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Support continues while isolation required

Pandemic leave payments could be extended for Australians who are forced to stay at home under state and territory health isolation directives.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese indicates support for extension of pandemic leave payments

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has all but confirmed he will support a push for emergency pandemic leave payments to be extended.

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Scheduling for elective surgeries in Queensland in disarray after public holiday to mark Queen Elizabeth's death

Queensland Health said the Palaszczuk Government was still "working through any impacts" the public holiday to mourn Queen Elizabeth would have on health services.

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Mourning plans on national cabinet agenda

Event arrangements for the national day of mourning public holiday are expected to feature at this week's national cabinet meeting.

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Paul Bongiorno: The Queen’s death helps resolve our identity crisis

The death of Queen Elizabeth II has been a reminder of our place in the British monarch's world – among the realms and overseas territories.

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Dylan Alcott to attend Queen's funeral

Australian of the Year Dylan Alcott and the trainer of racehorse Winx Chris Waller will attend the Queen's funeral as part of an Australian delegation.

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Government expects corruption bill to be on schedule, even as PM says it’s no time for politics

The Prime Minister is holding firm against critics who say a planned fortnight of mourning the Queen's death will be too disruptive.

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Australian Prime Minister faces backlash over last-minute bank holiday for Queen

Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, has landed himself in hot water over the decision to announce an 'unanticipated' bank holiday this month, as it will cost the economy billions of dollars

Daily Mirror

‘We don’t need a new king’: Lidia Thorpe calls for Indigenous treaty then a republic

Greens senator says people expected her to be ‘ranting and raving’ after Queen’s death but she has reflected and now wants Labor to ‘show ambition’

The Guardian - AU

Australian PM refuses to rule out republic referendum

While Albanese wants an Australian president to replace the British monarch as the nation’s head of state, he has also defended several traditions to honour the Queen

The Independent UK

Surgeries delayed as Queen's memorial public holiday causes disruption

Medical appointments, exams and school formals are among plans derailed by a national day of mourning to commemorate Queen Elizabeth II.

ABC News

Australian PM defends ban on Parliament due to royal's death

Australia’s prime minister has defended an obscure and longstanding protocol that bars the nation’s parliament from sitting for 15 days following a British monarch’s death

The Independent UK

Australian PM facing backlash for ‘short-notice’ bank holiday for Queen’s death

The health care sector said the ‘unanticipated public holiday’ will cause huge disruption to operations and patient consultations.

The Independent UK

Independent MP Helen Haines says government should not rush integrity bill inquiry

Key supporter of federal anti-corruption commission says ‘the most important thing is that parliament works constructively to get it right’

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King's Birthday holiday needs flexibility

A business group wants states and territories to pick their own dates for the King's Birthday public holiday.

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Parliament sitting days added after cancellation due to the Queen's death

Parliament will sit the day after a national memorial service to Queen Elizabeth II, as the Prime Minister seeks to make up days lost following her death.

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Albanese Is Famously Pro-Republic, So Why Is He Shooting Down Calls For A Republic Referendum?

The PM is famously pro-republic, so why won't he at least discuss the issue now?

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The royal news you might have missed: Charles III proclaimed King, Queen's coffin now in Edinburgh and a public holiday announced

King Charles III is proclaimed as the ruling monarch of Australia, Queen Elizabeth II's body is transported to Scotland's capital and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese justifies a national day of mourning. Here's what you might have missed this weekend.

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The Guardian - AU

Albanese says ‘inappropriate’ to discuss republic now but doesn’t rule out future referendum

Prime minister says vote to recognise Indigenous Australians in the constitution comes before any referendum on republic

AAP

Parliament to resume after Queen's death

Both houses of federal parliament will sit in Canberra on September 23 to pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth II who died last week.

The Guardian - AU

Morning mail: PM says ‘not the time’ for republic debate, anti-corruption law on hold, Ukraine fightback

Monday: Queen’s death puts end-of-year timeline in doubt for Labor’s integrity commission legislation. Plus: the rise of astro-tourism in Australia

The Guardian - AU

Anthony Albanese says ‘now not the time’ to discuss republic

Australia’s prime minister prepares to pay his respects to Queen Elizabeth II in the UK this week after announcing national day of mourning

The Independent UK

Australia abandons referendum on keeping British monarch as head of state

Australian PM’s remarks in sharp contrast to Commonwealth colleagues and members of national political party who refuse to mourn and want country to ‘move forward’ instead

The New Daily

‘We will see what occurs’: Albanese shoots down talk of Australia as republic

Prime Minister Albanese has always insisted the republic issue would only be progressed if the government won a second term.

AAP

Aust leaders remember 9/11 terror attacks

Australia's prime minister and federal opposition leader have remembered the September 11 terror attacks on its 21st anniversary.

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