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How 'witch-hunts' and 'Stockholm syndrome' became part of political language (and what it has to do with wrestling)

It’s hard to sympathise with powerful people hounding out innocents — which is why the Coalition wanted us to know the Robodebt Royal Commission was a political witch-hunt. Poor Donald Trump wants us to know he’s the victim of a witch-hunt, too.

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Grattan on Friday: The Coalition's likely embrace of nuclear energy is high-risk politics

Crazy brave, or just crazy? If, as seems likely, the opposition embraces nuclear power in its 2025 election policy, it will be taking a huge political gamble.

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Nelson Bay Road upgrade funding subject to government review

The former government committed $156 million to the project in last year's budget.

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Afternoon Update: Hawaii wildfires kill six; Coalition defeated on medicines; and a breakthrough on endometriosis?

Over 4,000 people have been displaced after fires fanned by Hurricane Dora tore through the historic town of Lahaina

The Guardian - AU

Cheaper prescriptions plan to proceed as Senate votes down Coalition attempt to block 60-day dispensing

Patients will be able to buy two months of medicine from pharmacies for price of one, saving more than $1.6bn over four years

The Guardian - AU

Opposition to launch further attempt to disallow plan after defeat – as it happened

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Business lobby rejects Coalition’s ‘disingenuous’ claims Labor pursuing big Australia policy

Business Council of Australia wants migration to be more business-friendly and rejects concerns of a surge in arrivals

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Coalition will seek to block Labor plan for cheaper medicine after backlash from pharmacies

Opposition won’t support 60-day dispensing policy that allows patients to buy two months of medicine for price of one over concerns community pharmacies will be forced to close

The Guardian - AU

'No' to the Voice takes lead in Essential poll; huge swing to Libs at WA state byelection

A national Essential poll, conducted August 2–6 from a sample of 1,150, gave “no” to the Indigenous Voice to parliament a 47–43 lead, reversing a 47–43 lead for “yes” in this poll in early July. While Newspoll and Resolve polls had given “no” a lead in June, this is the…

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Australia to officially resume use of term ‘Occupied Palestinian Territories’, reversing Coalition stance

Labor is vowing to strengthen its objections to ‘illegal’ Israeli settlements ahead of next week’s national conference

The Guardian - AU

PM will push national cabinet for public holiday if Australia make final – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU

Australian Christian Lobby says plans to combat social media misinformation will ‘cancel Christian posts’

Claim comes despite draft of bill explaining media regulator will not be empowered to request specific content be removed from digital platforms

The Guardian - AU

Labor not ruling out raising income-free area for jobseeker – as it happened

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Scott Morrison a ‘bottomless well of self-pity’ with no ‘mercy’ for robodebt’s real victims, Bill Shorten says

Minister for government services says ‘real victims are all those Australians who lost trust in government’ due to scheme

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Out of danger because the UN said so? Hardly – the Barrier Reef is still in hot water

Today is a good day to be Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek. UNESCO, the United Nations body expected to vote on whether to list the Great Barrier Reef as “in danger”, instead deferred the decision for another year. This, an insider told French newspaper Le Monde, was largely due to the…

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Dutton's JobSeeker plans would at first leave 640,000 worse off and 168,000 better off

If this year’s budget measures are passed by parliament in the current sitting, the government has indicated that the single rate of JobSeeker payment will increase by around $56 per fortnight in September.

The Guardian - AU

Labor to meet Greens over housing bill – as it happened

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Newcastle Herald

If growth is the goal, equal pay in sports kicks it along

'Football is quite literally not a business at all.'

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Scott Morrison accuses Labor of campaign of ‘political lynching’ against him on robodebt

Former social services minister and PM tells parliament royal commissioner Catherine Holmes’s findings were ‘unfounded and wrong’

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The Coalition Wants To Undo The $40 JobSeeker Raise & Imagine Hating Poor People This Much

Ah yes, increasing JobSeeker from below the poverty line to still below the poverty line is *checks notes* too much money.

The Guardian - AU

Grounding of Taipan helicopters ‘can be dealt with’, Marles says; Morrison accuses Labor of ‘political lynching’ over robodebt – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU

Yasmin already has $20,000 of student debt. Labor’s plans to scrap a Coalition reform may come too late

Students to wait until 2024 to see course fee changes as government begins exploring fairer alternatives to the jobs-ready graduates scheme

The Guardian - AU

Greens insist they won’t back down on housing bill despite Albanese’s double dissolution threat

Minor party plans to door-knock Labor electorates in a ‘national day of action’ as it calls on the prime minister to cooperate to ensure the bill is passed

The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: Labor puts housing bill back on agenda; Victoria bans gas connections to homes; and Australians cut spending

Coalition accuses PM of ‘threatening’ a double dissolution to pass bill, while Greens urge government to negotiate in ‘good faith’

The Guardian - AU

Anthony Albanese not ruling out double dissolution election amid housing bill standoff with Greens

Prime minister to reintroduce the Housing Australia Future Fund to parliament next week, with a vote expected in the lower house by October

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