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Battle of the budgets begins

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Did Labor's 'reform budget' deliver?

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Will Labor's budget 'pull up the ladder'?

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Where One Nation will target next

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Farrer by-election: The issues that will determine who wins | Insiders

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Will the budget annoy 'rich boomers'?

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Did we invent podcasting?

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It's all about 'sovereign capability'

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Should politicians be 'radically honest'?

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Australia-Japan: friends with benefits?

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How productivity can save the Australian economy | Insiders

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Jim Chalmers is running up that inflation hill

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Pauline's 'sexy' plane and big money politics

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Did Sylvester Stallone snub Canberra?

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The Trump 'ick factor' in Australia

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John Bolton: One of Trump's 'problems is he doesn't know what he wants' | Insiders

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Casey Briggs answers your election questions

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Albanese swings big on NDIS reforms

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The political price of NDIS savings

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The gas tax squeeze

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Is Trump taking the shine off One Nation?

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‘We can't do without them’: Kim Beazley on support for the US alliance slipping | Insiders On Background

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A world full of predators

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It's all a bit 'grim' for Jim

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Taylor tries to 'out-One Nation' on immigration

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Will Albanese's 'petro-diplomacy' work?

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Israel 'assumed' Iran would not disrupt the global supply chains | Insiders On Background

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The populist elephant in the room

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Threats, a ceasefire and strained alliances

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Can you deliver reform during a crisis?

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Labor's gambling reforms - tinker or triumph?

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Did Albo's address meet the moment?

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Is Albanese the 'man with a plan'?

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Carrots, sticks and a gas profits tax

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Albanese reads the room with cheaper fuel

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Reform or handout? That is the question for the Government ahead of the budget

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Capping off a 'binfire' political week

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Progressive patriotism v sovereignty

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All fetta! Australia-EU trade deal inked

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Which political party is listening to Australians?

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Demand for fuel has gone up, but when will petrol prices come back down?

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Why Pauline is the 'main character' in the SA election

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Hastie takes on a 'petulant' Trump

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How one swing voter decided the rate hike

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Was Labor slow to act on fuel fears?

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Dennis Richardson: Intelligence findings into Bondi terror attack 'cannot wait'

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Is One Nation capturing young voters?

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A big week of resignations

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Welcome to Matt Canavan’s ‘hyper-Australia’

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Is Australia 'participating' in the Middle East war?

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Will Farrer be One Nation's 'holy grail'?

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Should Aus join Canada's middle power fightback? | Insiders On Background

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Why petrol prices are 'kryptonite' for governments

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The review Liberals tried to bury

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The new world disorder

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Why Albanese backed Trump's Iran attack

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Can tax reform fix Australia's housing crisis? | Insiders On Background

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PM 'mops up' as Ley officially exits

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A ‘difficult’ week for the PM

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Albanese's 'troubling' bomb scare

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Why is Albanese ruling out a republic referendum?

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Is Albanese playing 'mind games' in Farrer?

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Women and children in Syrian camp "will end up in Australia" | Insiders On Background

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Why is Albanese taking a hard line on 'ISIS brides'?

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Is Taylor's frontbench battle ready?

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By-election booby traps | LIVE SHOW

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The radical realignment of the right

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How will Taylor bring the Liberals back from the brink? | Insiders On Background

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Taylor triumphs, Ley resigns. What next?

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It's on! Taylor v Ley spill

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Taylor set to strike... but how?

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Big personalities, protests and polling

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Coalition frenemies promise to unite

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What is Thriving Kids? | Insiders On Background

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A week of parliamentary drama

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Should we expect bold budget ideas?

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Is a rate rise the government's fault?

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Has Albanese got his mojo back?

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Is Labor tackling gendered violence?

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Why timing is everything in politics

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Spills, inflation and One Nation - oh my!

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Is a rate hike now imminent?

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Could 'freelancers' decide the Liberals' future?

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Is Sussan Ley's leadership 'toast'?

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Libs, Nats, One Nation and the fight for the right

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The Coalition is 'done'. Are Ley and Littleproud too?

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Are the Nationals testing Sussan Ley?

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Will hate speech laws split the Coalition?

