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Migrants carry ALP economy
Australia’s economic recovery is increasingly relying on higher immigration, the Reserve Bank has warned, with productivity growth going backwards and unemployment to jump, placing Labor’s economic agenda under increased pressure. As Anthony Albanese...
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Great Resilient Reef: reports of wonder’s death have been wildly exaggerated
Despite decades of scientific consensus that it is facing a catastrophic climate change triggered demise, the Great Barrier Reef is refusing to die. The latest results from the Australian Institution of Marine Science shows that coral cover on the...
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Shock at Frydenberg Bondi inquiry snub
Prominent business, national security and ALP figures are calling on the royal commission into antisemitism to reconsider its “deeply distressing, surprising and puzzling” decision to exclude Josh Frydenberg – the highest-ranking Jewish-australian...
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TWO TECH MOGULS. ONE LOOSE CANNON
Mike Cannon-brookes accused co-founder Scott Farquhar of behaving “like a bully” amid a dispute between the billionaires known inside their Atlassian software giant as “the year of not talking”. The duo, who started Atlassian in 2002 after leaving...
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Victoria, 2026 ... where the Premier has to promise: ‘No more backroom deals’
Victorian Premier Ben Carroll has stepped up his attack on the Daniel Andrews era, declaring there will “never ever” be another hotel-room deal behind a minister’s back and saying the state’s anti-corruption watchdog’s findings have vindicated his late...
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‘Intolerable’ stench of Dan pollutes Premier
Premier Ben Carroll is locked in an integrity war with Daniel Andrews after he savaged the former premier’s conduct as “intolerable”, only for Labor’s exleader to claim he had been vindicated by Victoria’s anticorruption watchdog’s eight-year...
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ALP turns blind eye to house market mugging
Property owners have been warned to brace for a 10 per cent decline in house prices across major east coast cities, undermining Labor’s claims that its budget tax grabs on investors and business owners would not have a hard negative impact on home...
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Calculating predator or target of treachery? Jones’ alleged sins broadcast for all to hear
Graphic allegations of sexual touching and indecent assault against broadcaster Alan Jones have been laid out in court, including that the veteran radio star squeezed the genitalia of a young sportsman who he paid a weekly salary, kissed him without...
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Howard maps migrant middle path for Taylor
John Howard has declared that One Nation’s push for a monoculture is “pointless”, as the nation’s second longest-serving prime minister praised post-world War II migration as a resounding success and advocated for a conservative path for “Australian...
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Arnhem clans strike deals as harmony achieved … it must be a case of Garma
Northern Territory Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro and clan leaders in Arnhem Land have put aside their differences to unveil a series of historic deals on housing, land and business that would see the mining town of Nhulunbuy come under Aboriginal...
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‘Respect, gratitude, good fortune’ … and a dose of alleged ALP biffo on the side
Anthony Albanese is refusing to stand down his special envoy for defence and veterans’ affairs, Luke Gosling, after the Darwin Labor MP was charged with two separate counts of assault against the King’s representative in the Northern Territory. Mr...
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Taking a giant leap towards bright future: Arnhem Land kids fast closing the gap
In the coastal community of Gunyangara, Aboriginal families are closing the gap one school day at a time. The Dhupuma Barker school began humbly in 2021 with two second-hand transportable cabins on an isolated peninsula in Arnhem Land. Today, it is an...
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ALP’S bold new vision: clean up its own mess
Victorian Labor will attempt to cling to power with an audacious 123-day campaign that will repudiate the Andrews-allan legacy, after new Premier Ben Carroll vowed to establish a royal commission into the CFMEU corruption scandal and refused to back...
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FACELESS BEN COUP
Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan has dared Labor MPS to blast her out and risk a bruising six-week leadership contest after refusing to step aside in the face of a challenge from Deputy Premier Ben Carroll and a wide-cross section of her party telling...
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Marles disarms Labor right
Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles privately admitted the wording of the Israel-palestine section of Labor’s new policy platform was flawed, ahead of throwing his factional weight behind a deal that saw national conference endorse a two-state...
