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How is it that Australians can call so strongly for action on gambling advertising and the major parties fail so comprehensively to listen?

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Triptorelin, already listed for prostate cancer, should have unrestricted use, the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee says

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New South Wales will become the first state to undertake Australia’s biggest gun buyback in 30 years in a jointly funded scheme in response to the Bondi beach terror attack. The move has been welcomed by many, but has also been met with opposition from

Investment experts say early withdrawal can substantially reduce retirement funds, but they suggest reducing contribution rates

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David Pocock says legislation still includes ‘indiscriminate cut’ impacting thousands of participants but will pass lower house on Wednesday

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All the days news as it unfolded

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Chalmers calls gambling amendments ‘very substantial changes’

Treasurer Jim Chalmers says

Former Ibac head welcomes potential change that could capture actions that currently cannot be used to make corrupt findings

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Ben Carroll has committed to changing

Labor’s legislation to restrict gambling ads is set to pass this week, with the Greens calling the agreement ‘cowardly’

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Two Coalition MPs have crossed the floor a

Since 2018, the New South Wales city of Armidale has been a designated site for resettling refugees. It's a town that sits within the electorate of Barnaby Joyce. While Joyce was a key voice supporting Armidale's establishment as a refugee rese

Author Adam Johnson criticises Waverley council saying ‘reality is often upsetting’ while Palestinian group says libraries should hold ‘challenging’ books

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Spending on aged pension will be stable for decades to come, experts argue, despite claims by Bragg and Hanson

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Is Australia’s superannuation system “one of the bi

Coalition leader tells Anthony Albanese that delaying change to budget measure is ‘unconscionable’

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Angus Taylor says the Coalition will only support the Albanese

The new measure falls short of calls for gambling ads to move to an opt-in model, or for an outright ban

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• Labor pledges opt-out register for online gambling ads akin to Do Not Call register for spam calls

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Hume says housin

East Arnhem Land is one of the last strongholds of Aboriginal culture in Australia, home to the Yolngu people who maintain one of the oldest continuous cultures on Earth. The land is fully owned and managed by traditional owners under inalienable Abori

Exclusive: Guardian analysis finds one section of report includes links to academic articles that do not exist, but authors deny the references were made up by AI

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The Greens senator makes an impassioned plea for the government and Coalition not to go ahead with the legislation and says the cuts are 'unnecessary'. Jordon Steele-John accuses the government of preferring to back the gas exporters instead of

With gambling, the news bargaining incentive and NDIS reform all set to pass, the PM needs to get the focus off fruit and on to policy

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After securing wage rises for low-paid workers, weathering death threats and working with three PMs – the ACTU secretary is ready for a break

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Discussions to focus on Australia’s acquisition of Mogami-class frigates as Japan plays down Albanese’s podcast comments

Japan’s defence minister will visit Canberra this week, the highest level engagement with Australia after controversy over An

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Anthony Albanese has just been speaking alongside the New South Wales premier, Chris Minns, about the st

Albanese and Minns said buyback would begin in two phases from 2 November, with state and commonwealth to split costs

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Labor has always had a divided soul over immigration. Now it faces a predicament as it looks to hold on to suburban and regional seats

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Federal parliament has returned from winter break with a frenetic start to the second half of the political year. There were days of commentary and squirming over ‘melon-gate’ and, with Labor planning to make a deal with the Coalition to pass gambling

‘There’s male, there’s female, and then there’s mental illness,’ Tyron Whitten says on YouTube show

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Partners say they ‘don’t recall’ leaked papers and are accused by lawyers of being misleading as more whistleblowers come forward

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Senior colleagues dismiss Bragg’s migration figures as ‘personal views’ while others say critical response is an ‘overreaction’

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The Liberal senator Andrew McLachl

From Maga to Hungary’s Fidesz and Australia’s One Nation, politics is returning to its oldest question: what makes a life worth living? And liberalism needs a credible answer

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The Productivity Commission has picked apart Scott Morrison’s 2018 GST deal that gives Western Australia an outsized share of revenue. But there is no prospect of government action

Anyone who knows Saul Eslake will tell you the respected economis

Barrie Cassidy and Tony Barry look at Liberal senator Andrew Bragg’s speech this week in which he outlined his plan to solve the housing crisis – a plan that doesn’t have the support of his own party.

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Cabinet colleagues say the veteran politician’s carriage of the NDIS firestorm shows his political judgement and collaborative style

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On the day the health ministe

Greens say Labor’s reform set to ‘rip life-changing supports away from disabled people instead of raising additional revenue through taxing gas exports’

Cross-benchers have slammed the Albanese government’s proposed overhaul of the NDIS as going

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Albanese says gambling inducements are ‘over the top’

Albanese said gambling inducements are “over the top and nee

Interim report calls for carve-up deal that has only benefited Western Australia to be ‘reshaped’ as it has achieved almost none of its objectives

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Federal parliament has returned from winter break with a frenetic start to the second half of the political year. There were days of commentary and squirming over ‘melon-gate’ and, with Labor planning to make a deal with the Coalition to pass gambling

Shizuoka Crown melons are part of an important cultural gifting practice in Japan, where they are hand-patted by growers to achieve an even shape and texture

The melons at the centre of a national imbroglio involving the Australian prime minister

Fortnightly household waste collections are increasingly considered best practice – but the leader of the opposition argues they’re ‘disgusting’

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Exclusive: The videos, filmed at anti-One Nation rallies, were posted to party’s social pages and appear to be endorsed by Pauline Hanson

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In 1998, when I was in year 11, my friends and I wagged school to protest against the One Nation leader. Now my daughter has joined the school walkout

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At lunchtim

Foreign affairs minister and first Asian-Australian to serve in federal cabinet to use Lowy Institute address to criticise politicians stoking racial divisions

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Elbridge Colby, a US under secretary of war, says he is ‘very pleased’ with the nuclear submarine program’s progress

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Elbridge Colby, the third-highest-ranking off

High schoolers join university walkouts in major cities and several smaller locations amid urge to fight against racism

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They came yelling chants that “racists” we

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Legislation forcing tech companies to pay for Australian journalism to be introduced

The government will today intr

Angus Taylor cautions NSW senator for diverging from policy in National Press Club speech as Nationals warn against changes to working holiday visas

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Nationals MP Pat Conaghan has made a fiery speech in the House of Representatives about gambling reforms. He referred to parliamentary inquiry findings earlier in the month, where the former rugby league star Luke Bateman alleged that gambling company

Rio Tinto makes power supply deal with federal and NSW government to cut emissions and decarbonise, preventing potential closure

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Labor has shown what a government can do to improve housing affordability, exposing how pathetic previous attempts had been

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For the first time in 25 years, an Au

After allegations that some betting companies provided gamblers with drugs and sex workers as enticements to keep wagering, pressure to act on gambling reform has mounted from all sides.

And this week it seems Anthony Albanese is edging closer to

Proposal to cut building costs by scrapping the construction code would increase bills for the poorest households, critics say

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