A threat by doctors to increase fees to visit a GP has been averted, with a proposal to alleviate the impending payroll tax shock set to be put to national cabinet today. 

Former minister Christian Porter admitted he fundamentally did not understand “precisely" how debts were issued and completed under the robodebt scheme. 

Treasurer Jim Chalmers is set to push ahead with stage three tax cuts for now, despite an international report warning tax reform is needed to pay for increasing spending. 

Two men arrested for looting the property at the centre of Queensland’s deadliest police shooting have been blasted by a magistrate for the “disgraceful” act. 

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