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- Defend Sacred Ground makes the case for keeping activism out of the War Memorialon September 1, 2026
Contested estimates and activist interpretations should not be elevated into orthodoxy inside the national shrine to those who served.
- Who gets the staff? Parliament’s adviser allocations back in the spotlighton September 1, 2026
Finance figures show wide differences in personal staffing across government, opposition and the crossbench, renewing scrutiny of a system in which the Prime Minister determines allocations.
- Government proposes right to erase data as second privacy reform tranche openson September 1, 2026
New privacy laws would restrict unnecessary data collection and trading, give users deletion rights on major platforms and introduce a MyGov service to block identity-document checks.
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