2026 • Jan 25
National cabinet to meet on Friday on health and disability funding – as it happened
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2026 • Jan 23
SA and Victoria brace for weekend of dangerous fire conditions – as it happened
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2026 • Jan 23
Andrew Hastie firms as Liberal leadership challenger amid push for Ley to step aside
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2026 • Jan 21
Australia news live: Coalition in crisis as Nationals resign en masse; hot weather on the way for long weekend
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2026 • Jan 21
Nationals meet after three frontbenchers resign – as it happened
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2026 • Jan 21
Coalition in crisis as Nationals quit frontbench en masse after division over Labor’s hate speech laws
Liberal leader was earlier warned entire Nationals frontbench would quit if she accepted resignations from three senators
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2026 • Jan 19
Labor’s hate speech laws set to pass as Ley and Albanese cut deal on bill crafted in wake of Bondi terror attack
Liberals MPs agreed late on Monday to back Labor’s revised bill, which came in the wake of the Bondi beach terror attack
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2026 • Jan 19
Politics live: hate group listing would give home affairs ‘way too much power’, Canavan says; IMF forecasts Australia to experience ‘drawn-out’ inflation
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2026 • Jan 18
Australia news live: Marles ‘welcomes’ Trump’s invitation to join ‘board of peace’; Burke says hate speech laws ‘don’t deliver everything we wanted’
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2026 • Jan 18
Protesters pledge to ‘break the ban’ on 26 January after standoff at Sydney rally – as it happened
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2026 • Jan 18
‘Disappointed’ Jewish leaders call for compromise on hate speech laws after Labor backs down on bill
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2026 • Jan 16
More than 4.7m social media accounts blocked after Australia’s under-16 ban came into force, PM says
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