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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese greets the Prime Minister of Solomon Islands Jeremiah Manele at the start of the plenary session at the 53rd Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting in August.
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Australia
Nicola Smith

Australia faces uncertain times in its Pacific backyard

The Albanese Government has scored a series of goals against China’s growing influence in the Pacific, but its latest deal with the Solomon Islands still has wriggle room for Honiara.

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Moira Deeming says John Pesutto's inability to admit his mistakes speaks volumes about his character (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS)
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Politics
Callum Godde

Narrow win on exiled MP ‘won’t stop’ Liberal leader’s agitators

Ousted Victorian Liberal MP Moira Deeming has declared it's ‘only a matter of time’ before she returns to the party room after a vote split her ex-colleagues.

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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks at Parliament House in Canberra, Friday, December 20, 2024.
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Ellen Ransley

‘Partner of choice’: Albanese inks new Solomon Islands deal

Australia will give the Solomon Islands a ‘package of support’ to grow the size and capability of the police force in the Albanese Government’s latest move to show muscle in the Pacific.

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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.
Australia
Nicola Smith

Fiji’s urgent plea to Australia as cocktail mystery deepens

Fiji’s tourism industry has issued a plea to Australian authorities after the results of toxicology tests on samples of cocktails consumed by seven tourists who fell ill were released.

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Dozens of kindergartens in Melbourne will be impacted by the new change.
Australia
Bethan Yeoman

Kindergarten’s decision to cancel Mother’s and Father’s Day divides opinion

‘I can understand why the parents are upset.’

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Racism experienced at universities is a reflection of the problem across society, a report says.
Politics
Dominic Giannini

The great shame of racism rife at universities as many fear speaking out

Islamophobia and anti-Semitism, racism against foreign students and Indigenous people feeling diminished are under the Human Rights Commission's spotlight.

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People with an average student debt will have $1200 wiped from their slate under new rules.
Australia
Georgina Noack

Millions of Aussies wake up to early Christmas gift

Christmas has come early for millions of Australians after the Federal Government returned hundreds of dollars to their bank accounts under a new Bill.

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The federal budget is expected to be $21.8 billion worse off than forecast over the next four years. (Darren England/AAP PHOTOS)
Politics
Jacob Shteyman

Aussies in for higher taxes, service cuts to fix debt

Widening budget deficits and growing interest payments will limit Australia's flexibility to fix the problems of the future, economists have warned.

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Arrivals are down but fewer are packing their bags, denying a hoped-for reduction in net migration.
Australia
Farid Farid

Arrivals down but fewer Aussies are packing bags

The government's goal of reducing net migration has been frustrated despite lower arrival numbers, with fewer people choosing to leave Australian shores.

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There’s only one way to extract us from a decade of deficits, writes Jackson Hewett.
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Australia
Jackson Hewett

There’s only one way to extract us from a decade of deficits

JACKSON HEWETT: Jim Chalmers may claim that ‘responsible economic management is the hallmark of the Albanese Government’ but there’s only one way to extract Australia from a decade of deficits.

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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.
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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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