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Workers in road-reliant industries are calling on the federal government to provide urgent funding to repair the NT’s road network, which was severely damaged by floods. Source link

Australia is on a push to keep pace with the rapid evolution of drone warfare, with an emphasis on locally produced Ghost Bat and Ghost Shark systems.  Source link

The budget’s usual timing on the second Tuesday of May is an artifice of political convention. This year’s edition just happens to be coinciding with the thunderclap of history in flux. Source link

Anthony Albanese will join a virtual meeting of world leaders tonight to discuss how the Strait of Hormuz can be secured after the conflict in the region ends. Source link

The federal government has been urged by its own NDIS advisory group to delay the rollout of a controversial new way of determining support plans for participants.  Source link

Productivity Commissioner Danielle Wood says Australia will not meet the federal government’s 1.2 million new home target, as residential construction rates fall. Source link

Anthony Albanese has cut a trip to Malaysia short to visit Viva Energy Refinery in Geelong, which went up in flames late on Wednesday. Source link

Anthony Albanese says the US made “no new requests” for Australia’s assistance in the Strait of Hormuz, despite Donald Trump telling reporters he wasn’t happy with Australia. Source link

The Liberals need to resolve the internal ambiguities they have on big policy questions when it comes to migration.  Source link

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese insists Australia’s sanctions on Russia and Iran will remain in place as the world scrambles to secure oil supplies amid a global crisis triggered by the Strait of Hormuz blockade.  Source link