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Liberal leader Peter Dutton will pledge to temporarily halve fuel excise if he is elected Prime Minister in a promise he says could save a two-car family up to $1500.
News.com.au can reveal the big move would deliver a 25 cent cut to fuel excise for 12 months.
In a major announcement, the Liberals have revealed for the first time the centrepiece of their cost-of-living measures, throwing down the gauntlet to the Labor Party to match it.
It will cost $6 billion in revenue foregone in a single year. That’s around half of the value of the Treasurer’s tax cuts over four years.
It would mean for petrol and diesel, excise rates will be reduced from 50.8 cents to 25.4 cents per litre.
Clothing retailer Jeanswest has collapsed, with more than 90 stores set to close within months and hundreds of employees set to lose their jobs.
The company confirmed the news on Wednesday, with administrators citing increasingly tough trading conditions in the Australian retail sector.
Jeanswest entered administration in January 2020, but was rescued by Hong Kong business Harbour Guidance.
The brand is the latest local retailer to collapse, after the parent company behind Rivers, Katies and Rockmans entered administration last year.
The opening night of this year’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival has been abruptly cancelled mid-show following the death of an attendee.
The man suffered a medical episode on the upper level of Palais Theatre during headline act Michael Hing’s performance.
Attendees told The Daily Mail that members of the public initially provided CPR to the man in the dark as Hing continued his performance, unaware of the emergency.
Aboriginal women are scared to seek help for fear their children will be taken, report finds
Western Australia has the highest rate of Indigenous child removals in the country, with Aboriginal children making up more than 60% of all children in care.
The number of Indigenous children in care in WA increased more than 400% in 20 years, the report said. In 2003, 570 Aboriginal children were in out-of-home care, making up 35% of the total children in care. By 2023 there were 3,068 Aboriginal children in out-of-home care and the proportion of children in out-of-home care who were Indigenous had almost doubled.
CROSSFIRE HURRICANE
President Trump orders the Immediate Declassification of Materials Related to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation. My decision to declassify the materials described above does not extend to materials that must be protected from disclosure pursuant to orders of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
FBI Director Kash Patel just handed over ALL requested documents to House members on the 2017 Congressional Baseball Game shooting.
This was when STEVE SCALISE was attacked.
"These are documents sought by Capitol Hill officials for almost 8 years."
FBI
FBI director Kash Patel announces interception of a MAJOR narcotics operation off the coast of Italy, through the CBP's 'Container Security Initiative.'
have seized over 2,000 kilos of cocaine from a transnational terrorist organization who we believe to be responsible for trafficking drugs through South America and across the U.S. southern border.
DAN BONGINO
As Deputy Director of the FBI Dan Bongino posted today “if you are committing crimes aginst childrren you should probably expect a knock at the door soon”
NIH
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya has been confirmed as Director of the NIH.
SIGNAL SCANDAL TURNS
Suspicions are raised about Atlantic journalist and known Trump hater got into the Signal chat under a false name. Was he placed there by a Trump staffer working to undermine the adminsitration or an accident? Mike Waltz says he will find out who did.
Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, is a registered Democrat whose wife, Anne, worked for Hillary Clinton and donated thousands to the DNC. We will discuss this further after the bulletin.
As the Democrats call for blood over the event, its important to remember their silence when Hillary Clinton ran an entire public server from her basement where at least 21 classified email chains were uncovered by James Comey at the FBI and who decided not to recommend charges despite such an act being an absolute offence and not requiring any intent.
Meanwhile VP JD Vance says Atlantic magazine's Goldberg 'oversold' US attack plan story
Tulsi Gabbard: "I want to address, briefly, the Signal chat issue... As the President and National Security Advisor stated, no classified information was shared. There were no sources, methods, locations or war plans that were shared."
American Oversight is suing Tulsi Gabbard, Pete Hegseth, John Ratcliffe, JD Vance, and others in the Signal Houthi PC Small Group chat for a violation of the Federal Records Act.
And listeners, you will never guess which judge has been assigned to the case… Judge James Boasberg.
GREENLAND
President Trump just issued a new statement on Greenland ahead of JD Vance and Usha Vance's trip this week
"We NEED Greenland for international safety and security. We need it. We have to have it...we're gonna HAVE to have it."
ASHLI BABBITT
President Donald J. Trump said he plans to investigate the “unthinkable” Jan. 6 fatal shooting of Ashli Babbitt and why the U.S. Department of Justice is still opposing the $30 million wrongful-death lawsuit filed by Aaron Babbitt and Judicial Watch.
President Trump said he plans to look into Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd, who killed Babbitt from a hidden position, allegedly before even establishing whether she was armed or otherwise a threat. Byrd has said he feared for his life.
'She was innocently standing there.'
Kelly noted that Byrd — who is now a captain assigned to a training role making nearly $190,000 a year — was promoted in 2023 and given a medal by the Biden administration in the wake of the fatal shooting.
U.S. Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.), who detailed Byrd’s history of alleged aggressive personal behavior and reckless use of his service weapon.
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