News live: Chalmers acknowledges ‘softness in housingmarket’; Australia sends drones to Nepal
Team of specialist drone operators will help search and rescue effort in aftermath of the deadly Nepal-Tibet floods. Follow the day’s news live.
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Nick Visser2 Sept 2026, 09:47 pmUpdated 6 min ago1 min readWorldWorld
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News live: Chalmers acknowledges ‘softness in housing market’; Australia sends drones to Nepal
Team of specialist drone operators will help search and rescue effort in aftermath of the deadly Nepal-Tibet floods. Follow the day’s news live.
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Hume says Coalition’s plan isn’t a copy of One Nation and is ‘fully costed’ and ‘fully modelled’ to tackle organised crime
The deputy opposition leader, Jane Hume , said a new Coalition plan to tackle the illegal tobacco market isn’t a copy of the one touted by One Nation.
This is not a slogan. This is not a headline. This is a solution to a policy problem, a failure of this government. … We have no time to waste. We have a solution. We’ve done the work. Now let’s see if we can get it adopted …
This is not a perfect solution, but it is the only solution because the alternative, maintaining the same thing, means that criminals take over.
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Source: The Guardian · Nick Visser. Published 2 Sept 2026, 09:47 pm.
