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Labor MP 'interfered' with Hillsong fraud allegations

A Hillsong whistleblower is suing the federal government, claiming an MP repeatedly stopped another from airing her claims in parliament.

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It’s parliament, not Love Island: Queensland’s ministerial affair drama becomes a sordid distraction

Tuesday’s question time seemed more suited to prime time; full of sordid allegations, only the cast seems far less likable

The Guardian - AU

Chalmers delivers 2026 budget speech – as it happened

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State integrity brawl spills into MPs' private lives

A heated political row over integrity and conflicts of interest has erupted into a slanging match about MPs' private lives in a state parliament.

AAP

Last-minute budget pitch to 'level field' for young

Labor has made a pre-budget pitch to young Australians on social media as the government shakes up the tax system to help more people buy homes.

AAP

'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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Victorian politics still exposed to ‘dark money’ and foreign donations as MPs struggle to agree on urgent reforms

Exclusive: state is now without caps on political donations or disclosure requirements, months out from November election

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Is the Howard era over? Albanese and Chalmers are betting the budget it is

With baby boomers outnumbered on the electoral roll, Labor are finally emerging from their shell to address intergenerational unfairness

The Guardian - AU

Changing tax rules for investors won’t shrink housing supply or raise rents. Just look at Victoria

Labor’s anticipated reforms are not a panacea, but they could nudge Australia toward a more equitable trajectory

The Guardian - AU

'Need to do more': Labor to lift lid on housing reform

Australians are under financial pressure and the government cannot "just sit back", the prime minister says, as his treasurer prepares to hand down the budget.

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What we know so far about tax, housing, fuel and broken promises in the federal budget

The long sell for Labor’s budget package means we know a lot about what to expect on Tuesday night

The Guardian - AU

One Nation’s Farrer win is just the latest example of regional NSW voters putting a stick in the eye of the major parties

Before independents reshaped urban politics, country electorates in the state had long elected outsiders and defectors

The Guardian - AU

Budget to include extra $2bn for infrastructure – as it happened

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The scale of the Coalition’s loss in the Farrer byelection can’t be overstated

The politics of anxiety and grievance harnessed by One Nation are a formidable force. Angus Taylor needs to, in his own words, ‘change or die’

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‘We’re coming after those other seats’: Pauline Hanson jubilant as One Nation wins Farrer byelection

David Farley secures One Nation’s first lower house win after Coalition vote collapses and Angus Taylor says Liberals will take ‘hard lessons’ from result

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'A tough ask': coalition braces for by-election defeat

The coalition's grip on the seat of Farrer could be over after more than 70 years, with One Nation and an independent in the box seat for a crucial by-election.

The Conversation

Family and business trusts could soon have to pay more tax – with a few likely exceptions

Should some of Australia’s more than 1 million family and small business trusts face higher taxes in future, bringing them closer to what ordinary wage earners already pay in income tax?

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Almost $4bn more for Victoria’s contentious Suburban Rail Loop to be included in federal budget

Additional funding for the costly 90km public transport project promised before state’s November election

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‘Fed up, fired up, and finally heard’: inside the political earthquake brewing in Farrer

In Australia’s regional heartland, something unusual is happening — and voters know it.

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Afternoon Update: Labor’s gas reservation plan; snowfall in several states; and inside the making of Moulin Rouge

Gas companies will be forced to set aside 20% of export volumes for domestic use under the new reservation scheme

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New gasfield approved near Twelve Apostles puts climate and ‘pristine’ ocean in jeopardy, environmentalists warn

Victorian and federal Labor governments greenlight Otway basin drilling project with potential to supply one-third of state’s gas

AAP

Premier digs in as 'love story' sparks integrity war

A political "love story" has morphed into an all‑out integrity brawl, with one premier under siege over what he knew and who really called the Olympic shots.

The Guardian - AU

Morning Mail: Coalition’s ‘roadmap’ to slash immigration leaked, Trump’s new threat to Iran, Ted Turner dies

US president says Tehran must accept a deal or face a new wave of bombing

AAP

Gas tax hopes flicker as reservation scheme revealed

Big gas companies will need to inject more LNG into the Australian market under a plan aimed at bringing down prices and shoring up supply.

AAP

Fuel bonus as WA posts eighth straight budget surplus

More than $1 billion in cost-of-living relief will be shared in Western Australia as the state capitalises on an iron ore uplift to bank another budget surplus.

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