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Parliament returns - but it's not 'politics as usual'

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Labor accountability and negative gearing caution

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Will Ley rejecting hate speech laws backfire?

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Kerrynne Liddle doesn't believe in one-size-fits-all

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Why Kevin Rudd resigned as US Ambassador

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Is Albanese's year off to a bumpy start?

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Why the PM announced a royal commission

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Gambling ban, the glass cliff and Dutton’s ‘disappearance'

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Larissa Waters is a shameless optimist

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Why 2026 will be a 'pollster's picnic'

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Josh Burns on how you create change

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A political year in review

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Tim Wilson on what makes a good society

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Why immigration is back on the agenda

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A 'not perfect' PM acts on Bondi

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The hard questions about Bondi begin

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John Howard's warning to Anthony Albanese

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Will the Bondi shooting lead to gun reform?

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Are politician perks a 'pisstake'?

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Why the housing crisis is such a 'wicked problem'

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Will Anika Wells keep her job?

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Barnaby makes One Nation flirtation official

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Tackling racism 'not a priority' for Govt, says Race Discrimination Commissioner

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Will Labor muscle-up on gambling reforms?

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Social media ban looms. Are we ready?

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Is the 'jobs for mates' era over?

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Albanese and the low-key 'royal wedding'

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Economic Report Card | Insiders On Background

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Barnaby to defect and enviro laws to pass

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Is Labor the better economic manager?

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High steaks for Pauline and Barnaby

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Net zero gains for Sussan Ley

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Why miners want a deal done on new environment laws | Insiders On Background

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Did the PM get his ideal COP outcome?

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Labor’s COP out on science

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Another leader bites the dust

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Sussan Ley is 'fighting for her political life'

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The long road to treaty | Insiders On Background

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Sussan Ley killed net zero. Will it save her?

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Why the Libs ditched net zero

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Liberals face net zero D-Day

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Annabel Crabb on our 'unusual' democracy

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Do leaders need political conviction?

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The Whitlam dismissal | Insiders On Background

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Does the Coalition respect Sussan Ley?

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Can Sussan Ley survive the summer?

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A rate 'bump in the road' for Labor

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Are the Coalition about to split (again)?

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Can Labor reform Australia's environment laws? | Insiders On Background

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Did Sussan Ley overreach on 'shirtgate'?

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Antony Green on the rise of One Nation

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Is Labor ‘taking the piss’ on integrity?

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Is this Labor's biggest test yet?

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What does Trump really think about China? | Insiders On Background

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How Albanese won Trump over

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What Trump's China message means for Australia

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Albanese heads home with a Trump card

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Is Barnaby the new Pauline Hanson?

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What will happen when Albanese meets Trump? | Insiders On Background

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Is 'fear' behind Labor's super-sized backdown?

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Channelling Farage or chasing Teals?

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Why support for One Nation is rising

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Did Albo hand Chalmers an 'excrement sandwich'?

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Optus' communication breakdown | Insiders On Background

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Leaky Liberals and Optus email blunders

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Is this an episode of Utopia?

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Did Labor ignore triple zero 'red flags'?

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Peter Dutton enters the chat

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🚨What Hastie quitting means for Sussan Ley

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Will Palestinians support Trump's peace plan? | Insiders on Background

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Is Australia more than a middle power?

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Is Labor putting out the housing fire or fanning the flames?

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Trump has a plan for peace. Will it work?

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Albanese and Starmer stare down populism

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Alastair Campbell on Trump: "What the f is he talking about?" | Insiders On Background

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Albanese and the brave new world order

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Albanese and Trump lock in a date

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Has Sussan Ley gone 'rogue' on Palestine?

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Australia splits with US to recognise Palestine

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Matt Kean urging opposition to back govt's 2035 emissions target || Insiders: On Background

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Labor unveils 2035 climate targets. What next?

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Did Trump just confirm a meeting with Albo?

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Will Ley survive the climate wars?

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Will Labor's climate target be ambitious?

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What should Australia's 2035 climate target be?

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Is Sussan Ley's leadership in trouble?

175

PM condemns Israel's Qatar strike

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Battle of the bribes in the Pacific

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Are the Liberals in a civil war?

