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Anthony Albanese revealed he will give Labor strategist Tim Picton’s daughter a touching letter after he was killed in an alleged one-punch attack.

FEDERAL POLITICSPremiumPM Albanese in Perth to pay respects at Picton memorial

Anthony Albanese has flown to Perth to attend the memorial service of the party’s former WA secretary Tim Picton after he was killed in an alleged one-punch attack in Northbridge. 

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Liberal MP Melissa McIntosh has labelled ABC’s ‘Always Was Tonight program which aired on the taxpayer-funded broadcaster this week as ‘distasteful and divisive’.

Federal PoliticsCommentsABC should apologise for ‘disgraceful’ comedy show: McIntosh

Melissa McIntosh has called for ABC executives to apologise over a ‘disgraceful’ comedy show she claims is ‘further fuelling division’ and featured children in spit hoods with references to the Ku Klux Klan.

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Chris Bowen at a press conference at the Synergy big battery in Naval Base.

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WA offshore wind projects secure final feasibility licences

Three offshore wind projects vying for a place in WA’s Geographe Bay have inched closer to development after the Federal Government offered them final feasibility licences.

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Australia has left open the possibility of signing on to Donald Trump’s international ‘Board of Peace’ proposed for the second phase of the US President’s 20-point peace plan for Gaza.

Federal PoliticsCommentsAustralia leaves door open to Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’

Australia has left open the possibility of signing on to Donald Trump’s international ‘Board of Peace’ proposed for the second phase of the US President’s 20-point peace plan for Gaza.

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Liberal senator Michaelia Cash abstained from voting on Labor’s hate speech laws, but has since said it was unintentional.

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Michaelia Cash says missing hate law vote was unintentional

Sussan Ley’s authority has again been tested with her most senior opposition senator, Michaelia Cash, last night abstaining from voting on hate crime laws.

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Gun reforms and hate crimes laws in response to the Bondi Beach terror attack have exposed a rife in the Coalition.

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Three Nats resign from shadow ministry after hate laws split

Three National Party frontbenchers who split with the Liberals to vote against Labor’s hate crime laws have sensationally resigned from the shadow ministry, putting further pressure on Sussan Ley’s leadership.

Caitlyn Rintoul and Andrew Greene

Leader of the Opposition Sussan Ley and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra.

Federal PoliticsCommentsMajor hate crime laws and gun reforms set to pass

Labor teams up with The Greens to pass gun control measures before clinching support for a watered-down suite of hate speech laws with the Liberals, despite internal Coalition tensions.

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The Premier said on Tuesday the death of the party’s former secretary Tim Picton was the result of a ‘violent and senseless act’ and vowed he would review whether tougher laws were needed.

state politicsCommentsPremiumOne-punch death triggers review of pub exit laws

The Cook Government will consider lockout times or staggered exits for WA pubs and nightclubs on the back of an alleged one-punch attack that killed a former Labor powerbroker.

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Albanese’s gun laws have passed Parliament without the Coalition’s support.

Federal PoliticsCommentsHate speech laws pass Parliament following gun law call

RECAP: Albanese’s hate speech bill has passed the Parliament after all but one Liberal senator voted with the government to pass the legislation.

Eloise Budimlich, Max Corstorphan, Caitlyn Rintoul and Andrew Greene

Sussan Ley and Anthony Albanese during the Victims of the Bondi antiemetic terror attack - Condolence motion at Parliament House in Canberra.

Politics CommentsAlbo and Ley believed to have struck hate speech law deal

Anthony Albanese looks to have finally struck a deal with the Liberal party that will see his contentious hate speech laws passed through parliament within days.

Caitlyn Rintoul & Andrew Greene

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and parliamentarians stand for a minutes silence for the victims of Bondi.

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‘Responsibility’: PM fronts Parliament after Bondi

Anthony Albanese is eyeing two paths to navigate his legislative response to the Bondi Beach terror attack, passing a watered-down hate crimes bill with the Coalition and gun reforms with the Greens.

Caitlyn Rintoul and Andrew Greene

Australia’s eSafety commissioner is launching a second prove into Grok.

TECHComments‘Heinous’: Second probe into X over disturbing Grok images

Australia’s internet regulator has launched a second investigation into Elon Musk’s X and AI chatbot Grok after a surge of non-consensual generated sexualised images flooding the social media site. 

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