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Scott Morrison's booklet reveals recipe for a pumped-up scare campaign

Tony Wright
Tony Wright

The PM consults his new booklet on safety and security and discovers the recipe for an election scare campaign.

Franking credits policy is coming back to bite Labor

Tony Walker
Tony Walker

Whatever its merits, Labor’s attempt to put an end to a tax giveaway to people who have paid little or no tax in the first place is turning into a political liability.

The caretaker government where little care is being taken

Jacqueline Maley
Jacqueline Maley

No one in Morrison's government thinks they can win the election. Sometimes fatalism can be freeing

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Federal

Prime Minister Scott Morrison says he fears more regulation to mortgage brokers could see the sector "whither on the vine"
Interest rates

Morrison backs brokers despite warning from banking royal commission

PM backs mortgage brokers as they warn without trailing commissions the sector could be wiped out.

  • by Shane Wright and Clancy Yeates
Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd addresses the media at a doorstop interview during the launch of his book "The PM Years", at Parliament House in Canberra on Tuesday 23 October 2018. fedpol Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
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Kevin Rudd

Richard Di Natale apologises to Kevin Rudd over Q&A 'sociopath' slur

It is the second time in less than 12 months that Mr Rudd has taken issue with content published by the ABC.

  • by Latika Bourke
An Iranian refugee hospitalised in Port Moresby.
Asylum seekers

Refugees in PNG suffer from 'untreated' injuries five years after Manus Island riots

  • by Michael Koziol
Tim Wilson in Parliament House on Monday.
Franking Inquiry

Liberal MP Tim Wilson faces 'breach of privacy' claims

  • by Eryk Bagshaw
Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has been accused of presiding over a "black hole" of citizenship applications.
Immigration

'Long delays': Official audit slams Peter Dutton's department for Australian citizenship backlog

  • by Michael Koziol

NSW

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Victoria

A truck on Beaconsfield Parade.
Roads

Trucks to be banned from busy bayside road

  • by Staff reporters
Architecture

Are complaints against architects falling on deaf ears?

  • by Clay Lucas
Construction

'It strikes at your soul': building ministers agree to flammable cladding ban

  • by Benjamin Preiss

Queensland

Former Queensland assistant health minister Chris Davis has been awarded $1.4 million.
Queensland Health

Former assistant health minister Chris Davis wins $1.4 million discrimination payout

  • by Cameron Atfield
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Crime

Victims to be offered rape kits before deciding on police complaint

  • by Felicity Caldwell and Lydia Lynch
Government

Queensland will 'redefine murder' to keep child killers in jail longer

  • by Felicity Caldwell

ACT

Summernats co-owner Andy Lopez.
Planning and development

Pushing Summernats out of EPIC would be a 'shame', co-owner says

  • by Katie Burgess
Drug reform

ACT Greens to move to allow hydroponic cannabis in Canberra

  • by Daniel Burdon
China

Canberra Liberals delegation to visit China on self-funded trip

Western Australia

John Holland has rejected a $20 million offer from the government to settle a dispute over who pays for problems with the Perth Children's Hospital.
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Healthcare

State government puts $20m on the table to settle Perth Children's Hospital dispute

  • by Nathan Hondros
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Marine life

'It's a win for WA': Lobster plan killed off by state government

  • by Nathan Hondros, Jane Marwick and Hannah Barry
Fire

Quigley floats new laws to force cladding safety on private owners

  • by Nathan Hondros and Sarah Makse

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