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RFDS health report reveals women in the bush likely to die 19 years before city counterparts

Women and Indigenous people living in the bush are having decades of their lives shaved off due to preventable health issues and a lack of the most basic health services, a new RFDS report has revealed.

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Senator Lidia Thorpe quits Greens over divisions on Voice to Parliament

Senator Lidia Thorpe, the Indigenous spokesperson for the Greens and a vocal opponent of the Voice to Parliament, will quit the party after failing to find common ground with her colleagues.

ABC News

Lidia Thorpe quits Greens over concerns about voice

Senator Lidia Thorpe is quitting the Greens over her concerns with establishing an Indigenous voice to parliament, reducing the party to 11 senators.

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Lidia Thorpe intends to 'speak freely' on Indigenous sovereignty following Greens resignation — as it happened

Senator Lidia Thorpe says the Greens' support for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament is at odds with activists who are demanding "treaty before Voice".

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Waitangi Day celebrations struggle to mute politics in heated election year

Questions of sovereignty, inequality and New Zealand history hang in the background as political speeches foreshadow a future in which relationship with Māori plays a central role

The Guardian - AU

Lidia Thorpe quits Greens party to pursue black sovereignty

Victorian senator to join crossbench, where she ‘will be able to speak freely on all issues from a sovereign perspective’

The Guardian - AU

Pleas for grog ban in crime-stricken Alice Springs

Country Liberal Party senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price will push to reinstate alcohol bans in central Australia, making an impassioned plea to the government.

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Ratepayer cash used for vodka, beer, chicken nuggets

A former Labor candidate has used parliamentary privilege to accuse an ex-party colleague of spending ratepayer money on vodka and chicken nuggets.

AAP

Kim Beazley backs ‘proper recognition of frontier conflict’ at Australian War Memorial

New legal advice will allow addition as part of $500m expansion to be completed by 2028, chair says

The Guardian - AU

Australia PM pushes for bipartisan support on Indigenous referendum

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will push for bipartisan support on a referendum that aims to set up an Indigenous consultative committee in parliament, when it meets on Monday for the first time this year.

Reuters

Colleagues pay tribute to patriotic late senator Molan

Parliamentarians have paid tribute to the late senator and retired army general Jim Molan, who after a battle with cancer.

AAP

East Kimberley Football League asked to split into northern, southern divisions to improve player safety

Players in the East Kimberley Football League travel staggering distances to play each other, but a proposal to split the league in half to improve player safety and women's participation is gaining traction.

ABC News

Greens renew push to lower voting age in Australia

Australians aged 16 and 17 years may be able to vote if the Greens are successful in their push to lower the voting age.

AAP

Push to refer Scott Morrison to privileges committee fails – as it happened

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Albanese's Newspoll ratings drop but Labor maintains big lead

A federal Newspoll, conducted February 1-4 from a sample of 1,512, gave Labor a 55-45 lead, unchanged on the previous Newspoll in early December. Primary votes were 38% Labor (down one), 34% Coalition (down one), 11% Greens (steady), 6% One Nation (steady) and 11% for all Others (up two).

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New Zealanders commemorate Waitangi Day

New Zealand is commemorating its national day - Waitangi Day - 183 years after the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.

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Greens push for immediate evacuation of remaining asylum seekers in Nauru and Papua New Guinea

The Greens will introduce a bill proposing an end to offshore detention for remaining asylum seekers, without forcing Labor to compromise on its immigration policy.

The Conversation

How much has support for the Voice fallen? It depends on how you ask

Support for embedding an Indigenous Voice to parliament in the Constitution has fallen. The polls provide good evidence once you work out how to find it.

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Chris Minns, the man aiming to return Labor to power in NSW after 12 years in the electoral wilderness

NSW Labor needs to pick up nine seats to win majority government and leader Chris Minns believes it's achievable. He has seven weeks to convince the electorate.

The Canberra Times

VCR tapes in an oven: How to preserve and digitise an entire collection of artefacts

Australia's only Indigenous national institution is digitising its whole collection to preserve artefacts and exhibit them in Canberra in the future.

ABC News

Federal government holds out hope the Liberals and Greens will get on board with the Voice campaign

The Liberals and Greens are actively weighing up their positions on the Indigenous Voice to Parliament, attempting to accommodate strong views among members as they head into the first parliamentary sitting week for 2023.

Newsroom.co.nz

The political debate National and Labour can't agree on

Labour and National’s leaders came to Waitangi agreed on which areas need more investment in election year. But as political editor Jo Moir writes, the country is going to see a big debate on how Māori should benefit from it

AAP

PM urges Indigenous voice support as parliament returns

As federal parliament returns for the year, Prime Minister Albanese is focused on building support for an Indigenous voice.

AAP

Indigenous voice and economy top parliamentary agenda

The prime minister says a referendum on an Indigenous voice won't distract the government from pressing challenges like cost of living and national security.

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Ex-minister misled public: Barilaro trade job report

Former NSW trade minister Stuart Ayres was not at arm's length in the appointment of John Barilaro to a plum US trade job, a parliamentary inquiry has found.

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