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Australians want the Albanese government to cut government spending. Where they want the cuts depends very much on who they are.

Cut government spending! Just not my government spending

Australians agree the government needs to cut spending. But a new poll confirms most of us want other people to feel the fiscal pain.

  • Shane Wright

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Treasurer Jim Chalmers is being urged by voters to look at capital gains tax reform, income tax cuts and lower spending.

Australians back hit to capital gains and negative gearing to pay for tax cuts

Australians believe Jim Chalmers should cut government spending and deliver tax cuts with changes to capital gains tax high on their hit list.

  • Shane Wright
Olga Pavliieva and her son, Yehor, at the Lviv Clinical Centre for Children’s Healthcare.

Under Russian bombardment, this Ukrainian children’s hospital got an Australian lifeline

Lviv is safer than some Ukrainian cities, but it is not spared from attack – and desperately ill children still need treatment, regardless of the unrelenting war.

  • David Crowe
Maia Domingas, 38, has advanced cervical cancer and lies in the gynaecology unit ward waiting to see if she is eligible for treatment overseas.

‘I can’t watch women die any more’: The remarkable tactics being used to eliminate a killer

Meet the Australian medicos taking the fight to an entirely preventable cancer killing young women, leaving children motherless and causing intergenerational damage.

  • Kate Aubusson and Kate Geraghty
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It’s been 10 years since his dire message was delivered to the world. In hindsight, it wasn’t gloomy enough

One of Australia’s top foreign policy experts argues Australia needs to strive for a more influential role on the world stage, beginning with Donald Trump.

  • Matthew Knott
US President Donald Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping in 2019.

‘Xi is watching’: How Trump’s aid cuts have left Australia ‘holding the bag’

It was the end of January, just a week after Donald Trump returned to office, when the email arrived in the inboxes of FHI 360.

  • Michael Koziol
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Somoud Wahdan sits with her child in the northern Gaza Strip, waiting for humanitarian aid trucks to arrive.

Israel’s leader claims no one in Gaza is starving. Data and witnesses disagree

Despite Israel’s daily pauses in military operations and a scaling up of aid delivery, people on the ground say little has changed.

  • Cara Anna
Muhammad Zakariya Ayyoub al-Matouq, 1, is facing life-threatening malnutrition.

‘Innocent life matters’: The photographs of children that captured the world’s conscience

From Sudan to Vietnam and Gaza, images of suffering children have become totems of humanitarian catastrophes and prompted hard questions about photographic ethics.

  • Nick Newling
Naima Abu Ful and her two-year-old Yazan in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City.

‘We have crossed the line’: Gaza hunger crisis turns into death spiral

This month, the hunger that has been building among Gaza’s more than 2 million Palestinians passed a tipping point into accelerating death, aid workers and health officials say.

  • Wafaa Shurafa, Sarah El Deeb and Lee Keath
Dr Ayman Elattar has recently returned from a medical mission to Gaza. June 6th, 2025, Photo: Wolter Peeters, The Sydney Morning Herald.

The Australian doctors saving lives in Gaza

Without notes or forms, Dr Ayman Alattar wrote information on people’s bodies as he worked at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza’s north.

  • Mostafa Rachwani