Politics

Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers.
Politics
Neale Prior

Labor steers Future Fund to housing, green plays

The Albanese Government is calling on the $230 billion Future Fund to help fix Australia’s housing crisis and bankroll green energy projects. 

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Minister for Communications Michelle Rowland.
Politics
Dan Jervis-Bardy

Tech giants face huge fines for breaking social media ban

Social media companies would face fines of up $50 million for failing to stop children under-16s accessing their platforms

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Labor has been accused of botching the onshore asylum process.
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Australia
Nicola Smith

Labor accused of losing grip on asylum process

The Coalition has accused Labor of mishandling high numbers of onshore asylum claims in a further sign it intends to put immigration front and centre of its election campaign.

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Donald Trump appears on the Joe Rogan Experience.
Political
Isabelle Mullen

Why Trump’s Joe Rogan interview may have won the election

ISABELLE MULLEN: Americans are sick to death of politicians, and Donald Trump was the only presidential candidate who didn’t sound like one. 

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Jim Chalmers is running out of road, writes Jackson Hewett.
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Politics
Jackson Hewett

Jim Chalmers is running out of road. And help isn’t coming

JACKSON HEWETT: As much as Treasurer Jim Chalmers tried to put a positive spin on things in his ministerial statement on the economy, the trend doesn’t look good.

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The US Embassy in Kiev.
World
Max Corstorphan

US closes Ukraine embassy over ‘significant attack’ threat

The US embassy in Kyiv warned of a ‘potential significant air attack’ and shuttered its doors, following Russia’s vow to respond after Ukraine fired longer-range US missiles at its territory for the first time.

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Linda McMahon, pictured with husband Vince McMahon has been selected by President-elect Donald Trump as US Secretary of Education.
US Politics
Max Corstorphan

Trump picks WWE personality as education secretary

President-elect Donald Trump has selected one of the biggest names in the WWE universe to become Secretary of the Department of Education.

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A sign warns of land mines in Ukraine's Kherson region in 2023.
World
The Washington Post

Biden undoes own policy in his latest move to arm Ukraine

It comes as part of a sweep of urgent actions the lame-duck Biden administration is taking to help Kyiv’s faltering war effort.

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Kevin Rudd has broken his silence after President-elect Donald Trump won the US election, declaring Australia is ‘ready’ to deal with another four years of a Trump administration.
US Politics
Katina Curtis

‘We’re ready’: Rudd breaks silence after Trump election win

Kevin Rudd has broken his silence after President-elect Donald Trump won the US election, declaring Australia is ‘ready’ to deal with another four years of a Trump administration.

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Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers says the days of revenue windfalls in the Federal Budget are over.
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Australia
Dan Jervis-Bardy and Katina Curtis

Budget surplus days over as iron ore, jobs bite

Tumbling iron ore prices and a softening labour market has hit Federal coffers, leaving Treasurer Jim Chalmers with a ‘sliver’ of the revenue windfalls that have propped up his Budget bottom line.

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The average total remuneration gender pay gap has dropped 0.6 percentage points to 21.8 per cent. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)
Business
Poppy Johnston

Pay gap narrows but womenCEOs still left behind men by $150K

Naming and shaming company gender pay gaps appears to be working, with a flurry of employers commissioning probes into the issue and taking action.

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Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles along with WA Premier Roger Cook have held a media event to announce a new agreement in regards to a new shipbuilding Hub in Henderson. PIctured is The Deputy PM in Henderson
Politics
Dan Jervis-Bardy

Dutton spreading nuclear lies: Marles

Opposition leader Peter Dutton has accused Labor of turning Australian into an “international embarrassment”.

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President-elect Donald Trump joins SpaceX founder Elon Musk for the latest Starship launch.
Technology
Max Corstorphan

Trump and Musk hug as SpaceX launch hits trouble

President-elect Donald Trump has joined SpaceX founder Elon Musk for the latest test launch of his Starship rocket, watching on as the vessel spectacularly launched into space before trouble broke out.

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Members of the honor guard carry the coffin of a Ukrainian soldier who was killed during fighting with Russian forces
Australia
Nicola Smith

Marles: Reopening embassy in Ukraine a ‘work-in-progress’

Defence Minister refuses to commit to reopening Australia’s embassy in Ukraine despite cross-party calls to strengthen ties with Kyiv as it marked the grim 1,000-day milestone since Russia’s invasion. 

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Dr. Mehmet Oz is the latest in a string of controversial nominations by Donald Trump..
US Politics
Georgina Noack

Trump picks TV’s Dr Oz to run US Medicare and Medicaid

Donald Trump has chosen celebrity doctor and failed Senate candidate Dr Mehmet Oz - of the self-titled Dr Oz Show - to run the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

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