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View from The Hill: Pauline Hanson sets new hares running on super

Pauline Hanson’s attention-grabbing policy to give mortgage holders and renters greater access to their super is high populism while being – according to its many critics – low economics and bad for people’s retirement.

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Push for path to appeal computer-determined health care

Independent MPs will back a bill to change the automated decision-making pathways the government uses to determine key health funding.

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Labor referred to corruption body over gambling donors

Independent MPs have called out the federal government for taking donations from gambling companies as negotiations continue on betting ad reforms.

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View from The Hill: government shuts down telehealth-for-VAD bill, defying Labor conference

The government has blocked a crossbench attempt to allow telehealth to be used in voluntary assisted dying care – despite strong support for the measure at last month’s Labor national conference.

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Labor keeps voluntary assisted dying services offline

Doctors will continue to face significant financial penalties for delivering voluntary assisted dying care remotely as Labor knocks back reform efforts.

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Gambling reform deal edges closer as division remains

Labor is confident of securing a deal for controversial gambling reforms, despite concerns the measures do not go far enough to reduce harm.

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Australia prevents telehealth for voluntary assisted dying consults. Why, and could that change?

Labor’s national conference voted to repeal the ban but the PM fears it could undermine medical safeguards. We look at the debate shaping up

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Grattan on Friday: A reluctant Albanese is under pressure over telehealth for VAD

At last week’s Labor conference, which was totally under the prime minister’s thumb, only one issue was contested on the floor: support for the use of telehealth in voluntary assisted dying care.

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Albanese at odds with Labor policy which now says telehealth should be allowed for euthanasia consultations

Campaigners say existing federal ban on phone or video calls for assisted dying consultations adversely affects people living in regional Australia

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BHP ‘laughing’ at Australia’s key climate policy while pocketing hundreds of millions in tax breaks, Pocock says

Outrage as leaked documents reveal mining giant’s backsliding on commitments to slash emissions

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View from The Hill: would a ‘party of independents’ be a contradiction in terms?

The flirtation by some “teals” with the idea of forming a new party is part of the major shakeup underway in our political system, mostly on its conservative side.

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Are The Teals About To Form Their Own Political Party? Everything We Know

Teal independents are talking about forming a party. Here’s who they are, why the idea is on the table, and what it means for Aus politics.

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Critics pay out on PM for 'cowardly' gambling reforms

The Albanese government has drawn scorn from political rivals after tabling its response to the Murphy report on gambling reform in the shadow of the budget.

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Australia Post hikes delivery companies’ fuel surcharge – as it happened

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Lack of response to parliament reports 'disrespectful'

Crossbenchers are demanding more accountability and transparency as important reports into significant issues of concern gather dust on ministers' desks.

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It’s 978 days since Peta Murphy called for a ban on betting ads. What happened to Labor’s pledge to respect parliament?

From gambling to ‘jobs for mates’ and reports left to gather dust, the teals have a shopping list of thorny topics to talk about

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‘Frustrated’ by slow pace of gambling ads reform, Labor caucus wants Wells to act

Documents released under FoI show Wells’ department worried about how gambling reforms would affect sporting codes and media companies

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New behaviour standards are in place for parliament but crossbenchers say question time still rife with bullying

Independent MP Zali Steggall says it’s not always clear who is behind disorderly behaviour – and sometimes it can be a whole section of a political party

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'I own my face': AI deepfake victims may be able to sue

Proposed laws would ban the use of digitally altered or AI-generated audio or visual content that depicts a person's face or voice without their consent.

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Push to ban sneaky move politicians use to scrape data

Hundreds of thousands of Australian voters unknowingly hand their data to political parties each election, in a practice independents want gone.

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‘Time is running out’: Sportsbet offered share of $1m in bonus bets if customers gambled on AFL grand final day

Online bookmaker’s offer, one of a series texted during finals, was valid only if customer took up a suggested same-game multi bet

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Gambling lobby’s sponsorship of Australian parliament’s sports club condemned by crossbench MPs

Exclusive: Kate Chaney calls on PM to remove Responsible Wagering Australia’s membership, which allows sponsors to access ‘key opinion leaders’

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Usman Khawaja says Labor has been ‘100% too slow’ to ban gambling ads to protect children

Australian cricketer says the normalisation of gambling in sport for young people is ‘scary and dangerous’ as government continues to sit on reforms

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Government condemns planned anti-immigration rallies; Taylor defends focus on Marles-Hegseth meeting – as it happened

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Morning Mail: European leaders to support Zelenskyy in DC, productivity boss warns of worse-off youth, Terence Stamp dies

Volodymyr Zelenskyy will be backed by a support crew at White House meeting, including Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron

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