But to many Australians, it looks less like fairness and more like a massive tax grab dressed up as compassion.
While wrapping himself in the language of helping young Australians, he is reaching deeper into their pockets to fund a bigger government and his vision for Australia’s future.
There is something disturbingly unfair about building your own wealth under one set of rules, then changing those rules once you’ve made it to the top.
That is the contradiction confronting Anthony Albanese.
The Prime Minister built his own financial future in an Australia that rewarded aspiration.
The US military says it launched a sixth consecutive night of strikes on Iran, with Iranian media reporting explosions in areas including Bandar Abbas, Ahvaz and Iranshahr.
Iran’s military warns “all infrastructure in the region will be crushed under steel blows” if the United States carries out its threat to attack Iran’s civilian sites.
The US military also says it “disabled” an oil tanker attempting to sail towards an Iranian port in the Strait of Hormuz by firing Hellfire missiles.
Iran says it carried out retaliatory attacks targeting US assets in Kuwait, Bahrain and Jordan.
JD Vance accuses Israel of ‘manipulating’ US public opinion to prolong Iran war
The United States has carried out major strikes on Iran for the sixth night in a row, killing at least eight people and wounding 20.
Officials in southern Iran’s Bandar Abbas report that civilian infrastructure, including power facilities and a train station, has been hit.
Iran’s army says it has hit US aircraft at a military base in Bahrain, while Kuwait’s army says it is responding to missile and drone attacks. Qatar authorities say a child was injured by falling missile debris after its army thwarted incoming Iranian attacks.
A spokesman for Iran’s military says the Strait of Hormuz will never return to its pre-war status, as US Central Command says soldiers boarded a vessel in the Gulf of Oman to enforce its blockade of Iran.
Just three vessels crossed Strait of Hormuz amid closure
Officials in southern Iran report that civilian infrastructure, including bridges, airports, power facilities and a train station, has been hit.
Israel claims it killed Hamas commander in Gaza
The Israeli army says its forces and the Israeli security agency Shin Bet have killed a Hamas commander in the Khan Younis area of southern Gaza.
In a statement, the army claimed Anas Mahmoud Ahmad Hamdan was killed on Thursday, calling him the “right-hand man” of senior Hamas leaders.
The army added that Hamdan was a “central figure” in holding captives in the Gaza Strip and in the process of returning them to Israel.
Illegal migrants have no entitlements. There’s an argument to be made for those from Spanish speaking countries, but not for Mohammedans.
Rocio Neciosupe, originally from Peru, outside one of the buildings in Madrid, Spain, where she works as a cleaner
The government expected half a million people to apply. Nearly double that number came forward, in a process advocates say exposed how many migrants had been left undocumented for years in the country.
Madrid, Spain – Badr Tmairi, 22, from Morocco, has spent six years living in Spain without legal status. He arrived at 16, alone, without his family. He held legal residency briefly after turning 18, but lost it when he failed to renew it in time.
“What I want is to get my papers back so I can work as a hairdresser and travel to visit my family in Morocco,” he said.
Tmairi is one of more than a million people who have now applied for regularisation under a new scheme that contrasts with a growing European trend against irregular immigration.
He has been homeless for the past year. Without documents, finding work and decent housing in Spain is difficult.
“It’s very encouraging to know that so many people submitted an application and are trying to regularise their situation, but that huge number is also proof that the state has failed in its duty to protect the most vulnerable,” Edith Espinola, president of the Active Domestic Workers’ Service Association (SEDOAC) and spokesperson for the Regularizacion Ya (Regularisation Now), told Al Jazeera.
Regularizacion Ya, a collective made up of migrants, has led the push for regularisation since 2020. The measure grew out of a broad social consensus and has been backed by civil society organisations, the Catholic Church, trade unions and business associations.
Living without legal status, Espinola said, condemns people to social exclusion, as it has for Tmairi. Without rights or protection from abuse, they are unaligned with most of the rest of the population.
Seething black guy unleashes a vicious anti-white tirade in NYC, furiously scolding white people for daring to show up at events that are supposed to be for black people only. According to him, whites “suck the life out of everything.”
Hanson seems to have her heart in the right place. But this is a worry:
She still has nothing to say about the Modi speech or the visa deal he and Albo struck to bring in more Indian curry munchers? Strange… How are you going to ‘save Australia’…?
We need a “complete audit” on aboriginal and indigenous funding.
Taxpayers deserve to know how much money is being spent, on what specific programs, and why its not getting to the people in need, regardless of skin colour. pic.twitter.com/CePdDRb3kF
— Pauline Hanson 🇦🇺 (@PaulineHansonOz) July 16, 2026
You can’t force leaders onto people based on their sex. They must be leaders first, this applies to both men and women.
Pauline Hanson succeeded because her message resonates, she’s persistent, dedicated, and actually listens to the issues other politicians dismiss.
Hanson sparks “backlash” after Tommy Robinson podcast comments
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson is under fire after a UK podcast appearance with far-right activist Tommy Robinson. In the discussion, Hanson blamed Australia’s migration problems on the end of the White Australia Policy and repeated claims that people from “Muslim areas” are heavily involved in NDIS rorting.
