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On the ground in Secret Harbour, where voters want to send a message
Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA The boundaries of Secret Harbour have been redrawn twice in the past four decades, and the name may have changed (Peel and Warnbro were earlier…
Investor home loans slump by 9 per cent as existing property demand falls
Updated August 14, 2026 — 4:33pm,first published 12:12pm Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA First home buyers who were supposed to be the winners from the federal government’s overhaul…
Trump, Anthony Albanese phone call discusses new,12.5 per cent tariff on Australia
Updated August 14, 2026 — 4:46pm,first published August 14, 2026 — 8:25am Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA The United States lobbied the Albanese government over concerns with…
State vs state argument erupts between WA and ‘east coast whingers’
Updated August 14, 2026 — 5:02pm,first published 2:00pm Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA An interstate argument has erupted over revelations that the system that carves-up the GST is…
Albanese signals about-face on gambling promotions
August 14, 2026 — 5:52pm Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has declared that promotions used by betting companies to woo gamblers are over the top and…
Being the PM and dealing with the paradoxical art of strategic defeat
Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA A prime minister shouldn’t need to be stubborn (“PM’s fatal flaw spooks his colleagues”, August 14). They need universal appeal. That’s what Albanese…
Controversial new “circuit breaker” program to send young offenders to remote areas for rehabilitation
August 14, 2026 — 7:16pm Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA A controversial amendment to the Queensland Youth Justice Act could see youth offenders sent away to remote areas for up to…
Australia needs to do better than its Senate committee and occasional envoys
Alice Edwards August 14, 2026 — 7:30pm Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA Britain now has a senior official whose job is to bring home citizens wrongfully detained abroad. Australia…
Overuse of artificial intelligence in writing is a danger to democracy and our brains
August 14, 2026 — 7:30pm Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA All journalists know the agony of staring at a blank page, that torturous moment before we begin setting our story down, as…
Samantha Murphy’s alleged killer Patrick Stephenson in hospital after incident
August 14, 2026 — 7:35pm Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA Patrick Stephenson, the man charged with the alleged murder of Ballarat mother Samantha Murphy, is reportedly in hospital…