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Some MPs received more than 100 emails within 48 hours from the same address criticising the party’s energy policyGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastLiberal MPs have been sent a barrage of emails demanding they drop net zero targets or “risk losing our support” by a group connected to conservative right-wing lobby group Advance.The mass emails, seen by Guardian Australia, have been sent to multiple Liberals by Whitestone Strategic, a secretive political consultancy group and come as the Coalition reviews its energy policy. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/aug/17/dump-it-or-well-dump-you-secretive-consultancy-group-sends-liberal-mps-barrage-of-emails-over-net-zero-policy-ntwnfb Author : Krishani Dhanji and Josh Butler

Putin told Trump he would halt further advances and freeze Ukrainian frontline where Russian forces occupy significant areas, sources sayZelenskyy to meet Trump on Monday after Putin summit briefingDonald Trump hand-delivered a personal letter from first lady Melania Trump to Russian leader Vladimir Putin raising the plight of Ukrainian and Russian children caught in the middle of the ongoing war between the two European countries, it was reported on Saturday.The contents of the letter were unknown – but two Trump administration officials told Reuters that it mentioned the abductions of children resulting from the war that broke out after Russia

Corrections department review shows how Grant Hardin made fake guard uniform and details lax security at facilityA former police chief known and convicted murderer known as “the devil in the Ozarks” spent months planning his escape from an Arkansas prison, and he said lax security in the kitchen where he worked allowed him to gather the supplies he needed, according to an internal review by prison officials released on Friday.The state corrections department’s critical incident review of Grant Hardin’s 25 May escape from the Calico Rock prison provides the most detailed description so far of his planning – and the

Ukrainian president to make first return to White House since infamous row with Trump in FebruaryZelenskyy to meet US president in Washington on Monday after Trump-Putin summit ends without deal – liveUkraine’s president has said he will fly to Washington on Monday to meet Donald Trump after an hour long call with the US president in which he was briefed on the key points of the Alaska summit with Vladimir Putin.Next week’s meeting will mark the first return to the White House for Volodymyr Zelenskyy since his infamous row with Trump and the vice-president, JD Vance, in the Oval Office