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Morning Mail: budget’s $14.6bn cost-of-living relief, tributes to Zonfrillo, second Texas tragedy

Treasurer hints at additional measures for renters while others tipping a broad rise in the jobseeker payment

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Federal budget 2023: what we know so far about treasurer Jim Chalmers’ budget

From welfare to health, childcare and housing, Guardian Australia examines what has been revealed about the Albanese government’s budget

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‘It would be a huge relief’: public housing residents left in limbo look to NSW election for a lifeline

Tenants issued relocation notices under the Coalition’s plan to privatise public housing are cautiously hopeful that Labor will offer a clearer future

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Night life v the Nimbys: how a culture of complaining is frustrating inner Sydney

As authorities encourage venues to book live music and open for alfresco dining, pubs are becoming frustrated by ‘council officers who haven’t got the memo’

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Drought and flooding rains: the Murray-Darling Basin water rights balancing act

Floods brought the Macquarie Marshes back to life, but landholders need guaranteed environmental flows to help maintain a healthy marsh ecosystem that also supports businesses

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Strange bedfellows: inside the campaign for the black soil plains

Farmers have invited crossbench MPs to join the campaign against Santos’s proposed coal seam gas development on the Liverpool plains

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Teal independents join farmers in Liverpool Plains to oppose Santos gas development

Sydney-based MPs Kylea Tink and Sophie Scamps meet locals fighting coal seam gas project and Hunter pipeline

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After the floods: Eugowra awaits the insurance payouts that may not come

Central-west NSW residents left homeless by November’s devastation are still waiting for claims, with many uninsured against floods

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After years of fanfare the future of drone delivery in Australia remains up in the air

Experts question economic case and point to environmental costs such as packaging, risks to birds and the noise factor

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Potholes, warped rail lines and washed-away roads: flood-hit regions face infrastructure crisis

Even with the deployment of extra staff and machinery, repairs are likely to take ‘many months’ – and cost billions

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Lamb chopper airlifts flock to safety as inland sea surrounds Condobolin

Many farmers and property owners around the town downstream of Forbes are still underwater or cut off and relying on help from the air to survive

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‘Where have you been?’: PM receives mixed reception as Eugowra counts cost of inland ‘tsunami’

As Anthony Albanese and Dominic Perrottet walk through the disaster zone, residents remind them of the prohibitive costs of flood insurance

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Birds are back, crops are growing – but is the Murray Darling Basin plan working?

It is 10 years since the $13bn scheme was launched to restore the 1,500km system, and with it comes intensive debate about whether it is on track

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‘Waves of panic’: the horror and the heroes in the flood-ravaged NSW central west

In one week, Molong had its CBD wiped out, Forbes was cut in half by a new inland lake and Eugowra was largely destroyed by ‘inland tsunami’

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‘We saved the cat’: flood-hit NSW town of Forbes could be divided for days

‘There’s not much we can do except wait’, say residents anxious to check on damage to homes and businesses

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‘Drained and devastated’: Molong residents begin long task of cleaning up after flooding

Despite the damage residents say they’re proud of the resilience and community spirit in the small NSW town

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In the battle for Melbourne’s Bayside, can fired-up independents snatch seats?

Razor-thin margins put Brighton, Caulfield and Sandringham within striking distance this Victorian election – but the major parties remain quietly confident

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Confusing messaging hampers our ability to prepare for rising flood waters

Flood-affected communities are getting conflicting information, right when we need consistency to make crucial decisions which will save lives and properties

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Chalmers offensive: crunch time as treasurer faces first federal budget

A volatile global economy looms as Jim Chalmers assembles the Albanese government’s inaugural budget, where he will be judged on delivering on election promises while exercising restraint

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PM calls for explanation on Thorpe’s undisclosed relationship – as it happened

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Displacement and disbelief in flood-hit Rochester as residents survey the damage

Volunteers call for more assistance before rains return, saying community spirit is heartening but ‘only goes so far’

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‘You can’t help but help’: year 12 students forgo VCE study to fortify Echuca’s town hall against floods

Daniel Andrews says Victoria’s education authorities will make derived exam scores available for students affected by flooding

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‘We’ve done what we can’: Echuca bands together as Victorian town braces for record flood

The community has pitched in to sandbag the town, which lies at the junction of three rivers

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Floods expected to cause widespread damage to winter crops in ‘another blow’ to Australian farmers

Growers say wheat, barley, canola and rice crops under threat but too early to gauge impact on prices and supply

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‘We’d have lost lives’: absence of translators in Shepparton flood response criticised

Volunteers have been the only way for the shire’s thriving multicultural community to seek help during the emergency

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