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New-look Senate threatens Labor’s agenda as crossbench welcomes Thorpe

Alliances are being formed in the Senate after newly independent Senator Lidia Thorpe took her seat on the crossbench this week.

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A paler shade of Green: what will the party do in the Senate without Lidia Thorpe?

The Greens have now lost much of their influence in the upper house. The Albanese government will find life a bit tougher too.

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Paul Bongiorno: Balance of power shift in Senate creates uncertainty for more than the Voice

Lidia Thorpe intends to spend five years in the Senate throwing bombs at what she believes is the illegitimate legacy of a bloody colonialism.

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Lidia Thorpe divided the Greens — what will she do to the Senate?

Lidia Thorpe leaves the party divided and forced to argue for its own significance after her departure dropped their numbers from 12 to 11.

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View from The Hill: Lidia Thorpe quits Greens, going to crossbench to promote 'Blak Sovereign Movement'

Victorian Indigenous Senator Lidia Thorpe has defected from the Greens to sit on the crossbench, declaring she wants to fully represent the “Blak Sovereign Movement” in parliament.

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Media outlets missing in action on damning political donations data

The AEC’s tranche of political donations information was largely shrugged off by the mainstream media outlets, despite significant revelations.

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Ex-senator gives pro-bono FOI advice to independents stuck in a ‘resource void’

Rex Patrick’s already had a win for an MP when his inquiries into Labor’s efforts to secure Julian Assange’s return showed no correspondence.

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Jacqui Lambie's former staffers Rob and Fern Messenger ordered to pay costs after losing case

Two of Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie's former staffers are ordered to pay tens of thousands of dollars in costs because of their "unreasonable conduct" in a court case they ultimately lost.

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Ex-Lambie staff ordered to pay govt $94k

Senator Jacqui Lambie's former chief of staff and office manager have been ordered to pay $94,600 to the commonwealth government for unreasonable court conduct.

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A Senate push could force Albanese to hand over his diary

After making transparency central to his election campaign, the PM’s ministerial diary is shrouded in secrecy. A new push may change that.

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Grattan on Friday: Morrison endures the witness box, while Albanese enjoys being in the box seat with the Senate

Scott Morrison will forever be known as “the bulldozer”, and he lived up to his self-description at the Robodebt royal commission this week.

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Energy users and ex-ACCC boss praise government for staring down ‘bullies of the gas industry’

Industry argues capping gas at $12 a gigajoule risks future investment but experts say price is top end of range forecast before invasion of Ukraine

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Welfare groups cheer Centrelink deal by David Pocock, although Jacqui Lambie is no fan

ACT Senator David Pocock will back the industrial relations bill, but demanded the government review Centrelink income payments

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Grattan on Friday: David Pocock has only just arrived in the Senate and now he's negotiating with the PM

He wouldn’t relish the comparison, but at the start of the Albanese government Senate crossbencher David Pocock finds himself with the sort of pivotal power independent Brian Harradine enjoyed during the early Howard years.

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Labor rams through bills before Christmas

The Senate will sit for two extra days and for longer to pass all the government's legislation before parliament rises for the final time this year.

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Six refugees become the first from Nauru to be resettled in New Zealand

The federal government confirms the first group of refugees to be resettled in New Zealand, from Australia's offshore processing centres, has landed in Auckland.

The Guardian - AU

Jacqui Lambie’s instinct is to blow the IR debate up while David Pocock is all ears – that’s why he is the kingmaker

Lambie has been quick to judge the workplace bill as a union power-grab but Pocock is accumulating ideas around his proposal to split the legislation

The Guardian - AU

Jacqui Lambie and David Pocock oppose Labor ‘rushing through’ workplace bill

Albanese government has agreed amendments to get business on board but independent senators won’t be bullied into passing omnibus legislation

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Government urged to split IR bill to help low-paid people now – as it happened

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How will Labor’s ‘rushed and confusing’ industrial relations bill affect the workplace?

A new bill aimed at ‘getting wages moving’ and achieving gender parity is facing opposition from crossbench senators. Why?

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Half of Australia hit by natural disasters

The scale of natural disasters hitting Australian communities has been revealed, affecting areas where more than 16 million people live.

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Pocock’s price for supporting Labor’s industrial relation reforms? $100 million

The Albanese government’s resolve to not buy Senate votes with debt relief could be tested this month after the independent senator’s request.

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Battle over corruption watchdog hearings

The proposal for a national anti-corruption commission has divided parliament, with the opposition and members of the cross bench poking holes in the model.

The Guardian - AU

Majority of Australians back sound economic management over keeping promised tax cuts, survey suggests

Almost half of those polled support axing stage three cuts while one quarter thought they should be kept

The Guardian - AU

Dutton says ‘balance is right’ on Labor’s anti-corruption laws, clearing path for bill to pass

Liberal leader urges government to ignore criticism on threshold test for public hearings and says there is ‘no place for corrupt behaviour in public life’

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