Australia

Report author and former DFAT Secretary, Peter Varghese, briefed think tanks on Wednesday after months of Canberra rumours that the Labor-ordered review intended to cast a shot across ASPI’s bow.
Australia
Nicola Smith

Think tanks may face budget cuts for criticising government

Publicly-funded national security think tanks could have their budgets slashed if they critique Government policy under controversial proposals in a financing review due this week. 

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Treasurer Jim Chalmers has applauded the Albanese Labor Government for ‘the biggest-ever budget turnaround in a parliamentary term’, recording a deficit of $26.9 billion.
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Politics
Jackson Hewett and Nicola Smith

Fierce economic battle erupts as gloomy outlook revealed

Labor and the Coalition have drawn the battlelines for a ‘tax and spend’ versus ‘slash and burn’ contest in next year’s election, after the Treasury’s mid-year Budget update predicted a gloomy outlook

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Mark Latham argues a court order would breach his implied constitutional freedom.
Australia
Miklos Bolza

Latham fights for right to repeat 'vulgar' remark about MP

A court has been asked to permanently restrain Mark Latham from again uttering a defamatory and sexually explicit remark about a political rival.

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Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers.
Politics
Nicola Smith

‘Quite substantial’: Chalmers prepares for budget update

Treasurer Jim Chalmers launched a media blitz on Wednesday morning ahead of the release of a mid-year budget update where the Government will state that the nation’s deficits are shrinking.

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The slow, painful drip of Budget downgrades has exposed the long term structural issues that Australia must resolve, writes Jackson Hewett.
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Australia
Jackson Hewett

Drip of Budget downgrades exposes $25b black hole of debt

JACKSON HEWETT: The slow, painful drip of Budget downgrades has exposed the long term structural issues that Australia must resolve if the country is to avoid becoming a nation of permanent government debt.

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Emergency services were called to a Moorebank home when the child was discovered.
Australia
Digital Staff

Boy, 3, fighting for life after being found unresponsive in backyard pool

Emergency services were called to the home just after 6.30pm.

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Jim Chalmers used his MYEFO briefing to launch a pre-election salvo at the Opposition.
Politics
Jackson Hewett and Nicola Smith

Looming showdown over who can best handle economy

The Coalition has slammed the Treasurer’s ‘addiction to spending’ after he accused them of targeting ‘Medicare, medicines and pensions’ in an emerging election showdown over who can best handle the economy.

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Peter Dutton says gas is ‘incredibly important’ and will lower bills.
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Politics
Ellen Ransley

‘Torpedoing credibility’: Fresh stoush in power bill battle

The Albanese Government claims Opposition Leader Peter Dutton is ‘torpedoing his own credibility’ in the latest round of the political fight over Australia’s energy future. 

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Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers has claimed the Coalition would be coming after Medicare.
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Australia
Jackson Hewett

Labor rolls out Mediscare 2.0 as Chalmers goes negative

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has used his pre MYEFO press conference to cast the Coalition as a party that will come after ‘Medicare, medicines and pensions’.

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Defence Minister Richard Marles met with UK officials in London for Australia-UK Ministerial Consultations (AUKMIN).
Australia
Latika M Bourke

Aussie troops could be sent to Ukraine to secure peace

Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles has left open the possibility of Australian troops being sent to Ukraine to help secure the country as part of any peace deal.

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Katy Gallagher says priorities are cost of living, housing and medicare.
Australia
Jacob Shteyman

‘Unavoidable’: Creeping spend rips at seams of tattered Federal budget

Spending blowouts paint a bleaker picture for government coffers while adding to budget pressure from slumping exports.

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Treasurer Jim Chalmers continues to be optimistic about the future of WA’s resources sector despite flagging a $100 billion write-down in forecast exports leading to an $8.5 billion drop in company taxes.
Australia
Katina Curtis

Chalmers optimistic about resources despite write-down

Treasurer Jim Chalmers continues to be optimistic about the future of WA’s resources sector despite flagging a $100 billion write-down in forecast exports leading to an $8.5 billion drop in company taxes.

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Treasurer Jim Chalmers has appointed a corporate-heavy advisory board to the Reserve Bank of Australia.
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Business
Jackson Hewett

New RBA faces that will influence your mortgage revealed

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has appointed a corporate-heavy advisory board to the Reserve Bank of Australia following a six-month review in to how the bank sets monetary policy.

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Ten years on from the ‘traumatising’ Lindt Cafe siege that killed two people and terrorised Sydney, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Premier Chris Minns have led floral tributes in Martin Place.
NSW
Ellen Ransley

Albanese leads tributes at Lindt Cafe on 10th anniversary

Ten years on from the ‘traumatising’ Lindt Cafe siege that killed two people and terrorised Sydney, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Premier Chris Minns have led floral tributes in Martin Place.

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Seven guests of the Warwick Resort on Fiji's Coral Coast, including at least four Australians, were hospitalised in an alleged mass poisoning incident after they fell ill after drinking from the resort bar on Saturday night.
Travel
Matt Shrivell

Urgent warning for travellers after mass poisoning

The Australian government travel advice website, Smartraveller, has issued an urgent warning after another mass drink-poisoning incident struck down Aussies abroad.

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