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‘This is your (ex-)captain speaking: I’d like to apologise’ … but for what?
Alan Joyce has written a book. No, wait, stop! Don’t run away. He has written it precisely because there is something he wants to say to you, the Qantas customer. First up, he’s sorry. For what, exactly? Maybe for the time he blamed the customer for...
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ALP’S world away from Bondi
Labor’s division over Israel is threatening to overshadow its 50th national conference just months after the Bondi terror attack, with a push to restore demands on Hamas disarming in the party’s policy platform competing with calls for stronger...
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Labor declares a new enemy number One
Outgoing ALP president Wayne Swan will declare One Nation has usurped the Coalition as Labor’s biggest electoral threat and warn against predicting Pauline Hanson will fade out ahead of the next election, as Anthony Albanese expands taxpayer-funded...
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Aussie ISIS bro shock: ‘Dr Jihad’s not dead’
One of the nation’s most infamous Islamic State fighters, the Perthborn pediatrician dubbed “Dr Jihad” widely presumed to have been killed in Syria nearly a decade ago, is alive, imprisoned in an Iraqi jail and one of 13 Australian men linked to the...
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Enter the dragon, but Aussies not so spooked
A major split has emerged in the electorate over whether President Xi Jinping’s China poses a significant threat to national security, with a growing number of left-leaning and universityeducated voters rejecting threats posed by Beijing despite the...
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Miners face smash and grab
Mining royalties and company tax payments have plunged by almost $25bn in two years, with falling coal and commodity prices alongside rising operating costs hammering federal and state government resources cash cows. New industry modelling obtained by...
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On a fast track to stardom without fame
If you asked the average sports fan who is the fastest ever woman to run for Australia, it’s likely sprinting legends Marjorie Jackson and Raelene Boyle would get a few votes. Maybe Cathy Freeman, even though the 100 metres wasn’t her best distance....
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Ministry of youth tax hits
Labor’s capital gains tax overhaul, combined with one of the most punitive income tax rates in the world, threatens to punish younger Australians significantly more than other generations, new analysis reveals. The Australian’s modelling shows a young...
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Agent of change: PM’S about-turn on AI laws
Anthony Albanese has delivered a U-turn on artificial intelligence regulation by vowing to develop a world-leading framework of laws specifically targeting the technology, prompting business to warn against designing standards that are out of line with...
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‘We train Ukrainians to be better at killing Russians’: ADF troops warn of key shortages
More than 40 Australian soldiers have been deployed to Camp Jomsborg in Poland to train Ukrainian squad and platoon leaders, but they have discovered the same problem befalling troops on the frontline: equipment shortages. Members of the Australian...
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‘Immeasurable loss’: Star who found a special place in our hearts
Beloved actor, writer and celebrated winemaker Sam Neill has died in Sydney at 78, leaving behind an exceptional artistic legacy and lasting reputation for his talent, kindness and wit. The death of the Jurassic Park star – who had a lengthy battle...
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Strait back to the beginning
The Middle East is spiralling back into an open-ended conflict as Washington and Tehran traded fire amid a collapsing ceasefire, with the US warning Iran would “pay” after it tried to close the Strait of Hormuz and resumed its attacks on Gulf...
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From hotbox to hope: a new way of living
Warumungu elder Norman Frank Jupurrurla and partner Serena Morton Nabanunga see their beautiful Tennant Creek house as more than mud bricks and steel. “She feed you, she give you a clean home, she give you somewhere to stay, sleep, live. It’s like...
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Modi comes bearing gifts on trade, defence
Anthony Albanese and Narendra Modi have pledged a major expansion of the nations’ defence ties, cleared the way for billions of dollars worth of uranium sales to India, and vowed to fast-track a new free-trade agreement and bilateral investment...
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Point made: Cleary conquers The Cauldron
Nathan Cleary has a point to prove. He goes out and proves it. Leads NSW to a thunderous victory. No longer can his legacy be questioned. Suncorp Stadium was humming for the State of Origin decider. Few fortresses in world sport are defended so...
