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The Latest Breaking News from John Howard

The former PM has taken to the stage in Taiwan’s capital Taipei to suggest a modernised One China policy, and WA’s Health Department has paid $187,000 to get rid of its leftover COVID hand sanitiser.

Crikey

'We should be listening': the long history of Liberal innovation – and failure – on Indigenous policy

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains the names and images of deceased people.

The Conversation

Former PMs pour cold water on claims Anthony Pratt told them Trump’s US submarine secrets

A US news report claimed Donald Trump discussed secret US naval capabilities with the billionaire Australian businessman

The Guardian - AU

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The woke money behind the No camp and the daunting data before the Yes camp

In a Voice-themed Tips, we see how the No side is awake to capitalism, Tony Abbott’s shifting views on colonisation, and more dire polls for Yes.

Crikey

Defeating the Voice would guard against a republic referendum: John Howard

Monarchists heard from Howard and Tony Abbott, who says he’s against changing the constitution in any ‘meaningful’ way.

Crikey

NT not a 'failed state' says chief minister

John Howard and Tony Abbott have criticised the Northern Territory government's handling of the education and health of Indigenous Australians.

AAP

Anthony Albanese casts yes vote in ‘once in a generation’ voice to parliament referendum

PM says he won’t take lectures from Tony Abbott and John Howard after pair claim voice wouldn’t help central Australia

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Contentious long-time grand mufti dies aged 82

Sheikh Taj El-Din Hilali has died after a controversial public life, which included his jailing in Egypt and comparing women to exposed meat.

AAP

Silencing support for the Voice is just so John Howard, so naff

The embarrassing rise of naffness shows how the AFL miscalculated on the Voice and squandered its leadership opportunity.

Crikey

Albanese joins list of Australian PM sporting fails

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was looking for the earth to swallow him up after dropping an easy catch in a charity cricket game on Wednesday.

AAP

Pezzullo story points to serious systemic problems in APS

What does being impartial really mean? And what should it look like?

The Canberra Times

Pezzullo story points to serious systemic problems in the Australian Public Service

The revelations in the Nine newspapers that Mike Pezzullo, secretary of the powerful Home Affairs department, shared with Liberal Party powerbroker Scott Briggs are certainly extraordinary. But, just like the revelations about Robodebt from the royal commission, they must not be treated as an isolated case but as evidence of…

The Conversation

It’s past time for voices to be raised against dissent, racism and hate

The Yes camp has tried the quiet truth approach, Crikey readers say. Now is the time to go hard.

Crikey

‘It’s bunkum’: former Liberal party director and John Howard chief of staff dismisses no campaign arguments

Tony Nutt says the voice to parliament is just, practical and constitutionally safe, a view at odds with the former leader he served for a decade

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Crikey

The right’s No campaign is a Trojan horse

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s comments exposed the ideological game plan of the right, and it’s ugly.

Crikey

Price’s views aren’t revelatory. The Australian right has long supported assimilation

Veteran journalists seem to think that Jacinta Nampijinpa Price represents something new in conservative politics. But the truth is she’s just reflecting views that the right has held for decades.

Newcastle Herald

Finals farewell and a warning to star Newcastle Knights player

'You're going to miss Newcastle, mate.'

The Guardian - AU

No lasting negative impact of colonisation? Try telling that to survivors of Kinchela

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price needs a better understanding of history if she thinks Indigenous people have only seen positive things from white rule

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Newcastle Herald

Governments from both sides have walked this path

On October 14, vote 'yes' to a better future.

The Conversation

How term limits for Australian political leaders could build a stronger democracy

King George III reputedly said of the inaugural US president, George Washington, on learning the American had declined a third term of office, that he was “the greatest character of the age”. George III marvelled at Washington because, despite entreaties that he continue as president, Washington had voluntarily ceded power.…

Newcastle Herald

Extending Eraring's life a backward step

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The Conversation

The dire state of British prisons – and what they could learn from Europe to get better

Prisoners and prison officers have long been familiar with the dire state of the UK’s prisons. The escape of Daniel Khalife from HMP Wandsworth in London now has many people wondering what life is like behind bars.

Newcastle Herald

Councils should loosen the purse things and give us street art to be proud of

Letters to the editor

The Guardian - AU

Asking Australia for an Indigenous voice isn’t new – it’s been a long and difficult struggle

An informed vote in the 2023 referendum requires an understanding of the history that has made it possible

The Guardian - AU

Albanese pushes for EU free-trade agreement settlement by end of the year – as it happened

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