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Big emitters would be spared from a pollution tax under the Coalition’s plan to scrap climate change targets, shadow minister Dan Tehan says.
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Stephen Johnson

Coalition’s new plan spares big polluters from penalties

Pollution penalties on Australia’s big miners and energy companies would be scrapped under a Coalition plan to make carbon emission reductions voluntary and introduce a nuclear power industry.

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Anthony Albanese snapped a selfie with Donald Trump at a UN General Assembly reception.
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Terry Denton, left, and Andy Griffiths.

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Treasury expects fertility levels to plunge to a new record low during the next 40 years.

Senior Libs resist calls to revive controversial baby bonus

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David Koch wants Reserve Bank Governor Michele Bullock to calculate and publish what proportion of official interest rates are due to government spending.
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Anthony Albanese snapped a selfie with Donald Trump at a UN General Assembly reception.
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Hours after threatening the US could "annihilate" Iran, President Trump said a deal was close. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

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AI could eclipse the Industrial Revolution and the internet, US President Donald Trump told the UN.

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Journalist Vaughn Hillyard, White House correspondent for MS NOW, reports across the street from the White House in Washington DC.

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Penny Wong and Anthony Albanese in New York.
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Wong’s warning to Trump, Xi over nuclear-style limits on AI

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American companies should be celebrating. China is on the verge of a grand opening of its markets to them, claims Donald Trump. 

Will Trump’s Chinese market hype prove itself a paper tiger?

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Supporters of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) gather with German flags to hear AfD lead candidate Ulrich Siegmund speak.
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Nostalgia and lost pride: The fuel for Europe’s far right

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