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We want Assange ‘brought home to Australia’, Albanese tells Parliament
Albanese wants Assange brought home; founders plagued with poor mental health; chemists already selling vapes says Butler. Follow the latest news here.
- Tom Burton
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- Superannuation
New blow to Labor’s tax hit on super
Government plans to lift the tax rate on super accounts of more than $3 million have suffered a blow, with key Senate crossbenchers opposed to the changes.
- Phillip Coorey
‘Not tobacconists’: Pharmacists reject Labor-Greens deal on vapes
Health Minister Mark Butler on Monday backflipped on plans to mandate doctors’ prescriptions for all vape sales but said the government would still limit their sale to pharmacies.
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- Ronald Mizen
Social media ‘ripping at’ social fabric: O’Neil
The Home Affairs Minister will issue bruising criticism of social media platforms and the use of opaque algorithms to “germinate and grow” bigotry online.
- Tom McIlroy
Fruit and veg price transparency needed: Woolies
The supermarket giant says progress on an industry or government-led review into the prices paid to suppliers is overdue.
- Tom McIlroy
Sam Mostyn gets $200k pay rise
The pay rise brings the governor-general’s salary to more than $709,000 from July 1.
- Tom McIlroy
Opinion & Analysis
Assange plea deal has echoes of David Hicks
Julian Assange’s release is not the first time a US president has done such a favour for an Australian prime minister.
Political editor
Why we should pay Sam Mostyn $700k
Sam Mostyn will earn $200,000 more than her predecessor, but there has been no change to the practice of how the governor-general’s pay packet is set.
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Peter Dutton could do an Abbott with time, if not God, on his side
With his nuclear power policy threatening inner-city seats, the opposition leader’s likely path to power is over two elections.
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Dutton’s climate poll surge evokes Fightback! saga
The headline numbers confirm Peter Dutton is setting the agenda, but to stay on top he will need to prove how his nuclear plan will ease the cost of living.
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Assange plea deal has echoes of David Hicks
Julian Assange’s release is not the first time a US president has done such a favour for an Australian prime minister.
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Why we should pay Sam Mostyn $700k
Sam Mostyn will earn $200,000 more than her predecessor, but there has been no change to the practice of how the governor-general’s pay packet is set.
- Tom McIlroy
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Peter Dutton could do an Abbott with time, if not God, on his side
With his nuclear power policy threatening inner-city seats, the opposition leader’s likely path to power is over two elections.
- Aaron Patrick
Labor’s new climate chief Matt Kean says nuclear not viable
Anthony Albanese has announced Matt Kean as the next chairman of the Climate Change Authority, but again refused to commit to announcing its recommended 2035 target.
- Phillip Coorey
Kean to lead Climate Change Authority
Nuclear power would have bankrupted NSW, says Kean; authorities struggle to close down avian flu outbreak; big retailers face multibillion-dollar fines. Follow live updates here
- Tom Burton
Most readers oppose nuclear on economic, technical grounds
More than half surveyed readers oppose Peter Dutton’s plan to build nuclear reactors in Australia by 2050, citing concerns over the Liberals’ uncosted plan.
- Edmund Tadros
Pocock, Tink push for 10-year housing and homelessness plan in law
Independent ACT senator David Pocock and teal MP for North Sydney Kylea Tink want a 10-year housing and homelessness plan enshrined in legislation to create certainty.
- Ronald Mizen
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Coles, Woolies face multibillion-dollar fines under new mandatory code
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has agreed to adopt all 11 recommendations of Craig Emerson’s review into the Food and Grocery Code of Conduct.
- Ronald Mizen
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- Defamation
AMP’s royal commission executive sues The Australian newspaper
AMP’s former head of advice, “Jack” Regan, claimed an article imputed he misled ASIC and admitted to misleading ASIC during the Hayne banking royal commission.
- Ronald Mizen
Keating labels Dutton ‘a charlatan and climate change denialist’
The former prime minister accused the Coalition leader of seeking to “camouflage” his “long held climate denialism” in an industrial fantasy of nuclear energy.
- Ronald Mizen
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Election countdown: Labor has plenty of laws to pass before voting day
With the election due within 12 months, Labor ministers privately concede that some policies could be pushed back into a likely second term.
- Ronald Mizen
David Rowe cartoons for June 2024
David Rowe is a multiple Walkley award-winning cartoonist. He draws a daily political cartoon and one for the Chanticleer column.
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Crash hits army’s multimillion-dollar drone program
An army drone crashed soon after take-off in a test flight after losing communications with operators.
- Andrew Tillett
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Labor’s $40b renewables bid attracts massive industry support
Energy Minister Chris Bowen will on Monday reveal the first auction for 6 gigawatts of renewable energy received bids from more than 100 projects covering more than 40 gigawatts of renewable energy production.
- Ronald Mizen
Ukraine launches drone attack on Russia’s Bryansk region
Russia destroyed 12 Ukrainian drones that had targeted the Bryansk region; the Coalition pledges to reveal the cost of its nuclear energy policy. Follow updates here.
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- Lois Maskiell
Dutton promises back-to-basics economic plan
Peter Dutton says the coalition would simplify the definition of a casual worker in a wide-ranging policy speech on Saturday.
- Savannah Meacham
Online lectures at double speed: what uni is really like in 2024
Domestic students are being held back and international students aren’t getting what they need, says one expert. Universities know this. Why aren’t they doing more?
- Gus McCubbing and Julie Hare
What Australia’s busiest sleepy town really thinks about nuclear
From a failing coal mine being propped up by the WA government to keep the lights to Australia’s biggest battery being built by Brookfield takeover target Neoen there is a lot going on in Collie.
- Brad Thompson
AUKUS nuclear waste no help for Dutton plan: Labor
Any high-level dump for spent nuclear material from AUKUS submarines will be too late for an opposition energy plan, Defence Minister Richard Marles says.
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- Tom McIlroy
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Dutton’s climate poll surge evokes Fightback! saga
The headline numbers confirm Peter Dutton is setting the agenda, but to stay on top he will need to prove how his nuclear plan will ease the cost of living.
- Laura Tingle
