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• Wells left car waiting for hours at NRL grand finals, costing more than $1200

  09-12-2025 02:44 via smh.com.au
  
  Sport Minister Anika Wells hired a Comcar limousine for nearly 10 hours while she attended the 2022 NRL and NRLW grand finals, with the hourly rate more than $100.
  
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• Anthony Albanese to cauterise MPs’ expenses furore as Michelle Rowland moves to repay part of family trip

  14-12-2025 06:49 via smh.com.au
  
  A fortnight into the furore over politicians’ travel, Attorney-General Michelle Rowland will repay some of a $22,000 trip to Perth.
  
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• More cuts coming as Chalmers reveals $20 billion slice to budget

  14-12-2025 06:18 via smh.com.au
  
  Jim Chalmers and Katy Gallagher will reveal $20 billion in new spending cuts and changes in the mid-year budget update as they try to bring the deficit under control.
  
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• Attorney-General Michelle Rowland to repay part of family trip to Perth

  13-12-2025 23:17 via smh.com.au
  
  A fortnight into the furore over politicians’ travel, Attorney-General Michelle Rowland will repay some of a $22,000 trip to Perth.
  
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• Netanyahu's corruption trial has become a struggle for Israel itself

  13-12-2025 19:37 via abc.net.au
  
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's backers view his corruption trial as a witch hunt — but his detractors argue it is the system finally catching up to a ruthless political operative who is prepared to do anything to hold on to power.
  
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• Netanyahu's corruption trial has became a struggle for Israel itself

  13-12-2025 19:37 via abc.net.au
  
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's backers view his corruption trial as a witch hunt — but his detractors argue it is the system finally catching up to a ruthless political operative who is prepared to do anything to hold on to power.
  
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• A fight in an underground courtroom in Tel Aviv has burst onto its streets

  13-12-2025 19:37 via abc.net.au
  
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's backers view his corruption trial as a witch hunt — but his detractors argue it is the system finally catching up to a ruthless political operative who is prepared to do anything to hold on to power.
  
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• The social media ban (probably) won’t fix our kids

  13-12-2025 19:00 via smh.com.au
  
  We all want children to have a digital-free childhood. But the ban won’t solve all their problems.
  
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• ‘Need more firepower now’: US should give Australia retired nuclear subs, says Abbott

  13-12-2025 19:00 via smh.com.au
  
  The former prime minister said Australia should prepare itself for a conflagration in the Indo-Pacific by gearing up with retiring Los Angeles-class nuclear submarines.
  
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• ‘An uneven playing field’: Supermarkets hit back at Labor’s price gouging ban

  13-12-2025 12:30 via smh.com.au
  
  Coles and Woolworths will face penalties of up to $10 million under the new rules, which will begin in July 2026.
  
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• Voters of all stripes want federal power bill subsidy to stay

  13-12-2025 09:30 via smh.com.au
  
  Households have been getting help for electricity bills for two years, and are unhappy the government has axed the $75 a quarter rebate.
  
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• Coalition accuses PM of lying over travel expenses

  13-12-2025 08:39 via smh.com.au
  
  The opposition on Saturday claimed Albanese was choosing not to change the rules after it was revealed one of his ministers had already done so this year,
  
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• Preservation trust sues Trump over White House ballroom project

  13-12-2025 02:25 via abc.net.au
  
  The lawsuit brought by preservationists is the most tangible effort so far to stop US President Donald Trump's ballroom construction plans.
   
  
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• The social media ban began and my son said something unexpected

  12-12-2025 22:00 via abc.net.au
  
  This is where we parents should remind ourselves of the power of the loving boundary: not to bind and constrain, but to properly demonstrate that we hold our kids and their safety in our mind.
  
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• My son's reaction to the social media ban was unexpected

  12-12-2025 22:00 via abc.net.au
  
  This is where we parents should remind ourselves of the power of the loving boundary: not to bind and constrain, but to properly demonstrate that we hold our kids and their safety in our mind.
  
