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CPSU national secretary Melissa Donnelly is poised to take the helm at the ACTU.

New ACTU boss announced as One Nation in firing line

The head of the Public Sector Union is poised to succeed Sally McManus as the secretary of Australia’s peak union body.

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Anthony Albanese is poised to overtake Labor predecessor Paul Keating for time spent in office.

Why there won’t be any celebration at PM’s major milestone

ANDREW GREENE: Anthony Albanese is learning the hard way that legacy matters more than time served.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese holds a Labor caucus meeting at Parliament House in Canberra.

PM punts on ‘strongest’ gambling advertising bill to pass

Fresh off the five-week winter recess, the Prime Minister offered key concessions on inducements during Monday talks with Opposition leader Angus Taylor to clear the bill for Parliament this fortnight.

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Labor candidate for Secret Harbour Georgia Tree’s past comments have resurfaced to haunt the party.

Questions remain over Labor’s ‘skeletons in our closet’

The treatment of women in politics is in firm focus again with a current Labor candidate’s past comments appearing to hint at the party’s hidden problems.

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Brisbane rugby player’s desperate search for life-saving stem cell donor after leukaemia diagnosis

His cancer treatment failed. Now Rowan needs a stranger to step forward

The young rugby player was diagnosed with leukaemia straight of high school.

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Hancock Prospecting has repeated calls for changes to the ABC’s editorial standards after the broadcaster issued a belated apology over a video segment that featured violent references against Gina Rinehart.

ABC’s standards face reckoning after belated Gina apology

Hancock Prospecting has called for changes to the ABC’s editorial standards after the broadcaster issued a belated apology over a video segment that featured violent references against Gina Rinehart.

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Julian Leeser says the Census should include a box option for Judaism.

Jewish MP criticises Census for excluding Judaism option

The Liberal Party’s only Jewish MP in Federal Parliament says the Census should have included a tick box option for Judaism to reflect the contribution of the Jews to Australia since 1788.

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ACT Liberal Party leader Mark Parton and, inset, the photo he took in the committee room.

‘Wanna swap’: Libs leader responds to sex worker text claim

ACT Opposition leader Mark Parton has addressed claims he messaged a sex worker while he was taking part in a Parliamentary Hearing.

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Jean-Claude Perrottet gives evidence at the ICAC hearing Wednesday.

Premier’s brother recruited ethnic groups to stack branches

Jean-Claude Perrottet, the younger brother of former Liberal premier Dominic Perrottet, has told an anti-corruption hearing he recruited ethnic minorities to the party hoping to overthrow a sitting Federal MP.

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Governor-General Sam Mostyn at Government House in Canberra.

Who is Sam Mostyn? Poll reveals most Aussies don’t know GG

LATIKA M BOURKE: Two years after she was sworn in, a new poll finds most Australians could not name the Governor-General.

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Anthony Albanese is enjoying a rare period of leave in the top job, meaning he was unable to attend the annual Garma festival in the Northern Territory outback as he’d promised to do.

What Garma snub says about Anthony Albanese’s priorities

ANDREW GREENE: Just three months after the death of Kumanjayi Little Baby shocked the country, the PM has walked back on his commitment to attend every edition of the NT’s Garma festival.

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Fuel prices are on the rise with the federal government's full excise kicking back in. (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS)

Motorists told to ‘shop smarter’ after excise cut wound back

Aussie motorists have been urged to ‘shop smarter’ and retailers warned not to price gouge after the Albanese government wound back its fuel excise relief on Monday — making $2-a-litre the new normal.

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Ex-NRL player Luke Bateman at the Environment And Communications Legislation Committee inquiry hearing into the Interactive Gambling Amendment (Gambling Reform) Bill 2026.

Ex-NRL player claims gambling companies plied him with drugs

Former NRL star Luke Bateman has alleged he was offered drugs and alcohol by gambling company employees while he was battling a severe gambling addiction.

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