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Senators want property tax reforms back on the agenda

Modest tax changes could save the budget billions and help "turn the ship around" for first-home buyers, senators David Pocock and Jacqui Lambie say.

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How the Greens would distribute public housing across Canberra

Party plans to 'fundamentally reshape Canberra's housing market'.

The Canberra Times

If Australia has reached ‘peak milk’, what does that mean for our food security?

Consumers assume Australia has milk production covered – but the national dairy herd is declining and imports are at record highs

The Guardian - AU

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Changes to Australia’s property tax concessions could net $60bn over decade, crossbench senators say

David Pocock and Jacqui Lambie point to PBO modelling showing budget savings even while continuing existing owners’ capital gains tax discount

The Guardian - AU

Guardian Essential poll: voters back Labor’s Future Made in Australia plan while overestimating cost of renewables

Results highlight the difficulties government faces in selling energy transition to sceptical public

The Guardian - AU

ACTU calls for sanctions on Israel over Gaza war – as it happened

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Boost drug search powers, make immigration detention ‘last resort’, watchdog says

Watchdog argues drug search powers should be boosted to fix system that is ‘not fit for purpose’ as home affairs department rejects multiple recommendations

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Legal battle loomed behind closed doors over sand on Stockton Beach

Documents reveal how ongoing ownership stoush put project at risk

Newcastle Herald

Cost of living focus as Labor vote drops in new poll

New polls show little between Labor and the coalition on a two-party-preferred vote but Anthony Albanese remains the preferred prime minister over Peter Dutton.

AAP

Hecs help is on the way – but is it too little, too late to help struggling students?

Labor’s solution to spiralling debts would’ve worked a treat if it had been in place for the past two years. Now it may make no difference

The Guardian - AU

Peter Dutton backs laws to crack down on ‘above the law’ social media companies over misinformation

Coalition was previously fiercely critical of Labor’s misinformation legislation, having campaigned to ‘bin the bill’

The Guardian - AU

A test in Wills: Greens hope Samantha Ratnam’s federal politics gamble will pay off

Shifting demographics and anger over the war in Gaza among voters in Melbourne’s inner north could see Labor lose out

The Guardian - AU

Fire ants found for first time in Murray Darling Basin

The first fire ants detection has been made in the Murray Darling Basin, fuelling calls for an urgent funding review for eradication efforts.

AAP

Greens confirm Victorian leader's federal seat tilt

Samantha Ratnam is stepping down as Victoria's Greens leader as the party targets Bob Hawke's old seat of Wills at the next federal election.

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Religious discrimination laws could pass within months

Labor aims to legislate religious discrimination reforms in the middle of the year, to stop them dragging out and coming up against an election.

The Guardian - AU

A bipartisan committee set out to end Queensland’s politicisation of youth crime. It failed spectacularly

Disappointment and frustration as parliamentary inquiry into youth justice reform ‘degenerates into a squabble’

Roll Call

Cole eyes axing HUD earmarks for nonprofit organizations - Roll Call

Rep. Tom Cole is considering blocking nonprofits from receiving House earmarks under HUD's Economic Development Initiative grant program.

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Historic shed on planned stadium site heritage listed

A historic railway goods shed on the site of a proposed stadium in Hobart has been permanently heritage listed.

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'Children being taken' while reforms delayed: Yoorrook

Victoria's First Peoples minister has defended her government after being criticised for inaction on key recommendations from a truth-telling inquiry.

The Guardian - AU

Labor looks to ease Hecs burden as student debts set to grow more than 4%

The prime minister says ‘we need to do much better for the younger generation’

AAP

Bob Carr slams AUKUS in warning to New Zealand

New Zealand should not align with AUKUS, Australia's former foreign minister Bob Carr says, so long as the US pursues a "primacy"-based foreign policy.

The Guardian - AU

Seven boss departs – as it happened

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Newcastle Herald

Private crimes have very public consequences for far too many of us

Letters: 'The law really is an ass.'

The Guardian - AU

Labor’s deportation bill could affect 375 children born in Australia, advocates warn

Greens senator David Shoebridge says hundreds face ‘real threat’ of being separated from parents or sent overseas to ‘unknown future’

AAP

Russia sanctions ex-Vic premier, 234 other Australians

Russia has banned entry to hundreds of Australian politicians, including former Victorian premier Daniel Andrews, in its latest response to sanctions.

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