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As taxpayers we should share the cost of domestic violence leave

It's very easy to legislate where you have no skin in the game, and force someone else to pay. My view is that the costs should ultimately come from the general tax revenue base, not individual employers.

Newcastle Herald

Stop What You’re Doing Watch Dominic Perrottet Absolutely Bork This Attempt At A Cricket Bowl

It's giving... John Howard in 2005.

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New era of Australian politics as Labor enters Parliament House in government | GALLERY

Hunter hopes and the 47th parliament

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Why is Peter Dutton trying to start another political fight over the school curriculum?

In a move that surprised political watchers, Liberal leader Peter Dutton says the school curriculum and education reform will be some of his key priorities in opposition.

The Conversation

Even in the political afterlife, Morrison departs from the norm

In the past fortnight, former prime minister Scott Morrison has reemerged as a subject of public discussion. First, there was rumour about his interest in securing work with the Australian Rugby League Commission, which he promptly dismissed as “pub talk”.

The Conversation

Friday essay: 30 years after Mabo, what do Australia's battler stories – and their evasions – say about who we are?

The Mabo decision in 1992 was a turning point for Australia. It finally overturned the dishonest doctrine of terra nullius and recognised Indigenous land rights. It was a moment of hope, accompanied by a productive tension.

The Conversation

Alan Kohler: Labor’s love affair with summits continues

Labor governments love having summits. Hawke had two, Rudd had one and now Albanese is having one. It's down to their bent towards consensus building.

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‘A bit of pub talk’: Scott Morrison denies push for job in rugby league

Former PM says he didn’t tell powerbrokers he would like to join the Australian Rugby League Commission

The Guardian - AU

Overturning Roe v Wade has opened the door for abortion bans and restrictions in the US. Could it happen here, too?

Thousands across Australia took to the streets on the weekend to protest against the United States Roe v Wade ruling, with some protesters afraid that Australia's laws protecting a person's rights to abortion are "fragile".

ABC News

Dutton 'principled, pragmatic': Howard

Former prime minister John Howard says Peter Dutton brings to the Liberal leadership "capacity, grit and determination", as well as principles.

AAP

Governments usually win a second term. But could the new Labor government be an exception?

Addressing the first meeting of Labor’s new caucus, Anthony Albanese held out the prospect of “back-to-back premierships”. But a second-term in government isn’t a given, he implied – it is something Labor will have to earn. Does he really believe Labor might not be re-elected?

The Conversation

Cost-of-living crisis another case of runaway inflation

Both a full-blown cost-of-living crisis and a related but independent energy crisis have broken out in the past month, as Labor takes the government reins.

The New Daily

Kiwis eye Aussie citizenship under Labor

Kiwis hoping for an improved pathway to Australian citizenship are pinning their hopes on the 'MP for New Zealanders', Treasurer Jim Chalmers.

AAP

Katy Gallagher says the government has inherited the worst set of budget books in history. Is that correct?

Finance Minister Katy Gallagher says the incoming Labor government has inherited the worst set of budget books in history. Is that correct? RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates.

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Paul Bongiorno: Albanese right to put justice and self-respect into constitution

There is unfinished business at the heart of the Australian constitution. It goes to redressing a historical wrong and then to asserting who we are.

The New Daily

Peter Dutton hints at controversial shift towards nuclear power

New Opposition Leader Peter Dutton appears set to bring a debate about nuclear power back to the centre of Australian politics.

The Conversation

A century-old double standard: like Labor leaders before him, Albanese is being told he can't manage money

The Australian Labor Party is Australia’s oldest political party, and Anthony Albanese is its 13th prime minister.

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Peter Dutton becomes the new Liberal Party leader, as the Coalition enters the wilderness

Peter Dutton becomes Liberal leader as the party takes its first steps forward out of government. So, who is the new Opposition Leader?

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The Guardian - AU

How Australia’s electoral system allowed voters to finally impose a ceasefire in the climate wars

Preferential voting opened a pathway for independents to bypass the right’s hyperpartisan approach to climate policy

The Canberra Times

The electric car that turned heads around Canberra

In the 1940s, Canberra bureaucrat Roland Wilson built an EV in his backyard and regularly drove it from his home in suburban Forrest to his job in the Parliamentary Triangle

The Conversation

Albanese will bring a different style of leadership to the PM's office –– can Australia make the adjustment?

One of the fundamental questions that emerges from the election of Anthony Albanese’s Labor government is whether Australia will put behind it a decade and a half of instability in the prime ministership.

The New Daily

Madonna King: If Peter Dutton has a soft side, now is the time to show it

Peter Dutton has made a name the hard head, the head-kicker, the Liberal warrior who has no interest in making friends on the other side of the chamber.

The Guardian - AU

Australian police renew calls for national firearms database following mass shootings in the US

Existing information on gun ownership and tracking undermined by inaccurate, inconsistent and incomplete data across multiple jurisdictions

The New Daily

After 138 school shootings this year, why can’t America enact gun control?

America is grappling withe gun control debate after yet another school shooting. Experts say its lawmakers could learn from Australia and Port Arthur.

The Guardian - AU

Liberal party should forgo ‘entitled’ Kooyong voters, says their own state Liberal MP

Tim Smith, who is retiring in November, says Coalition needs to ‘stop obsessing with the woke causes of inner-urban elites’ and focus on suburbs

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