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- Bondi shooting
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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- Political expenses
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
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
- Inside Story
- Political expenses
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
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
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- Political expenses
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
- Analysis
- Political expenses
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
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- Queensland government
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
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
- Sketch
- Social media
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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