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  1. 7 hours ago

    There's a creeping belief that Warringah is a two-horse race between Tony Abbott and Zali Steggall, but independent candidate Susan Moylan-Coombs specialises in things that are often overlooked.

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  2. 22 hours ago

    Now, based on one poll, Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party has been deemed the new disruptor set to dictate terms to the major parties and even secure the balance of power.

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  3. Apr 26

    Last week’s jobs data showed unemployment steady, though the historically strong growth of recent quarters appeared to weaken a bit. But this week’s CPI data was the plot twist — it not merely didn’t rise, it fell.

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  4. Apr 26

    The dignity of private reflection has never been the case for us on Anzac Day. The silence I would like to afford the dead was shattered from the start.

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  5. Apr 26

    From the Crikey grapevine, it’s the latest tips and rumours…

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  6. Apr 26

    Unfortunately it seems advertising on Facebook in Australia for political purposes is still a 2016 US election-esque case of “catch me if you can”.

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  7. Apr 26

    “This guy’s great I thought, nursing a $7 half-pint, feeling John Wren turn slowly in his grave. He’s going to destroy his Greens opponent.”

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  8. Apr 26

    The ABC is the only Australian outlet with a correspondent in the Pacific. Have we stopped caring about our closest neighbours? And if so, why?

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  9. Apr 25

    The Reserve Bank has been watching unemployment closely to decide if interest rates needed to be cut. But now, inflation has thrown a spanner in the works by falling in the March quarter, reflecting a weakening economy.

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  10. Apr 25

    “War is human history’s hardest labour and to every worker ever drawn or forced to do it, my sincere and sober respects. I offer these because, goodness me, Anzac Day just keeps on ballsing up its one job of the year.” writes

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  11. Apr 25

    “I’m trying to help them decolonise their thinking, but it’s like I’m speaking a foreign language. People hear it, but they don’t… get it.”

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  12. Apr 25

    Clive Palmer's technique is a last-minute ad blitz that has shifted votes before and could do it again.

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  13. Apr 25

    Good morning, early birds. Both the Liberals and Labor are set to announce a host of family violence, social service and sporting packages today and Joe Biden has declared his candidacy for 2020. It's the news you need to know:

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  14. Apr 25

    “The viability of the Bradfield Scheme as an irrigation plan has been dismissed many times by experts over the past 80 years. The scheme has been rebutted on scientific, engineering and economic grounds.”

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  15. Apr 24

    “It’s been two years since Clive Palmer turned his social media presence into a bizarre meme factory. It’s unsurprising, then, that the mining-magnate turned politician is leading this election on the meme front.” writes

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  16. Apr 24

    Labor says the election will be a referendum on wages, but so far has proposed little that will make a material difference for workers stuck with stagnant incomes.

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  17. Apr 24

    Can Dr Brian Owler cure what ails Labor in Bennelong? And will his climate change message cut through in a diverse electorate?

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  18. Apr 24

    The youth enrolment rate is at the highest level ever at around 88%, but experts are uncertain what this indicates.

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  19. Apr 24

    “Labor’s 'referendum on wages' so far is a lot of talk and little in the way of substance.”

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  20. Apr 24

    “Bill Shorten: once the hyperkinetic figure of youthful Labor, now as ancient and steeped in tradition as a moth-eaten banner for the Amalgamated Slurryists and Frittlers hanging in a Trades Hall glass case.”

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