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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• 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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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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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

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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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Pauline Hanson says reports contain ‘false allegations’ during a shambolic press conference in Victoria

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One Nation says reports that its Victorian state president

Anthony Albanese was in meeting of 49 countries to discuss key shipping route when news broke that Iran was reopening strait

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Tony Barry and Barrie Cassidy discuss the opposition leader, Angus Taylor’s, new immigration policy and why Tony sees it as a strategy to come second. They also look at Donald Trump’s stoush with the pope, Anthony Alba

Taylor painted a grim picture of migration that fits more with his tenuous political position than the state of the country

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Prime minister says Corio refinery fire will not push Australia into stage 3 restrictions, despite reduced production of petrol, diesel and aviation fuel

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Australia secures extra fertilizer and 100m extra litres of fuel, PM says

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Former MP Tom Hunt has been working for Pauline Hanson’s party in the seat of Farrer, where One Nation hopes for a game-changing breakthrough

One Nation has recruited a former UK Tory MP who is now a member of Nigel Farage’s populist right-wing p

What’s the line in the sand for Albanese to rethink the multibillion-dollar Aukus agreement? Why won’t the government implement sanctions on the US and Israel – similar to those imposed on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine? And should the Senate expan

US president told reporters he was ‘not happy with Australia because they were not there when we asked them to be there’

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Discriminating against non-citizens in Australia was until recent days a fringe approach – but Angus Taylor has taken the idea and run with it

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The defence minister insists that increases in spending did not happen because of thinktanks, retired generals ‘or washed-up bureaucrats’

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Some petrol stations may see short-term outages and energy experts warn Victorian fuel prices could spike up to 20 cents a litre

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• Australia more dependent on imports after Geelong refinery fire as Chris Bowen warns ‘this is a setback’

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Petrol production hit and full extent of damage unknown after ‘unprecedented’ fire at Viva plant in Corio

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Electoral commission to count votes in electorate of Narungga after Chantelle Thomas won the seat at the March state election

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James Paterson had called decision by One Nation to rehire Sean Black ‘absolutely extraordinary’

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Government to fund ads for helpline on pornography websites

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Appointment part of senior defence changes as navy chief Mark Hammond promoted to chief of defence force

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Experts say our preoccupation with net overseas migration figures has distracted from a more meaningful discussion on the ‘scale of temporariness’

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Australia’s foreign affairs minister says priority ‘must be to continue the ceasefire and return to negotiations’

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Australia’s foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong

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• Penny Wong calls failed peace talks between US and Iran ‘disappointing’ and urges resumption

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Catherine King says while peace talks were ‘best chance’ at lowering fuel prices, further help may be included in budget

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Human rights lawyers say NDIS workers and their clients remain at risk despite newly bolstered whistleblower protections

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