanese says no changes will be made to GST distribution after a Productivity Commission report recommended an overhaul. 
  
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• Live: PM 'signed people's body parts' that he would not change GST deal

  23-08-2026 23:40 via abc.net.au
  
  Anthony Albanese says no changes will be made to GST distribution after a Productivity Commission report recommended an overhaul. Follow live.
  
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• Live: One Nation defends migration policy blunder

  23-08-2026 23:40 via abc.net.au
  
  Barnaby Joyce says One Nation's policy has been 130,000 net migration and has been "all along." Follow live. 
  
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