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‘Provocative’: PM strikes back at Beijing
Anthony Albanese has blasted China’s “provocative” launch of a nuclear-capable missile in the Pacific and backed Trump administration warnings over its “rapid and opaque” weapons build-up in his strongest rebuke of Beijing’s actions since taking...
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Fiji deal: China goes ballistic
China has sparked furious condemnation after firing a longrange missile into the South Pacific just hours after Australia signed a far-reaching military alliance with Fiji that could be joined by other island nations. The missile with a dummy warhead...
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AI sway: unions steer ALP
Labor’s draft policy platform has been significantly amended to insert a raft of union priorities for regulating artificial intelligence, tying Anthony Albanese to a more heavy-handed oversight over the technology’s rollout after this month’s national...
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‘A different planet’: rare visit to Painted Hills’ secret landscape
You wouldn’t think that the Painted Hills of Anna Creek were made of humble mudstone. The multihued outcrops glow like amber in the late-afternoon light. If you’re among the lucky few to have experienced the otherworldly quality of this landscape deep...
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The Socceroos are bigger than Texas – and a mirror to a multicultural nation
The Socceroos are a team for the people. All the people. In all our differences and divergences. All our ethnicities and backgrounds. All our races and religions. Multiculturalism is at the heart of their message and identity. Amid charged...
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Secret documents reveal how Biennale paid out its Israel-hating ‘ambassador’
Secret emails between the Biennale of Sydney and Creative Australia reveal how the nation’s premier arts event managed a rolling series of controversies over anti-israel fervour among invited artists, including one Biennale ambassador accused of...
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Bowen’s world COP goals
Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen says he is not expecting this year’s COP summit to provide “massive breakthroughs” on global climate action but declares Australia will benefit economically from his role as its president of negotiations,...
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The Lowy manifesto to crush antisemitism
Prominent business leader Steven Lowy has called for dedicated police to protect Jewish Australians and national service for young people to counter an unrelenting torrent of antisemitism, in searing testimony to the Bondi massacre royal...
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Labor faces a matter of trust
Employers are ramping up their campaign against the next round of tax hikes to hit parliament by warning there are up to 400,000 small business owners who will be slugged by proposed reforms to trusts, arguing it would impact livelihoods and exacerbate...
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Didn’t score, didn’t win … did go through: Socceroos soar from ocean to red centre
They know them everywhere now. Our gritty, gutsy and go-get’em Socceroos were even beamed into the ghost town of Kookynie on the edge of the Great Victoria Desert on Friday. There, in a 130-year-old iron cottage built during the West Australian gold...
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Accused of her bashing, tycoon resumes court-sanctioned contact with his wife
Besieged media boss Antony Catalano has resumed contact with his wife, three months after he was accused of brutally bashing her inside their luxury penthouse. The public reunion comes just weeks after a magistrate relaxed Mr Catalano’s bail...
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‘Iran’s assassins could murder on our soil’
Spy chief Mike Burgess is “gravely concerned” about the temperature and trajectory of terrorism threats following the Bondi Beach massacre and has warned that an Iranaligned group waging terror in Europe could co-ordinate assassinations, arson and...
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Video of nurses cut from antisemitism trial: twist in case that shocked nation
A viral video of two Sydney nurses allegedly making vile antisemitic threats to “kill” Israeli patients has been excluded from court proceedings after a judge found it was unlawful to record and share the private conversation, as the defence raises the...
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‘My time is over’: tearful Starmer leaves Britain in even more political limbo
Britain faces up to three months of political limbo after a tearful Keir Starmer resigned as British Prime Minister, having spent less than two years in the role. After months of increasing pressure and speculation, Sir Keir announced on Monday...
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Canberra chickens are roosting on state balance sheet: Treasurer EXCLUSIVE
Queensland Treasurer David Janetzki has raised alarm over the hit to revenue from reduced stamp duty thanks to Jim Chalmers’ surprise tax changes, blaming “Canberra uncertainty” for undermining the upcoming state budget. As auction clearance rates...
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MEDICINE CALAMITY
Australian patients risk losing access to lifesaving medicines, with the nation “cleaved off” from global drug development, amid growing demands for the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme to pay more for innovative therapies. One of the nation’s leading...
