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Property investor tax changes will kill the concept of ‘housing flipping’, as owners are warned to divert money away from housing and renovations into investments with more favourable tax incentives.

Warning property tax changes will kill the ‘house flip’

The days of flipping houses could be dead, experts say, in the wake of major changes to investment property taxes.

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Opinion polling is showing a three-way split in votes for Labor, the Coalition and One Nation.

One Nation's polling could herald messy hung parliament

One Nation has eclipsed Labor in opinion polling for the first time, with political analysts suggesting Australia could be headed for future hung parliaments.

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‘This Budget will undermine people’s trust in Albanese,’ writes Michelle Grattan.

Major party panic if elections don’t pop One Nation balloon

MICHELLE GRATTAN: State elections in Victoria and New South Wales could prick One Nation’s very large political balloon. If they don’t, the Coalition will be terrified, and Labor will start to worry.

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Tensions are growing between the Albanese government and the country’s domestic spy agency over counter-terrorism funding.

More ‘ISIS brides’ set to return amid counter-terror stoush

More so-called ‘ISIS brides’ could fly back to Australia within days, as tensions grow between the Albanese government and the country’s domestic spy agency over counter-terrorism funding levels.

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The poor are terrified of inflation again spiralling out control. The rich are worried about taxes eating away at their wealth. Both are furious at Jim Chalmers.

How Labor’s Budget has alienated both the rich and poor

The poor are terrified of inflation again spiralling out control. The rich are worried about taxes eating away at their wealth. Both are furious at Jim Chalmers.

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Andrew Hastie, Ben Roberts-Smith

Andrew Hastie and the campaign to jail Ben Roberts-Smith

The senior Liberal MP has played a role in the campaign to send fellow SAS veteran Ben Roberts-Smith to jail for allegedly executing prisoners.

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Skewering the 2026 Budget has been as easy as shooting Pinocchio in a barrel; it’s so riddled with broken promises it could have been made in Geppetto’s workshop.

BEN HARVEY: If it’s a tax paid upon death, it’s a death tax

Skewering the 2026 Budget has been as easy as shooting Pinocchio in a barrel; it’s so riddled with broken promises it could have been made in Geppetto’s workshop.

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Shadow Minister for Agriculture Joel Fitzgibbon at a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Monday, December 2, 2019. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

Labor MP concedes new CGT regime bad for start-ups

It comes after waves of small business owners used AI-generated images of Anthony Albanese to criticise CGT changes.

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A 3.5 magnitude earthquake hit Kalgoorlie just hours after a 2.5 magnitude tremor about 100m northwest.
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Pauline Hanson has been caught on a hot mic making a rude remark about a journalist following a tense exchange at a press conference.

‘Nasty b....’: Pauline Hanson blows up at journalist

Pauline Hanson has been caught on a hot mic making a rude remark about a journalist following a tense exchange at a press conference.

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Savings measures in the federal budget risk undermining veterans' well-being, advocates warn.

Veteran payouts grow by a whopping $5 billion

Veteran compensation and treatment payments continue to grow as the Federal government makes cuts to other areas of the portfolio to balance the budget.

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A draft of an internal Democratic autopsy of the 2024 presidential election released Thursday argues that former Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign failed to make an “affirmative case” for her

Democrats’ election autopsy puts blame on Biden and beyond

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The Democratic National Committee has released a nearly 200-page draft of an internal autopsy of what went wrong in the 2024 campaign. Here’s five key takeaways from the report.

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Chris Bowen has met with his Turkish counterpart to spruik vehicle electrification.

Chris Bowen spruiks EVs ahead of UN climate summit

Australia and Turkey have revealed that the global oil crisis will prompt a major focus on electric vehicles at the United Nations climate talks in November.

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Mr Trump says the US will recover Iran’s stockpile of uranium while Iran says it should not be overseas.

Trump’s tug-of-war with Iran over uranium stockpile

US President Donald Trump has vowed the United States will eventually ‌recover Iran's stockpile of highly enriched uranium.

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