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Andy Burnham promises a ‘circuit breaker for Britain’ in first address as Prime Minister
Britain’s new Labour Prime Minister has used his first Downing Street address to promise immediate cost-of-living relief, a 10-year national plan, stronger public control of essential services and an extensive transfer of power from Westminster. LONDON | 20 July 2026 The Right Honourable Andrew Burnham MP — universally known as Andy Burnham — has become…
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‘Surely the Governor-General should have asked’: Paul Kelly revisits Morrison’s secret ministries
In remarks at The Australian National University, Paul Kelly questioned former governor-general David Hurley’s handling of Scott Morrison’s appointment to multiple ministries and delivered a series of candid judgements on Malcolm Turnbull, Tony Abbott, Bill Shorten and Anthony Albanese. Veteran political journalist Paul Kelly has questioned why then governor-general David Hurley did not establish whether…
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Telstra admits network controls failed as Senate dissects nationwide outage
An undocumented design change and an unapplied software update allowed a network timing server to restart with the wrong date, disrupting almost half of Telstra’s mobile traffic and producing errors for 604 Triple Zero calls. Telstra has conceded that deficiencies in its internal controls allowed routine maintenance on a single network timing server to precipitate…