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FLIPPIN’ NOT ENOUGH
Employers, entrepreneurs and an ex-labor premier have dismissed Anthony Albanese’s olive branch on his capital gains tax overhaul as insufficient in addressing the bill’s “devastating consequences”, after the ALP offered small business major...
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Hanson’s insurgency: hot war on every policy
Pauline Hanson has launched a battalion of policy wars with Labor and the Coalition heading into the next election by pledging massive cuts to government spending while ending the “transgender insurgency” and Islamic fundamentalism in Australia. The...
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Strategy of the rebellion
One Nation’s star recruit Barnaby Joyce is set to take on Jim Chalmers as the populist party’s Treasury spokesman and bid to sharpen an economic agenda labelled vague and expensive, as Anthony Albanese goes on a cost-of-living blitz to starve Pauline...
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Iran truce but PM eyes peace offering to voters
Anthony Albanese is considering new cost-of-living relief measures and extending the $2.5bn fuel excise cut beyond June amid voter frustration following the budget, as economists warn against ongoing stimulatory spending following an initial peace deal...
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Socceroo young guns storm world stage with double shot of glory
This is how you have a crack. The Socceroos were sledged as inferior, unworthy opponents by Turkey before their World Cup clash in Vancouver. They absorbed 27 minutes of intense pressure before a rocketship called Nestory Irankunda found space and...
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Rare Eyre: centre awash like ’74
The Australian continent’s chameleon centre has changed colour and character, smiling beneath a big, blue outback sky. The formerly parched sand dune country enfolding Kati Thanda-lake Eyre is now lush and green. Not since 1974 has the vast salt pan...
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Judge’s unflinching verdict: egregiously slow colleagues are a threat to rule of law
In an extraordinary rebuke, Federal Court judge Ian Jackman has named and shamed six fellow judges who have failed to deliver decisions in cases up to three years after hearing them, condemning the “egregious” delays as “a real and growing threat to...
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Damning letters reveal Victoria’s rot as Allan’s premiership teeters on the brink
Premier Jacinta Allan’s government was forced to provide bailout guarantee letters to the state’s fire agency and environmental watchdog after concerns emerged about their deteriorating financial positions, as Labor MPS increasingly conclude a...
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Retaliation first, deal with Trump second
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has defied Donald Trump by retaliating against an Iranian missile bombardment on the Jewish state, in an escalation that threatens to derail Washington-iran peace talks. Shattering the fragile April 7...
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Tearing down status quo
Core support for Pauline Hanson’s One Nation has surged ahead of Labor for the first time in Newspoll history, as Anthony Albanese’s popularity hit record lows and an overwhelming majority of voters declare Australian politics is overdue for a big...
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Farm, family, free-range: Franklin seizes life restart … even the nappy changes
How should a footballer prepare for life after the game? Especially a footballer like Lance “Buddy” Franklin, who was one of the best ever to play? “It’s not an easy transition,” says Franklin. “People struggle. You hear bad stories.” Depression,...
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Disgraced exec’s KPMG cushion: board overrules legal, HR chiefs
The Albanese government is considering a freeze on KPMG after data showed the embattled firm collected millions in public sector audit contracts and as partners continue to depart. Amid another bruising day of parliamentary hearings, which have...
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Greens light on tax turns red
The Greens and crossbenchers are demanding Jim Chalmers extensively wind back his extraordinary ministerial powers in the government’s new tax laws if he wants Labor’s budget revenue raid on property and capital gains swiftly passed through the...
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MARLES GUARANTEES PACT, WARNS XENOPHOBIA A DEFENCE RISK Internal torpedo alert: PM faces AUKUS strife
Anthony Albanese faces a revolt over AUKUS with rebel Labor MPS, former ministers, teal independents and unionists demanding the Prime Minister reconsider his backing of the agreement while claiming there is growing uncertainty over its rollout under...
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Sexy little number that conceals our modesty
The Albanese government has been accused of “cooking the books” by using more than $10bn in veterans’ welfare payments and $2.1bn in intelligence agency funding to bolster its headline “defence spending” figure. A breakdown of the government’s...
