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ASIO boss urges restraint in political rhetoric
Mike Burgess has condemned the Iranian ambassador’s labelling of Israel as 'the Zionist plague', naming Iran as one of 'three to four' countries caught interfering in Australian domestic affairs.
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Detainee uses Labor’s Nauru strategy to avoid deportation
An immigrant detainee freed under a landmark High Court ruling has had his deportation halted over a ‘real chance’ he could be sent to Nauru under Tony Burke’s plan to neutralise political attacks.
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US need for sub base should outweigh pact fears: Cook
WA Premier Roger Cook says Australia’s role in the global nuclear submarine supply chain should help counter any US fears about the usefulness of AUKUS.
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