Politics

Six Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Crisis Response Teams began departing for the Middle East.

More Aussies flying home as planes take off from Dubai

Australia sent two military passenger planes to the Middle East earlier this week and six DFAT crisis response teams are on their way as the Government makes contingency plans to help people leave the war zone.

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Senator Ralph Babet is defying parliamentary orders to attend behaviour workshops for ‘using racist, homophobic, sexist or other language’ to demean others.

Senator defies orders to attend behaviour workshops

United Australia Senator Ralph Babet is defying parliamentary orders to attend behaviour workshops for ‘using racist, homophobic, sexist or other language’ to demean others.

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Penny Wong is refusing to say whether Australian personnel were on board a US submarine which sank an Iranian warship overnight.

Wong refuses to say if Aus sailors were on killer US sub

Penny Wong is refusing to say whether Australian personnel were on board a US submarine which sank an Iranian warship overnight, insisting the Government does not discuss deployments.

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Jim Chalmers is considering replacing capital gains tax.

Chalmers to hold secret meeting on capital gains tax changes

Treasurer Jim Chalmers is holding a Chatham House rules event with economists on Friday, including an advocate who wants to replace the 50 per cent capital gains tax discount on investment properties.

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Mark Carney describes Canada and Australia as ‘strategic cousins’.

Why Carney preaches middle way in face of new world disorder

Canadian PM Mark Carney is on a mission to warn against the rupture of the world’s rules-based order. Will Australia listen?

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Victorian Liberals have demanded action against underworld figure and CFMEU ‘fixer’ Mick Gatto.

Liberals demand action against CFMEU ‘fixer’ Mick Gatto

The underworld figure has emerged at the centre of a debate over CFMEU influence across Victoria’s $100 billion ‘big build’ projects.

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The Epstein files continue to cause headaches for the Trump administration and Pam Bondi. (AP PHOTO)

US A-G Pam Bondi forced to testify over Epstein files

A congressional committee has voted to subpoena Attorney-General Pam Bondi to face questions about how her department has handled the Epstein files.

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Overnight, the first of six crisis response teams began departing for the Middle East.

PM calls for ‘de-escalation’, DFAT teams sent to Middle East

Anthony Albanese has called for Iran to ‘cease’ attacks as DFAT crisis response teams head to the Middle East to provide on-the-ground consular assistance to Australians stuck there.

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The US’s shock and awe tactics have given way to qualifying statements on the longevity of war on Iran.

‘Metrics are shifting’: Why Iran war is just getting started

LATIKA M BOURKE: The US’s shock and awe tactics have given way to qualifying statements on the longevity of war on Iran.

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President Donald Trump speaks during an event about the Ratepayer Protection Pledge, in the Indian Treaty Room of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House.

Trump says US will no longer be ‘pushed around’

US President Donald Trump has provided an update on the US military action ‘wiping out’ Iran’s leadership and a disturbing reminder about their quest for a nuclear weapon..

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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has called for middle powers to unite amid an increasingly fractured world order.

Canada’s PM urges middle powers to unite for strength

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has called for middle powers to unite amid an increasingly fractured world order in a highly-anticipated address to Australia’s Parliament.

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Jim Chalmers says motorists shouldn’t be taken for mugs by fuel companies introducing ‘unwarranted’ hikes at the bowser.

‘Mugs’: Treasurer issues stern warning to servo price gougers

Jim Chalmers says motorists shouldn’t be taken for mugs by fuel companies introducing ‘unwarranted’ hikes at the bowser.

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Iranian official behind alleged Donald Trump assassination plot hunted down

‘I got him before he got me’: Trump after Iran figure killed

US Defense Secretary ‌Pete Hegseth says an Iranian official who oversaw an alleged assassination plot against US President Donald Trump has been killed.

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More than 200 passengers have returned to Australia on a flight from the United Arab Emirates.

War-trapped Aussies arrive home on first Dubai flight

Australians stranded for days in Dubai have touched down on the first Sydney flight out of the UAE city since the US and Israel conflict with Iran erupted.

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