Politics latest: PM congratulates Trump on 'important moment for world'
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has congratulated President-Elect Donald Trump as he points towards a 'strong economic partnership' with the future administration, despite threats of tariffs.
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No value to nation in deconstructing Australia Day
The hard Left who have campaigned for Indigenous rights over recent decades have often embraced the deconstructionist political philosophy. It has achieved nothing.
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Minister to answer questions in court over child sex victim
Don Punch, now WA Disability Services Minister, allegedly agreed in the late 1980s and early ’90s to a plan to return a child to relatives who had been accused of sexually abusing him and who then allegedly went on to molest him again.
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