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Taiwan says it will discuss with US how to use new funding
The funding is part of the US’ $148 billion security package for Taiwan, Ukraine and Israel; Peter Dutton says the opposition will unveil its full nuclear energy policy in due course. Here’s how the morning unfolded.
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- Lois Maskiell
Musk’s X operating ‘above the law’: Dutton
Both sides of federal politics have pledged tougher action against social media giants spreading distressing and inflammatory content.
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- Tom McIlroy
Higgins says ‘time to heal’ and ‘sorry’ to Reynolds, Brown
Brittany Higgins extended an olive branch to her former employer Senator Linda Reynolds and her chief of staff Fiona Brown, in her first comments after the judgment.
- Ronald Mizen
Can you job-share a seat in Parliament? These two women want to try
Lucy Bradlow and Bronwen Bock want voters to elect them together to represent the inner-Melbourne electorate of Higgins.
- Tom McIlroy
Iran claims small drones used in attacks
US media report Israeli missile attack on Iran; explosions appear to be limited and targeted; Australian government officials and their dependants posted in Iran have been directed not to travel outside of Tehran. Follow live here.
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- Tom Burton
David Rowe cartoons for April 2024
David Rowe is a multiple Walkley award-winning cartoonist. He draws a daily political cartoon and one for the Chanticleer column. You can see all of his political cartoons for April 2024 here.
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- David Rowe
Opinion & Analysis
Hearings shouldn’t be McCarthy-like blood sport
The Greens’ cheapening of the purpose of parliament’s power to compel witnesses to appear is too galling for Australian business to remain silent.
‘Violence is coming from the edge’: Sydney’s horror week
The local playing out of foreign conflicts and tensions is also behind a national mood of alarm following 50 hours of horror in Sydney.
Senior writer
Women know the true power of Justice Lee’s finding
It wasn’t just about one rape in Canberra. It is a pattern of male behaviour lamented by all politicians but which continues just the same.
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Why so many younger men are so angry
Australia’s ‘crisis of male violence against women’ reflects a growing gender divide triggered by alienation and resentment, researchers say.
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Hearings shouldn’t be McCarthy-like blood sport
The Greens’ cheapening of the purpose of parliament’s power to compel witnesses to appear is too galling for Australian business to remain silent.
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- Geoff Culbert and Bran Black
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‘Violence is coming from the edge’: Sydney’s horror week
The local playing out of foreign conflicts and tensions is also behind a national mood of alarm following 50 hours of horror in Sydney.
- Andrew Clark
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Twenty minutes of terror inside Westfield Bondi Junction
Witnesses have recounted the terrifying period when Joel Cauchi murdered six people in a busy shopping centre in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.
- Gus McCubbing, Les Hewitt and Campbell Kwan
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- Sexism
Women know the true power of Justice Lee’s finding
It wasn’t just about one rape in Canberra. It is a pattern of male behaviour lamented by all politicians but which continues just the same.
- Laura Tingle
Labor ‘determined’ to halve record post pandemic immigration
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said multiculturalism needs to be carefully nurtured.
- Tom McIlroy
The ‘frightening discussion’ Australia needs to have about China
Defence experts are urging the Albanese government to canvass how the civilian population and industry could be mobilised on a war footing.
- Andrew Tillett
‘At the end of the day, we’re Aussies’: Assyrians assess church attack
For Sydney’s tight-knit Assyrian community, Monday’s terrorist attack in a church was confronting and triggering for a long-persecuted people.
- Max Mason
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Why so many younger men are so angry
Australia’s ‘crisis of male violence against women’ reflects a growing gender divide triggered by alienation and resentment, researchers say.
- Emma Connors
Inside Chris Minns’ week of terror in Sydney
The NSW premier was on the first day of a planned family break when an attack unfolded at Bondi. His week was about to get much worse.
- Samantha Hutchinson
ASX’s three-month low; Chalmers backs subsidies; Macquarie’s $10m fine
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
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Business slams class action lawfare firms
Business groups warn shareholders could be hit with billions of dollars in lawsuits backed by deep pocketed hedge fund investors under the Albanese government’s free-for-all class action setting.
- Ronald Mizen
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Delay to environment reforms shows what WA wants, WA gets
The decision to delay reform of federal environmental laws underscores the stranglehold the resources states have on the next election.
- Phillip Coorey
Taxing judges’ pensions bad for independence, women
A former Federal Court chief justice says the reforms were likely unconstitutional and would stymie efforts to improve the number of women on the bench.
- Hannah Wootton
Dutton faces Liberal pushback over ‘big stick’ supermarket powers
Opposition MPs have warned against any move that could undermine the Coalition’s free market economic credentials.
- Tom McIlroy
Legitimate to question Higgins’ $2.4m compo: Liberals
The opposition says it is legitimate to question Brittany Higgins’ payout given Justice Michael Lee found there was no political cover-up of her rape.
- Phillip Coorey
Relief in sight as anger over student debt escalates
Rising student debt is crippling a generation of recent graduates, but the Prime Minister has indicated help is on the way.
- Julie Hare
‘It’s going to take time’: Bondi mourns as retail goes into limbo
Westfield Bondi Junction was silent on Thursday as its doors opened to the public for the first time, five days after a stabbing attack that killed six people.
- Campbell Kwan
Navy, RAAF face cuts to pay for $330b in new weapons
While the government touts its $330 billion new weapons blueprint, concerns are being raised about programs that have been scrapped.
- Andrew Tillett
Mourners pay tribute to Bondi victims as shopping centre reopens
People have gathered at Westfield Bondi Junction in the eastern suburbs to pay tribute to the six people murdered last weekend. How the day unfolded.
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- Gus McCubbing and Andrew Hobbs
Truth-telling risks inflaming community conflict: report
Amid heightened scrutiny on community cohesion, a new report says 60 per cent of Indigenous Australians have major concerns about a Makaratta process.
- Tom McIlroy
