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• Senator calls on prime minister for support amid torrent of online abuse

  18-11-2025 08:45 via abc.net.au
  
  After the man who threatened her life via email was sentenced in court earlier this week, Senator Fatima Payman is being targeted by online abuse.
  
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• Best of cartoons, December 8, 2025

  07-12-2025 12:33 via smh.com.au
  
  The news of the day as interpreted by our talented artists, illustrators and cartoonists.
  
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• Budget will remain in deficit forever without change

  07-12-2025 12:30 via smh.com.au
  
  The Albanese government delivered the first budget surpluses in 15 years. But they may be the last according to a Deloitte Access Economics report.
  
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• How $2b could be redirected from the NDIS and help 230,000 more people

  07-12-2025 11:00 via smh.com.au
  
  As health ministers prepare to meet, this blueprint says they don’t need to spend more to fix a gaping hole in support for 230,000 people with debilitating mental illnesses.
  
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• Coalition vote crashes to record low, One Nation surges amid housing anger: poll

  07-12-2025 08:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Exclusive polling shows support for Pauline Hanson’s party has risen to a record high as fears over the housing market and infrastructure fuel frustration over immigration.
  
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• Liberals ignore, despise and knife their leaders – and drive their party over a cliff

  07-12-2025 03:55 via smh.com.au
  
  Unlike the Labor Party, which mythologises even its pedestrian leaders, the Liberal Party celebrates only Menzies and Howard.
  
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• Wide-ranging findings set to be handed down on death of 16yo in youth detention

  07-12-2025 01:11 via abc.net.au
  
  The coroner investigating WA’s first recorded death in youth detention is expected to hand down wide-ranging findings and recommendations following the death of 16-year-old Cleveland Dodd in 2022. Here's everything you need to know.
  
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• Findings set to reveal dysfunction that led to WA's first youth detention death

  07-12-2025 01:11 via abc.net.au
  
  The coroner investigating WA’s first recorded death in youth detention is expected to hand down wide-ranging findings and recommendations following the death of 16-year-old Cleveland Dodd in 2022. Here's everything you need to know.
  
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• ‘I don’t write the rules’: Wells, PM defend using taxpayer funds to bring family to ski resort

  07-12-2025 00:46 via smh.com.au
  
  Labor is defending the sport and communications minister’s family reunion on the slopes after earlier revelations of six-figure claims for international travel.
  
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• Prime minister's office approved Wells's almost-$100,000 flights

  07-12-2025 00:39 via abc.net.au
  
  The furore over Communications Minister Anika Wells's expenses continues, with just three days until the government's much-anticipated social media ban for under 16s comes into force. 
  
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• PM's office approved almost $100k in flights for communications minister

  07-12-2025 00:39 via abc.net.au
  
  The furore over Communications Minister Anika Wells's expenses continues, with just three days until the government's much-anticipated social media ban for under 16s comes into force. 
  
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• ‘I don’t write the rules’: Wells defends claiming expenses to take family to ski resort

  07-12-2025 00:10 via smh.com.au
  
  Labor is defending the sport and communications minister’s family reunion on the slopes after earlier revelations of six-figure claims for international travel.
  
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• Albanese defends Wells after minister charged taxpayers to take family to ski resort

  06-12-2025 23:36 via smh.com.au
  
  Labor is defending the sport and communications minister’s family reunion on the slopes after earlier revelations of six-figure claims for international travel.
  
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• ‘Crippling prices’: Manufacturers demand gas reservation

  06-12-2025 19:30 via smh.com.au
  
  The government is being urged to ignore last-minute lobbying to water down its plan for a gas reservation policy.
  
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• Parents could grant Labor the grace the opposition won't on social media ban

  06-12-2025 19:00 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia's social media age ban is one of the most significant attempts to rebalance the asymmetric power relationship between government and tech.
  
