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Michael Pascoe: Morrison’s gone, cynical Frydenberg trying to save the furniture

Scott Morrison is gone. Anthony Albanese will win the election. Josh Frydenberg is fighting to save some of the furniture. There, it’s been said.

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Kim Carr bows out after three decades as Labor senator for Victoria

Veteran cites death of Kimberley Kitching and ‘determined urgings’ from his children as reasons for his decision to step down

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‘They all play hard’: what happened when Kimberley Kitching came to Canberra?

After a six-year upper-house career, the Labor senator’s sudden death has prompted an outpouring of grief – and recrimination

The Guardian - AU

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Housing, health on pre-election agenda

Anthony Albanese and Scott Morrison have been on the pre-election campaign trail making announcements on housing and health.

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And now for the real deal: Labor’s factional wars go into overdrive as the red benches beckon

The ALP’s internal battles are making it bleed and unless the combatants pull their heads in the promised land of government will be lost — again.

Crikey

Bullying? Cabals? Landeryou is the factional kettle calling the party black

Andrew Landeryou is quick to cast judgement on Labor, but he is no stranger to the black arts of factional warfare.

Crikey

At the funeral of Kimberley Kitching — a senator, a daughter, a wife and perhaps much more

Kimberley Kitching’s funeral marked the end of her storied political career, but also of factions as we know them.

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Guardian Essential poll: voters mark Morrison government down on flood response

Separate Australian National University longitudinal survey suggests Coalition primary vote slumps to 32.2% with Labor in election-winning position

The Guardian - AU

Kimberley Kitching funeral: Husband praises Labor senator’s thoughtfulness and criticises ‘cantankerous cabal’

Delivering eulogy at wife’s funeral, Andrew Landeryou says she ‘deserved so very much better’ from internal party rivals

The Guardian - AU

The true story of Kimberley Kitching and the Labor gang

An ALP sub-faction centred on Bill Shorten risks betraying the party and gifting Scott Morrison a chance to hold on to power.

Crikey

Kimberley Kitching’s death and its aftermath are another glimpse into the routine brutality of Australian politics

This is fundamentally a story about contemporary politics. It isn’t pretty, because the arena can be hostile to humans

The Guardian - AU

Factional dramas and cynical point-scoring trail Kitching’s death

Kitching’s death is a tragic loss. But in the week since, what could have been a moment to reflect on the toxic nature of factional politics has only reinforced how tasteless and cynical the Canberra game can be.

Crikey

‘Extraordinarily disrespectful’: Albanese hits back after Labor senators dubbed ‘mean girls’

Rebuke followed story in The Australian about alleged disagreements between Kimberley Kitching and a group of female Labor senators

The Guardian - AU

A sad and sudden death, but did factional bullying really kill Kimberley Kitching?

The late senator played her politics tough and hard, and any suggestion her death was caused by factional wrangling is plain wrong.

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The Guardian - AU

Australia bans imports of Russian oil, petroleum, gas and coal – as it happened

Australia follows lead of US and UK with Russia sanctions; ‘We want tradies to come to Queensland,’ premier says. This blog is now closed

ABC News

Kimberley Kitching mourned across political divide as stress of Labor preselection in focus

Former Labor leader Bill Shorten is questioning how much stress party politics and the preselection process put on his close friend Senator Kitching in the lead-up to her death.

The Guardian - AU

Labor senator Kimberley Kitching dies suddenly in Melbourne aged 52

Federal leader Anthony Albanese says ‘the Labor family is in shock tonight at the tragic news’ that Kitching had died of a suspected heart attack

The Guardian - AU

Australia records 77 deaths on deadliest day of pandemic; national medical stockpile activated – as it happened

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