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Sarah Ison is a political reporter in The Australian’s Canberra press gallery bureau, where she covers a range of rounds from higher education to social affairs. Sarah was a federal political reporter with The West Australian’s Canberra team between 2019 and 2021, before which she worked in the masthead’s Perth newsroom. Sarah made her start in regional journalism at the Busselton-Dunsborough Times in 2017.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - 20 APRIL 2025. Adam Bandt MP, Greens Leader & Member for Melbourne holds a press conference at 'Small Dog Park' in Melbourne, Victoria on Easter Sunday. Picture: NewsWire / Valeriu Campan

Greens mine climate action as price of power

Adam Bandt has unveiled the last of his key demands for Labor to secure the Greens’ support in a hung parliament.

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Former Minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney speaks during a campaign rally at Parramatta town hall in the electorate of Parramatta on Day 30 of the 2025 federal election campaign, Sydney, Sunday, April 27, 2025. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

Burney flies flag for traditional welcome to country

Former Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney has given a fiery defence of the acknowledgment and welcome to country in the face of attacks from members of the Coalition that the ceremonies are ‘tokenistic’.

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NCA 2025 FEDERAL ELECTION BUS. 27/04/2025. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Australian Opposition Leader Peter Dutton speak during the 7NEWS

Dutton: Welcome to Country ceremonies ‘overdone’, cheapening its significance

The Opposition Leader’s comments have been sparked by booing at a Welcome to Country ceremony during an ANZAC Day service in Melbourne on Friday, prompting debate between Peter Dutton and the PM.

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EXCLUSIVEPolitics

NCA 2025 FEDERAL ELECTION BUS. 26/04/2025 Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on the campaign trail. Launceston suburb of Punchbowl in the electorate of Bass. BBQ for Labor volunteers at Punchbowl Reserve. meeting volunteers, turning sausages and delivers a short speech to the crowd.joined by:Federal Labor's Candidate for Bass, Jess TeesdalePicture: Jason Edwards / NewsWire

Labor launches free after-hours GP hotline

Australians will be able to call a national 24/7 health advice line and access an after-hours GP via telehealth free-of-charge, as part of Anthony Albanese’s final bid to bolster Labor’s health credentials before the election.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - APRIL 25: A Bunurong elder delivers the Welcome to country on April 25, 2025 in Melbourne, Australia. Anzac Day is a national holiday in Australia, traditionally marked by a dawn service held during the time of the original Gallipoli landing and commemorated with ceremonies and parades throughout the day. Anzac Day commemorates the day the Australian and New Zealand Army Corp (ANZAC) landed on the shores of Gallipoli on April 25, 1915, during World War 1. (Photo by Asanka Ratnayake/Getty Images)

‘Un-Australian, disgraceful’: PM, Dutton, Marles join chorus of condemnation for dawn disruption

Anthony Albanese has called for the perpetrators who booed a Welcome to Country at Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance to face the full force of the law, adding his voice to furious criticism from the Opposition Leader, Defence Minister, Victorian Premier and RSL bosses.

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ViolencePolitics

NCA 2025 FEDERAL ELECTION LIBERAL BUS. 23/04/2025Pictured is Leader of the Opposition Peter Dutton as he visits Blacktree Technology at Belmont in the Swan electorate of Perth WA with Shadow Defence Minister Andrew Hastie and Liberal candidate for Swan Mic Fels. Picture: Richard Dobson / NewsWire

Coalition claims DV initiatives have edge

Peter Dutton has vowed to deliver an extra $90m in funding to curb soaring rates of domestic violence across the country, while implementing a register to track perpetrators.

Sarah Ison

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Generic Childcare photo, Kids playing, Kindergarten, Picture: Getty Images,

Keeping activity test will ‘hurt parents’

Peter Dutton’s refusal to continue Labor’s policy of scrapping the activity test for three days of subsidised childcare a week has been met with alarm by advocates, who warn it will ‘hurt parents’.

Sarah Ison

Election 2025Politics

Anthony Albanese holding his Medicare card on the campaign trail.

Butler’s bitter pill reveals painful Medicare truth

Health Minister Mark Butler says some Australians will continue to be charged a gap fee for doctors visits, despite Anthony Albanese telling constituents all they would need is their Medicare card.

Sarah Ison

Politics NowPolitics

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - 23 APRIL, 2025: Mark Butler MP, Minister for Health and Aged Care debates Senator Anne Ruston, Shadow Minister for Health and Aged Care at the National Press Club of Australia in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Some GP patients will still pay gap fee: Health Minister

Mark Butler admits some people will continue to be charged a gap fee under a re-elected Labor government, despite Anthony Albanese saying they only need their Medicare card for doctors’ visits

Sarah Ison, Greg Brown and Ben Packham

EXCLUSIVEPolitics

Activity test: Coalition unveils childcare policy

Peter Dutton would reinstate the activity test for parents wishing to access childcare if he wins the election, reversing Labor’s decision to give three days of care a week.

Sarah Ison

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