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Morning Mail: rental nightmares, new anti-fraud tool for banks, Labor strong in post-budget poll

Renters report evictions and repair delays, Albanese retains strong voter approval in Guardian Essential poll, banks target scammers

The Guardian - AU

Guardian Essential poll: Labor maintains large lead over Coalition despite budget failing to impress voters

Anthony Albanese records strong approval of his performance as prime minister, but the budget fails to impress those surveyed

The Guardian - AU

Warragamba Dam walls may need to be raised for ‘safety reasons’ despite Labor’s vow to drop plan

Exclusive: Controversial plan to raise wall at Sydney’s main reservoir threatens to spill over into Minns government’s first term

The Guardian - AU

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Australia ‘diminished’: Penny Wong’s frenetic mission to repair regional ties

Exclusive: As Wong marks one year in the job, the foreign affairs minister is determined to make a ‘clear statement of our priorities in the region’

The Guardian - AU

Labor’s cashless welfare bill criticised as disproportionately affecting First Nations people

Critics claim the bill could see government further expand income management policies

The Guardian - AU

Dutton reheats ‘Big Australia’ scare — but the housing crisis predates Labor’s win

The opposition leader knows well that his rhetoric is hypocritical because his quoted numbers are the same as when he was immigration minister.

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PM questions migration attacks – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU

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Albanese's ratings improve in a post-budget Newspoll; left to control NSW upper house

A federal Newspoll, conducted May 11-13 from a sample of 1,516, is the first poll taken since the May 9 budget. It gave Labor a 55-45 lead, a one-point gain for the Coalition since the previous Newspoll, three weeks ago. Primary votes were 38% Labor (steady), 34% Coalition (up one),…

The Conversation

Ace up Albo’s sleeve

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese finds gambling ads during the footy ‘annoying’ and says he’s already set up a review into sports betting, and the cost of sending your child to school has grown faster than most household bills.

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From jobseeker to vaping: which of Labor’s budget measures are likely to pass parliament?

While some government changes don’t require legislation, others will involve a fight – and battle lines are being drawn

The Guardian - AU

Albanese expresses personal dislike for gambling ads during sporting events as pressure builds for ban

Peter Dutton has proposed betting advertising be restricted but prime minister says review into the issue is under way

The Guardian - AU

Labor accuses Coalition of playing politics over changes to secretive intelligence committee

Opposition says plan to include crossbenchers in committee is ‘part of a grubby back-room political deal’

The Guardian - AU

Jim Chalmers refuses to rule out Coalition's proposal to increase JobSeeker income free threshold

Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers has refused to rule out the Coalition's proposal to increase the JobSeeker income free threshold, but Social Services Minister Amanda Rishworth has dismissed it as a "thought bubble with no substantive analysis behind it".

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Australians who lost welfare under 1990s student loan scheme have cause for class action, expert says

Andrew Grech says action could be pursued if implications of SFSS loans were misrepresented to people when they signed up

The Guardian - AU

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Voice to Parliament court saga offering echoes of the Indigenous rights battles around Mabo, Wik decisions

A deep divide has arisen over the High Court and role it could play over a Voice to Parliament. For some, it's raising echoes of past Indigenous rights battles, writes Elizabeth Byrne.

The Guardian - AU

Peter Dutton’s budget reply had one good idea … and three big stinkers

Labor may feel pressure to do more on sports betting, but beyond that, the Coalition’s budget reply was defined more by a lack of ideas

ABC News

Security stoush over changes to parliament's intelligence committee with accusations of 'grubby political deal'

Greens MPs and other crossbenchers could soon join parliament's high-powered intelligence committee under proposed government changes which the opposition warns will increase the risk of classified material leaking.

ABC News

Labor-led Voice committee endorses the government's proposed referendum wording

The committee has spent six weeks travelling the country holding hearings into the proposed wording. It wants the parliament to pass the referendum legislation without any changes.

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$40.4m for 46 schools in central Australia but how far will that stretch?

The federal government is putting money towards education in central Australia. The consensus is it’s welcome, but it’s not enough.

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Dutton’s budget reply wasn’t a dog-whistle — it was more like a klaxon

The opposition leader is certainly no orator, but he what he’s exceptionally good at is low politics.

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Dutton drops the nuclear bomb

In his budget reply speech, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton pushed nuclear as a ‘sensible’ part of Australia’s energy mix, and bracket creep will eat into the pay packets of middle-income earners in 2024-25.

The Conversation

Grattan on Friday: Peter Dutton warns of threat to 'working poor' in budget reply lacking a big picture

Peter Dutton needed to sketch a big picture in his Thursday night budget reply – to look like an alternative prime minister. He failed to do so.

The New Daily

Dutton showcases policy brain in ambitious budget reply

With his agenda on the table, Mr Dutton mounted an attack on the budget and the Albanese government’s Big Australia approach.

The Guardian - AU

Budget reply speech 2023: Peter Dutton withholds support for jobseeker boost and doubles down on migration attacks

Opposition leader calls for increase to income-free threshold and claims ‘Big Australia approach’ will inflame cost-of-living pressures

ABC News

Greens and Senate unite to kick $10 billion Housing Australia Future Fund to the long grass

The Greens and Coalition have joined forces in a move that kicks Labor's $10 billion housing policy into the long grass, leaving the government's plans at a major road block.

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