Federal Health and NDIS Minister Mark Butler said he has not seen official data that supports those claims, and questioned why Hanson chose to meet Robinson. Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young also condemned the remarks and called on Hanson to apologise. Hanson has since defended the meeting in a 7NEWS Spotlight interview and said she will not apologise.
So it seems the Labor Government will be handing out billions on our behalf to a Chinese renewable energy company with extremely close links to the Chinese Communist Party. What madness. We’re destroying prime agricultural land, pursuing a net zero agenda that is driving up energy bills, and we’re now paying billions to the Chinese (the world’s biggest polluter) for the privilege. At what point did the national interest, or what is best for everyday Australians, enter the equation here?
Pauline Hanson has launched a barrage of policy wars with Labor and the Coalition by pledging massive cuts to government spending while ending the ‘transgender insurgency’ and Islamic fundamentalism in Australia.
REPORTER: “You used to call them religious theocratic lunatics. Do you still believe that language applies to the leadership today?”
SEC. RUBIO: “Well, it’s not that I believe it. It’s the fact of the matter. I mean, the Iranian system is led by clerics, radical clerics. That’s… pic.twitter.com/0FIGKdMlTq
🚨 NOW: Sec. Marco Rubio just said it PERFECTLY in front of dozens of global officials on leftist terrorism
“You are here because two weeks ago, a 72-year-old woman was BURNED on over 80% of her body in her own home, in Greece, and she died, executed by a fire bomb because her… pic.twitter.com/eBC6b1pBWD
The Iranian regime appears to have lost the conflict in every meaningful sense, but its leaders still refuse to admit what is right in front of them.
Their military infrastructure has been battered, their credibility has been shattered, and their threats sound more desperate with every passing day.
President Trump has repeatedly made clear that America prefers a negotiated end, but negotiations only work when both sides are willing to face reality. Iran has been given chance after chance to step back, abandon its nuclear ambitions, stop funding terror proxies, and end its campaign of regional intimidation.
U.S. Launches Fifth Consecutive Day of Strikes on Iran Over Strait of Hormuz | Asia One News
The United States has launched another wave of military strikes against Iran. Washington says the operation targets threats to shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. The latest action marks… pic.twitter.com/M00y1qdJEn
AyatollahAlirezaArafi, Iran’s second-highest leader behind the brutal anti-women laws and the killing of thousands for not wearing hijab, was NOT taken out in overnight US-Israel strikes on Tehran.
Iranian officials have said the Strait of Hormuz is “a red line” since the beginning of the US-Israel war on the country. Brigadier-General Ebrahim Zolfaghari’s statement today is a reiteration of that.
Iranians are not talking about temporary control over Hormuz, but rather their message to the world is Iran aims to have permanent control and sovereignty over the strategic waterway. And that is the main source of tension between Tehran and Washington.
The US military has launched a second wave of strikes against Iran, with CENTCOM saying they “are targeting Iranian military capabilities used to threaten vessels freely transiting through the Strait of Hormuz”.
Iran’s top negotiator and parliamentary Speaker Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf says the country has “never welcomed war, nor do we now”, adding that “we must always be prepared for battle and stand firm to protect our national security and interests”.
Airlines cancel Middle East flights amid US-Iran escalation
Greece’s Aegean Airlines, Air Canada, Air France-KLM have all suspended scheduled flights to Dubai, Tel Aviv and other destinations across the region.
Israel is losing the public opinion battle in the US: Vance
US Vice President JD Vance says that “Israel is losing the public opinion battle in the US.”
Iran summons British ambassador over IRGC ban
Iran has summoned the British ambassador in Tehran after the UK designated the IRGC a threat to national security, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reports.
Under the National Security (State Threats) Act 2026, individuals found to have supported or assisted the IRGC could face up to 14 years in prison, while those carrying out acts of sabotage on behalf of the group, including arson, could face life imprisonment.
Iran has been accused of orchestrating seven attacks on British soil targeting Jewish and Israeli communities. Tehran has condemned the move as “hostile”.
Iran’s military warns “all infrastructure in the region will be crushed under steel blows” if the United States carries out its threat to attack Iran’s civilian sites.
The US military says it launched another wave of strikes on Iran with Iranian media reporting explosions on Qeshm Island, Bandar Abbas and Chabahar.
The US military also says it “disabled” an oil tanker attempting to sail towards an Iranian port in the Strait of Hormuz by firing Hellfire missiles.
Iran says it carried out retaliatory attacks targeting US assets in Kuwait, Bahrain and Jordan.
Aussies are terrorised by Africans daily & in Sydney & Melbourne, we have to fortify our homes & sleep with one eye open because of Africans & Middle Eastern gangs. https://t.co/eHneggj64p
“Racist Italians!” As soon as she arrived in Italy, she cried racism because Italians were looking at her. She can go back to where she came from. pic.twitter.com/q79RBz1plS
