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Demorcrat Senator Raja Krishnamoorthi points to leaked text messages from Pete Hegseth during an annual worldwide threats assessment hearing at the Longworth House Office Building on in Washington

Trump’s security team embroiled in fresh data leak scandal

The private data of Donald Trump’s top security advisers can be accessed online, leaving them vulnerable to having spyware installed on their devices

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Anthony Albanese is now expected to call the election on Friday.

Albo finally set to call date of Federal election

Speculation is reaching fever pitch that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will visit the Governor-General tomorrow morning to call the election.

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Federal Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and shadow treasurer Angus Taylor have pledged to repeal Labor’s tax cuts in favour of their own fuel excise.

Peter Dutton, Angus Taylor pledge to repeal Labor’s tax cuts

The Coalition has pledged it will repeal Labor’s $5-a-week tax cuts, saying it needs the money to fund its alternative offering of halving the fuel excise for a year.

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The four leading law firms being attacked by the Trump administration have one thing in common: employing or acting for figures hated by the MAGA movement.

Why big law’s capitulation to Trump may be bad for business

US President Donald Trump’s attacks on four major legal firms have rivals circling to poach potential partners. But putting self-interest above the rule of law will have major repercussions for everyone.

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US President Donald Trump.

Trump drops global tariff bombshell

US President Donald Trump has announced a new 25 per cent tariff on a key industry, saying his action will ‘continue to spur growth like you haven’t seen before’.

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Wall Street closed lower amid investor uncertainty about the scale of Donald Trump's tariffs. (AP PHOTO)

Wall St lower on tariff worries, Nvidia and Tesla drop

US stocks have closed lower amid investor caution regarding the country's tariff policies.

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Undercover shoppers found grocery prices had dropped at all major supermarkets except one. (Darren England/AAP PHOTOS)

Prices dropping for all major supermarkets, except one

It may not feel like it for shoppers at the checkout but data suggests essential groceries are getting cheaper at all but one major supermarket chain.

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Trump’s team says accidentally adding a journalist from The Atlantic to a Signal group chat was a ‘big mistake’.

‘Big mistake’: Trump team scramble as more Signal messages released

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio insists no war plans featured in a group chat on encrypted messaging service Signal between administration officials, as more messages are released.

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Linda Reynolds says Ukraine’s war is “our war”.

‘Their war is our war’: Reynolds pleads not to abandon Ukraine

Retiring Liberal senator Linda Reynolds has used her final speech in parliament to draw a line in the sand over support for Ukraine, warning of a ‘axis of dictatorship’.

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Peter Dutton is facing renewed calls to dump Australia’s 2050 carbon neutral target.

‘It's time’: Dutton faces Coalition calls to scrap net zero

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton is facing renewed calls to dump Australia’s 2050 carbon neutral target by one of his Coalition backbenchers as part of an election promise.

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Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers.

Voter apathy is the biggest threat to democracy

EDITORIAL: This Budget is designed with one intention — to pull the wool over the eyes of Australian voters who mostly, and who can blame them, are paying absolutely no attention.

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The Opposition Leader has vowed to make relief at the bowser one of his first priorities if he is successful at the May poll.

Dutton drives into cost-of-living battle with petrol tax cut

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton will halve the petrol excise for a year in his answer to Labor’s $5 a week tax cuts that the Coalition has voted against in the wake of the Budget.

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BEN HARVEY: To justify his everything’s rosy narrative, Jim Chalmers travelled into the past to find a hypothetical future so he could compare it to the actual present.

The Treasurer fancies himself as our very own Marty McFly

BEN HARVEY: To justify his everything’s rosy narrative, Jim Chalmers travelled into the past to find a hypothetical future so he could compare it to the actual present.

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Treasurer Jim Chalmers.

Labor’s non-compete clause ban ‘could harm business’

Industry groups say Labor’s ban on non-compete clauses unveiled in the Federal Budget on Tuesday could harm small businesses and is a ‘heavy handed’ measure.

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Jim Chalmers has had to unveil bigger deficits to the horizon and beyond.

Budget sugar hits distract voters from grim fiscal reality 

PAUL MURRAY: Let’s be perfectly clear. This is the Budget that Australia wasn’t meant to have. And it shows. 

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