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A government source said it would make sense to consider changes to negative gearing and capital gains tax together, but that no decision was close to being made. Source link

Two weeks after losing the Liberal leadership, Sussan Ley officially handed in her resignation letter.  Source link

Behind the scenes, the troops are carefully managed. Opinions are expressed at factional meetings and the prime minister meets with the factional conveners.  Source link

Nine childcare services that have failed to lift standards will only be named if the federal government decides to cut their taxpayer funding. Source link

The prime minister was this week evacuated from the Lodge over a bomb threat and later got stuck in a tit-for-tat with a former Australian of the Year. Source link

Most Australians will receive a mobile phone alert in July this year, as part of a nationwide test of a new emergency warning system. Source link

The fate of the “ISIS brides” is inextricably linked to constitutional facts but the debate about their future is not taking place in a legal chamber — it is being fought in the court of public opinion. Source link

Grace Tame criticises Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s qualified apology after he described her as “difficult”, saying “what a patronising cop-out”.                Source link

The hints are getting less subtle and Labor’s plans on capital gains tax are becoming clearer, but a proposal laden with compromises risks undermining any intergenerational argument. Source link

Nearly half a century on from the first Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade, which ended in violence, the route through the CBD has been recognised as part of Australia’s heritage.  Source link