Guardian Essential poll: Australians want higher tax on gas exports and extension of petrol excise cut | Essential poll

Most Australians support taxing profits from gas exports and extending the cut to the fuel excise, according to the latest Guardian Essential poll, despite Anthony Albanese on Wednesday ruling out a new tax on existing gas export contracts. The poll also found the fuel crisis is seeing more voters keen to shift to renewable energy…

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Prosecutors release selfies of alleged White House dinner shooter at hotel | White House correspondents’ dinner shooting

Federal prosecutors provided in a filing on Wednesday the most detailed account to date of Cole Tomas Allen’s alleged weeks-long plan to kill Donald Trump, who had joined more than 2,500 members of the Washington press corps for their annual White House correspondents’ dinner. The motion, aimed at keeping Allen detained and filed by the…

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