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Victim's terror over false $65k robodebt

An aged pensioner has spoken of the terror and trauma when hit with a false $65,000 debt thanks to the unlawful robodebt income calculation method.

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‘Are you listening?’: Morrison draws wrath of royal commissioner

Scott Morrison has been upbraided for his poor listening skills as he faced the Robodebt royal commission.

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Ex-PM Morrison grilled at robodebt inquiry

Former PM Scott Morrison has claimed he was not privy to departmental discussions over the legality of robodebt in a colourful royal commission hearing.

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‘I don’t know’: Marise Payne unsure why advice for legal change to robodebt disappeared from policy plan

‘Essentially responsibility is always borne by ministers,’ the then human services minister tells royal commission into doomed scheme

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Marise Payne tells Robodebt inquiry she doesn't know when need for legislative changes 'dropped off the radar'

Former Coalition minister Marise Payne tells the Robodebt inquiry the scheme's priority was to make sure the "right people" got the "right amounts".

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Robodebt inquiry, set to hear from Coalition members, hears Services Australia staff were alarmed about scheme

Ahead of Scott Morrison and Marise Payne appearing before the robodebt royal commission, the inquiry has heard Services Australia staff were "incensed" and "alarmed" about the scheme.

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PM pays tribute to police killed in shooting – as it happened

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Former minister to front robodebt inquiry

Former foreign minister Marise Payne will appear at a royal commission into the failed robodebt scheme she helped launch.

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Morrison to appear at robodebt inquiry

Scott Morrison and his former ministerial colleague Marise Payne have been confirmed to appear at the next round of robodebt royal commission hearings.

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Taxpayers to fund legal costs of Scott Morrison and other former ministers related to robodebt royal commission

Attorney general Mark Dreyfus has approved expenses for six former Coalition frontbenchers

The Guardian - AU

Anthony Albanese and Xi Jinping meeting marks potential thawing of relations. Here's what drove the freeze

It's been six years since the Chinese president sat down with an Australian leader, as trade wars, China's growing presence in the Pacific and diplomatic spats soured relations.

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Documents reveal Australia’s efforts to stay neutral as Donald Trump claimed electoral fraud

US political insider admits there are ‘reasons to worry’ for its democracy as allies wonder at damage done to the west’s credibility

The Guardian - AU

Plan to rescue women and children trapped in ‘one of the worst places in the world’

Dozens of women and children in Syria who are "trapped in one of the worst places in the world" will be extracted and returned to Australia after years

The New Daily

A sham sentence after a secret trial for Aung San Suu Kyi's Australian economic adviser

Australian Sean Turnell, economic adviser to Myanmar’s democratically elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi, has been in prison since the military coup of February 2021, awaiting trial for the supposed crime of stealing state secrets.

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A Robodebt royal commission has been announced. Here's how we got to this point

Hundreds of thousands of Australians who were affected by the Robodebt scheme are hoping for answers from the former government.

The Canberra Times

Zed admits 'deep sense of dread' before election loss

In his first media interview since losing his Senate seat, Zed Seselja said he believed voters had made up their minds about the Morrison government before the election.

The Guardian - AU

FOI documents show Peter Dutton’s ‘captain’s call’ to make senior Liberal head of defence thinktank

Documents obtained by Guardian Australia show the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s choice of candidate was overruled by then defence minister

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Russian billionaire Alexander Abramov suing Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong over financial sanctions

Steel mogul Alexander Abramov argues sanctions the federal government has imposed over Russia's invasion of Ukraine have caused him severe reputational damage.

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Russian billionaire sues over reputation

A Russian billionaire has launched legal action against Australia's foreign minister, claiming sanctions imposed over Ukraine have caused reputational harm.

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‘Witness K and Bernard Collaery are heroes’: how Australia made two men pay for its dirty secrets

Decision by new government to abandon prosecution prompts widespread relief from lawyers and supporters in Australia and Timor-Leste

The Guardian - AU

Dfat bungle delayed visas for former Afghan embassy employees at risk from Taliban

Exclusive: Freedom-of-information investigation reveals error in urgent submission to then minister Marise Payne

The Guardian - AU

‘Considerable strain’: how Australian officials saw the China rift

Officials kept in ‘regular contact’ with Chinese embassy even as Morrison government ministers frozen out, FoI documents shows

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The key to understanding Morrison's devastating election loss was hiding in plain sight

The key to understanding the catastrophic election result for the Coalition is sitting in plain sight: Voters haven't changed, the Liberal Party has.

The Conversation

'Mutual respect and genuine partnership': how a Labor government could revamp our relationship with Indonesia

During the election campaign, Anthony Albanese singled out Indonesia as a key regional partner.

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Australian election briefing: Morrison has a leaky cabinet while Albanese campaigns with Julia Gillard – plus the vibe is tired

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