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When it comes to failure of responsibility, there are far greater examples than Barnaby Joyce’s pavement incident

While the footpath fiasco took all the attention, it turns out suspected gun runners and drug traffickers were running offshore detention

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First lockdown, then the voice, now renewables? Anti-government groups find new energy in environment battles

Protests against Australia’s transition to renewable power have attracted a wide coalition of interests, from mainstream parties to the wild shores of conspiracy

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Hundreds more immigration detainees could be released in sequel to NZYQ high court ruling

Attorney general applies to have case heard by high court to end legal uncertainty on detainees who refuse to cooperate on deportation

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‘The Defence Force is too woke in 2024’: Military recruitment and the new culture war

The Australian Defence Force has struggled with recruitment for well over a decade. But it’s all the fault of Labor, says the opposition.

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Exclude sleazy politicians from Parliament: Thorpe

Lidia Thorpe has called for stronger sanctions against “sleaze” politicians, and Anthony Albanese is pushing for Julian Assange’s release from UK prison.

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Australian PM Anthony Albanese supports vote calling on UK and US to free Julian Assange

Albanese and cabinet ministers among those to back parliamentary motion introduced by independent Andrew Wilkie

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NT minister staunch on alcohol investments

Chansey Paech won’t resign over his former alcohol investing, expert economists say we could earn $100 billion from a fossil fuel tax, and Tasmanians are heading to an early election.

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Peter Dutton intervened to allow criminal to extend stay in Australia

Then home affairs minister granted two-month visa despite his department finding the applicant ‘did not pass the character test’

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All the Morrison-era scandals that Nemesis didn’t have time for

The Scott Morrison episode of Nemesis would have needed to be three times as long had it covered all the scandals and chaos of his years in power.

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Regardless of his grog problem, Joyce is useless for our veterans

We’re facing the most important moment for Australia’s veterans in a generation, but the shadow minister is more interested in campaigning against renewables.

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Guardian Essential poll: any changes to negative gearing get lukewarm support

Voters approve of Labor’s rejigged income tax cuts but any broader reform would fail to win over majority, latest survey finds

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Seven of the immigration detainees released in Australia were convicted of murder or attempted murder

Home affairs department also reveals 24 former detainees have been charged with visa rule breaches or state offences since their release

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Linda Reynolds announces retirement – as it happened

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Peter Dutton looked like he was running on empty – then he refuelled on the Coalition’s latest culture wars

Sideshows on cars and windfarms are a helpful distraction from its stage-three backdown – and part of its plan to win back power via the regions

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Coalition to present ‘pay on delay’ bill to make airlines compensate affected passengers

Senators say bill will ‘clean up Australia’s airline industry through ensuring concrete protections for passengers’ hit by flight delays

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The market and the moat: selling certainty for private and political gain

After the privatisation of certainty, citizens are at the mercy of politicians and institutions peddling poor substitutes for what we once took for granted.

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NSW planning official referred to corruption watchdog Icac over house purchase allegation

Liberal MP Alister Henskens used parliamentary privilege to accuse unnamed bureaucrat of using inside knowledge to purchase property for potential profit

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Labor plans QLD election raid

Anthony Albanese and Labor are planning a deep election raid into Dutton’s Queensland, and Ukraine’s president fires his top commander.

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Right to disconnect bill passes Senate but needs urgent fix to remove criminal penalties for employers

Labor will be forced to introduce special legislation after Coalition prevented last-minute amendments to fix the issue

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Why Dutton will slash Defence and Home Affairs to fund his tax cuts for the wealthy

Peter Dutton says he’ll cut the public service to fund tax cuts for high-income earners. Which means two departments are in the firing line — the ones he ran.

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Coalition’s citizenship test claim misleads

The Coalition has claimed that pass rates for the Australian citizenship test have fallen under Labor. Is this the whole truth?

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Fiery debate as Labor accused of ‘trying to walk both sides of street’ on Israel-Gaza conflict

Greens say Israel’s actions ‘a slaughter’ and Labor says other parties trying to ‘divide our community’

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Littleproud is right to suggest regional communities are wary of renewables rollout

The Nationals leader may be wrong to suggest solar panels alone will be enough, but there’s no disputing rural Australia feels left out of the discussion about the renewables transition.

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Labor MPs play down impact of Australia’s pause in funding for UNRWA in Gaza

Backbenchers tell constituents that it would not affect funding for the current year – but did not mention freeze on $6m in emergency top-up funding

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Afternoon Update: Coalition to back stage-three changes; boy charged with murder of Queensland grandmother; and man scales 55-storey Melbourne tower

Peter Dutton says the Coalition will not stand in the way of Labor’s stage-three tax cut changes

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