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Q&A: Barnaby Joyce and Tony Windsor trade blows on mining and national broadband networkNew England candidates clash in first public debate on day Newspoll shows disillusionment with major parties
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Satirical ad campaign imagines future ABC taken over by reality TV – videoABC Friends have launched a satirical campaign imagining a world where the ABC has succumbed to commercialism
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ABC Friends' independence campaign targets marginal Coalition seatsNot-for-profit group is encouraging voters to back candidates who are on the record as supporting the national broadcaster
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State of Origin 2016: Sam Thaiday's 'losing your virginity' quip splits opinionCalls for apology after rugby league player compares team’s hard-fought victory to sexual act, saying ‘it wasn’t very nice but we got the job done’
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The suspension of Roz Ward is the culmination of a McCarthyist campaign against an academic who’s done nothing wrongCould Roz Ward keep her job if she liked the Australian flag a little?
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Alan Jones in high-risk defence of Grantham flood libel suitThe broadcaster says his claims that the Wagner family quarry was partly to blame for the deaths of 12 people in 2011 are ‘substantially true’
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Explainer: what Julie Bishop didn't know about superannuationForeign affairs minister’s ‘gotcha’ moment with Neil Mitchell puts transition to retirement scheme back in spotlight
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Sacked 60 Minutes producer Stephen Rice considering legal actionRice’s lawyer says Channel Nine breached its duty of care to him by singling him out over botched Lebanon kidnapping story
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The right of journalists to protect their sources is being assaulted by the courts, where many judges have long held a sniffy antipathy towards the mediaThe defamation case that is bad news for journalism and the protection of sources
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'Back to the cave': Bill Shorten calls out senator Leyonhjelm on gender equalityLabor leader calls David Leyonhjelm a ‘stone age man’ after he said women’s sport was not interesting enough to warrant more funding for TV broadcasting
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Bronwyn Bishop to offer political commentary on Sky NewsFormer MP, who was dumped by Liberals from seat of Mackellar a month ago, has reportedly vowed to have a different approach to Peta Credlin
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60 Minutes producer sacked and other staff warned over child abduction storyStephen Rice sacked after Channel Nine’s formal review finds failed abduction bid in Lebanon was ‘the gravest misadventure in the program’s history’
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Campaign catchup: it's clean-up day for both sidesElection 2016: Coalition handles fallout of Barnaby Joyce’s comments about Indonesia, as Labor once again tries not to talk about David Feeney
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Election 2016: David Feeney endures car-crash interview and blames house furoreLabor frontbencher stumbles through appearance on Sky, failing to answer basic spending questions and suggesting interviewer ask shadow treasurer
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Superannuation concessions are still 'very generous', Turnbull tells Alan JonesPrime minister says to radio host that taxing of income from super balances over $1.6m is ‘fair and well targeted’ in friendly encounter, their first since June 2014
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Today's campaign: calls for 'the old Malcolm' mount, putting pressure on TurnbullElection 2016: voters and News Corp alike are lamenting the apparent change in the PM’s persona after he won the leadership
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Q&A recap: Direct Action not intended as emissions trading scheme, Pyne insistsIndustry minister defends climate scheme on Q&A special pitting him against Labor’s Anthony Albanese – although the pair ended up agreeing on many issues
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Transfield Holdings boss says political donations 'bought access' to MPsLuca Belgiorno-Nettis says it’s ‘difficult to deny’ donations helped company gain contract to build harbour tunnel in Sydney
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Ray Hadley tells Scott Morrison the Coalition may 'perish' over superannuation changesBroadcaster says treasurer’s job on the line and change to superannuation tax concessions will alienate Liberal voters
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Lenore Taylor appointed editor of Guardian AustraliaGuardian Australia’s political editor will replace Emily Wilson, who returns to London to become assistant editor
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Duncan Storrar: 'A line has been crossed' by media, say community leadersThe group singles out News Corp Australia for its ‘abuse of power’ which had a ‘patent disregard’ for the impact their reporting would have on Storrar
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Some of the newspaper company’s finest reporters leave, the ABC’s Fact Check unit is axed and Andrew Bolt defends his Sky News ratingsFairfax keen to protect its fantastic four as decades of talent heads for exit
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Queensland premier tries to block Struggle Street being filmed in BrisbaneAnnastacia Palaszczuk says the last thing poor people needed was for the controversial SBS show to ‘take the mickey’ out of them
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Duncan Storrar responds to Q&A furore: 'I didn't want this'The unexpected star of Q&A says he spent a week ‘hiding from the media’ before releasing a statement to Media Watch
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After Wolf Creek: 10 Australian films that are ripe for a TV remakeIf Stan’s reboot of Wolf Creek proves anything, it’s that there’s plenty of excellent television fodder in Australian film
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Duncan Storrar may just as well have held up a bowl and asked for moreHeadlines declaring Duncan Storrer a thug and a criminal duly play upon centuries of tropes about dangerous vagabonds and impudent paupers
Malcolm Turnbull snubs Sky forum and seeks third debate online