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Small businesses that rely on family trusts for succession planning would be particularly vulnerable under proposes tax changes.
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Labor’s new family trust laws may force unwanted payouts

Leading estate planning lawyer warns Labor’s new tax on trusts will hit small businesses.

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Australian Robert Pether (far right), who was jailed in Iraq, will reunite with his family. (HANDOUT/DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND TRADE)

‘Now free’: Aussie’s Iraqi jail hell finally comes to an end

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The National Anti-Corruption Commission has abandoned a probe into Bruce Lehrmann. (Ethan James/AAP PHOTOS)

Lehrmann off hook for alleged submarine secrets spill

Australia
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Ben Roberts-Smith at the national commemorative service marking the 25th anniversary of Australian service at the Australian War Memorial.

Australia marks 25th Afghanistan war anniversary in Canberra

Australia
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One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has declared anti-Semitism must be stamped out of Australian politics, claiming that hatred of Jewish people is ‘rampant’ in the Greens and is a ‘cancer’ within the Labor party.

Hanson claims antisemitism is a ‘cancer within Labor Party’

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US Politics

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Donald Trump has blamed Volodymyr Zelenskiy for global diesel shortages.

‘Time for new president’: Trump’s diesel-fuelled Zelenskiy jab

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Donald Trump has unleashed on Norway after the Nobel committee awarded this year's peace prize.

'Disgraceful': Trump rages over Nobel Peace Prize snub

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Russia will immediately supply the US with more than 300,000 tonnes of diesel, Donald Trump says.

Trump’s stunning Russia u-turn as he strikes deal with Putin

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US President Donald Trump has again argued he should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. (AP PHOTO)

Trump insists he deserves Nobel Peace Prize despite wars

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Efforts to resolve the war have hit a road block as Iran is no longer responding to the US. (EPA PHOTO)

Iran snubs US as latest proposal deemed ‘insufficient’

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For someone who prides himself as such a dealmaker, Donald Trump’s concessions to Russia are stunningly bad. 
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Trump’s thirst for Russian diesel exposes betrayal, weakness

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British Prime Minister Andy Burnham says Russia meddled in the 2016 Brexit vote. (EPA PHOTO)

UK PM’s bombshell claim about Russian interference in Brexit

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Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said US President Donald Trump’s social media post about a ceasefire was the first he had heard of it.

Trump declares major breakthrough in Russia-Ukraine war

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