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• Three key policies up for debate at Labor’s national conference

  19-07-2026 09:35 via smh.com.au
  
  The government will consider a change to energy policy that would save $2.5 billion a year while debating Labor’s stance on the Israeli government.
  
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• What does Australia mean to you in 2026? Now's your chance to speak up

  19-07-2026 21:01 via abc.net.au
  
  Sulaiman Zandinan says Australia is amazing. Wendy Newman says people in the bush are "not country bumpkins". The ABC is inviting you to have Your Say about the issues, challenges and opportunities that shape your life in 2026.
  
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• For some in Australia, hope is fading and anger is rising

  19-07-2026 21:01 via abc.net.au
  
  Sulaiman Zandinan says Australia is amazing. Wendy Newman says people in the bush are "not country bumpkins". The ABC is inviting you to have Your Say about the issues, challenges and opportunities that shape your life in 2026.
  
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• The 18 important medicines that Australians are missing out on

  19-07-2026 21:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Pharmaceutical companies warn Australia’s complex approvals process is turning off drug companies, as the Trump administration stokes global pricing pressures.
  
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• Labor is trying to fix a ‘broken’ economic system. Now it must keep going

  19-07-2026 21:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Are the recent budget changes a sign of things to come – or just a pause before lapsing back into caution?
  
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• Australia is making humanoid robots in the midst of its AI reckoning

  19-07-2026 21:00 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia this week made an important step forward in grappling with the AI revolution. Meanwhile, in Melbourne a company is making humanoid robots. 
  
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• Pauline Hanson 'not backing away' from controversial far-right interview

  19-07-2026 16:23 via abc.net.au
  
  The One Nation leader was a guest on the podcast of controversial far-right UK figure Tommy Robinson, where she lamented the end of the White Australia policy.
  
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• Five key takeaways from Pauline Hanson’s Spotlight special

  19-07-2026 15:44 via smh.com.au
  
  Pauline Hanson said she loved the idea of mass deportations and suggested Tommy Robinson would be welcome in Australia if she became PM.
  
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• Mass deportations, no regrets: what we learned from Hanson’s TV special

  19-07-2026 14:50 via smh.com.au
  
  Pauline Hanson said she loved the idea of mass deportations and suggested Tommy Robinson would be welcome in Australia if she became PM,
  
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• How changes to self-managed super funds are driving new property fears

  19-07-2026 14:30 via smh.com.au
  
  The budget contained a string of measures aimed at the property market. But builders believe one that affects self-managed super funds will hurt construction.
  
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• Labor’s duty of care policy will extend to big AI firms. Here’s what it means

  19-07-2026 14:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Labor wants to appear front-footed ahead of the party’s national conference, when activists will seek AI intervention.
  
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• Best of cartoons, July 20, 2026

  19-07-2026 12:51 via smh.com.au
  
  The news of the day as interpreted by our talented artists, illustrators and cartoonists.
  
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• When Hanson’s supporters examine all her policies, what they find could ‘horrify’ them

  19-07-2026 05:53 via smh.com.au
  
  Even Hanson’s “devotees” may think twice about voting for her after reading the fine print.
  
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• In 1947, the census asked if you had a flushing toilet. This is what it will ask this year

  19-07-2026 04:52 via smh.com.au
  
  Every five years, Australia goes through a national headcount. Seven years of planning has gone into the August 11 census.
  
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• Some of WA's key policies are up in the air with minister's resignation

  19-07-2026 03:59 via abc.net.au
  
  Residents in WA's north have been left with a slew of unanswered questions relating to crime and justice in the wake of long-serving WA government minister Paul Papalia's resignation.
  
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• Senior Liberal rubbishes Abbott's 'failed' multiculturalism claim

  19-07-2026 03:46 via abc.net.au
  
  Senator Andrew Bragg says he "strongly" disagrees with the recently elected Liberal Party president, who claims diversity is "not a strength". 
  
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• Interview with Andrew Bragg

  19-07-2026 02:57 via abc.net.au
  
  Patricia Karvelas interviews Shadow Housing Minister Andrew Bragg on multiculturalism, Pauline Hanson’s stance on transgender people’s rights, AI, negative gearing, housing prices and immigration. 
  
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• Future of AI

  19-07-2026 02:57 via abc.net.au
  
  Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced a new policy framework to address concerns about AI. 
  
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• The strange case of One Nation’s ‘living soul’, Malcolm Roberts

  18-07-2026 22:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Long before Malcolm Roberts became a One Nation senator, he was referring to himself as a “living soul” and arguing he wasn’t required to obey Australian laws.
  
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• Millions of solar panels go to landfill. Why aren’t they recycled?

  18-07-2026 21:00 via smh.com.au
  
  The federal government has been slammed for allowing an “indefinite delay” to in its push to reuse the valuable components that currently are junked.
  
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• Hanson risks losing everyday Australians while busy with the richest

  18-07-2026 21:00 via abc.net.au
  
  Many voters are unhappy with the hand they feel successive governments have dealt them and no-one has tapped into that better than Pauline Hanson.
  
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• Hanson faces rough political seas beyond the Mediterranean

  18-07-2026 21:00 via abc.net.au
  
  Many voters are unhappy with the hand they feel successive governments have dealt them and no one has tapped into that better than Pauline Hanson.
  
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• Egalitarianism faces a new threat, and it may be too late to stop it

  18-07-2026 21:00 via smh.com.au
  
  With artificial intelligence invading every aspect of our lives, the only guiding political principle now is that nothing is certain.
  
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• Countdown begins for the census. Fingers crossed it goes well

  18-07-2026 21:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Every five years, Australia goes through a national headcount. Seven years of planning has gone into the August 11 census.
  
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• Albanese’s Labor has created a fortress in Canberra. Some within the party don’t like it

  18-07-2026 05:45 via smh.com.au
  
  Labor’s national conference will take place late next week. It’s a far cry from the event it once was.
  
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• Albanese once took on his own frontbench. Now he’s in charge, that would never happen

  18-07-2026 05:45 via smh.com.au
  
  Labor’s national conference will take place late next week. It’s a far cry from the event it once was.
  
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• Government baulks at removing religious motivation from terror laws in Islamophobia response

  18-07-2026 04:43 via smh.com.au
  
  The government has overlooked some of the most contentious recommendations to tackle Islamophobia.
  
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• Regulating AI is like catching smoke, warns Christopher Pyne

  17-07-2026 23:00 via abc.net.au
  
  Former Defence Minister Christopher Pyne tells David Lipson artificial intelligence is the most significant development since the nuclear weapon.
  
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• Nothing artificial about Albanese’s intelligent intervention, and the urgency is real

  17-07-2026 21:00 via smh.com.au
  
  The PM’s first high-level attempt to set out the principles that will be imposed on the AI revolution by Australia has won praise at home and, crucially, in the US.
  
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• Malcolm Roberts falsely claimed COVID-19 vaccines caused miscarriages

  17-07-2026 20:55 via abc.net.au
  
  The One Nation senator made the previously unreported remarks during a live stream discussion with three prominent Australian anti-vaccine mandate activists.
  
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