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Minister for Finance Mathias Cormann in discussion with Senator Rex Patrick in the Senate.
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Income tax

Centre Alliance seeks energy plan in exchange for tax cut support

Key Senate crossbenchers will demand the government come up with a plan to stop "abhorrent" energy price rises before supporting the Coalition's signature $158 billion income tax cuts. 

  • by Eryk Bagshaw
Scott Morrison
Mental health

PM promises $2.8m to expand mental health services to schools

  • by David Crowe
Ed Husic says Labor lagged behind the Liberal Party in digital campaigning at the most recent federal election.
Australia votes

'Let's disarm the trolls': Husic calls for fake news 'armistice'

  • by Max Koslowski
ACTU secretary Sally McManus
Industrial relations

McManus calls on union boss to apologise over Batty comments

  • by Dana McCauley
Tim Costello says if Australians saw the suffering he had witnessed overseas, they would never complain about their own circumstances.
Foreign aid

Tim Costello laments Aussies who see trip to Bali as 'fundamental human right'

  • by Nicole Hasham

Opinion & Perspectives

Not-so-clever country: more for massage tables, less for bright ideas

Shane Wright
Shane Wright

The government's preferred method of encouraging business spending won't boost the economy long term.

Wake up, Australia, before it is too late

The AFP's decision to drop a leak investigation has the unfortunate effect of strengthening the impression that the AFP is the Coalition's loyal enforcer.

Albanese's leftie leanings are an albatross around his neck

Amanda Vanstone
Amanda Vanstone

Labor has a much more credible leader, but they’re stuck with the same problems.

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Mental health

PM promises $2.8m to expand mental health services to schools

The federal government will fund a non-profit group to support youth mental health and suicide prevention education in schools.

  • by David Crowe
Ed Husic says Labor lagged behind the Liberal Party in digital campaigning at the most recent federal election.
Australia votes

'Let's disarm the trolls': Husic calls for fake news 'armistice'

Labor backbencher Ed Husic says political scare campaigns are in neither party's best interests.

  • by Max Koslowski
Minister for Finance Mathias Cormann in discussion with Senator Rex Patrick in the Senate.
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Income tax

Centre Alliance seeks energy plan in exchange for tax cut support

  • by Eryk Bagshaw
Matt Golding
Federal

Today's cartoons: The illustrated news

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Best of cartoons, June 11, 2019

NSW

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Victoria

Working on the West Gate tunnel in Footscray last week.
Infrastructure boom

Big projects, bigger bills: Massive construction boom comes at a cost

  • by Clay Lucas and Timna Jacks
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Roads

Billions more: Leaked document reveals true cost of Peninsula Link

  • by Clay Lucas and Timna Jacks
Drugs

Liberal Party Pride group pushes for pill-testing in Victoria

  • by Benjamin Preiss

Queensland

The Australian Industry Group wants the Queensland government to investigate the costs of not having daylight saving.
Queensland budget

Daylight saving study and more ambos on Queensland budget wish list

  • by Felicity Caldwell
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Queensland budget

Queensland budget: $100 million extra for state school air-conditioning

  • by Felicity Caldwell
Queensland budget

There will be challenges but Queensland budget 2019 is not 'bad news'

  • by Felicity Caldwell

Western Australia

Some of Parnpajinya's remaining Martu residents sit by the fire in the centre of the town-based reserve.
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Remote communities

Welcome to the slums on the very edge of WA's mining epicentre

  • by Marta Pascual Juanola
WA budget

WA's debt rating improves amid spat over 'domestic recession'

  • by Nathan Hondros and Hamish Hastie
Office

A fifth of Perth's office space is empty, the equivalent of 21.5 vacant office towers

  • by Nathan Hondros

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