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The Treasurer Scott Morrison gives his opposite Chris Bowen a spray.Question Time in the House of Representatives in Parliament House in Canberra.Picture Gary Ramage

Labor warned

New data showing two-thirds of investors who negatively geared property were on taxable incomes of less than $80,000 a year carries a warning for Labor. While 72,000 investors were listed as company executives, 99,000 people claiming rental losses on their tax returns were either teachers, nurses or midwives. Scott Morrison yesterday sought to attack Labor over tax, claiming that the tax burden was already falling on a shrinking group of Australians.

“This burden is also carried by the few, not the many, despite the claims of the high-tax club.” Scott Morrison

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Ex Cairns to The Australian, 26.04.2018Funding for Great Barrier Reef - PICS by BRIAN CASSEY , story German tourists Lucia Marrala, Carolin Tagscherer, Josephine Loeffler and Marie Schuett arrive back in Cairns from their reef cruise day trip to the Great Barrier Reef.Pic - Brian Cassey

Reef rescue

A rescue package for the Great Barrier Reef worth more than $400m will feature in next month’s federal budget, as Malcolm Turnbull seeks to sandbag a band of marginal seats along the Queensland coast.

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Actor and comedian Bill Cosby reacts while being notified a verdict was in in his sexual assault retrial, Thursday, April, 26, 2018, at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa. A jury convicted the "Cosby Show" star of three counts of aggravated indecent assault on Thursday. The guilty verdict came less than a year after another jury deadlocked on the charges. (Mark Makela/Pool Photo via AP)

Cosby convicted

Bill Cosby has been convicted of drugging and molesting a woman in the first big celebrity trial of the #MeToo era, and could spend the rest of his life in jail.

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US President Donald Trump (left) and Fox and Friends co-hosts Ainsley Earhardt and Brian Kilmeade.

Trump spray

Donald Trump lets loose on everything from Russia probe to legal tangles with porn star in a freewheeling live TV interview with Fox & Friends.

“Everyone knows it’s a fix.”

Donald Trump

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Rebels' Billy Meakes (2nd R) runs as Bulls' Marco van Staden (L) dives to tackle him during the Super Rugby rugby union match between South Africa's Bulls and Australia's Rebels at the Loftus Versfeld Stadium in Pretoria on April 21, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / Christiaan Kotze

Saving rugby

Forget the psychobabble, says Alan Jones, who offers his recipe for change to arrest the alarming slide in Australian rugby union as another grim weekend looms in Super Rugby.