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Rowland told Hanson to look inward

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Cash is not a rebuild
ASIC’s Monday review found cash settlements in at least 63 percent of final home claims. IAG and Allianz each used cash in more than 80 percent.

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One Nation takes Secret Harbour
Luke Herdegen is One Nation’s first Western Australian lower-house MP after the 29 August 2026 by-election. Labor’s Georgia Tree conceded on 30 August.

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Hanson took the energy package to the Press Club on 17 June
Pauline Hanson’s National Press Club address on 17 June put One Nation’s energy plank on a national stage: keep dispatchable plant, treat gas as a strategic asset, stop treating a new gas appliance as a moral problem. Polls that week still had the party at 28–29 percent.

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The nuclear sentence is on the Press Club transcript
Hanson’s 17 June National Press Club appearance put civil nuclear back in the national argument: commission a reactor, repeal the net-zero statute that made the conversation feel illegal. Construction is not a 2027 retail product. The conversation is no longer a dare.

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Quorn Park is the NEM’s first single-hybrid GPS plant
On 27 August Potentia finished a A$190 million hybrid 10 km northwest of Parkes: 98 MW solar, 20 MW / 40 MWh battery, one GPS, one controller. About 160,000 panels. Zen Energy holds ten years of offtake.

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Commonwealth names six groups for Sydney to Newcastle rail
Six consortiums were shortlisted on 24 August for early work on trains and the first tunnels. Planning money is $230 million until 2028. Construction is still listed for 2029.

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Midland’s new private hospital opened on Thursday
St John of God Midland Private Hospital opened 27 August 2026. 123 beds in the old railway workshops. Sixty public beds come back with the move.

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One Nation previews coal and gas policy at Marnoo
One Nation previewed coal, gas and a VicGrid strip for VNI West at a Farmers Fightback rally. The formal launch is Monday at Yallourn.

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Hanson named Mike Newman to lead One Nation in NSW
On Friday in the Hunter, Pauline Hanson announced former NSW investment commissioner Mike Newman as state leader for the 2027 election. He will contest Labor-held Cessnock. He told the ABC he wants cheap energy “just like Florida and Texas.”

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Hanson told the ABC Victoria should look at nuclear
In an interview published Sunday around the Marnoo rally, Pauline Hanson said Victoria should put in new coal-fired stations and look at nuclear. She declined to say how One Nation would fund them. Those are her sentences on the national broadcaster.