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View from The Hill: 'Player' Mike Pezzullo undone by power play

Mike Pezzullo, one of Canberra’s most powerful and certainly most controversial public servants, cannot survive the revelation of the trove of text messages showing him blatantly inserting himself into the political process.

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New second-in-charge takes the reins at Lake Macquarie council

A new deputy mayor has been elected to represent Lake Macquarie.

Newcastle Herald

Pezzullo story points to serious systemic problems in the Australian Public Service

The revelations in the Nine newspapers that Mike Pezzullo, secretary of the powerful Home Affairs department, shared with Liberal Party powerbroker Scott Briggs are certainly extraordinary. But, just like the revelations about Robodebt from the royal commission, they must not be treated as an isolated case but as evidence of…

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Traditional owners left to ‘pick up the pieces’ after sacred rock shelter damaged in Rio Tinto blast

Full extent of incident near Nammuldi iron ore mine in the Pilbara still unknown, Muntulgura Guruma representative says

The Guardian - AU

NT chief's crepe attacker speaks after assault charge

A woman charged with assaulting the Northern Territory's chief minister with a cream-covered pancake says she was driven by frustration over a health issue.

AAP

Watchdog calls for NSW police officer to be charged with assaulting Indigenous teenager

Officer allegedly punched 17-year-old twice in head before dragging him across hospital floor without properly recording use of force

The Guardian - AU

'Hero' firefighter turned to drug making after deaths

A hero firefighter awarded for his bravery is in jail for trafficking drugs after a fall from grace that ended his career, including a $40 million business.

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Referendum's 'strength is its simplicity': law experts

Law experts have assured voters the referendum proposal to enshrine an Indigenous voice to parliament in the constitution is legally safe.

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Is it ethical non-Indigenous people get to decide on the Voice? Is it OK for one group to have rights others don't? An ethicist weighs in

Australians will soon be asked to vote on whether we should “alter the Constitution to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice”.

The Conversation

Dozens of vulnerable children allegedly preyed upon in Cairns, upending Queensland’s youth crime debate

Police operation Uniform Kalahari reveals horrific alleged abuse and challenges popular narrative about the state’s youth crime ‘crisis’

The Guardian - AU

'We can win': Pesutto pledges victory for Vic Liberals

Just months after being heckled by rank-and-file members, Victorian Liberal leader John Pesutto has delivered a bullish message to the party faithful.

AAP

Anthony Albanese tells Peter Dutton he will set up bipartisan committee to legislate on voice to parliament if yes vote succeeds

Speaking at the same Yes23 campaign launch in Sydney, Julian Leeser says ‘Australians aren’t a perfect people … but are good-hearted’

The Guardian - AU

WA Liberals pledge to up the ante on tracking criminals

The WA Liberals are promising an extra 300 GPS tracking bracelets in a bid to reverse a spike in restraining order breaches by violent offenders.

AAP

Why is the campaign for an Indigenous voice struggling? It’s not just the media

Speaking to voters I have not found hostility but a lack of engagement. In this laidback nation, many Australians resent the toxicity of the referendum debate

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You Can Go Now review – documentary about Indigenous artist Richard Bell is polemical and playful

Art, activism and attitude collide in Larissa Behrendt’s exuberantly splashy film about a provocateur who can’t be predicted or pigeonholed

AAP

Mushroom poisoning victim released from hospital

A Victorian man who fell ill after eating a meal suspected to have been poisoned by mushrooms has been released from hospital as his recovery continues.

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Officers shot Kalgoorlie man, acted by the book: police

One police officer has fired two shots, and another fired one shot, during a fatal confrontation with an armed man in Kalgoorlie, WA Police say.

The Guardian - AU

Former NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian launches legal challenge against Icac ruling of ‘corrupt conduct’

Former counsel assisting the Independent Commission Against Corruption says past judicial reviews have rarely succeeded

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Berejiklian launches legal bid against ICAC finding

The former NSW premier will ask the Court of Appeal to overturn a corruption finding made against her by the Independent Commission Against Corruption in June.

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Dutton's unity call as new Vic Liberal president chosen

Federal Liberal leader Peter Dutton issued a plea for unity within the Victorian party at a state council meeting before a new president was elected.

AAP

Winston Peters lashes Australia in NZ election bid

Winston Peters is back from the political wilderness at the age of 78, and his New Zealand First party could return MPs at next month's election.

The Guardian - UK

Smorgasbord of conspiracy theories join forces at Sydney’s unofficial no rally – as it happened

One Nation, Liberal Democrats and Sky News presenters among speakers at unofficial rally against the Indigenous voice to parliament

The Guardian - AU

How David Seymour hopes to move New Zealand to the right

Polls put New Zealand on track to elect its most rightwing coalition government in decades as Act’s supporters grow

The Guardian - AU

A Melbourne office held vital records of Aboriginal children’s homes. How did they go missing?

When the United Aborigines Mission wound up in 2020, boxes of records disappeared – leaving stolen generations survivors with agonising questions

The Guardian - AU

Anthony Albanese a slow-moving target for Peter Dutton’s one-man insurgency

The government has hit major headwinds and it’s unclear who might provide the motivation for a change in direction

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