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Psychological injuries at work are now taken seriously, which is good, but it’s costing billions. So what is NSW proposing?

Why is the Minns government rushing to get its changes to workers’ compensation laws passed – and what’s at stake for the psychologically injured?

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Shock NSW Senate result as One Nation beats Labor to win final seat

The button was pressed to electronically distribute preferences for the New South Wales Senate today. All analysts expected Labor to win the final seat, for a three Labor, two Coalition, one Green result. Instead, One Nation won the final seat, for a two Labor, two Coalition, one Green and one…

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Labor gains Senate seats in Victoria and Queensland, and surges to a national 55.6–44.4 two-party margin

Buttons have been pressed to electronically distribute preferences for the Senate in Victoria, the ACT, Queensland and Western Australia. Labor gained a seat from the Liberals in Victoria, with the other two unchanged. I had a wrap of earlier button presses on Tuesday.

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Politics with Michelle Grattan: Zoe McKenzie on everything that went wrong and whether a gender quota could help the Liberals

The Liberals, still reeling from their crushing 2025 election defeat and following with brief split in the Coalition, have a new frontbench and their eyes turning to the long road of rebuilding.

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One Nation claims WA Senate seat – as it happened

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Morning Mail: starving Palestinians break into food warehouse, bowel cancer mystery, Blues beat Maroons

Hundreds of Palestinians storm a UN food warehouse, leaving four people dead; Australia has highest bowel cancer rate in the world for under-50s

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View from the Hill: Liberals and Nationals patch things up and announce a shadow ministry

Two Victorian Liberal women, Jane Hume and Sarah Henderson, have been dumped and a key numbers man has been promoted from the backbench to the shadow cabinet in the new frontbench announced by Coalition leaders Sussan Ley and David Littleproud.

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Who’s in and who’s out: key takeaways from Sussan Ley’s newly unveiled Coalition frontbench

Several moderate Liberals and key Ley supporters have been catapulted into the shadow ministry

The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: reunited Coalition reveals shadow cabinet; Labor approves contentious North West Shelf extension; and very expensive eggs

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Jane Hume among those demoted as Sussan Ley charts new path

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Sussan Ley’s Unveiled Her First Shadow Cabinet — Who’s Been Promoted, Demoted Or Dumped?

The Liberals and Nationals have unveiled who's in and who's out of the new Coalition shadow ministry.

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The Nationals & The Liberals Are Back Together After Week-Long Split

The Liberals and Nationals have confirmed they're getting the band back together, and that a Coalition is back on the cards.

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Morning Mail: Coalition close after ‘comfort’ deal, Labor grassroots anger on Gaza, Trump ‘never evolved’

Littleproud appears confident that Nationals party room will accept deal with Liberals; grassroots want Albanese government to take action against Israel

The Guardian - AU

Gears of War: Reloaded – Everything you need to know about the Gears of War remaster

Gears of War: Reloaded is bringing back one of Xbox's most iconic shooters and it's coming to PS5, too

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Death in custody investigated – as it happened

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Here come the culture wars: can Queensland’s LNP resist wading into the ideological mire?

David Crisafulli’s small-target election campaign has created problems for how the LNP governs that are already beginning to show through

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View from The Hill: Coalition is being glued together again after crisis week

The Coalition is being glued together again, after a Liberal Party meeting on Friday gave the go ahead for Liberal leader Sussan Ley to negotiate with Nationals leader David Littleproud on the fine print of a settlement on policy.

The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: PM’s climate warning; Coalition on track to reunite; and New Zealand’s moose mystery

Albanese says extreme weather events such as the NSW floods are becoming more frequent and intense

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So, Are The Liberals & Nationals Getting Back Together After All?

Days after announcing they would be consciously uncoupling, the parties appear to be in talks of getting back together.

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Morning Mail: push to save Coalition, intense NSW rain heads south, Trump escalates war on Harvard

Liberal MPs appear set to accept the Nationals’ demands and reform their alliance; university ‘banned’ from taking international students

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Ditching the Liberals can put the grunt back into the Nationals – Australia’s rural party

Rural Australia holds the balance of power – if it wants to exercise it – in pretty much every parliament

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Grattan on Friday: if Ley and Littleproud find a way to cohabit, it will be a tense household

Remember that cliche about the Nationals tail wagging the Liberal dog? That tail wagged very vigorously this week, and smashed a lot of crockery, as it sought to bring Liberal leader Sussan Ley to heel.

The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: two Israeli embassy staff shot dead in US; Coalition tries to mend split; and a ruinous relationship with an undercover cop

Suspect in custody after being apprehended by security staff while entering a Washington DC Jewish museum

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Playing the crime card: do law and order campaigns win votes in Australia?

Crime and public safety are usually the domain of state politics. But the Coalition tried to elevate them as key issues for voters in the recent federal election.

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NSW Nationals MPs criticise ‘distasteful’ move by federal counterparts

Fears split with Coalition will diminish party’s relevance and ability to advocate for rural communities

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View from The Hill: Coalition split puts Victorian and NSW Nationals Senate seats at high risk

The Victorian and NSW Nationals senators due to face the voters at the 2028 election will struggle to hold their seats if the former partners do not re-form the Coalition before then.

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