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Angus Taylor says the mid-year economic update shows the Albanese government is 'the biggest spending outside of wartime or crisis' and offers no pathway to restoring standards of living.
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Lib Scott Yung defends undeclared spending, chocolate handouts
The Liberal’s embattled pick for the seat for Bennelong, Scott Yung, has defended his failure to declare thousands of dollars in campaign spending and says he does not regret handing out chocolates to children.
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‘I don’t know them’: Ryan distances herself from Chinese teal volunteers
An election-eve controversy has hit Monique Ryan over volunteers’ links to Beijing, as the Kooyong teal MP distanced herself from a Chinese community leader.
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