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FOI documents show Peter Dutton’s ‘captain’s call’ to make senior Liberal head of defence thinktank

Documents obtained by Guardian Australia show the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s choice of candidate was overruled by then defence minister

The Guardian - AU

‘Not honest’: new health minister dismisses Coalition election claim that bulk billing had hit 88%

Exclusive: ‘Primary care is in its worst shape since Medicare began,’ Mark Butler says amid taskforce review of Medicare system

The Guardian - AU

Uranium prices are soaring, and Australia's hoary old nuclear debate is back in the headlines. Here's what it all means

Last week, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton sought to revive the hoary old debate of nuclear power in Australia, announcing an internal review into whether the Liberals should back the controversial technology.

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Most Australians support an Indigenous voice – but they don’t know too much about it

Two-thirds of respondents back constitutional recognition, including 77% of Labor voters and 53% of Coalition voters

The Guardian - AU

Barilaro takes exception to questioning at inquiry in NY job

The NSW Premier had some words for his former deputy when told he learned he would apply for a cushy taxpayer-funded job in New York, John Barilaro says.

The New Daily

Coalition calls for Australia to build its own missiles

Australia must develop its own long-range missiles as part of its defence to meet rising challenges to regional security, the Coalition has said.

The New Daily

The Nadesalingam family's 'very happy life' in Biloela now that visas approved

Nades Murugappan has returned to work at the Biloela meatworks, where he worked before his family was taken away by immigration officials in 2018, and, with his wife Priya, is also looking to start up a food van.

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Government locks in airport terminal promise but some spending in doubt

Will big-dollar Hunter hydrogen and road projects be put on the backburner as the government tries to repair the budget?

Newcastle Herald

Young Liberals blame election defeat on climate inaction and ‘coordinated attack’ on net zero target

Party’s youth wing also cites failure to recruit women and to deliver national integrity commission as factors in Coalition loss

The Guardian - AU

Peter Dutton said the cashless debit card has improved the lives of many users. Is he correct?

The Opposition Leader has been talking up the results of a survey on the cashless debit card, but the majority said the program had made life "worse".

ABC News

Australia’s climate change targets will become law. What happens now?

Here’s what we know the new bill means for climate action and what happens once we have legislated targets

The Guardian - AU

On climate, the Coalition looks for an each-way bet on a losing horse

The only hope for the Coalition of ever winning government again will require them to at least pretend to re-engage with constituents on climate.

The New Daily

Grattan on Friday: Government win on climate legislation leaves opposition looking like a stranded asset

Perhaps not since the marriage equality vote has the passage of a bill in the House of Representatives carried such a combination of substantive and symbolic import as the Albanese government’s climate legislation.

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Albanese declares Coalition ‘stuck in time’ after Labor’s climate bill passes lower house

Legislation passes with amendments from independents and Greens, enshrining an emissions reduction target of 43% by 2030

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Climate bill passes lower house as Liberal MP defects

A bill enshrining an emissions reduction target of 43 per cent into law passed the House of Representatives. The government’s Climate Change Bill passed

The Guardian - AU

Penny Wong warns against ‘miscalculation’ as China-Taiwan tensions escalate – as it happened

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Iranian asylum seeker on bridging visa wants permanency in Australia to care for her sick daughter

Elham Amareh is used to feelings of fear and uncertainty, having fled Iran with her husband, son and daughter and making the journey to Australia by boat in 2013. Ms Amareh has lived in Australia for a decade now, but her attempts to secure a protection visa have been denied.

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The Greens have backed Labor's 43% target - but don't think Australia's climate wars are over

After a decade of climate policy failure, Wednesday brought good news and slightly less good news for Australian action on climate change.

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The Guardian - AU

‘Nothing off the table’ in bid to deliver 450GL of water for Murray-Darling, Labor says

Tanya Plibersek accuses the Coalition of preventing the delivery of water for South Australia through ‘brown tape’ bureaucracy

The New Daily

‘Historic’ climate bill for reducing carbon emissions poised to pass into law

The Greens confirmed they would support the climate bill in the lower house and Senate, and Liberal MP Bridget Archer would cross the floor.

The Conversation

It's official: the Murray-Darling Basin Plan hasn't met its promise to our precious rivers. So where to now?

A long-awaited report released on Tuesday found the amount of water promised to river environments under the Murray-Darling Basin Plan “cannot be achieved” under current settings. In short, the plan is failing on a key target.

ABC News

Government's 43 per cent emissions target set to become law, as Greens offer votes needed to pass climate bill

A bill to write the government's climate target into law is set to be passed, as the Greens decide to back the bill, giving the government enough votes to pass the legislation.

The Guardian - AU

Liberal MP Bridget Archer to cross the floor on climate bill – as it happened

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NSW government slides further into trouble as Perrottet struggles for clear air

Clear air is essential ahead of an election. Space to make the case to voters. Room to build positive momentum. And yet, hurtling towards a poll in March 2023, the NSW Liberal-National government is gasping for breath.

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Cashless debit cards linked to buy now, pay later services raise concerns ahead of end of scheme

Social Services Minister Amanda Rishworth said transitioning people off cashless debit cards could take time due to a number of people linking theirs to buy now, pay later services.

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