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BUSINESS IN AN ABYSS
Exasperated business leaders concede Australians are increasingly uninterested or unconvinced by their campaigns on tax and economic policy, forcing them to consider new, unconventional strategies including mobile game advertisements to reach voters in...
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Koala jab scandal: vaccine debacle exposed by eminent scientist at rival university
The developers of a “historic” vaccine to save koalas from endemic chlamydia disease have walked away from published findings that it slashed deaths by nearly two thirds, amid accusations they have botched the research. Professor Keith Chappell, a...
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THE RAISER GANG
TREASURY CHIEF’S BLUNT MESSAGE TO AUSSIES HIT BY BUDGET TAX INCREASES CONTRADICTORY MESSAGES ON IMPACT FOR NATION’S HOUSING SUPPLY ALBANESE’S CARVE-OUT WARNING: DON’T EXPECT BIG RE-WRITE OF POLICY Treasury secretary Jenny Wilkinson says the proposed...
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Miracle of Saint James for blue believers
Unbelievable. The greatest escape. Nathan Cleary was outplayed for most of the night. Quiet. Ineffective. Overshadowed. Then he inspired a controversial and breathtaking 22-20 State of Origin victory for NSW like he was waving a baton … sealed by a...
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ALP’S budget shambles: rethink, retrofit, repeat
Anthony Albanese has opened the door to potential capital gains tax exemptions for industries other than technology, amid concerns among the business sector and Labor ranks over a landmark policy that is being retrospectively “patched up” and “shifting...
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Labor’s start-up carve-up
Anthony Albanese is leaning towards offering only “narrow” concessions to his new capital gains tax regime for start-ups in the tech sector, as business groups and some Labor MPS push for broader compromises to protect entrepreneurs across the economy...
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‘WITHOUT FAITH, I WOULD FALL APART’ ‘Holding on to hopeful faith’ Watch Chaya Schlanger’s moving message
Wrapped in a protective cocoon between her father and her daughter, Chaya Schlanger is ready to speak publicly for the first time since terrorists robbed her of the man she married 19 years ago: Eli Schlanger, known to so many simply as “the Bondi...
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CARVE-OUT CATCH-22
Concerns are rising inside the Albanese government over how to carve out start-ups from new capital gains tax rules without undermining the changes, as Atlassian co-founder Scott Farquhar and teal MP Allegra Spender join forces to strike a CGT deal for...
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KEATING’S STRONG DEFENCE OF CGT CHANGE MINNS INPUT, MAX PAIN
NSW Premier Chris Minns has thrown a bomb into the Albanese government’s post-budget sales pitch by calling for “urgent action” to reduce the tax burden on workers including the 47 per cent rate paid by those earning more than $190,000. The rare...
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Race to avert ‘kick in entrepreneurial groin’
Labor’s capital gains tax reform is a “grab without any commensurate benefit” that will only hurt workers and force an inevitable political walk-back, ex-reserve Bank board member John Poynton has declared, as business pushes for a complete rewrite of...
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Labor stamps all over trust
Businesses and families across the country face the prospect of a surprise stamp duty bill if they are forced to restructure their trusts in the wake of Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers’ tax changes, as a multi-billiondollar fight looms over the...
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RAGE-BAIT BUDGET
Jim Chalmers and Anthony Albanese’s big-taxing budget has been rated the worst for the economy since 1993, with younger Australians unconvinced that Labor’s new measures will reduce inflation or deliver on intergenerational equity and housing. A...
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Inside the cutting-edge surgery that will change young Oscar’s life for good
Twelve-year-old Oscar Tanner is lying flat on his tummy, his body almost completely covered by blue sterile sheets. His back is cut open. There’s a cavity at the base of his spine and a long incision all the way to his collarbone. At just 25kg, he...
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INCOME TAX WAR
Angus Taylor has vowed to index income tax brackets to inflation if he wins the next election, using his first budget reply speech to roll out a $22.5bn pitch to workers as he aims to restore the Coalition as a viable electoral force. With Anthony...
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