Australia

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese praised West Australians’ generosity at Telethon before setting an ambitious target for fundraising as he announced a $6 million contribution from Canberra.
Australia
Dylan Caporn

PM announces $6 million donation to Telethon

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese praised West Australians’ generosity at Telethon before setting an ambitious target for fundraising as he announced a $6 million contribution from Canberra.

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Copacabana’s new resident is just a poor boy, from a poor family
Political
Cameron Milner

Albo-hemian Rhapsody: Just a poor boy from a poor family

CAMERON MILNER: The PM’s $4.3 million clifftop mansion saga is an Albo-hemian Rhapsody of sorts — he’s just a poor boy, from a poor family!

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Australia will gift 49 M1A1 tanks to Ukraine.
Europe
Jake Dietsch

Australian tanks to Ukraine as aid total to hit $1.5b

Nearly 50 tanks will be sent to Ukraine in a further Australian contribution to the nation’s fight against Russia, bringing the total aid package to $1.5 billion.

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Leela Giannasi with her 14 month old son Lucca Voigt Andrew Ritchie
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Australia
Rebecca Parish and Claire Sadler

Australia’s birth rates plummet to record low

Australia’s fertility rate hit a record low of 1.5 births per woman, the lowest since 1935. The number of babies born in 2023 was also at a 17-year low.

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7NEWS cameras have gone inside Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s childhood housing commission home in Camperdown, Sydney.
Australia
Chris Reason

Exclusive: Inside Albo’s childhood housing commission home

It comes as the PM faces criticism for buying a $4.3 million dollar clifftop home.

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Australian Border Force Commissioner Michael Outram at the National Press Club.
Australia
Jake Dietsch

Foreign regimes ‘will use gangs for their dirty work’

Outgoing Border Force commissioner Michael Outram said Australia was still failing to grasp the threats to our border and warned a failure to spend now to protect it would cost much more in the long term.

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Anthony Albanese could broker world peace and Australians would still gripe that he hasn’t done enough to address the rising cost of living, writes Andrew Carswell.
Political
Andrew Carswell

There’s only one thing that matters to voters right now

ANDREW CARSWELL: Anthony Albanese could broker world peace and Australians would still gripe that he hasn’t done enough to address the rising cost of living. 

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been forced to defend his Government’s performance after the latest Newspoll showed Labor lagging behind the Coalition.
Australia
Katina Curtis

Albanese forced to defend performance after poll shock

Anthony Albanese has been forced to defend his Government’s performance after polling showed Labor lagging behind the Coalition for the first time. 

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Labor MP Peter Khalil, the Federal Government’s special envoy for social cohesion, has had his office vandalised.
Australia
Katina Curtis

Labor MP and social cohesion envoy’s office vandalised

Labor MP Peter Khalil, the Federal Government’s special envoy for social cohesion, has had his office vandalised with symbols associated with Hamas and doused in an unknown substance.

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Tanya Plibersek insists environment talks are ongoing with the Greens and the Coalition despite the Opposition saying there has been “stunning silence”.
Australia
Katina Curtis

‘Silence’: Plibersek insists environment talks still ongoing

Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek insists she is still in talks over the Government’s planned environmental watchdog despite the Opposition warning there has been ‘stunning silence’ on the legislation.

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Video
Nat Barr and Tanya Plibersek on Sunrise on Monday morning.
Politics
Katelyn Catanzariti

Nat Barr grills Labor minister Tanya Plibersek as government hits the wall: ‘Don’t say you don’t listen’

New polling shows the Coalition leading Labor for the first time since the 2022 election.

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Calls by lobby groups to change the definition of a small business have been slammed by the ACTU. (Mick Tsikas/AAP PHOTOS)
Politics
Tess Ikonomou

Warning as a million Aussies could lose ‘significant’ rights

Up to one million workers would lose ‘significant’ rights under changes being mooted for businesses, the Australian Council of Trade Unions warns.

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The Federal Energy Minister seems to think hydrogen is a magic elixir that will cure all our ills - he couldn’t be more wrong.
Opinion
Paul Murray

Chris Bowen’s plans are a waste of time and energy

PAUL MURRAY: The Federal Energy Minister seems to think hydrogen is a magic elixir that will cure all our ills - he couldn’t be more wrong.

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Video
Fresh details have emerged about King Charles and Queen Camilla’s visit to Sydney and Canberra. File image
Australia
Bryce Luff

Where to catch King Charles and Queen Camilla during their Australian tour

Fresh details have emerged about the royal visit down under.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been forced to reassure Japan that Australia remains a reliable supplier of gas.
Australia
Dan Jervis-Bardy

PM forced to reassure anxious Japan over gas supply

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been forced to assure Japan that Australia remains an ‘absolutely reliable’ supplier of gas amid ongoing concerns the Government’s policies threaten supply.

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