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Paul Sakkal

Reporter · AU

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Sep 29, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Paul Sakkal

    These rate hikes will hit harder than 2023, and the PM can’t spend his way out of it (opens the original)

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    This cycle of rate hikes will hit Australians harder than the one they endured in 2023. With a depleted budget, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will find it harder to repeat the election spending playbook he used to see off ex-Coalition leader Peter Dutton against the new threat from One Nation’s Pauline Hanson. Voters were complaining about the cost-of-living crisis post-pandemic, when the COVID stimulus was still sloshing around the economy and helping people tread water. That’s now gone. And

  2. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Paul Sakkal

    Larissa Waters quits as Greens leader due to illness (opens the original)

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    Greens leader Larissa Waters has quit the party’s top job due to illness. The party will hold a secret ballot of its MPs this week to elect a new leader. “For some time now I’ve been quietly managing chronic kidney disease alongside doing the work I love. But recently it’s taken a downturn, and I need to be honest with myself about not being invincible,” Waters said in a statement. “My doctors have been clear: my prospects for recovery are good, but the best path forward means a slower pace of l

  3. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Paul Sakkal, Matt Wade

    Near-record tax take, rising rates: Chalmers blames war as RBA hike looms (opens the original)

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    A near-record tax haul under Labor has added to scrutiny of its fiscal management ahead of a widely expected rate hike on Tuesday as Treasurer Jim Chalmers pins the blame on Donald Trump’s war in the Middle East rather than wage earners fuelling inflation. As economists and a think tank called for targeted tax rises to cool demand rather than hiking rates for mortgage holders, Chalmers tried to get ahead of the bank’s decision, declaring: “The fact that we have a war in the Middle East [is] push

  4. Article · Sep 27, 2026 · Paul Sakkal

    Australian preacher linked to notorious Sydney cleric urges followers to ‘take up arms’ (opens the original)

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    An associate of a notorious Islamic preacher linked to the Bondi shooters has called on followers to take up arms against Christians and Jews, putting the spotlight back on radical preachers after the major parties shelved attempts to rein them in. A young and increasingly popular preacher from Melbourne’s southeast who goes by Abu Ahmad said in a July sermon that adherents should not “take the Jews and the Christians for friends”. “For the sake of Allah, it includes the obligation to declare en

  5. Article · Sep 23, 2026 · Paul Sakkal, Rob Harris, David Swan, Nick Newling

    OpenAI ‘climbed the fence’: taskforce scrambles after long delays flagging Medicare hack (opens the original)

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    Labor is eyeing laws to force tech firms to be transparent about rogue AI after an OpenAI agent hacked Medicare data in the first public case of a bot breaking into a government website, jolting Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s plans to become a major hub for US labs. The prime minister drew global attention to the incident at the United Nations in New York just after 6am AEST, revealing that the government could refer the breach to the federal police after the Sam Altman-run firm took weeks to

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