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Anthony Albanese’s Government has taken a further dip in the polls as economic pressures and the cost of war ring home for Australians.

Albanese’s popularity takes a hit as cost of war rings home

Anthony Albanese’s Government has taken a further dip in the polls as economic pressures and the cost of war ring home for Australians.

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Tess and Ben Crosley have been spotted together in public for the first time since the Neale marriage saga.

Tess and ex-husband captured during stone cold exchange

The woman at the centre of AFL star Lachie Neale’s split from wife Jules has been spotted in public with her ex-husband for the first time since the scandal erupted. 

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced new emergency powers letting the federal government underwrite fuel cargoes. Martin Ollman / NewsWire

Minister warns of ‘long tail’ on Iran war amid fuel crisis

A minister has warned Australia’s fuel crisis could continue well after the Iran war ends.

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A business group has called for measures to ease fuel-induced pressures on the trucking sector. (Darren England/AAP PHOTOS)

Truck tax cut backed as fuel-rationing threat looms

Business groups have urged the government to cut the road-user charge for trucks, but not the fuel excise for all motorists.

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Millions have rallied in "No Kings" anti-Donald Trump protests in thousands of US cities. (AP PHOTO)

Anti-Trump rallies pop up in thousands of US cities

People have taken to the streets en masse across the United States to protest against President Donald Trump and his administration in "No Kings" rallies.

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US President Donald Trump has boasted that the world is ‘closer than ever to the rise of the Middle East’ because of US dominance in the war with Iran.

Trump says Middle East ‘saved’ as strike injures US troops

THE NEW YORK TIMES: US President Donald Trump has boasted that the world is ‘closer than ever to the rise of the Middle East’ because of US dominance in the war with Iran.

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Following his earlier remarks that Cuba may be subject ​to a ‘friendly takeover,’ Donald Trump says ‘Cuba is next, ⁠by the way’.

Trump says 'Cuba is next' in speech touting US success

Following his earlier remarks that Cuba may be subject ​to a ‘friendly takeover,’ Donald Trump says ‘Cuba is next, ⁠by the way’.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has asked Australians to ‘act responsibly and not hoard fuel saying it ‘wasn’t the Australian way’.

Albanese says hoarding fuel ‘not the Australian way’

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has asked Australians to ‘act responsibly and not hoard fuel, saying it ‘wasn’t the Australian way’ as he announced new measures to secure more fuel for the country.

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Old photographs of FBI director Kash Patel have been posted online after an apparent data breach. (EPA PHOTO)

Hackers breach FBI director Patel's personal email

A pro-Iranian hacking group claims to have hacked an account of FBI director Kash Patel and has posted online what appear to be years-old photographs of him.

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Liagny Acosta holds her 2-week-old baby, Aran, who is hospitalized for a respiratory illness at the Hospital William Soler in Havana on March 22, 2026. Amid a U.S. oil blockade causing daily blackouts across Cuba, doctors say that rapidly deteriorating conditions at hospitals and clinics are causing deaths that would otherwise be preventable. (Jorge Luis Baos/The New York Times)

Cuban patients are dying because of US blockade

‘The magnitude and who will be affected will depend on these horrible decisions they have to make.’

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USS Minnesota (SSN 783) arrives in Western Australia on Feb. 25, 2025.

Defence official’s grim warning to AUKUS sceptics

A senior defence official has warned a room full of AUKUS sceptics that Australia will be left with no submarines if the project is dumped.

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Anthony Albanese is promising a national response to fuel shortages will avoid repeating the mistakes of COVID lockdowns.

In tackling fuel crisis, PM vows to learn from COVID blues

Anthony Albanese is promising a national response to fuel shortages will avoid repeating the mistakes of COVID lockdowns.

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Anthony Albanese has tried to soothe community anxiety about fuel shortages.

What crisis? Albo’s fuel approach is in full-on panic mode

Anthony Albanese says he is doing his best to help soothe community anxiety about fuel shortages. Here’s why the PM’s approach is looking panicked.

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Lawyer Adair Donaldson says systemic failure, not rogue soldiers, is at heart of ADF’s torture training.

ADF training, not ‘rogue’ soldiers, at heart of abuse claims

A lawyer for more than 200 ADF members says soldiers were exposed to ‘sadistic’ abuse – recognised as torture – over decades of interrogation training, and no one asked why.

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RBA governor Michele Bullock and Treasurer Jim Chalmers

Chalmers warned on Budget that could deliver fourth hike

Australia’s largest bank has warned the Albanese Government against any big-spending surprises in the May Budget that could deliver even more pain for already stretched households.

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