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Job agencies running ParentsNext scheme made invalid claims for taxpayer-funded bonuses, audit finds

Noncompliant claims widespread across the $110m-a-year scheme, part of the federal government’s welfare-to-work system

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‘A very low glass ceiling’: sexism and harassment rife in Australian music industry, long-awaited report finds

Investigation sees 55% of respondents allege they had been sexually harassed, with women sharing their frustration at being objectified and having to work ‘10 times harder’

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Morning mail: unions and business find common ground, house prices plummet, Nationals overlook women

Thursday: Today’s jobs summit opens with broad consensus on three big-ticket policies. Plus: seven pictures of Boris Johnson looking daft

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‘Women left behind again’: Nationals’ choice of federal director angers female candidates

Selection of Lincoln Folo disappoints some after David Littleproud indicated he wanted more women to put their hands up for leadership positions

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Morning mail: MP properties revealed, Dawson verdict explained, Taiwan fires at Chinese drone

Wednesday: MPs and senators own or part-own hundreds of properties, analysis shows. Plus: five things that led to Chris Dawson’s guilty verdict

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Federal Icac: independents want safeguards to ensure body cannot be politicised

Crossbenchers push Labor to ensure parliament has a say on commissioner and funding

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‘Utterly damning’ review finds offsets scheme fails to protect NSW environment

Conservationists label report ‘utterly damning’ as opposition and crossbench MPs call for overhaul of state’s biodiversity market

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Huge profits for fossil-fuel giants Woodside and Santos stoke calls for windfall tax

Senator David Pocock and Bob Carr among those urging Albanese government to claw back massive mining profits

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Reduced Covid isolation period top of the agenda as national cabinet prepares to meet

Dominic Perrottet pushing for cut to five days, while Daniel Andrews open to shift if supported by health advice

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Morning mail: tax cuts to ‘turbocharge inequality’, parental leave call, sea level rise locked in

Tuesday: A new analysis shows the $243bn in tax cuts, due to start in 2024, would benefit Australia’s richest 1% as much as the poorest 65% combined. Plus: moon rocket launch delayed

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Centrelink seizes $13,000 of jobseeker’s compensation after work for the dole injury

Mick Smart says ‘catastrophic’ back injury destroyed his life as he now battles to receive a disability support pension

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Morning mail: 100 days of Albanese, Victorian bail blowout, US democracy warning

Monday: The PM will make a speech about what comes next, with better economic equality for women among his goals. Plus: meet the ‘sommeliers’ of crisps

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Morning mail: visa backlog’s human impact, Putin’s army plan, Dutton denounces ‘witch-hunt’

Friday: Australia’s bureaucracy is tackling a huge number of visa applications. For people like Huma, it’s a race against time as she fears being sent back to the Taliban who burned her. Plus: the gendered double standards for prime ministers

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‘Witch-hunt’: Peter Dutton decries Morrison’s ministries inquiry and robodebt royal commission

Anthony Albanese expected to announce details of investigation into former PM’s actions on Friday as more questions emerge over his secret portfolios

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Bulk-billing psychologists earn as little as $12 an hour, Australian peak body says

One psychologist was forced to close a thriving practice; another waives her fees for ‘desperate’ patients who can’t get a referral because of GP wait times

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Job agency criticised for disability barista program loses contracts in shake-up

AimBig one of 52 providers to lose market share in $1bn a year Disability Employment Services program

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Farmers Federation Proposes Part-Paying Aus Workers In Fruit ‘Cos Um Apples Pay The Bills, Right?

The National Farmers Federation (NFF) is proposing farm workers be paid partly in fruit and vegetables as part of "non-monetary benefits”.

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Morning mail: Morrison privileges push rejected, Kyrgios faces new legal action, Murdoch sues Crikey

Wednesday: Scott Morrison has been spared being referred to the privileges committee over his secret ministries – for now. Plus: a young dancer who wants ballet to be ‘more noisy’.

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In Plagued, journalists have traded their independence for access, resulting in a kind of political pornography

The publication of Plagued, by Simon Benson and Geoff Chambers, is destined to become a classic study of the perils for journalists in writing books about current political events.

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Arts minister demands Festival of Dangerous Ideas cancel bestiality talk by British historian Joanna Bourke

Bourke set to present The Last Taboo on history of ‘sex between humans and animals’ at Sydney festival but NSW minister wants it scrapped

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Morning mail: Barilaro letter revealed, daughter of Putin ally killed, children’s TV neglected

Monday: The daughter of ultranationalist Russian Alexander Dugin has died in a car bombing that Russian hawks were quick to blame on Ukraine. Plus: even if we can bring back the Tasmanian tiger, should we?

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Easy Book Week costume ideas: ‘Do you have a box? There are lots of cubes in children’s books’

From athletic autobiographies to the all-encompassing witch’s hat, here are six ways to sail through Book Week 2022 without resorting to an Elsa costume

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Australian-made children’s TV all but gone from commercial free-to-air networks

Fall in amount of locally made children’s programming attributed to watering down of quota by Coalition government

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‘I had to wait a fortnight for my next pay’: readers reveal struggle to access healthcare as GPs stop bulk billing

For those with chronic conditions, young children, or who live in rural areas, the distress over declining care is acute

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Scott Morrison’s secret ministries: were they legal? And what happens next?

Albanese has sought legal advice on the matter while the Greens and crossbenchers say former PM should face a parliamentary investigation

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