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McBain rules out wider government use of AusAlert technology
Responding to Inside Canberra in the National Situation Room, Minister for Emergency Management Kristy McBain said Australia would embrace proven cell-broadcast technology—but would not permit its powerful reach to be diluted through routine departmental messaging. Australia’s new national emergency-warning system will not become a general communications channel for Commonwealth departments and agencies, Minister for Emergency Management the…
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Taylor shuts door on One Nation coalition after Bragg opens it
The Opposition Leader has categorically rejected a governing pact with One Nation after Senator Andrew Bragg advocated electoral “pragmatism”, exposing the strategic tensions confronting a Coalition under pressure from its conservative rival. The Hon Angus Taylor MP has ruled out forming a coalition with Pauline Hanson’s One Nation, moving quickly to extinguish speculation generated by…
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‘Australia is barely making the grade’: Press Club trio demands tobacco policy reset
Dr Nick Coatsworth, Liberal MP Mary Aldred and former Australian Border Force investigator Rohan Pike have called for a fundamental reconsideration of tobacco excise, enforcement and nicotine harm reduction, arguing that Australia’s celebrated public-health model has ceded much of the market to organised crime. Australia’s tobacco-control orthodoxy came under sustained assault at the National Press…