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Labor’s push to ban single-use vapes in major crackdown as ministers

The federal government will move to ban disposable vaping products in a world-first crackdown on nicotine. Health Minister Mark Butler will unveil...

Australia

Bruce Lehrmann can proceed with defamation against NewsCorp, Network

Former political staffer Bruce Lehrmann has been given the green light to proceed with his defamation claims against two media giants after...

Australia

Albanese government set to unveil major reform after damning report

Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil will unveil the government’s response to a damning review into Australia’s migration system after it found the...

Australia

Bill Shorten admits the NDIS has ‘lost its way’ as he prepares to

NDIS Minister Bill Shorten will admit the scheme has “lost its way” and is in need of massive reform to improve outcomes...

Australia

WATCH LIVE: Penny Wong to defend against Paul Keating attacks in

Foreign Minister Penny Wong has spoken in her first major address this year amid landmark improvements in Australia’s wavering relationship with China. ...

Australia

Paul Keating’s ‘unedifying’ spray at his own party marks a sad

Paul Keating has always been a larger-than-life fixture of the Labor Party and the Australian political scene more broadly. He is venerated...

Australia

Retired US General Jack Keane laughs at Paul Keating’s claim Virginia

A retired four-star general has responded with laughter after hearing Paul Keating’s claim that America’s Virginia class nuclear submarines are “discoverable from...

Australia

‘Laughable and embarrassing’: Stephen Conroy calls out Paul Keating as

Former Labor cabinet minister Stephen Conroy has called out Paul Keating’s failure to address China’s growing aggression as he dismissed the former...

Australia

Paul Keating’s ‘little bit of residual influence’ will be wiped out by

Paul Keating’s extraordinary National Press Club performance was so replete with factual errors and disconnected from reality that it will have wiped...