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The former PM will fade to ‘a distant memory of a small man, following other small men’, Crikey readers say. And the sooner the better.

A Queensland company owned by a family that has donated tens of thousands of dollars to the Liberal National Party was given a five-year $1.82 billion contract to operate refugee services on Nauru, and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s springtime travel schedule points to an October 14 Voice to Parliament referendum.

Patients will be able to buy two months of medicine from pharmacies for price of one, saving more than $1.6bn over four years

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Business Council of Australia wants migration to be more business-friendly and rejects concerns of a surge in arrivals

Opposition won’t support 60-day dispensing policy that allows patients to buy two months of medicine for price of one over concerns community pharmacies will be forced to close

A national Essential poll, conducted August 2–6 from a sample of 1,150, gave “no” to the Indigenous Voice to parliament a 47–43 lead, reversing a 47–43 lead for “yes” in this poll in early July. While Newspoll and Resolve polls had given “no” a lead in June, this is the…

Labor is vowing to strengthen its objections to ‘illegal’ Israeli settlements ahead of next week’s national conference

As home affairs minister, Peter Dutton blocked high-priority grant requests to prevent crime in some Indigenous communities in favour of projects in Coalition seats, and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis makes big news by admitting Donald Trump didn’t win the 2020 election: ‘Of course he lost.’