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Australia's Prime Minister and Home Affairs Minister have made an abrupt exit from a mosque southwest of Sydney after they were heckled.

Anthony Albanese gets a lesson in Middle East politics

AARON PATRICK: The Prime Minister’s tense visit to Sydney’s biggest mosque on Friday morning was a sign of deep hostility towards the Government from some Muslims.

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War in Iran is making Donald Trump weaker — and angrier

By diminishing the president’s political superpowers, his reckless campaign may make him more dangerous

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Donald Trump’s Pearl Harbour joke to the Japanese Prime Minister has divided.

WATCH: Trump’s Pearl Harbour joke to Japan’s PM divides

US President Donald Trump has welcomed Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to the White House, joking to her about Pearl Harbour, drawing a very uncomfortable reaction.

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The Prime Minister and Home Affairs Minister have made an abrupt exit from a Western Sydney mosque after they were heckled.

WATCH: PM heckled at Lakemba Mosque during Eid prayers

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke have been heckled at a mosque southwest of Sydney.

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A former national manager at Shell is predicting average unleaded petrol prices could hit $2.65 within a week, as Energy Minister Chris Bowen convenes an emergency roundtable to deal panic buying of fuel.

Coalition demands Chris Bowen quit COP 31 presidency

The Coalition has called on Chris Bowen to quit his role chairing next year’s COP 31 climate change conference amid the energy crisis prompted by the US-Israel-Iran war. 

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Iran’s chilling warning after Australia ‘sides with aggressors’

A senior Iranian official has issued a grim warning to Australia, saying it has ‘decided to take side with the aggressors’ in the spiralling Middle East conflict.

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Reporters in Lebanon bombed by Israeli munitions.

Reporter metres from death as missile strikes mid-broadcast

A live television broadcast in southern Lebanon was interrupted when a missile landed metres from a reporter.

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Stop talking about the Iran war, Donald Trump is already facing a struggle on home soil.

How Trump should extricate himself from his Iran quagmire

Could Donald Trump’s war still turn out all right? Of course. But for now, he appears to have put America in a terrible situation.

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Polls show One Nation could trounce the Liberals in South Australia’s upcoming election. NewsWire / Liam Kidston

One Nation trouncing Libs in SA could cause political earthquake

One Nation could trigger an ‘existential crisis’ for the Liberal Party, one expert predicts, as polls and analysts predict a wipe-out in South Australia’s upcoming election.

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Jim Chalmers has warned older Australians are likely to be unhappy with his upcoming May Budget, with Labor expected to pare back tax breaks for property investors.

How Chalmers is risking boomer wrath in targeted Budget

Jim Chalmers has warned older Australians are likely to be unhappy with his upcoming May Budget, with Labor expected to pare back tax breaks for property investors.

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The dire outlook should prompt the Treasurer to take drastic steps to turn around the economy.

Jim Chalmers’ moment has arrived. Will he save Australia?

The dire outlook should prompt the Treasurer to take drastic steps to turn around the economy, but there’s little faith he has the guts to do what must be done.

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Analysts are warning of the potential for prices to spiral once the reality of physical supply cuts ripples across the globe. 

Dire oil supply not as bad as predicted - it’s worse

Energy analysts suggest the Middle East war’s upcoming consequences of global oil and gas supply shortfalls could spell much higher prices than those quoted this week.

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Consumers will pay the price of the Iran war.

Huge cost every Aussie will pay for Trump’s Iran ‘excursion’

MARK RILEY: Donald Trump started the war in Iran, but Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers will wear the blame for the pounding it is unleashing on the Australian economy. 

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South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas and Liberal leader Ashton Hurn head to the polls on Saturday.

The Liberals face a reckoning in South Australia

Polls suggest the left-leaning state will on Saturday become home to the smallest Liberal representation in the nation.

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