One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has accused Angus Taylor of pilfering her ideas.

Pauline Hanson cut off mid-sentence after budget attack

The One Nation leader delivered her official response to the federal budget on Thursday evening after accusing the Coalition of adopting her policies.

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Federal budget 2026 as it happened:Treasurer Jim Chalmers confirms big changes to negative gearing,CGT and relief for workers

Look back on our live coverage of the highly anticipated 2026 federal budget.

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Colin Armstrong with his daughter,Milly,who lives with autism.

‘Am I disabled enough?’ The question autistic participants are asking after NDIS overhaul

The NDIS has 760,000 participants,more than 300,000 of whom have autism. Those people and their families are the most anxious after Labor announced an overhaul of the scheme.

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Health Minister Mark Butler’s will today unveil his fixes to the country’s struggling aged care system and NDIS.

NDIS announcement as it happened:Mark Butler reveals long-anticipated reforms to $50b scheme in National Press Club speech

Health Minister Mark Butler unveiled fixes to the country’s struggling aged care system alongside his overhaul of the National Disability Insurance Scheme in a pre-budget speech.

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Israel’s ambassador to Australia,Hillel Newman.

Australia politics as it happened:Israeli ambassador defends death penalty laws;Albanese rules out bigger parliament

Israel’s ambassador to Australia,Hillel Newman,is taking questions from journalists after giving a speech titled “Reshaping the Middle East”.

  • Nick Newling andBroede Carmody
Sold-out signage at petrol bowsers at Shell Reddy Express.

Australia fuel crisis as it happened:PM announces fuel excise to be halved for three months as petrol prices soar across nation;question time begins

Follow our live coverage following a national cabinet meeting to discuss the fuel crisis.

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Mackenzie Sinclair’s asthma symptoms emerged in primary school. But she wasn’t formally diagnosed until she was an adult.

Mackenzie was enjoying a refreshing drink on a cold day. Then she suddenly couldn’t breathe

Mackenzie Sinclair was walking through a bustling Melbourne Central last spring when she realised she could no longer breathe.

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Carol Chevalier at her home in Camberwell. A lump on her pancreas was discovered by sheer luck.

Carol raced to hospital with a kidney stone. Then doctors found something much worse

A growing number of Australians are at risk of these types of cancers. But experts say research spending doesn’t match the scale of the problem.

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A man rides an e-scooter the wrong way down Little Bourke Street with no helmet in 2024,swerving to miss an oncoming car.

‘Serious injuries’:67 per cent rise in children hurt by e-scooters in just one year

The injuries,which commonly occur among boys aged 10 to 14,can include broken bones,fractured skulls and even a ruptured spleen.

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Dr Shivani Pasricha,a laboratory head in the department of infectious diseases at the Doherty Institute.

Melbourne device could prove ‘game changing’ for sexual health

A laptop-sized piece of medical equipment is set to cut days off STI test results and offer more accurate results by searching for distinct genetic “barcodes”.

  • Broede Carmody