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Politics live: Pensioners to pay for half of Labor’s $3bn private health savings; electrifying push for Australians to save $5,000 a year

Politics live: Pensioners to pay for half of Labor’s $3bn private health savings; electrifying push for Australians to save $5,000 a year

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Figures revealed in modelling commissioned by independent MP Monique Ryan. Follow the day’s news live Get our new political email , free app or daily news podcast Hanson’s comments on Albanese’s mother ‘gratuitous and unnecessary’: Hume Jane Hume has joined the pile on, blasting Pauline Hanson for her comments about Anthony Albanese’s mother. I think that these comments were gratuitous and unnecessary. And the idea that you would disparage people that have grown up in social housing, I think, is a little distasteful. I mean, it doubles down on the fact that Senator Hanson has also disrespected our veteran community with her atrocious comments about Andrew Hastie in that cartoon. Calling a veteran a traitor, I think, is possibly the worst thing you can do. But this does seem to be a common theme in One Nation now, that sort of unnecessarily provocative rhetoric. Continue reading...

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