The RBA has lifted the cash rate target from 3.85% to 4.10%, an increase of 25 basis points. #auspol #ausbiz @SBSNews

Israeli president Isaac Herzog visited ASIO headquarters during Australian visit Australia's intelligence agency has confirmed Herzog met with ASIO director Mike Burgess after senator David Pocock pressed for answers.

#BREAKING: Israeli President Isaac Herzog visited Australia's domestic spy agency during his state visit last month.

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Opposition was preparing widespread immigration bans under Sussan Ley's leadership The policy was formed in the wake of the Bondi terror attack and would have introduced bans on immigration from more than a dozen countries.

Dumped Liberal leader Sussan Ley was poised to introduce a suite of hardline immigration policies, including widespread bans on immigration from more than a dozen countries considered havens for "Islamist terrorist ideologies". #auspol

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Zomi Frankcom's brother seeks answers from Israel's president after she was killed in Gaza Mal Frankcom says "missing puzzle pieces" remain in the investigation into the killing of his sister, aid worker Zomi Frankcom.

#EXCLUSIVE: The brother of an Australian aid worker who was killed in an Israeli drone strike in Gaza is urging the prime minister to press for more action on her case during the Israeli President Isaac Herzog's state visit. #auspol

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The government moves to give the liberal opposition and the national-ised crossbench 7 questions each in question time. Opposition still gets first question. #auspol

‘It’s AI blackface’: social media account hailed as the Aboriginal Steve Irwin is an AI character created in New Zealand More than 180,000 people follow the Bush Legend’s accounts across Meta platforms, but its Aboriginal host is a work of digital fiction

“It’s theft that is very insidious in that it also involves a cultural harm,” Janke says. “Because of the discrimination … the impacts of stereotypes and negative thinking, those impacts do hit harder.”
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'Fundamentally different': Jewish group joins push to split up hate crime bill There are concerns that the scope of the hate speech laws, which include gun reform and migration changes, "risks" its passage.

The government is facing pressure to split up hate crime speech laws from gun reform ahead of parliament's early return to pass the legislation next week. #auspol
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Cancelled my Adobe subscriptions this morning

Putting Stranger Things in the Game of Thrones and US House of Cards category in shows I have all but avoided and now feel justified in doing so.

The pictures tell the story ahead of the Liberal Net Zero Conclave. #auspol

'Concern' over prime minister and Opposition leader's phone numbers being leaked Anthony Albanese and Opposition leader Sussan Ley are among dozens of high-profile Australians whose numbers have been leaked.

SBS News has verified the scraping of phone numbers belonging to Anthony Albanese and Sussan Ley. #auspol www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

#BREAKING: Andrew Hastie resigns from the Liberal shadow cabinet, leader Sussan Ley says @sbsnews

Slater + Gordon steals rival’s staff for social media ads Compare the pair, as the plaintiff firms’ friends at industry super funds would say.

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The US government has shut down. What happens now? The US government has entered a shutdown, meaning thousands of federal employees are being placed on leave or asked to work without pay until the government reopens.

#BREAKING The US Government has shut down after the Senate failed to pass spending bills, the first shutdown since 2019. sbs.com.au/news/article...

After 145 days, Liberal Gisele Kapterian has conceded the electorate of Bradfield, confirming she's dropping her push to contest the result in the Court of Disputed Returns.

The Liberals had planned to include her in the shadow ministry (and she voted in the last leadership election). #auspol

‘Don’t mention Hitler and you’re sweet’: The great March for Australia deception Anti-immigration rallies that have drawn tens of thousands of Australians are being secretly controlled by neo-Nazis – part of a co-ordinated “fraud on the public”.

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From the Net Zero plan released today - The Government's emissions targets and forecast trajectories. #auspol @SBSNews

#BREAKING: Australia's 2035 climate target will be a range between 62-70%, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese confirms. "This is a responsible target supported by science." #auspol

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Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN inquiry finds The COI concluded that Israeli authorities and forces had since October 2023 committed "four of the five genocidal acts" listed in the 1948 Genocide Convention.

The UN inquiry concluded that Israeli authorities and forces had since October 2023 committed "four of the five genocidal acts" listed in the 1948 Genocide Convention.
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America Is Rebuilding the Remote Pacific Airfield that Ended World War II Restoration of two of the four runways at North Field is expected to be completed by 2027, while military engineers continue to repave roads and repair buildings.

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REUTERS: Japan PM Ishiba set to resign, source says - www.reuters.com/world/japan-...

Australia could recognise Palestine as early as today, government source says Australia's allies — Canada, the United Kingdom and France — have previously announced plans to recognise a Palestinian state.

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NSW Supreme Court authorises pro-Palestine march on Harbour Bridge The NSW Supreme Court will not block a pro-Palestine march across the Harbour Bridge, paving the way for thousands to walk on the global landmark.

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A 'present, costly danger': ASIO director details 'relentless' acts of international espionage ASIO director-general Mike Burgess has warned foreign spy agencies are "aggressively targeting" a range of sectors, as well as taking a "very unhealthy interest in AUKUS".

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'I've always spoken up': New Labor MP reveals how he'll champion Palestinian statehood In his first sit-down interview since being elected, Basem Abdo, the first person of Palestinian heritage elected to parliament, says he will fight for Palestinian statehood.

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The names of 17,000 children killed in Gaza have been tabled in the Australian parliament, with Labor joining the Greens and Crossbenchers to support Independent Fatima Payman's motion. The Coalition opposed the move #auspol

PM says Israel's denial of Gaza starvation is 'beyond comprehension' in strongest rebuke yet Anthony Albanese also told colleagues the actions of Hamas were "abominable" and remained condemned by parliament.

#BREAKING: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has described Israeli claims there is no starvation in Gaza as "beyond comprehension", his strongest rebuke yet to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's handling of the war. #auspol
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Palestinian woman released from detention after Australian visa cancellation The 61-year-old has spent almost a week in a Sydney immigration detention centre following a raid on her home.

A Palestinian woman detained for over a week following the cancellation of her visa has been released overnight. #auspol
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The government confirms CBA Chief Matt Comyn, Tech Council Chair Scott Farquhar, Allegra Spender, NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey, ACCC Chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb, and senior bureaucrats Steven Kennedy and Jenny Wilkinson are among the invitees to the economic roundtable. @SBSNews

#BREAKING: CBS says the Late Show with Stephen Colbert will end in May 2026 (Reuters)