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With polls showing Labour's set to sweep the Conservatives out of Downing Street, the British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak calls an early election.

Twice as expensive and 15 years to build - Australia's peak scientific body assesses the viability of nuclear power against renewable energy sources.

Britain's High Court hands Julian Assange a legal lifeline, ruling he can appeal his extradition to the United States.

Serious concerns about Iran's President and Foreign Minister who are missing after a helicopter crash - adding more tension into a region already wracked by conflict.

In his budget reply, Peter Dutton calls for a drastic cut in immigration to solve Australia's housing crisis.

It was a big Budget for health with new money for urgent care clinics and a digital counselling service but doctors and psychologists aren't convinced it's enough.

Energy bill relief, increased rent assistance and tax cuts for all - it's a Federal Budget aimed at easing cost-of-living pressures but the big question for economists is whether it's going to help the Reserve Bank curb inflation?

For the first time in nearly 20 years, a federal government will claim a back-to-back surplus. The Treasurer is forecast a surplus for the current financial year of close to ten billion dollars.

A gloomy economic outlook is set to dominate tomorrow's federal budget, as the Albanese government attempts to balance cost-of-living relief with the need to keep inflation down.

The Federal Government faces a backlash from its own backbench over it's plan for more investment in gas.