The amount of paracetamol that can be bought over the counter without the supervision of a pharmacist is set to shrink, while psychiatrists will be able prescribe drugs based on ecstasy and magic mushrooms under changes unveiled yesterday. 

A national firearms register will be created to protect Australians from people with “warped ideologies”, as the top spy chief warned national cabinet on Friday “that the threat is real” and the consequences were seen at the Tara shooting. 

Queensland will go ahead with an amnesty aimed at GPs embroiled in a payroll tax stoush which threatened to trickle down to the pockets of patients following a national cabinet meeting on Friday. 

Jesse Bromwich never sensed he would be a Dolphin – but one meeting with Wayne Bennett made him sign on for the most formidable challenge of his career. 

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