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• Trump doesn’t shock us any more, and that’s shocking

  27-09-2025 21:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Even world leaders are shrugging off his misogyny to travel to the US for a selfie. But at what point does allyship become complicity?
  
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• ‘I want him on board’: Hanson invites Joyce for home-cooked dinner

  18-11-2025 01:59 via smh.com.au
  
  The One Nation leader is planning to court the out-of-favour Nationals MP in the final sitting week of parliament, as her party’s popularity soars.
  
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• CBA boss wants major cut to migration level to aid home affordability

  18-11-2025 01:58 via smh.com.au
  
  The boss of the country’s biggest bank told parliament that the government should set a target to provide certainty for infrastructure planning.
  
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• Live: Wong says Laos methanol deaths investigation 'not good enough'

  17-11-2025 21:13 via abc.net.au
  
  Penny Wong has demanded "full accountability" and "transparency" from Laos over the methanol deaths of two Australian women last year. Follow live. 
  
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• Live: Parents of methanol victims launch new Schoolies alcohol awareness campaign

  17-11-2025 21:13 via abc.net.au
  
  The families of two young Australians who died after drinking methanol-laced drinks in Laos will be part of a new federal alcohol awareness campaign designed to help keep school leavers safe on their overseas travels. Follow live. 
  
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• Live: Coalition 'followed our lead' on climate and migration: Hanson

  17-11-2025 21:13 via abc.net.au
  
  One Nation leader Pauline Hanson says her party led the opposition to come out against net zero and propose a cut to migration. Follow live. 
  
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• Businesses urge Labor and Coalition to 'work together' on environmental reform

  17-11-2025 20:49 via abc.net.au
  
  The next few days are viewed as critical to landing a deal on the proposed reforms to update the EPBC Act, amid hopes the Liberals will be more motivated to bolster their environmental credentials after ditching net zero.
  
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• Farmers defy compulsory access powers to block VicGrid staff

  17-11-2025 20:45 via abc.net.au
  
  Farmers thwart VicGrid in its first attempt to use compulsory access powers to enter their properties.
  
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• Who should we blame for power price hikes?

  17-11-2025 19:37 via abc.net.au
  
  A decade and a half after an energy company CEO outlined his greatest fears for Australia's economic future — no carbon price — the nation again appears set for a renewed battle over climate policy and power generation. 
  
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• What price power? How electricity became a political weapon

  17-11-2025 19:37 via abc.net.au
  
  A decade and a half after an energy company CEO outlined his greatest fears for Australia's economic future — no carbon price — the nation again appears set for a renewed battle over climate policy and power generation. 
  
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• Here’s why next week’s killing season is probably not Ley’s final curtain

  17-11-2025 19:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Ley’s rivals for the Coalition leadership don’t want to challenge her next week, but things can move fast if there’s a trigger.
  
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• Australia’s $1 trillion tax problem fuels one battle after another. But it can be solved

  17-11-2025 19:00 via smh.com.au
  
  It’s falling apart at the seams, but there are ways to save the federation – and improve the living standards of all Australians.
  
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• BBC 'determined to fight' Trump lawsuit over documentary edit

  17-11-2025 15:55 via abc.net.au
  
  The US president says he could sue the British national broadcaster for as much as $US5 billion.
  
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• Best of cartoons, November 18, 2025

  17-11-2025 11:43 via smh.com.au
  
  The news of the day as interpreted by our talented artists, illustrators and cartoonists.
  
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• Under pressure Ley 'guarantees' she will be Coalition leader at next federal election

  17-11-2025 11:00 via abc.net.au
  
  Opposition Leader Sussan Ley may be under siege, but says she has no doubts she will remain party leader until the next federal election.
  
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• Sussan Ley offers stunning guarantee she will remain Liberal leader until next election

  17-11-2025 11:00 via abc.net.au
  
  Opposition Leader Sussan Ley may be under siege, but says she has no doubts she will remain party leader until the next federal election.
  
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• Ley offers guarantee she will be Liberal leader until election

  17-11-2025 11:00 via abc.net.au
  
  Opposition Leader Sussan Ley may be under siege, but says she has no doubts she will remain party leader until the next federal election.
  
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• Ley 'guarantees' she will lead Coalition to next election

  17-11-2025 11:00 via abc.net.au
  
  Opposition Leader Sussan Ley is under siege, but says she has no doubts she will remain party leader until the next federal election.
  
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• 'Absolutely': Ley guarantees her leadership is safe as she talks down coal

  17-11-2025 11:00 via abc.net.au
  
  Opposition Leader Sussan Ley may be under siege, but says she has no doubts she will remain party leader until the next federal election.
  
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• Rio Tinto shelves $215m green steel project after decade of development

  17-11-2025 10:31 via abc.net.au
  
  Mining giant Rio Tinto scraps a $215 million research centre and green steel project touted last year as a key staging ground for the world's net zero transition.
  
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• Payman’s office gets racist emails ‘daily’, as man sentenced over death threat to WA senator

  17-11-2025 09:40 via smh.com.au
  
  Independent Senator Fatima Payman said she accepted the court’s sentence, but believed there needed to be more deterrents for racism and hate speech, which her office continued to receive daily.
  
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• ‘We will not stand still’: Wong sets out foreign policy vision for contest with China

  17-11-2025 09:15 via smh.com.au
  
  The government is moving to strike security deals with Tonga, Fiji and Vanuatu following landmark recent agreements aimed at crimping China’s influence.
  
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• New anti-corruption boss edits controversial Japan 'soapland' rort report

  17-11-2025 08:50 via abc.net.au
  
  Western Australia's new Corruption and Crime Commissioner removes a section of a controversial report written by his predecessor about the state's former trade commissioner in Japan.
  
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• ‘Not an option’: PM puts hard word on Turkey over next year’s climate talks

  17-11-2025 06:25 via smh.com.au
  
  The prime minister’s remarks were his most definitive to date, indicating Australia would host the event on its own despite Turkey refusing to withdraw its bid.
  
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• PM issues ultimatum to Turkey on next year’s climate talks

  17-11-2025 06:14 via smh.com.au
  
  The prime minister’s remarks were his most definitive to date, indicating Australia would host the event on its own despite Turkey refusing to withdraw its bid.
  
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• Whenever I ask about Australia’s $1 trillion failure, the response is pure anger

  17-11-2025 06:01 via smh.com.au
  
  I spoke to hundreds of people about how Australia’s mishmash of local, state and federal government functions (or doesn’t). Everyone is angry about it, so what’s the solution?
  
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• Ley, scrambling to save her job, turns to Howard for help on migration - and Pauline Hanson

  17-11-2025 05:58 via smh.com.au
  
  A defiant Ley has ordered her shadow ministers to fast track a new migration policy as conservative and Nationals open up a new internal debate on population.
  
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• Qld government denies dingoes could be kept as pets under reclassification

  17-11-2025 05:25 via abc.net.au
  
  Queensland is considering changes that would remove restrictions on keeping dingoes and while the government says that will not mean people can keep them as pets, experts fear it could be an unintended outcome.
  
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• Experts say Queensland government's position on dingoes unclear

  17-11-2025 05:25 via abc.net.au
  
  Queensland is considering changes that would remove restrictions on keeping dingoes and while the government says that will not mean people can keep them as pets, experts fear it could be an unintended outcome.
  
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• Sharing COP presidency with Türkiye 'not an option', says Albanese

  17-11-2025 03:50 via abc.net.au
  
  As Chris Bowen lands in Belém with the clock ticking on a resolution, Anthony Albanese says the rules against co-presidency for the COP are clear.
  
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