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The Latest Breaking News from Anthony Albanese

US urges Australia to increase defence spending to 3.5% of GDP

PM Albanese says government already increasing spending and decisions will be based on defence capability needs.

Al Jazeera

Bombshell defection boosts Labor's majority in Senate

Greens senator Dorinda Cox has defected to Labor, saying her values better aligned with the government despite having heavily criticised its policies.

AAP

Albanese again pushes back on US demand for Australia to increase defence spending to 3.5% of GDP

US defense secretary Pete Hegseth calls for Australia to boost annual military spend by tens of billions ‘as soon as possible’

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Australia won't set defence spending target figure: PM

Australia is adamant it will decide its defence spending despite pressure from the US for its Indo-Pacific allies to pour money into their budgets.

AAP

Farmers hit by disasters to get financial counselling

As drought and floods simultaneously affect farmers across the country, the government has offered more money to help them through the tough times.

AAP

Call for local steel mandate in face of Trump's tariffs

The federal government is being urged to protect Australian jobs after US President Donald Trump announced a plan to double levies on foreign steel.

AAP

Australia under pressure to join international push for Palestinian statehood led by Emmanuel Macron

France lobbies western nations as it prepares to co-host two-state solution summit with Saudi Arabia

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Vintage car first to roll on $786 million bridge

A new bridge considered a state's most significant transport project has been opened by two women who attended a ceremony for its predecessor in 1946.

AAP

‘We’ll determine our defence policy’: Albanese responds to US push for huge rise in spending as Hegseth stokes China fears

Prime minister also reaffirms policy on Taiwan while hitting back at Donald Trump’s doubling of tariffs on steel and aluminium imports

The Guardian - AU

Albanese hits out at Trump's 'economic self harm'

The Prime Minister has criticised US President Donald Trump's move to double tariffs on steel imports as "inappropriate" and an act of harm.

AAP

Australia’s emissions up slightly in 2024 as Labor faces heat over ‘climate-wrecking’ gas project

Greens leader accuses Albanese government of failing two climate tests: pollution on the rise and approving extension for North West Shelf

The Guardian - AU

Opposition calls on PM to take up Israel trip invite

The opposition's foreign affairs spokeswoman Michaelia Cash is calling on the PM to travel to Israel after he criticised the state for blocking aid into Gaza.

AAP

Grattan on Friday: Trump, tariffs and the Middle East are looming challenges for Albanese

Australia these days receives invitations to big-league international conferences. And so Anthony Albanese will be off soon to the G7 meeting in Alberta, Canada, on June 15-17.

The Conversation

Pocock says voters have ‘buyer’s remorse’ after Labor approves massive gas development’s 40-year extension

Fortescue CEO also says suggestion Australia can lock in fossil fuel projects and claim progress on net zero is ‘concerning’

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‘Genocide’: Patrick Dodson condemns Australia’s Aboriginal youth incarceration rates

Former Labor senator also says child removals are a way to ‘eradicate a people from the landscape’

The Independent UK

The Australian port at the centre of a tug-of-war between Beijing and Canberra

Tussle over strategic Darwin port deepens as American company linked to Trump shows interest in taking lease from Chinese firm

Pedestrian.tv

Labor Members Push Albanese To Sanction Israel Amid Gaza Aid Blockade

Labor members are urging Anthony Albanese to impose sanctions on Israel over its Gaza aid blockade, with calls to protect Palestinians.

The Guardian - AU

Albanese says ‘we follow our own path’ after UK, France and Canada threaten Israel with sanctions over Gaza

Labor MP Ed Husic and former Labor foreign ministers Gareth Evans and Bob Carr reiterate support for targeted sanctions

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Albanese, Luxon invited on 'Anzac' mission to Ukraine

New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Luxon says Ukraine's proposal that he visit Kiev alongside Anthony Albanese is a "great invitation" that the pair are open to.

AAP

Thousands still stranded as flood recovery ramps up

Thousands of people remain isolated while other flood-hit communities continue the clean up, with homes declared beyond repair as the premier meets farmers.

AAP

More support to come as troops back up flood mop-up

Community members become first responders when disaster strikes, but the prime minister has promised flooded communities they will not be left behind.

AAP

Less red tape, more money for flood-affected residents

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is pledging more funds for flood-affected communities, praising the "extraordinary resilience" shown by those on the front line.

The Independent UK

Deadly Australian floods were made worse by climate crisis and such storms are no longer ‘natural’, scientists warn

Weather patterns like those driving this week’s floods in New South Wales have become up to 15 per cent wetter

The Independent UK

Live updates: Israeli strikes pound Gaza as a US-backed group plans to start aid operations

Israeli strikes have pounded the Gaza Strip, killing dozens, including people in a school-turned-shelter that was hit as people slept

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Anthony Albanese Finally Calls Out Israel’s Blockade Of Food & Aid Into Gaza: ‘Outrage’

The Prime Minister has slammed Israel in what marks his strongest language yet to address the war in Gaza.

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