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Matt Kean lambasts ‘wild fantasy’ of former Coalition colleagues to extend coal power and build nuclear plants

Climate Change Authority chair says Peter Dutton’s energy policy would drive up electricity bills and deter investment in renewables

The Guardian - AU

Donald Trump and Peter Dutton have both embraced populism. Are working-class voters buying it?

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has often been accused of copying former US President Donald Trump’s tactics. Some analysts even refer to Dutton, like Trump, as a “populist” who seeks political gain by pitting ordinary citizens against corrupt “elites”.

The Conversation

Meta and Google face ‘big tech tax’ as Labor plans how to ensure media sustainability in Australia

Key parliamentary report focuses on decision by Facebook owner to abandon three-year-old deal to pay for news content

The Guardian - AU

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Expanding coal mines – and reaching net zero? Tanya Plibersek seems to believe both are possible

Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek’s recent decision to approve expansion plans for three New South Wales coal mines disappointed many people concerned with stabilising the global climate.

The Conversation

MP to retire at next federal election after decade representing seat

The Nationals MP said it had been an honour.

Newcastle Herald

Labor retains office at ACT election; US presidential election remains on a knife’s edge

The Labor Party has won a seventh consecutive ACT election.

The Conversation

What Queenslanders in Peter Dutton’s nuclear seats really think

Reactions to the Coalition’s plan to replace coal-fired power plants with nuclear reactors are mixed – but the skies are still overcast for renewables

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New South Wales parliament passes bill to strengthen LGBTQ+ rights

Equality bill allows transgender people to have their sex changed on their birth certificates without surgery

The Guardian - AU

Grattan on Friday: whatever his policy, Peter Dutton will be a big target on workplace relations

Peter Dutton has been receiving a good many political breaks recently – Anthony Albanese’s new house is the latest icing on the cake. Although the Coalition is not expected to win next year’s election, presently it looks placed to do well.

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Liberal Laurence Antcliff to take on Labor in the Seat of Paterson

Laurence Antcliff to contest Paterson for Liberal Party.

Newcastle Herald

Coalition pledge to subsidise Australia’s most expensive form of energy makes ‘no sense’, Labor says

Chris Bowen questions why gas companies who already produce energy should get windfall gain under opposition’s plan

The Guardian - AU

Nationals believe nuclear and renewables can coexist in the Hunter

Nats push the case to nuclear to coexist alongside renewables.

Newcastle Herald

‘Blood on your hands’: Penny Wong heckled by pro-Palestine advocates as she gives humanitarian speech at university

Foreign affairs minister filmed walking away from podium as moderator asks some audience members to leave University of Tasmania venue

The Guardian - AU

Queensland Premier Steven Miles is promising to hold a vote on nuclear power. Here’s why

Queensland Premier Steven Miles this week declared his party would hold a plebiscite on nuclear power if it returns to office at the forthcoming state election.

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No, the Liberal Party does not have a history of upholding the right to protest in Australia - just look back to the Vietnam War

More than a year after the eruption of conflict between Hamas and Israel, the escalating war in the Middle East is roiling Australian society and politics.

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Coalition seizes Newspoll lead, but other polls have Labor improving

A national Newspoll, conducted October 7–11 from a sample of 1,258, gave the Coalition a 51–49 lead, a one-point gain for the Coalition since the previous Newspoll, three weeks ago. After three 50–50 ties in a row, this is the first time this term the Coalition has led in Newspoll.

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The Voice defeat set us all back. And since then, our leaders have given up

It’s one year since the failed referendum to enshrine a First Nations Voice to Parliament in the Australian Constitution.

AAP

Coalition ahead but Labor not hitting poll panic button

Labor is trailing the opposition for the first time since 2022, but experts say the government should not be worried yet about its electoral fortunes.

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The Guardian - AU

Labor wants multinationals to reveal their worldwide income for tax purposes. That plan is under attack

Government says it is untenable for companies to self-declare what financial information is too commercially sensitive to be made public

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Wong says Coalition ‘pretty extreme’ to stand at odds with US on Middle East ceasefire

Opposition home affairs spokesman says ceasefire in Lebanon and Gaza can only happen when Hezbollah and Hamas are ‘degraded’

The Guardian - AU

How Australia’s political parties have split over Israel and Gaza

It’s been a year of division from Labor, the Coalition and the Greens in their response to the 7 October attacks by Hamas and Israel’s retaliation. Here’s a timeline

The Guardian - AU

Victorian Liberals had been bracing for a leadership spill. Now voters have thrown John Pesutto a lifeline

Some in the party were concerned the Moira Deeming defamation trial had aired too much dirty laundry – but new polling suggests voters are focused elsewhere

The Conversation

Grattan on Friday: Oil prices could be where the Middle East crisis collides with Australia’s cost-of-living crisis

Angry, accusatory partisan exchanges over the Middle East war have dominated federal politics this week. But for most ordinary voters the issue remains “over there”.

The Conversation

International student caps are set to pass parliament, ushering in a new era of bureaucratic control

The federal government’s controversial plan to limit international student numbers is now almost certain to win parliamentary approval. But it looks like there will be some changes to the original bill introduced in May.

The Guardian - AU

Nature groups in ‘dismay’ over Albanese’s leadership on ‘critical’ environmental reforms

Exclusive: Letter to PM accuses handful of businesses and mining interests, mainly in WA, of trying to ‘undermine and derail’ law

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