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The voters of Farrer will deliver a message that will echo up and down the corridors of Parliament House.

Farrer by-election could change the political landscape

The voters of Farrer will deliver a message that will echo up and down the corridors of Parliament House.

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Treasurer Jim Chalmers

Treasurer Jim Chalmers in the run up to his greatest test

Treasurers usually play a careful game of expectations management ahead of budgets so they can pull a rabbit out of their hat on the night and dazzle everyone. Not so this year.

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Thirty-two-year-old ISIS widow Janai Safar was denied bail on Friday by a Sydney judge. 7NEWS

ISIS widow denied bail; two others to seek release Monday

Prosecutors allege one of the women who returned to Australia on Thursday bought a Yazidi slave for $14,000 while living in the ISIS caliphate.

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One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson and candidate David Farley in Albury on Thursday.

Historic political win looms in former Coalition stronghold

Voters in the New South Wales seat of Farrer are poised to make history this weekend by electing a One Nation candidate to Federal Parliament’s lower house for the first time.

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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage enjoys an ice cream after casting his vote during the local council elections.

Key sign on the nose Starmer’s Labour headed for wipeout

Ten years after voting for Brexit, the same voters are still dissatisfied and are continuing to buy whatever it is that Nigel Farage is selling. 

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Why Govt spending isn’t going to slow down anytime soon

The people making the decisions want to be remembered in the history books as someone who got stuff done. And if that means adding to the pile of debt and fuelling inflation, then so be it. 

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Embattled Sports and Communications Minister Anika Wells is repaying $10,000 in taxpayer-funded travel following an audit into her questionable expense claims.

PM rejects Opposition call to sack minister over $10K travel

Anthony Albanese is rebuffing an Opposition call to sack embattled Sport and Communications Minister Anika Wells after she repaid $10,000 in wrongful travel claims.

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Jess Wilson will unveil a plan to cut the public sector workforce to help balance Victoria's books. (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS)

Public service hiring freeze pitched to help budget fix

A would-be premier has gone some of the way to answering how she plans to embark on state budget repair while simultaneously promising to slash five taxes.

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Denying young people the tools older generations have used to accrue wealth would be the true act of inequity.

Why capital gains tax changes are unfair to young people

MARK HUMPHERY-JENNER: Denying young people the tools older generations have used to accrue wealth would be the true act of inequity.

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Julie Bishop steps down as Australian National University Chancellor immediately.

Julie Bishop steps down as ANU Chancellor immediately

Former foreign minister Julie Bishop has abruptly resigned as ANU chancellor, warning of ‘unprecedented and coordinated interference’ in the university’s governance.

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Jim Chalmers signals capital gains tax and negative gearing reforms ahead of Federal Budget.

Chalmers vows to avoid inflationary ‘big cash splash’

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has vowed the Budget will avoid an inflationary cash splash and indicated Labor was prepared for a political fight over contentious tax breaks for property investors.

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The US trade court has ruled against President Donald Trump’s latest 10 per cent global tariffs, finding they were not justified under a 1970s trade law, however the court only blocked the levy on two small businesses and the state of Washington.

Narrow block: Court rules Trump’s global tariffs illegal

The US Court of International Trade has ruled in favour of small businesses that challenged President Donald Trump's ‌global tariffs.

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Jim Chalmers brushes off Rita Saffioti budget clash.

‘Rita being Rita’: Chalmers shrugs off budget jab

The WA Treasurer’s clapback at the Reserve Bank’s warning over government spending pushing up inflation was ‘Rita being Rita’, Jim Chalmers has said as he insists he’s not letting State budgets distract him.

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French President Emmanuel Macron.

What a crooning Macron says about Russia’s waning influence

LATIKA M BOURKE: Armenia briefly became Europe’s unexpected geopolitical epicentre as world leaders descended on Yerevan this week.

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The federal budget will include an extra $3.8 billion for Melbourne's Suburban Rail Loop.

Taxpayers to shell out billions for contentious rail project

Extra billions of dollars will be poured into a suburban rail loop as part of Treasurer Jim Chalmers' fifth federal Budget.

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