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“Part-time energy minister, full-time president” was the phrase of the day in question time as the Coalition launched the sitting week with an attack on Chris Bowen. The opposition is targeting the climate and energy minister after he struck a deal to be “president of negotiations” when Turkey hosts the next Cop conference, arguing he should be focused on power prices at home.
Experts have dismissed the attack lines, with one describing the argument as evidence of an Australian “culture cringe”. Elsewhere in Canberra, the Greens say Labor’s nature laws are “still not good enough to protect the planet” and are demanding further changes in exchange for agreeing to pass them in the final sitting week of the year.
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The New South Wales government has launched nine new mid-rise apartment building pattern book designs, which it hopes will support the construction of 112,000 homes in the “missing middle” over the next five years.
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“The first thing I thought was like, ‘Oh, here I am still copying Jamie Foxx.’” – Donald Glover
The 42-year-old, who performs under the name Childish Gambino, has revealed he had a stroke last year that forced him to cancel world tour dates. Telling his LA audience the story on Saturday, he made joking reference to the Oscar-winning actor’s 2023 stroke.
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A Queensland coroner has found that the three members of the Train family behind the 2022 Wieambilla shootings were not terrorists, but instead killed two police officers and a neighbour due to their shared “persecutory” delusions.
Queensland state reporter Andrew Messenger speaks to Reged Ahmad about the coroner’s findings into what happened that day and whether anything could have been done to prevent it.
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Spend some time poring over our kids’ Christmas gift guide, where you can see 50 presents for children aged zero to 12 – and sort ideas by age, category or budget.
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Today’s starter word is: COMP. You have five goes to get the longest word including the starter word. Play Wordiply.
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