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The Coalition has admitted its new policy to allow first homebuyers to access their super to pay for a house would jack up house prices.

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Women's Minister Marise Payne refuses to say whether she thinks Katherine Deves, who has been forced to apologise multiple times for controversial comments about transgender people, should be removed while fellow Liberal senator Jane Hume describes her as an "excellent" candidate.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison announces South Australian senator Anne Ruston will take over as health and aged care minister if the Coalition is re-elected, but says he will not decide who will take her Women's Safety and Social Services roles until after the election.

Labor leader Anthony Albanese said the appointment of Social Services Minister Anne Ruston as health minister is a sign of Medicare cuts to come..

A controversial candidate in a prized former Liberal Party seat apologises after a YouTube video emerged in which she compared her lobbying to stop transgender athletes from competing in women's sport to standing up against the Holocaust.

Rick Parsons had two heart attacks and has type 2 diabetes, so taking regular medications are often all that stands between living and dying.

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Advocates are calling on both the government and opposition to commit to changes that will allow the superannuation of criminals to be used for victims' compensation.