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On ABC’s Q&A program the attorney general George Brandis spoke up for the US agreement with Australia’s to take refugees from Manus and Nauru. He said Malcolm Turnbull had a ‘difficult telephone conversation’ with Donald Trump but the president was committed to the deal. Brandis said so-called ‘extreme vetting’ of refugees by the US had always been part of the plan
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The South Australian network operator says a software problem led to load shedding of 300MW instead of the 100MW requested by national market
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Attorney general draws laughs from audience after saying anyone who received a mistaken debt notice could ring Centrelink to sort it out
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'We need leadership – quickly': first-year students on the biggest issue facing Australia
Philippa Adler, Jasper Lindell, Annie Marsh, Sarkis Gattas, Zoe Turner, Philip Brooks and Max Koslowski
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Prime minister agrees his personal 14.5kW system on the roof of his Sydney home, with battery storage, is a ‘large array’
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Cartoonist was on 19-day hunger strike over his detention and handling of complaints of sexual assault and abuse
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Josh Frydenberg says rules could allow CEFC to invest in projects that do not reduce emissions by 50% or more
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Bill Shorten says Malcolm Turnbull wants to give the big four banks ‘billions of dollars in tax giveaways’
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Grogonomics Housing affordability off the agenda again as Turnbull shirks the tax challenge
Greg JerichoDespite growing evidence of the difficulties facing first-time buyers, the Coalition looks unlikely to shift the tax system in their favour
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Survey indicates backlash against Liberal party following preference deal is highest among undecided voters
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Prime minister says he understands concerns about banking practices and action is being taken against misconduct
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The Minerals Council seems mostly intent on using its submission to electoral donations committee to kneecap environmental groups opposed to new mines
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One Nation’s assemblage of candidates are no less a grotesquerie than those who have come before. What has changed is the sea they swim in
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The intensifying political dynamics on climate policy may feed the conflict god, but the rancid partisan rivalry isn’t a bit of abstract culture war – it’s failure with real consequences
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Commonwealth Bank CEO Ian Narev says government shouldn’t rule out negative gearing changes to address issue
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Former prime minister says One Nation has changed in the 16 years since he demanded it be placed last on Liberal how-to-vote cards and deal was now ‘sensible’
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Bernie Fraser questions government’s motive to push restructure of boards of all non-profit super funds as they deliver strong returns
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Grogonomics Latest job statistics: full-time work is disappearing for women, but not for men