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Funding boost as demand for major DV helpline soars

A free domestic violence hotline that's seen a dramatic spike in calls is getting a significant funding boost to ensure people get the help they need.

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Govt, opposition unite to sledge $96m BOM website

The near-universally loathed new Bureau of Meteorology website cost taxpayers $96.5 million, rather than the $4 million it originally claimed.

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‘Dangerous and undermines our systems’: Tanya Plibersek condemns serious police failures in Queensland DV deaths

Plibersek said those victims – Hannah Clarke and her children, Kardell Lomas and her unborn child, and Gail Karran – ‘should have been kept safe’

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As the Coalition shows its colours on nature, Labor faces a question: will it really protect Australia’s wildlife?

There are some decent elements in what Labor is proposing, but the overhaul could end up as tinkering rather than transformation

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Support payments streamlined to help struggling kids

Parents battling with day-to-day costs for their kids will be able to access support more easily as a confusing bureaucratic system is slimmed down.

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AFP investigates Lidia Thorpe’s claim she would ‘burn down’ Parliament House

Senator says her words at Melbourne pro-Gaza rally were ‘a metaphor’ and the reaction to them ‘mock outrage’ that distracts from Palestinian suffering

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From jobseeker to the pension, Centrelink welfare payments are about to increase – slightly

Payments to increase on Saturday with indexation, with youth allowance to become $1,027.70 a fortnight and jobseeker to be $793.60 a fortnight

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Gold bullion, racehorses and a saxophone: the strangest assets declared by Canberra’s new parliament

A handful of politicians have property overseas including Tanya Plibersek, while just 1.8% of parliamentarians declared a Hecs debt

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Welfare debts waived for domestic violence survivors

Centrelink debt incurred through "insidious" family violence will be waived for survivors to stop further abuse from being inflicted on vulnerable people.

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Murray Watt backs ‘no-go’ zones where development is banned – but not for Tasmania’s Robbins Island

Environment minister says scientific evidence did not convince government that remote island qualified

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About 3m Australians affected by unlawful Centrelink debt calculation to be eligible for up to $600 compensation

Announcement comes after the federal government admitted the use of income apportionment to determine welfare payments was invalid

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Relief at hand for unlawful social service debt victims

Welfare recipients with debts calculated using an unlawful method will have up to $250 wiped and also be eligible for resolution payments.

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AI doom, nature laws and solving the housing problem: five takeaways from day two of economic reform roundtable

Jim Chalmers says ‘a useful consensus’ is emerging in several key reform areas

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Details of Monash IVF review to remain secret – as it happened

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Aged pensioners to feel impact of asset test changes

Rates the government assumes people earn money on savings from will increase for the first time since they were lowered during the global pandemic.

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'Don't slam brakes on EVs': sparks fly over fee push

The federal treasurer is being urged to adopt user charges for electric cars to help pay for road maintenance and the roll out of charging infrastructure .

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'Project-by-project' moves toward lofty housing target

Australians have been told the housing crisis can't be solved in one fell swoop as brand new inner-city homes are opened for people on low incomes.

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Indigenous children's commissioner to begin urgent work

Australia's first National Commissioner for Aboriginal Children and Young People has been appointed, tasked with elevating the voices of Indigenous kids.

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Afternoon Update: Australia spared Trump’s latest tariff hike; NSW’s wet weekend; and the library that loans tents and fog machines

Australian goods imported into the US will continue to attract the baseline 10% tariff, with Australia dodging any tariff increase in the latest round of Donald Trump’s global trade war

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Ministers coy on gambling reform as advice kept secret

How the government planned to respond to a landmark gambling inquiry report before shelving its reform ahead of the election will remain secret.

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Albanese government plotted to maintain native forest logging in NSW if court battle was lost, documents show

Exclusive: Anthony Albanese sought ‘advice on strategy’ as federal and state governments prepared for ‘potential impacts of an adverse decision’

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Mark Latham’s portrait may come off federal caucus wall

The Labor caucus tolerates having the odd “rat” among the photos of ALP leaders on the party room wall, but Mark Latham may have now pushed it too far.

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Morning Mail: Bradley Murdoch dead at 67, warning to Labor over inequality, the $1 housing blueprint

The notorious outback killer of British backpacker Peter Falconio has died in custody of throat cancer; NSW plan to speed up home building

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Social services department warned Tanya Plibersek she faces uphill battle amid ‘political polarisation’

Brief obtained under freedom of information laws shows new minister told of ‘increased risk of entrenched disadvantage’ in Australia

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Plea for end to Gaza conflict after Mideast ceasefire

A senior minister has called for peace in Gaza after a deal was reached between between Iran and Israel to cease military strikes.

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