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• Libs have no plan for immigration tensions, so Labor must act before it gets ugly

  06-12-2025 19:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Oppositional politics risks an unedifying partisan stoush over our borders. It risks a slow-motion tragedy.
  
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• Anika Wells charged taxpayers to take family to Thredbo ski resort

  06-12-2025 19:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Labor is defending the sports and communications minister’s family reunion on the slopes after earlier revelations of six-figure claims for international travel.
  
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• ‘The race is on’: Australia follows Ukraine into the drone-killing era

  06-12-2025 09:30 via smh.com.au
  
  At a remote military site in the outback, cutting-edge drone technology pioneered in the war in Ukraine is being trialled by the Australian army.
  
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• Teen seriously injured in e-bike crash in Perth's western suburbs

  06-12-2025 08:27 via abc.net.au
  
  A 14-year-old boy suffers serious injuries in an e-bike crash in Perth's western suburbs, just two days after a parliamentary inquiry into WA's e-rideable laws made 33 recommendations in a bid to make the devices safer.
  
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• Trump's new security strategy warns Europe faces 'civilisational erasure'

  06-12-2025 04:00 via abc.net.au
  
  The Trump administration releases a document saying its goal is to "help Europe correct its current trajectory", adding that it faces "civilisational erasure" due in part to "mass migration".
  
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• Asbestos found in new ECU city campus, but won't be removed before it opens

  06-12-2025 01:10 via abc.net.au
  
  WA's parliament is told asbestos has been discovered in fire doors at Edith Cowan University's flagship new campus in Perth's CBD, and it won't be removed until after the first semester next year.
  
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• Roger Cook wants to use parliament to avoid FOMO. Not everyone is on board

  06-12-2025 01:04 via abc.net.au
  
  The WA premier is seeking wide-reaching powers to change the rules on approvals for "big, shiny, job-creating projects" — but it has prompted concern from the opposition, environmentalists and even lawyers.
  
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• Critics line up as WA premier seeks to change the rules to avoid FOMO

  06-12-2025 01:04 via abc.net.au
  
  The WA premier is seeking wide-reaching powers to change the rules on approvals for "big, shiny, job-creating projects" — but it has prompted concern from the opposition, environmentalists and even lawyers.
  
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• Who will lead the SA Liberal Party to the next state election?

  05-12-2025 21:20 via abc.net.au
  
  SA Liberal leader Vincent Tarzia has stepped down. Pressure had been mounting in the lead-up to the 2026 state election, and predictions for the Liberal Party's chances are not looking promising.
  
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• Under deadline, Trump is remaking the White House in his own image

  05-12-2025 20:52 via abc.net.au
  
  The US president has spent much of his first year back in office changing the historic building he fought to reclaim in a bid to cement his legacy.
  
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• Trump is remaking the White House in his own image before it is too late

  05-12-2025 20:52 via abc.net.au
  
  The US president has spent much of his first year back in office changing the historic building he fought to reclaim in a bid to cement his legacy.
  
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• Australia's youngest senator was catfished on social media as a teen

  05-12-2025 20:21 via abc.net.au
  
  As the social media ban for teens looms, the parliament's most recent senator reveals she knows firsthand the dangers that can confront young people online.
  
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• 'World's first drone war': Russia-Ukraine war pits technology against manpower

  05-12-2025 19:00 via abc.net.au
  
  When it comes to weaponry, Russia has strength in manpower despite Ukraine's early technological edge while Europe's arms production efforts are running into infrastructure hurdles. 
  
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• Porridge is on the menu but budget politics is about to get spicier

  05-12-2025 19:00 via abc.net.au
  
  How does a treasurer tell households the government will no longer continue a $300 energy rebate when it's happy to blow $100,000 on three flights?
  
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• ‘Horribly, sexually violent’: How Australia’s women leaders deal with rising abuse

  05-12-2025 19:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Women across the political spectrum are calling out the harassment that spreads online and spills into real life.
  
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