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Snap poll: Jews attending a Hanukkah event in Caulfield booed Premier Jacinta Allan.

Booing of Victorian premier lays bare a deep political divide

A Hanukkah event in Melbourne provided a snap poll of Jewish sentiment after the Bondi massacre.

  • Chip Le Grand

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Attorney-General Michelle Rowland.

Anthony Albanese to cauterise MPs’ expenses furore as Michelle Rowland moves to repay part of family trip

A fortnight into the furore over politicians’ travel, Attorney-General Michelle Rowland will repay some of a $22,000 trip to Perth.

  • Shane Wright
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More cuts coming as Chalmers reveals $20 billion slice to budget

Jim Chalmers and Katy Gallagher will reveal $20 billion in new spending cuts and changes in the mid-year budget update as they try to bring the deficit under control.

  • Shane Wright

Money Wells spent: Anatomy of an expenses scandal

The expenses saga that dominated headlines this month started at a glittering event in New York, but Anika Wells’ trips and tickets had been tracked for some time.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
Ministers Anika Wells and Michelle Rowland with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in 2023.

Second minister referred to expenses watchdog, PM asks for advice

Opposition leader Sussan Ley has written to the prime minister calling for Anika Wells to be investigated for breaching ministerial standard over the expenses scandal.

  • Brittany Busch
Minister for Communications and Minister for Sport Anika Wells and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Thursday.

Albanese bristles at expenses questions, Wells faces having to hand over metadata

The prime minister has ducked responsibility for the widening MPs’ expenses saga by claiming he was not in charge of the rules in a tense press conference in Canberra.

  • Paul Sakkal, Brittany Busch and Nigel Gladstone
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Communications and Sport Minister Anika Wells.

Albanese is getting close to his ‘I don’t hold a hose’ moment

The prime minister’s sudden insistence the expenses saga has nothing to do with him has left even some of his own colleagues blinking.

  • Rob Harris
Health Minister Tim Nicholls has defended the move and accused Labor of hypocrisy.

LNP opens door to hospital board overhauls, raising spectre of ‘cronyism’

The Crisafulli government made sweeping changes to other boards, but lacked the power to remove health service directors for no reason – until now.

  • Matt Dennien
Communications Minister Anika Wells listens to the prime minister speak about the social media ban.

Australia social media ban as it happened: PM lauds decision as children under 16 barred from social media in world-first; Wells says more than 200,000 TikTok accounts deactivated

Australia’s social media ban is now in effect, with children under 16 barred from some of the most popular social media apps in the world. Look back on our live coverage.

  • Brittany Busch, Bronte Gossling and Ashleigh McMillan
Federal Minister for Communications Anika Wells holds a press conference before attending an event at Kirribilli House.

Wells’ Kirribilli comeback mixes social media crusade with crisis management

Hiding under the doona was not an option for Anika Wells today. So she showed up. Did her job. Powered on. Answered questions. Apologies were not on the agenda.

  • Matthew Knott

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