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Noah Yim is a reporter at The Australian’s Canberra press gallery bureau. He previously worked out of the newspaper’s Sydney newsroom. He joined The Australian following News Corp’s 2022 cadetship program.

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FILE - Sam Altman, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, OpenAI, testifies before a Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, file)

OpenAI: AI can add up to $142bn per year to Australian economy

Unions have been pushing the government to regulate AI robustly, instilling protections for workers who might otherwise suffer job displacement.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. SEPTEMBER 5, 2023: Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations Tony Burke holds a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

People-smuggling boats ‘are smaller, faster’

‘It is the case that the big vessels you used to see years ago isn’t how the operation is being attempted these days, it’s smaller, faster boats that they’re trying,’ Tony Burke said.

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FEDERAL ELECTION 2022 13/4/2022. Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce with David Littleproud at The Old Quarry Alice Springs. Picture Brad Hunter, Office of the Deputy PM

Nationals leader makes personal appeal to Joyce to stay in party

Nationals leader David Littleproud says predecessor Barnaby Joyce should play a ‘very important role in shaping the Coalition’ instead of joining One Nation, as defection fears grow.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - October 16, 2025: Tony Burke MP, Minister for Home Affairs, Minister for the Arts, Minister for Cyber Security & Minister for Immigration and Citizenship addresses the National Press Club of Australia in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Burke stalls on anti-Semitism action

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke has failed to say if or when the government would action any of the recommendations of Anthony Albanese’s hand-picked anti-Semitism envoy, despite saying he ‘think(s) the world of’ her.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos APRIL 07, 2022: Deputy Secretary of Global and Multilateral Group Kathy Klugman, from Foreign Affairs and Trade appeared at Senate Estimates in at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gary Ramage

PM’s top foreign policy adviser named national intelligence head

Kathy Klugman will be the first female head of Australia’s Office of National Intelligence following the appointment of the agency’s outgoing head, Andrew Shearer, as Australia’s next ambassador to Japan.

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Hamas has released video showing that it is carrying out street executions in front of crowds of civilians. Picture: X

Hamas horror on full display as Trump warns terrorists: ‘Disarm now, or else!’

A top US commander has demanded Hamas stop shooting Palestinian civilians after the terror group released a shocking video of militants shooting people in the head.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - OCTOBER 09: The Attorney-General the Hon Michelle Rowland speaks in Question Time on October 09, 2025 in Canberra, Australia. Australia's parliament convened for sittings as a number of pressing issues come to the fore, from inflation and cost of living domestically to Australia's relationship with its allies in the region and beyond internationally. (Photo by Hilary Wardhaugh/Getty Images)

Home Affairs wary on FOI reform

The Home Affairs Department’s stance is out of step with its previous submissions to government bills, which usually explicitly support a bill’s passage.

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(L-R) WA Premier Mark McGowan, Qantas CEO Alan Joyce and Federal Shadow Transport Minister Anthony Albanese are seen before the first direct flight to Heathrow airport from Perth at Perth Airport in Perth, Saturday, March 24, 2018. Supplied by Perth Airport

McGowan re-enters political fray with Labor broadside on debt

The former WA Premier says NSW and Victoria have ‘maxed out’ on debt and cannot deliver infrastructure as cheaply as Labor can in the west.

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President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Argentina's President Javier Milei in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Art of the peace deal: dust hasn’t settled in Gaza but Trump keen to crack Ukraine

Donald Trump has signalled a dramatic shift to ending the Russia-Ukraine war after brokering the Gaza hostage deal, but Hamas’s failure to return bodies threatens his Middle East peace plan.

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Jacinta Nampijinpa Price at a campaign rally for volunteers in Mount Pleasant, Perth during the 2025 federal election on Saturday, April 12, 2025.

Darker skins ‘a bonus’ for voters

Australian voters show unexpected preference for Indigenous political candidates over white counterparts, with left-wing voters particularly favouring dark-skinned Indigenous men, landmark study reveals.

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