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| UpdatedThe incredible search that revealed the father Anthony Albanese thought was dead.
Topics: family-and-children, alp, anthony-albanese, italy, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedThe Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) begins counting millions of postal and absentee votes, as both the Coalition and Labor try to make their case to form government.
Topics: federal-elections, federal-government, alp, anthony-albanese, bill-shorten, australia
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| UpdatedPrime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's $43 million Adelaide rail funding announcement is aimed at shoring up the marginal Liberal seat of Boothby where sitting member Andrew Southcott is retiring, the Federal Opposition says.
Topics: states-and-territories, government-and-politics, elections, federal---state-issues, urban-development-and-planning, federal-elections, anthony-albanese, turnbull-malcolm, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedFederal Labor frontbencher Anthony Albanese confirms he will recontest his seat of Grayndler despite speculation he would switch electorates following a significant redistribution.
Topics: anthony-albanese, electoral-system, federal-elections, government-and-politics, federal-parliament, alp, greens, annandale-2038, marrickville-2204, tempe-2044, dulwich-hill-2203, hurlstone-park-2193, camperdown-2050, newtown-2042, nsw
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| UpdatedLabor frontbencher Anthony Albanese says he voted against his leader's plan on boat turn-backs because he himself could not turn back an asylum seeker boat at sea.
Topics: anthony-albanese, alp, federal-government, refugees, australia
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| UpdatedLabor frontbencher Anthony Albanese is concerned about how the Government's new counter-terrorism laws will affect the media.
"The media laws... when we talk about potential penalties of five to 10 years' jail for exposing what might be an error made by the security agencies," Mr Albanese said.
ABC Fact Check examines whether journalists face up to 10 years' jail for exposing errors made by security agencies.
Topics: terrorism, unrest-conflict-and-war, federal-government, government-and-politics, media, information-and-communication, alp, anthony-albanese, law-crime-and-justice, australia
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| UpdatedLabor says Prime Minister Tony Abbott has conceded the fuel excise is a "carbon tax on steroids" following remarks about the scheme the PM made in the US.
Mr Abbott told US president Barack Obama the fuel excise, which the Government announced would increase in the budget, was acting like a carbon price signal.
Labor's transport spokesman Anthony Albanese seized on the Prime Minister's comments, telling the ABC Mr Abbott's remarks had exposed the truth about the scheme.
Topics: government-and-politics, political-parties, tax, climate-change, abbott-tony, anthony-albanese, obama-barack, australia, united-states
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| UpdatedOpposition transport spokesman Anthony Albanese says eight out of the world's top 10 airlines are majority government-owned.
"There's a reason why around the world national governments have carriers that they support, either directly through government ownership - and eight out of 10 are majority government-owned of the world's top 10 airlines."
Topics: air-transport, alp, federal-government, anthony-albanese, australia
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| UpdatedBill Shorten has been elected to lead the federal Labor Party, beating Anthony Albanese in a tight face-off and prompting his mother-in-law, Governor-General Quentin Bryce, to offer her resignation "to avoid any perception of bias".
Mr Shorten won the contest after recieving 52 per cent of the combined vote of caucus and rank-and-file members, who got a say in the party's leadership for the first time.
The former union boss is married to the Governor-General's daughter Chloe, whom he described in his first press conference as leader as "my most remarkable wife".
Prime Minister Tony Abbott declined to accept Ms Bryce's offer to resign, saying "I believe it is only fit and proper that she be permitted to conclude her term".
Meanwhile, Mr Albanese pledged his "total loyalty" to his new leader, saying the Government's "honeymoon" is over.
Topics: alp, political-parties, government-and-politics, anthony-albanese, bill-shorten, person, australia
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| UpdatedRorting of expenses is a big issue. In 2012 taxpayers shelled out a whopping $100 million in MP entitlements. More than a third of that was in travel expenses.
Topics: anthony-albanese, federal-government, alp, federal-parliament, australia
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The Australian Labor Party has extended the deadline for rank and file members to vote on its federal leadership.
Topics: alp, political-parties, government-and-politics, bill-shorten, anthony-albanese, australia
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| UpdatedBill Shorten and Anthony Albanese have started a month-long campaign for the Labor leadership, which for the first time will involve a ballot of party members. Here's what you had to say.
Topics: alp, political-parties, government-and-politics, anthony-albanese, australia
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| UpdatedFormer deputy prime minister Anthony Albanese will reveal to his colleagues today if he will seek the Labor leadership.
With Federal MPs last night arriving in Canberra for their first meetings since the election, Labor will open nominations for the leadership.
Bill Shorten is a confirmed candidate and has the support of right faction MPs such as Bernie Ripoll, who says Mr Shorten would make a great leader.
In the Liberals' party room, Tony Abbott will be re-endorsed as leader, a formality before he is sworn-in as Prime Minister next week.
Topics: government-and-politics, political-parties, alp, abbott-tony, anthony-albanese, canberra-2600, act, australia
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| UpdatedFederal Labor has offered to pay half the cost of a $40 million Bass Strait freight package.
Topics: agribusiness, federal-elections, sea-transport, anthony-albanese, vegetables, launceston-7250