Marles targets defence spending as US ratchets up the pressure
Defence Minister Richard Marles has left the door open to lifting defence spend after a key Trump administration appointee called for a massive rise in Australia’s military spending.
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Airport closes, voluntary evacuation begins as Alfred approaches
The Gold Coast airport has closed and the Queensland Premier says ‘now’s the time’ to leave at-risk properties after 70 people evacuate from South Stradbroke Island. Defence Minister ‘confident’ about AUKUS under Trump.
Four head-to-heads? It’s open to debate
Anthony Albanese has committed to going head-to-head with Peter Dutton on the ABC during the election campaign.
Illegal tobacco set to overtake legal smoking
Australians smoking illicit tobacco will outnumber those consuming legal products in two years, a report warns, as it’s predicted reforming Labor’s policy could generate $18.6bn in excise tax.
Call to share contact details from Burke’s citizenship blitz
Slamming the large-scale events as a ‘reckless politicisation’, James Paterson has written to Home Affairs requesting the release of details of new Australians sworn in, following accusations ceremonies had been hijacked to buy votes.
Albo and Jodie home in on life after politics
Anthony Albanese said his decision to purchase a $4.3m clifftop property as securing a home for him and Jodie Haydon to spend their twilight years in, as he won’t be PM ‘into my eighties’.
Call for action to increase fuel stock
Australia’s reliance on foreign imported liquid fuel is exposing it to ‘geopolitical risks’, a new report has warned, amid calls for the nation to invest in low-carbon liquid fuel production to shore up its supplies.
Dutton hits back at Albanese, saying his time as leader is over
Peter Dutton has declared that Anthony Albanese’s leadership is ‘over’ and the race to replace him is under way, pointing to a flurry of high-profile appearances by senior cabinet ministers as proof they’re waiting in the wings.
Albanese dismisses fears China’s navy rehearsing land-strike mission
The PM played down the presence of the warships amid speculation they will circumnavigate Australia, and the Defence Industry Minister claimed ‘the highest level of surveillance’ was being deployed.
Wife killer fights Labor’s Nauru deportation bid
A murderer who strangled his wife and disposed of her body in acid is fighting Tony Burke’s bid to deport him to Nauru, in a legal challenge to Labor’s plan to send NZYQ detainees to a third country.
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