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Here’s where you can watch the US election in Australia

Here’s what you can expect from Australian broadcasters on what will be one of the biggest days in modern political history.

Crikey

Jim Chalmers travels to China to ‘smooth out’ trade issues

The treasurer is travelling to Beijing to try and get rid of lingering trade tensions from the Morrison era, and Anthony Albanese claims he didn’t ask Treasury to investigate potential changes to negative gearing.

Crikey

ABC admits video of Australian soldiers firing from helicopter in Afghanistan was ‘incorrectly edited’

News director Justin Stevens confirms in Melbourne Press Club speech broadcaster has removed the clip and is ‘looking into how this happened’

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Then and now: what Peter Dutton and the Coalition used to say about a 2030 emissions target

The rhetoric has swung 180 degrees since ministers in Scott Morrison’s government were haranguing Labor over the Paris agreement

The Guardian - AU

Media fetishisation of ‘two-state solution’ betrays ignorance and cover-up

Adam Bandt has been widely criticised for refusing to endorse a two-state solution. Strange that Benjamin Netanyahu’s efforts to prevent one never attract attention.

Crikey

Dutton’s plan to save Australia with nuclear comes undone when you look between the brushstrokes

The dystopian picture of renewables painted by the opposition leader is full of inconsistencies, partial truths and misinformation

The Guardian - AU

The Coalition is siding with a foreign power that murdered an Australian

Labor is slowly edging towards rejecting Israel’s explanation of an Australian aid worker’s murder. But the Coalition is uninterested in accountability.

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NSW declares natural disaster areas – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU

How to fix the ABC’s conflict-addled obsession? First, axe the Insiders approach

Aunty’s Canberra coverage is no longer fit for purpose. Things need to change — and our media correspondent has an idea of where to start.

Crikey

PM says Dutton’s team ‘dominated by blokes’ – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU

Mike Bowers: ‘We wrote the idea for Talking Pictures on a coaster – thank goodness because we’d had a few drinks’

On a pub crawl in Belgium with Barrie Cassidy two decades ago, the photographer had a brilliant idea

The Guardian - AU

How to watch the Indigenous voice referendum results

Public broadcasters the ABC, SBS and NITV as well as Sky News will follow the count live, as commercial channels keep coverage to a minimum

The Guardian - AU

Your chance to meet ABC Canberra's star-studded line-up

You can even grab a selfie on the Insiders set.

The Canberra Times

Linda Reynolds feels defamed (again)

Liberal Senator Linda Reynolds has threatened her former staffer Brittany Higgins with a defamation case, and former PM Scott Morrison will fly home from his holiday in Italy just in time for the robodebt report’s release.

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ABC taps David Speers for top political news job after showing Andrew Probyn the door

The broadcaster wouldn’t be drawn on possible crossover between the new role and the recently scratched political editor position left by Probyn.

The Guardian - AU

Insiders host David Speers takes on expanded role of national political lead at ABC

ABC says the move is unrelated to former political editor Andrew Probyn being made redundant several weeks ago

The Guardian - AU

Insiders the only ABC current affairs show to grow broadcast audience as Q+A numbers collapse

Exclusive: Program hosted by David Speers bucks trend of declining audiences for broadcast TV, according to internal documents

Crikey

ABC looks at cost of living, NDIS and Voice ahead of budget as networks finalise plans

As Labor unveils its second federal budget, producers at Australia’s major free-to-air networks make their plans to win viewers.

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The Guardian - AU

ABC’s Insiders moving to Canberra after 21 years in Melbourne

Exclusive: Political discussion show to move to nation’s capital, in move expected to save on travel budget

The Guardian - AU

Jacinta Price calls for federal takeover of child protection, claims Indigenous kids being sent back to abusers

Coalition senator echoed Peter Dutton’s accusations of child sexual abuse in Alice Springs and reiterated her opposition to the voice

The Guardian - AU

News boss admits ABC has ‘a way to go’ on diversity after Stan Grant criticises election coverage

Q+A host says presenter Jeremy Fernandez was reduced to a ‘cameo’ role on an otherwise ‘entire white panel’

Crikey

When the media make a super sausage, it comes wrapped in political tripe

The press don’t offer any meat for readers and viewers to chew on — they just add sauce to sawdust-filled snags and serve them up.

ABC News

Medibank hack a 'dog act', cybersecurity expert tells Q+A, before suggesting sometimes paying ransoms needs to be considered

Twitter is labelled Elon Musk's "cesspool" on Q+A as Malcolm Turnbull's former cybersecurity advisor says hackers deserve to face harsh penalties, but that hacking targets sometimes should consider paying up to protect exposed customers.

Crikey

‘It’s a horrible, horrible place’: ABC goof reveals David Speers’ true inner thoughts

If you thought Senator Jane Hume set the bar for candour with her comments on this week’s episode of Insiders, that was just the beginning.

The Guardian - AU

Crikey and Lachlan Murdoch’s lawyers have first day in court as judge warns of ‘hyperbole’

Murdoch’s barrister moves to strike out parts of Crikey’s defence calling it ‘embarrassing and irrelevant’. Plus: Speers moves to the capital

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