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Classic Dan: right to the end, Andrews stays one step ahead of his rivals

Victoria’s outgoing premier leaves an outstanding progressive legacy, but the pandemic lockdowns ensure he will always be revered or reviled

The Guardian - AU

Labor’s dithering is dooming the Voice, but there’s still time to change the dirty nappy

Albanese is intent on making the Voice his ‘light on the hill’ moment. Problem is his party privatised the hill and outsourced the lighting to contractors somewhere back in the 1980s.

Crikey

For Labor, AUKUS could trigger a warning shot from Chinese-Australian voters

When Labor and the Liberals share similar strategies regarding China and national defence, why should Chinese-Australian voters stay loyal?

Crikey

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Haylen affair: NSW Labor’s doing what it does best — jobs for mates on the public dime

Labor keeps it all in the family again despite spending well over $100,000 of taxpayers’ money on a recruitment process it completely ignored.

Crikey

Facing the climate crisis, Albanese must throw the burning toys out of the cot

It’s time for the prime minister to frighten the horses and the population, say Crikey readers. The world is on fire.

Crikey

Loves Labor’s lost: discontent among the fringe dwellers

As the big-ticket items were being discussed on the big stage at Labor’s national conference, off to the side a ‘fringe’ group talked up a storm.

Crikey

'An extraordinary dynamo': Doris Taylor founded Meals on Wheels and helped elect Don Dunstan

When Doris Taylor took possession of a new motorised wheelchair in 1951, she quipped: “Heaven help any bureaucrat who gets in my way now.”

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The truth about Scott Morrison: he lied, lied some more, and then lied again

The former PM and minister for everything could have won gold for Australia in a world lying championship, Crikey readers say.

Crikey

Premier defends Games compensation; Black Lives Matter rally in Sydney – as it happened

Indigenous voice central to Conservative Political Action Network Conference and final day of ALP conference

The Guardian - AU

Labor thrashes out Aukus position at party conference amid dissent from MP and unions

Heckling, outrage and claims of ‘appeasement’ as stage-managed debate at ALP event gives way to genuine disagreement

The Guardian - AU

The US navy is still more powerful than China's: more so than the Australian government is letting on

The federal Labor government today used the ALP national conference to address internal dissent over the controversial AUKUS security pact and its plan for acquiring nuclear-powered submarines.

The Conversation

ALP national conference day 2 – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU

‘A travesty’: Labor debate over AUKUS hangs in the balance

ALP leadership is poised to defy rank-and-file discontent over the most contentious policy shift in Australian history.

Crikey

ALP national conference day one – as it happened

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Rishi Sunak is plotting to make this the net zero election. That’s great news for Labour

Australian conservatives’ dismissal of the climate crisis was a huge error. Keir Starmer should make the most of this moment, says political strategist John McTernan

The Conversation

The AUKUS deal will be hotly debated at the ALP national conference, but its real vulnerabilities lie in America

This year’s ALP national conference, beginning August 17, promises to be somewhat feistier than its recent COVID-affected (and boring) predecessors.

The Guardian - AU

One doorknock at a time: inside the yes campaign’s bid to win hearts and minds

With some suspicious and others not even aware the voice referendum is taking place, volunteers face an uphill battle in the suburbs of Melbourne

The Guardian - AU

There’s Labor dissent over Aukus but it’s unlikely to spill into a rebellion at the ALP national conference

Concerns in some quarters of the party base and congressional jitters will require deft political management but are unlikely to sink the deal

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Which MPs have shares in our price-gouging supermarket duopoly?

Surging profits at Coles and Woolworths is bad news for everyone, except shareholders, of course. Here’s a list of happy faces in Parliament.

Newcastle Herald

Terriers on the train: why do we discriminate against dogs?

Australia is a land of dog lovers.

The Guardian - AU

Labor push for publicly owned plantations to end native forest logging

Party’s environment lobby group wants forestry policy focused on restoring native forests, arguing they have more value as a carbon and biodiversity sink

The Guardian - AU

Mass stranding in WA – as it happened

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Crikey

Off with our heads

ABC chair Ita Buttrose says the broadcaster’s coronation coverage did not breach editorial guidelines but she’s sorry some people were miffed, and millions of dollars in money for detention centres went instead to Pacific Nations politicians.

Crikey

When the goodies became the baddies: Albanese and team go LNP lite

Labor has forgotten its promises to Australians, say Crikey readers, leaving its supporters bewildered and deeply disappointed.

AAP

There's a fraction too much faction in Labor: minister

Assistant Minister Andrew Leigh says Labor needs to be more accommodating to members who do not want to be aligned to well-entrenched factions.

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