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High stakes: who’s leading the fight against Labor’s CGT reform – and what’s in it for them?

Tax critics turn to AI memes and airport billboards in addition to traditional lobbying tactics. Here’s what you need to know about them

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Stolen Generations still paying price of forced removal

The many thousands of Indigenous children who were forcibly removed from their families from 1910 to 1970 are being remembered as part of National Sorry Day.

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Australia has had 7 prime ministers this century. For incumbents it’s been like riding a tiger

How do we sum up the performance of the seven individuals who have led Australia this century? At least two preliminary observations are relevant.

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'Time has come': Shorten backs budget's broken promise

After unsuccessfully campaigning on negative gearing changes while Labor leader, Bill Shorten says he would welcome a policy shift in the federal budget.

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Rove McManus: ‘My most memorable interaction with a fan? I was asked to sign a baby’

The former chatshow host and Taskmaster Australia contestant on his nemesis, the celebrity interaction he’s still cringing over and his deep dislike of Gogglebox

The Guardian - AU

Australians will call ‘bullshit’ on green energy without clear benefits, Rudd warns

Former prime minister says policies will lose support without continued lower prices but sees some hope in US experience under Trump

The Guardian - AU

The times seem to suit Anthony Albanese. So why isn’t he more popular?

The times might be bad, but they have suited Anthony Albanese. The explosions on the political right since the 2025 election have, in electoral terms, resulted so far mainly in a rearrangement of debris between the Coalition and One Nation.

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The carbon tax debate damaged Julia Gillard’s leadership – and good climate policy for years to come

Carbon pricing and the Gillard government are fused together like molten glass in the memory of all those who witnessed the traumatic and consequential policy and political drama surrounding it.

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WorkChoices helped end John Howard’s leadership. The policy’s ghost still haunts the Liberals

WorkChoices marked one of the great turning points of the Howard era. It accelerated the unravelling of a decade-long Coalition government, handed Labor a potent election weapon, and led the most successful union campaigns in modern Australian political history.

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China spy asset complained to Penny Wong about raid

A businessman who worked with two suspected Chinese spies told Foreign Minister Penny Wong that domestic intelligence agents crossed a line by raiding his home

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Mum sobs as Chinese spy asset loses bid to stay on bail

A man groomed by two suspected members of Chinese intelligence has been jailed before sentencing as sheriffs tried to console his distraught mother.

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China spy status queried in foreign interference trial

A man accused of grooming an Australian businessman for Chinese intelligence may only have been a young post-graduate going off on a frolic, a jury has heard.

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As Albanese celebrates 30 years in parliament, what would the leftwing warrior of 1996 think of today’s PM?

He was once a ‘scrappy’ young firebrand and is now the longest-serving member in the Labor caucus. But Anthony Albanese’s journey to the top was not always a sure thing

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'Never': Rudd denies talking to accused Chinese asset

Former prime minister Kevin Rudd was sent one email from a man accused of working for Chinese intelligence but says he never received or responded to it.

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Accused China asset 'fabricated' Rudd reports for cash

Former prime minister Kevin Rudd was asked for advice about Australian defence and security by a businessman "groomed" by Chinese spies, a jury has heard.

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Every Australian Name We Know About In The Jeffrey Epstein Files So Far

A running list of every Australian figure named so far in the Jeffrey Epstein files and what the documents actually say.

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Slow moving crash: the anatomy of a Liberal coup

Angus Taylor resoundingly succeeded in rolling Sussan Ley for the Liberal leadership in a contest expected to be tight but the saga was far from edifying.

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Hard reality of reconciliation on apology anniversary

There remains a long way to go for Indigenous reconciliation as racism continues to fester, almost two decades on from the apology to the Stolen Generations.

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The Guardian - AU

Valerie and her siblings were taken from their mother and placed in institutions during Australia’s Stolen Generations. Two didn’t survive

One hundred survivors and their descendants gathered in Canberra this week to mark the 18th anniversary of the apology

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Inside Epstein's efforts to influence elites, from U.K. to Russia and beyond

Breaking down his contacts with foreign officials, royals and elites.

The Guardian - AU

Epstein files reveal Peter Mandelson supported campaign to undermine then-Australian PM Kevin Rudd’s mining super profits tax

Former UK Labour minister wrote ‘pressure needs to be maintained’ against Australian Labor’s proposed tax in email sent two weeks before Rudd was replaced as PM

AAP

Former PM denies meeting as Epstein files released

A former Australian prime minister has been named in newly released documents on Jeffrey Epstein, but he says those diary entries can't be taken on face value.

The Conversation

Albanese takes safe course, appointing defence chief Greg Moriarty to replace Kevin Rudd

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has appointed the Secretary of the Defence Department, Greg Moriarty, to be Australia’s new ambassador to Washington, succeeding Kevin Rudd, who leaves the position in March.

The Guardian - AU

Morning Mail: loss of threatened species habitat doubles, microplastics ‘bombshell’, the world of professional ‘merpeople’

Conservation study finds 10 Sydney Harbours worth of land cleared in 2025; doubt cast on claims about presence of microplastics in human bodies

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Next US ambassador will have 'no simple task'

Former Labor ministers are emerging as the frontrunners to replace Kevin Rudd as Australia's ambassador to the US after he chose to retire a year early.

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