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Australia wants end to Iran conflict after Trump tirade

Australia is brushing aside criticism from US President Donald Trump for not being a help in the war in the Middle East.

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Triple-zero text function could be piloted after outage

Liberal senator Sarah Henderson asked an inquiry why text-to-triple-zero had not been implemented in Australia as a solution after a fatal outage last year.

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ABC says nothing to see here after senator lines up with News Corp over Iran war coverage

Liberal senator Sarah Henderson, backed by Sky News, demands the ABC ‘shut down’ John Lyons for his analysis. Plus: pity the Mail’s Jackie O reporter

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View from The Hill: Angus Taylor appoints Tim Wilson as part of a new-look Liberal economic team

Opposition Leader Angus Taylor has appointed Tim Wilson, the only Liberal to win back a “teal” seat last year, to go head-to-head as shadow treasurer against the Treasurer, Jim Chalmers.

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Liberal leader's unity call as allies rule front bench

Prominent conservatives will return to the front bench as Opposition Leader Angus Taylor unveils his first shadow cabinet.

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Grattan on Friday: How did the Liberals’ first female leader find herself on the mat in under a year?

Sussan Ley always seemed set to be only an interim Liberal leader. If, as is likely, Angus Taylor wins the ballot on Friday morning, he could suffer the same fate.

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Watchdog challenged over triple zero risk in old phones

Customers should be warned by their telcos if their phones are unable to call triple zero in an emergency, the communications watchdog insists.

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View from The Hill: Former Liberal senator accuses ‘the boys’ of using women to undermine Sussan Ley

Former senator Hollie Hughes has gone on a verbal rampage to defend Opposition leader Sussan Ley, accusing “the boys” who want her job of using prominent female colleagues in their efforts to undermine her.

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View from The Hill: Coalition parties jointly cremate net zero, while leadership contenders circle Sussan Ley

The Coalition parties on Sunday formally endorsed a joint policy on climate and energy that drops the commitment to net zero and gives priority to affordable power. But settling this contentious issue has failed to ease the pressure on Sussan Ley’s leadership.

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View from The Hill: Conservative Liberals hold ‘power walk’ before delivering coup de grâce to net zero

The Liberals are set to dump net zero after a strong majority at a special party meeting spoke against the existing commitment to it.

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View from The Hill: Albanese says Whitlam’s dismissal ‘calculated plot’; Liberals consumed by current battle

Anthony Albanese has denounced Gough Whitlam’s dismissal from office in 1975 as “a calculated plot, hatched by conservative forces which sacrificed conventions and institutions in the pursuit of power”.

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Howard blasts 'foolish' comments, backs in Sussan Ley

John Howard warns the Liberals' constant "internal bickering" will stunt their ability to win back the public as he backs in Sussan Ley's leadership.

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View from The Hill: Could the return of Josh Frydenberg help the Liberals’ fortunes?

No matter how many times you see a leader being torn apart, the brutality of it is always shocking.

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Optus backs outage acts after keeping officials in dark

Optus leaders took nearly 18 hours to tell authorities deaths had been linked to a triple-zero outage, but they say the company followed the law.

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Optus execs, regulator get date for Senate grilling

The fallout from the deadly Optus triple-zero outage in September will ramp up as those in charge at the telco face a probe into the tragedy.

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Optus, minister to be grilled as inquiry gets go-ahead

Optus executives and the minister in charge of the triple-zero network will be probed as an inquiry into emergency outages is given the green light.

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Google won’t reveal if it is lobbying Trump about YouTube’s inclusion in Australia’s under-16s ban

Company tells Senate inquiry ban will be ‘extremely difficult to enforce’, will have ‘unintended consequences’ and won’t make children safer

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Briggs warns Australia will struggle to ‘get the genie back in the bottle’ if it doesn’t protect creatives from AI theft

Productivity Commission under fire for failing to consult Australian artists about copyright issues around AI recommendations

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'Pay up': artists, authors argue AI steals their work

Australian musicians, producers and authors want an AI data mining proposal to be scrapped, saying their life's work can be taken for nothing.

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Grattan on Friday: Sussan Ley hasn’t solved her Jacinta Price problem – it may just become bigger

It says everything about the Liberals that the fracas over Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s comments about Indian immigrants became a proxy for the longer-term, debilitating battle over the party’s leadership and identity.

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Right-leaning MPs rally around Nampijinpa Price as she resists calls to apologise to Indian Australians

But Liberals say party has ‘degenerated into open warfare’ over the issue and accuse NT senator of pushing her own agenda

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View from The Hill: Should Sussan Ley extend the apology to Indian community that Jacinta Price refuses to give?

Sussan Ley’s difficulties in dealing with the Jacinta Nampijinpa Price affair have widened, amid signs it could be weaponised by her factional enemies.

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Grattan on Friday: Aggrieved Liberals stamp their feet, testing Sussan Ley’s authority

As any leader of a political party knows, when you demote people they can become difficult, or worse.

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Dumped senator vows to 'straighten tiara', move forward

The highest profile casualty of a new federal shadow cabinet is disappointed she was dumped from the leadership team but has vowed to fight on for the party.

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View from the Hill: Liberals and Nationals patch things up and announce a shadow ministry

Two Victorian Liberal women, Jane Hume and Sarah Henderson, have been dumped and a key numbers man has been promoted from the backbench to the shadow cabinet in the new frontbench announced by Coalition leaders Sussan Ley and David Littleproud.

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