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Gus Lamont’s parents make emotional plea as $1m reward offered for information about disappearance

Follow the day’s news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Andrew Bragg , the shadow housing minister, said he believes in “big debates” about housing after pushing his new proposal yesterday to allow people to use their superannuation as collateral to get a home loan. The policy hasn’t been adopted by the opposition, and leader Angus Taylor said yesterday it wasn’t Coalition policy. We’re a great country, and we should be able to have big debates, as we had in the 80s and 90s about national savings and housing and the like, which led, in fact, to the super guarantee. … It’s very important that we look to calibrate the retirement and housing and superannuation systems to make sure that they’re getting the best outcomes for the Australian people. Continue reading...

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Australia news live: Gus Lamont’s parents make emotional plea for information; NAB customers report online banking outage

Follow the day’s news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Andrew Bragg , the shadow housing minister, said he believes in “big debates” about housing after pushing his new proposal yesterday to allow people to use their superannuation as collateral to get a home loan. The policy hasn’t been adopted by the opposition, and leader Angus Taylor said yesterday it wasn’t Coalition policy. We’re a great country, and we should be able to have big debates, as we had in the 80s and 90s about national savings and housing and the like, which led, in fact, to the super guarantee. … It’s very important that we look to calibrate the retirement and housing and superannuation systems to make sure that they’re getting the best outcomes for the Australian people. Continue reading...

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WHO’S FUTURE IS IT: CHINA OR THE WEST?

As global power shifts, how different are these two visions, and does the future belong to just one?

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Jesse Baird ‘petrified’ of Beau Lamarre-Condon and kept repeating ‘he has a gun’, court hears

Friend sobs in witness box and tells Sydney murder trial Baird was scared to go to the police Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Before he was fatally shot, Jesse Baird became “petrified” of Beau Lamarre and kept repeating that the police officer had a gun, a court has heard. Lamarre-Condon has been accused of fatally shooting Sydney couple Jesse Baird, 26, and Luke Davies, 29, with a police service weapon at Baird’s Paddington home on 19 February 2024. Continue reading...

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Eleven killed in mass shooting at house in South Africa

One of those killed is believed to be a pregnant woman, police said.

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Pakistan seals roads to Islamabad before protests for Imran Khan’s release

Police close major highways into Islamabad as supporters of jailed former prime minister plan to march into the capital.