Booing by rightwing groups of Indigenous leaders giving welcome to country speeches marred ceremonies for a second year running

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Firefighters say two missing in Blue Mountains house fire are children

Back to that house fire in the Blue Mountain

The opposition leader joins others in denouncing the people who booed at Anzac Day dawn services but says he believes welcome to country acknowledgements are overused

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The health and NDIS minister, Mark Butler, says Queensland will be “answerable to their community” if they don’t sign on

Autism advocate and researcher Clem Bastow argues the inclusive world disability advocates fought so hard for is being torn apart

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Three main contenders are eyeing the Victorian state seat of Nepean, amid changing demographics and a homelessness problem

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Former Liberal party senator, who was elected to state upper house in March, says flights ‘worth every cent’

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One Nation’s South Australian leader has paid back Au

The Albanese government this week launched the most significant intervention in the disability support scheme’s history

• Labor’s NDIS cuts: here’s what we know so far

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Tony Barry and Barrie Cassidy examine health minister Mark Butler’s announcement this week that Labor will move thousands of people off the NDIS to save costs.

The Barries also discuss the economy, taxing gas gia

The major parties look like also-rans in the byelection on 9 May, with One Nation and an independent favoured to fight it out. Is this a minor curiosity, or a political earthquake?

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A poll shows most Australians think the country is either in a recession or will be soon. Economists have a different view

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Australian households were already on e

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Allegra Spender says 25% gas export tax would help fix ‘faulty’ system

Independent MP Allegra Spender

David Pocock says prime minister – who is trying to shore up fuel supplies – is parroting industry talking points

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Before his trip to Papua New Guinea for Anzac Day commemorations, the minister for veterans’ affairs and defence personnel, Matt Keogh, speaks with political editor Tom McIlroy.

Keogh discusses the government’s progress after the

Labor is well aware of the resentment from younger people who see themselves as paying for their elders while struggling to afford housing

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Who will be eligible, whether decisions can be challenged and how fraud will be weeded out are just some of the unsettled details

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NSW and Queensland governments ‘severely underdelivered’ on promised infrastructure to improve water flows, independent review finds

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• Australians ‘uneasy’ about NDIS cuts amid $53bn in new defence spending, Mark Butler concedes

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Minister tells Guardian Australia despite substantial changes to disability scheme, it will remain one of best support services ‘anywhere in the world’

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Nearly 15 years after Julia Gillard introduced the national disability insurance scheme (NDIS), the Albanese government announced the most significant reforms to the scheme on Wednesday. It’s expected the billions of budget savings will mean at least 1

Nearly 15 years after Julia Gillard introduced the national disability insurance scheme, the Albanese government announced the most significant reforms to the scheme on Wednesday. It’s expected that the billions of budget savings will mean at least 160

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The inclusive world disability advocates fought so hard for is being torn apart by ruthless, ableist bureaucracy

At times of extreme dysregulation, I turn to the safest of safe foods: a particular frozen cheeseburger that has changed its recipe o

We are less than a month out from the budget and Labor’s mooted adjustments to tax concessions for property investors have barely registered

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Announcing a major overhaul of the scheme, health minister Mark Butler said it was costing ‘too much and is growing too fast’

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Shell Australia says campaign needed to ‘counterbalance’ claims by levy advocates – but Ed Husic urges industry ‘do not spend millions defending the indefensible’

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Mark Butler said he will make ‘hard’ decisions to bring the program, which supports around 760,000 Australians with disabilities, under control

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The Albanese gover

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• Gas companies spending millions on Australian advertising blitz to fight export tax, inquiry told

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The health minister, Mark Butler, says unannounced changes to eligibility rules for the national disability insurance scheme would reduce the number of people using the scheme to about 600,000 by 2030, down from forecasts of 900,000 participants. Speak

Mark Butler’s proposed plan offers a significant opportunity to redefine the scheme for people with permanent and significant disabilities

The federal health minister, Mark Butler, outlined a plan to the National Press Club today that will reset

Liberals create negative ad campaign ahead of 9 May poll that includes a page called ‘One Nation. No Solutions’

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Health minister faces backlash from states as he announces major changes to scheme ahead of May budget

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National disability insurance scheme service providers will

Independent candidate and One Nation’s David Farley are viewed as the frontrunners in the four-cornered contest for the 9 May poll

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The Liberals and Nationals will

Party’s environment action network tells parliamentary inquiry into gas export tax to consider ‘very substantial’ levy on windfall profits

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• Labor under internal pressure on gas tax as influencer says government ‘stopped working for the punters’

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The former Treasury secretary Ken Henry offered his support for the proposal of a new gas tax during a parliamentary inquiry in Canberra examining the prospect. Henry opened his statement by saying 'I could make this very short, and simply say just

Konrad Benjamin, a former school teacher who is behind the social media account Punters Politics, tells a Senate inquiry into taxing gas that the issue has fired up his near million followers. Meanwhile the executive director of the Australia Institute

Review recommends better use of NDIS data to identify repeat rorters and a requirement for providers to register with the government

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Draft legislation for treasurer Jim Chalmers’ new instant tax deduction policy lands just over a year after Labor proposed the change in the run-up to the 2025 election

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Treasurer says capital gains changes and other tax reform still under consideration

Sticking with the budget, Chalm

End of war ‘can’t come soon enough’, treasurer says, as inflation expected to rise above 5% in Australia with global supply chains buffeted

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Government sources in multiple states say they are worried about the breadth of the changes and possible costs

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Milthorpe – a teacher and advocate for child sexual assault survivors – says city MPs have little understanding of challenges facing the regions

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The government has defended its response, citing the upcoming royal commission and work done by the Islamophobia and antisemitism special envoys

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This week, in the wake of opposition leader Angus Taylor announcing the Coalition’s new hardline immigration policy, author Yumna Kassab questions how Australia views itself and its migrants

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Former Yoorrook justice commissioner says he wants to start a national discussion on a subject that is often misunderstood by the wider public

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The Albanese government overhauled policy and promised significant pollution cuts – but carbon offsets are still being used as an excuse

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Coal Australia denies its donations to the ‘community-driven association’ amount to astroturfing, but critics accuse the group of misleading the public

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