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Bob Carr on China’s military might || Insiders: On Background

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Quiet Nauru deals, loud immigration protests

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Is the government taxing information?

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Can Labor fix home support for older Australians?

182

The government condemns anti-immigration rallies

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How should governments respond to the 'sovereign citizen' movement? || Insiders: On Background

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Canberra, Iran and a curious photo op

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Is the government doing enough on sovereign citizens?

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Iran 'orchestrated' attacks on Australian soil

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A housing pitch and a net zero brawl

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Are working-age Australians being ripped off by the tax system? || Insiders: On Background

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Sizzle or fizzle? The verdict on the Roundtable

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Netanyahu lashes out and Tony Burke fires back

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Tension in a tit-for-tat visa cancellation

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Putting productivity on the Reform Roundtable

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Let AI boost productivity and growth, business leaders urge against 'over-regulation' || Insiders: On Background

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Whose economic summit is it anyway?

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What the PM thinks about a four day work week

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A win for Labor as the RBA cuts rates

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Australia will recognise Palestine

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How do we keep big tech in line? || Insiders: On Background

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A reform roundtable looms as a bridge march reverberates

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Jim Chalmers' newest economic friend is AI

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We might be watching Albanese's 'big moment'

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Younger voters put negative gearing back on the agenda

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'Solutions are known, but rarely acted upon': Why are governments failing to Close the Gap? || Insiders: On Background

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'Not if, but when' we recognise Palestine

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The UK draws a line on Palestine

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How do we react to another Trump tariff bombshell?

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Albanese sharpens criticism of the Israeli government

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How do we fix the childcare sector? || Insiders: On Background

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Why this speech made the PM tear up

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How did Sussan Ley perform in her first Question Time?

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Pomp, ceremony and political division

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The 'stark' gender split in parliament

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What does the PM's trip to China mean for Taiwan? | Insiders On Background

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Laura Tingle on the PM, Trump and Xi

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What the PM did and didn't say to President Xi Jinping

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Does Labor have a chance to be ambitious about housing?

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Will the PM find a friend in China?

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Charm Offensive: China and US relations | Insiders On Background

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'Racism' in the NT police. Will the government push for change?

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Will Trump's tariffs make medicine more expensive?

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Why the RBA held rates

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Is Australia's multicultural project in trouble?

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Linda Burney: Yoorrook Commission lays "very fine blueprint for the way forward"

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Our childcare system is facing a 'reckoning'

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What Labor needs to do about child safety

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Can Albo fix our 'messy' gas market?

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Why Albo is under pressure to meet Trump

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Kylie Moore-Gilbert on the situation in the Middle East | Insiders On Background

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Inside the psyche of 'daddy' Trump

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Sussan Ley's 'I'm not Dutton' speech

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Has Trump stopped Iran developing a nuclear weapon?

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Australia backs Trump in Israel-Iran war

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What's tax reform got to do with productivity? | Insiders on Background

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Why Australia is shifting its language on Israel-Iran

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Why the PM chasing Trump could look 'desperate'

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Did Trump 'snub' Albanese?

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Will Albo get a Trump deal at any cost?

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What Israel's strike on Iran means for Australia

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Tariff triumph or trouble? | Insiders On Background

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Is Trump using AUKUS as a 'Trojan horse'?

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Why Australia sanctioned Israeli Ministers

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Why AI means reform in Albo's second term

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Will beef be on the menu when Albanese meets Trump?

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Is Australia drone-ready? | Insiders on Background

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Albo's Trump-sized headache

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Can Albo get a tariff deal with Trump?

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Why Dorinda Cox left the Greens for Labor

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PM stares down US defence spending demand

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Quantum Leap | Insiders On Background

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Laura Tingle on when politics is at its best

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Coalition's shadow cabinet shakeup

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What Albo learnt from Scomo's Hawaii moment

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How do the Liberals rebuild?

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The Nationals are 'holding a gun to the Liberal Party’s head', says Malcolm Turnbull | Insiders: On Background

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Are the Coalition getting back together?

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Why the Coalition breakup is 'weird'

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Why the Nats broke up with the Libs

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The PM heads to Rome

259

Another round of climate wars? "Oh God no!" | Insiders On Background

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Three leadership contests in one week