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Albanese to rush through new laws to protect Tasmania’s salmon industry from legal challenge

Labor will push the contentious bill through parliament next week despite concerns about the extinction of the Maugean skate

The Guardian - AU

Bringing back ‘golden ticket’ visas ‘a big mistake’, Magnitsky sanctions architect warns Dutton

Bill Browder says such visas ‘a way for dodgy people … to buy themselves legitimacy and insert themselves into countries’

The Guardian - AU

Peter Dutton wants to deport criminal dual citizens. We already have laws for that

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has floated the idea of amending the Australian Constitution to allow government ministers to strip dual citizens of their Australian citizenship if they commit serious crimes related to terrorism.

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Avoiding the doctor due to cost is at a 10-year high. Here’s why GP bulk billing needs to change

Labor has pledged $8.5bn to help increase bulk-billing rates and the Coalition matched its promise – but the issue won’t go away. Here is what the funding aims to achieve

The Guardian - AU

View from The Hill: Dutton’s talk about a citizenship referendum is personal over-reach and political folly

Peter Dutton, when he gets on his favoured ground of security, too often goes for the quick hit, and frequently over-reaches.

The Conversation

Anatomy of a ‘thought bubble’: is the Coalition serious about a referendum on deporting criminals?

Will Peter Dutton take his plan to the election? Comments in public and behind the scenes on Tuesday suggested mixed feelings among the Coalition

The Guardian - AU

Politics with Michelle Grattan: Barbara Pocock on the Greens’ policy priorities

The Greens have heaped a lot of pressure on the government during this term, from issues of the environment, housing, and Medicare, to the war in the Middle East.

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Renewables are cheap. So why isn’t your power bill falling?

Power prices are set to go up again even though renewables now account for 40% of the electricity in Australia’s main grid – close to quadruple the clean power we had just 15 years ago. How can that be, given renewables are the cheapest form of newly built power generation?

The Conversation

Liberal supporters launch election ad campaign against Peter Dutton’s plan to build nuclear power plants

Liberals Against Nuclear say the policy would increase bureaucracy and impose ‘massive taxpayer-backed risk’

The Guardian - AU

Peter Dutton Is Keen On A Referendum To Deport Dual Citizens With A Criminal History

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton — who spent months calling the Voice referendum a waste of money — is now floating the idea of holding one over deporting Australian citizens.

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Why build nuclear power in place of old coal, when you could have pumped hydropower instead?

Australia’s energy policy would take a sharp turn if the Coalition wins the upcoming federal election. A Dutton government would seek to build seven nuclear power plants at the sites of old coal-fired power stations.

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Guardian Essential poll: Albanese scores highest approval rating in almost 18 months as support for Dutton slips

PM’s approval rating increases to 46%, up four percentage points since the last poll, as Labor and Coalition run neck-and-neck on a two-party preferred basis

The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: Dutton calls for crackdown on CFMEU ‘corruption’; ABC hit by radio outage; and how to avoid the White Lotus effect

Labor rubbishes demands for new legislation and says Coalition approach would jeopardise ongoing investigations

The Guardian - AU

Labor rubbishes ‘reckless’ Coalition plan to crack down on CFMEU after latest allegations

Murray Watt says deregistering union’s construction division would jeopardise ongoing investigations and that new US-style laws are unnecessary

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Coalition promises Australian version of United States’ RICO act to target CFMEU

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has announced a Coalition government would introduce legislation, based on an American law used to pursue the Mafia, to enable police to target the “kingpins” of criminal organisations such as outlaw motorcycle gangs.

The Conversation

Gains for Labor as they lead in three of last five polls

A national Freshwater poll for The Financial Review, conducted March 13–15 from a sample of 1,051, gave the Coalition a 51–49 lead by respondent preferences, a one-point gain for Labor since the late February Freshwater poll.

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Australia’s next government may well be in minority. Here’s how that can be a good outcome for the country

Two months out from an Australian federal election, the polling is pointing to a very tight race between the two major parties. This means, if the polls are correct, neither party will likely win enough seats to command a parliamentary working majority.

The Guardian - AU

Friends with benefits: Gina Rinehart and Peter Dutton’s ideological love-in

Since Dutton became opposition leader, the billionaire mining magnate has cultivated their bond. We look back at their increasingly close relationship

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The Guardian - AU

New drugs added to PBS; alleged e-scooter bandit arrested – as it happened

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Morning Mail: Dutton’s policy problem, our dangerous big cars obsession, Putin pushes back at ceasefire plan

Coalition insider fear push for office working not ‘thought through’ to win teal seats; why Australia’s ute obsession is a dangerous one

The Guardian - AU

‘Bad’ hate crime laws quickly passed after terror ‘con job’ must be reversed, crossbenchers insist

Independents and legal experts say Labor and Coalition teaming up to ‘ram laws through parliament’ lacked transparency and was ‘bad politicking’

The Conversation

Grattan on Friday: Will voters fear PM Peter Dutton would be a surprise packet?

Australian politicians on both sides of the house say protectionist policies are bad, right? That Australia, as a country, believes in and benefits from trade being as free as possible.

The Conversation

Politics with Michelle Grattan: Peter Dutton on why he’s not Australia’s Trump – ‘I’m my own person’

On current opinion polls, we are looking at a very close race at the May election. As voting day draws near, Peter Dutton will face more forensic questioning about his policies and how he would run government.

The Conversation

Independent MPs are elected for a reason – hung parliaments may be precisely what voters want

Signing off his 26-year parliamentary career three years ago, the retiring Labor MP Joel Fitzgibbon lamented a power imbalance that allowed the majority party routinely to railroad the national legislature.

The Conversation

View from The Hill: tariff rebuff feeds into debate about how Australia handles Donald Trump

Anthony Albanese didn’t mince words in responding to Donald Trump’s refusal to grant Australia an exemption from the United States’ tariff on aluminium and steel. “This is not a friendly act,” the prime minister declared bluntly.

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