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Grattan on Friday: Trump, tariffs and the Middle East are looming challenges for Albanese

Australia these days receives invitations to big-league international conferences. And so Anthony Albanese will be off soon to the G7 meeting in Alberta, Canada, on June 15-17.

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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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One Nation boosts parliamentary ranks with new senator

Pauline Hanson's party will grow from two to three in the next parliament, having won the final spot in the Senate in Western Australia.

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Pocock says voters have ‘buyer’s remorse’ after Labor approves massive gas development’s 40-year extension

Fortescue CEO also says suggestion Australia can lock in fossil fuel projects and claim progress on net zero is ‘concerning’

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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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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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‘Genocide’: Patrick Dodson condemns Australia’s Aboriginal youth incarceration rates

Former Labor senator also says child removals are a way to ‘eradicate a people from the landscape’

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Labor Members Push Albanese To Sanction Israel Amid Gaza Aid Blockade

Labor members are urging Anthony Albanese to impose sanctions on Israel over its Gaza aid blockade, with calls to protect Palestinians.

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Albanese says ‘we follow our own path’ after UK, France and Canada threaten Israel with sanctions over Gaza

Labor MP Ed Husic and former Labor foreign ministers Gareth Evans and Bob Carr reiterate support for targeted sanctions

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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Australia’s first hijab-wearing senator says older colleague told her to drink wine and ‘dance on table’

Fatima Payman files complaint alleging fellow parliamentarian’s conduct at social function was sexual and racially inappropriate

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MP whose seat was abolished ends up moving houses

Labor's Michelle Ananda-Rajah has won a Senate spot, after her lower house seat in Victoria was abolished in a redistribution by the electoral commission.

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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

The ‘3 day guarantee’ for childcare starts next year. The challenge could be finding quality care

One of the Albanese government’s headline election policies was a “three-day guarantee” for childcare.

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The Guardian - AU

Australia’s youngest-ever senator Charlotte Walker has a lot to learn but says she is ‘not naive’

Walker unexpectedly took the sixth Senate spot for Labor in South Australia at the election on 3 May – her 21st birthday

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ABC doing ‘all the heavy lifting’ as commercial networks abandon local kids’ TV drama

Just $1.75m spent on genre across free-to-air networks as advocates warn of ‘broader erosion’ of cultural investment

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Australia elects youngest ever senator as 21-year-old Charlotte Walker takes office in surprise result

“Obviously, there's a lot of pressure," the 21-year-old senator said

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Who Is 21 Y.O. Charlotte Walker AKA The Youngest Senator In Australian History?

Australia has just welcomed its youngest senator ever, with 21-year-old Charlotte Walker snaring South Australia's sixth upper house seat.

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‘It’s a moral issue’: Jacinta Allan faces backlash from own MPs as pokies reforms stall

Exclusive: Victorian premier confronted at Labor caucus meeting after budget forecasts $5.9bn in taxes from poker machines over next four years

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Labor gains a Senate seat from the Liberals in South Australia, while Jacqui Lambie is re-elected

Buttons have been pressed to electronically distribute preferences for the Senate in South Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory. Labor gained a seat from the Liberals in SA, with the other two unchanged. There’s also been further counting in close lower house seats.

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Pauline Hanson's daughter defeated by firebrand senator

Old faces and newcomers will be welcomed to the Senate as Labor's landslide federal election victory continues to generate surprise results.

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Call for sanctions on Israel over Gaza food blockade

A Labor backbencher is pushing for the Albanese government to impose sanctions on Israel and its top officials over its blockade of food and medicine in Gaza.

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Morning Mail: Call for disaster ‘volunteer army’, car hits Liverpool parade, rock art fears over gas plan

Veteran-led frontline groups say federal funding needed to build 10,000-strong unit; fans injured in victory parade

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Fears Queensland is ‘closed for clean business’ as LNP cancels billion-dollar windfarm despite conditional approval

Green groups and industry war axing of Moonlight Range Wind Farm project risks undermining confidence in renewables

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