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In the deep end: six new councillors to jump straight into business

Big decisions on the agenda at Newcastle council's first meeting.

Newcastle Herald

Construction approved on public housing block left vacant for nearly a decade

The approval follows a Labor promise for more public housing.

The Canberra Times

'Jobs for the boys': Labor councillors lash out over chief of staff role

The author of a 104-page dossier alleging bullying within the Labor party has applied for the job.

Newcastle Herald

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Guardian Essential poll: voters back drastic policy action on Australia’s cost-of-living crisis

Exclusive: Price caps on rent, groceries and energy bills top list of possible reforms with 70% support

The Guardian - AU

Division among Australian politicians easy to see and hear on 7 October anniversary

Labor condemns Hamas and acknowledges ‘devastating’ loss of civilian lives. Coalition offers emphatic support of Israel and chides calls for a ceasefire

The Guardian - AU

View From The Hill: Fatima Payman promises PM ‘a full body contact competition’

When Senator Fatima Payman quit Labor over Gaza, she not only delivered a blow to the government, she also got under Anthony Albanese’s skin.

The Conversation

It's all about health, poll campaign finds its pulse

Healthy living, happy voters. Labor and the LNP have put health front and centre in the Queensland election campaign.

AAP

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Experts lash search and seizure laws for school kids

Proposed laws to be introduced in the Northern Territory would mean children as young as 10 could be searched for knives while at school.

AAP

Australian politicians mark 7 October anniversary – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU

Kamala Harris maintains narrow lead in key states in US presidential race

The United States presidential election will be held on November 5. In analyst Nate Silver’s aggregate of national polls, Democrat Kamala Harris leads Republican Donald Trump by 49.3–46.2, a slight gain for Trump since last Monday, when Harris led Trump by 49.3–46.0.

The Conversation

Vigils, protests mark October 7 anniversary

One year on from Hamas’ attacks on Israel, October 7 vigils will be held across the country, and the government is threatening a double dissolution election as it reintroduces its Help to Buy bill.

Crikey

At least 20km of new footpaths in four years if council walks the walk

An average of 5000m of new footpaths could be built each year.

Newcastle Herald

Labor’s Help to Buy housing bill is darkening parliament’s doors again. Will this time be any different?

For each of the parties, the debate has little to do with the number of people in the scheme or their finances. It has become a political symbol

The Guardian - AU

Inside Queensland Labor’s scramble to protect the next generation of leaders as election defeat looms

Polls predict the LNP will take the sunshine state at the next election – but a fallback strategy is already taking shape

The Guardian - AU

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From 1973, a journey of land rights through the bush

Fifty years of land rights are being marked in the red centre as the Central Land Council celebrates its past, present and future.

The Canberra Times

'Magic pudding economics': Battle of the $1b blackhole as ACT election nears

Andrew Barr and Elizabeth Lee traded shots over 'absurd' figures and who'll give Canberrans a better deal.

The Guardian - AU

Businesses say Australia’s economy depends on the environment. Will Labor’s ‘nature-positive’ summit help?

Financial leaders have urged the country to focus on protecting and restoring nature – but details remain thin on the ground

The Canberra Times

'Unprecedented experiment': Pocock, Gallagher weigh in on social media

This is what the ACT's politicians want to do with the apps.

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Premier doesn't 'need anyone to hold his hand' on trail

The Queensland premier says he will welcome the prime minister's arrival but won't need anyone to hold his hand during the state election campaign.

AAP

Middle East conflict looms over parliament's return

Politicians will return to Canberra as tensions simmer over escalating conflict involving Gaza, Lebanon, Israel and Iran.

The Guardian - AU

‘We might need to discuss Moira’: defamation trial puts Liberal party rifts and rivalries on show

Machinations, high-profile players and secret recordings feature in ousted MP Moira Deeming’s court case against Victorian opposition leader John Pesutto

The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: Tu Le is Labor’s Fowler candidate; Queensland LNP leader at odds with Dutton; and the quest for a golden owl

Le, the daughter of Vietnamese refugees, said the people of Fowler ‘deserve a voice in the Labor government’

The Guardian - AU

PM introduces Tu Le as Labor challenger for western Sydney seat of Fowler

Candidate passed over in 2022 when former Labor senator Kristina Keneally was parachuted into seat before losing to independent Dai Le

AAP

Liberal civil war on show as defamation trial nears end

Deep-seated fractures in the Victorian Liberal Party have been laid bare for all to see as expelled MP Moira Deeming sues state leader John Pesutto.

AAP

Labor gives lawyer second shot at winning safe seat

After its decision to parachute in Kristina Keneally backfired, Labor has chosen community lawyer Tu Le to run for the former safe seat of Fowler.

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