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• When can politicians put sport or family trips on the 'company card'?

  12-12-2025 19:56 via abc.net.au
  
  A spotlight on sports minister Anika Wells prompts fresh scrutiny of the rules about the expenses politicians can claim, including to attend big-ticket sporting events and concerts.
  
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• When can politicians bill taxpayers to attend box-office events?

  12-12-2025 19:56 via abc.net.au
  
  A spotlight on sports minister Anika Wells prompts fresh scrutiny of the rules about the expenses politicians can claim, including to attend big-ticket sporting events and concerts.
  
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• How a grieving mother's letter helped Australia's social media ban come into being

  12-12-2025 19:35 via abc.net.au
  
  Key players including Anthony Albanese, Peter Dutton, Peter Malinauskas and Julie Inman-Grant tell the inside story of how an unprecedented ban came to be.
  
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• Grieving parents and horrified politicians: How Australia's social media ban happened

  12-12-2025 19:35 via abc.net.au
  
  Key players including Anthony Albanese, Peter Dutton, Peter Malinauskas and Julie Inman-Grant tell the inside story of how an unprecedented ban came to be.
  
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• Grieving parents and horrified politicians brought social ban to life

  12-12-2025 19:35 via abc.net.au
  
  Key players including Anthony Albanese, Peter Dutton, Peter Malinauskas and Julie Inman-Grant tell the inside story of how an unprecedented ban came to be.
  
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• Trump's quietly released national security strategy is illuminating

  12-12-2025 19:00 via abc.net.au
  
  When the White House quietly released its national security strategy late one night last week, it instead seemed to get lost in other news. Except, perhaps, in Europe.
  
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• Trump's quietly released national security strategy didn't escape Europe's attention

  12-12-2025 19:00 via abc.net.au
  
  When the White House quietly released its national security strategy late one night last week, it instead seemed to get lost in other news. Except, perhaps, in Europe.
  
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• 'No worse off?' Aged care reforms unleash wave of confusion and despair

  12-12-2025 19:00 via abc.net.au
  
  The reforms have unleashed a wave of confusion and despair amongst hundreds of thousands of elderly Australians, from those wanting care to those who already have it.
  
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• Money Wells spent: anatomy of an expenses scandal

  12-12-2025 19:00 via smh.com.au
  
  The expenses saga that dominated headlines this month started at a glittering event in New York, but Anika Wells’ trips and tickets had been tracked for some time.
  
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• Two million more home batteries by 2030 in $5 billion funding boost

  12-12-2025 12:30 via smh.com.au
  
  A popular rebate scheme will be rejigged in a move the government says will be fairer on people who buy smaller home batteries.
  
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• ‘His position is untenable’: Corruption watchdog boss stares down resignation demands

  12-12-2025 07:12 via smh.com.au
  
  The nation’s first federal anti-corruption commissioner is facing growing calls to resign after he became embroiled in another potential conflict of interest controversy.
  
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• Elder abuse 'under-reported' but no need for new laws, parliamentary inquiry says

  12-12-2025 05:32 via abc.net.au
  
  Elder abuse often occurs within families, with a parliamentary inquiry describing the issue as part of a wider systemic problem. 
   
  
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• Second minister referred to expenses watchdog, PM asks for advice

  12-12-2025 04:47 via smh.com.au
  
  Opposition leader Sussan Ley has written to the prime minister calling for Anika Wells to be investigated for breaching ministerial standard over the expenses scandal.
  
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• No deal: States won’t sign on to federal hospital funding offer

  12-12-2025 03:56 via smh.com.au
  
  State and territory health ministers released the report card into the “bed block crisis” as they prepared to meet their federal counterpart.
  
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• Libs consider slashing refugee intake in Coalition migration policy

  12-12-2025 03:05 via smh.com.au
  
  Sussan Ley moved quickly to release a migration policy as she faced pressure over the issue from her right flank and One Nation.
  
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