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Dollar Tree and Family Dollar agree to pay fine and improve worker safety

Labor Department officials cited issues at the stores including blocked exits, unsafe storage of materials and improper access to fire extinguishers and electrical panels.

Chicago Sun-Times

Illinois lands $1.3M federal grant to promote more women in construction industry

The grant money comes as part of President Joe Biden’s signature $1.2 trillion infrastructure package signed into law almost two years ago, and aims to promote gender equity and inclusion in the male-dominated field.

Chicago Sun-Times

Labor’s intergenerational report will be released this week. But just how reliable will it be?

The 300-page missive will include forecasts about the economy and budget over the next 40 years

The Guardian - AU

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Australia to spend less on age pension despite doubling of retirees, intergenerational report shows

Australia on track for pension payments to shrink from 2.3% of GDP to 2% by 2062-63 as superannuation balances balloon

The Guardian - AU

Age pension cost to ease by 2060s but super tax breaks to swell: Intergenerational report

Australia’s comprehensive superannuation system means spending on the age pension will decline as a proportion of GDP by 2062-63 despite a doubling of Australians aged 65 and over, according to the government’s Intergenerational Report to be released on Thursday.

The Conversation

I’ve spent 40 years in Antarctic research. Right now it’s facing a climate emergency so we must not put vital science on ice

Antarctica is experiencing disturbing changes – from missing winter sea ice to disintegrating ice shelves – and it’s almost certain things will get worse

The Guardian - AU

Morning Mail: poll backs rent caps, Catholic hospitals refusing abortions, Trump set US$200,000 bond

Our latest Essential poll shows three-quarters back help for tenants, and we reveal how publicly funded facilities are limiting women’s care

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I've spent 40 years studying Antarctica. The frozen continent has never needed our help more

After decades immersed in Antarctic science, I’ve learned that physical and biological changes rarely occur smoothly. More often than not, they unfold in sharp steps. Right now, Antarctica’s climate and ecosystems are experiencing disturbing changes.

The Conversation

Essential poll: three in four Australians say rents should be capped to inflation or frozen until economy improves

Housing tussle between Labor and the Greens does not impact PM’s popularity with 37% feeling positive about Anthony Albanese

The Guardian - AU

LNP takes lead in Queensland Resolve poll, but Labor still far ahead in Victoria

The Queensland state election will be held in October 2024. A Resolve poll for The Brisbane Times, conducted from May to August with a sample of 947, gave the Liberal National Party 38% of the primary vote (up five since January to April), Labor 32% (down three), the Greens 11%…

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Call for ACT to be 'nation-leading' with dedicated sex offences court

Victims should know 'how perpetrators can use the system against them'.

The Canberra Times

Intergenerational report reveals spending in key areas to blow out to half Australian budget by 2063

Health, aged care, NDIS, defence and interest payments will grow from one-third of government spending over next four decades

The Guardian - AU

Labor’s shared equity scheme starts next year. How does it work and who is eligible?

The Albanese government’s program aims to make it easier for people to get a home loan and purchase a property, but it isn’t a magic pudding

The Guardian - AU

Premier defends Games compensation; Black Lives Matter rally in Sydney – as it happened

Indigenous voice central to Conservative Political Action Network Conference and final day of ALP conference

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Has the first shot been fired in Victorian Labor’s succession?

MPs say leaks about alleged branch stacking have escalated the factional war about who will eventually replace Daniel Andrews

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Labor’s history is one of compromise – and its conference delivered it in response to Albanese’s call for a decade in power

A long-term Labor government is the ‘difference between laying the foundation and finishing the build’, the PM tells national conference

The Conversation

Politics with Michelle Grattan: WA Premier Roger Cook on Labor's conference and his state's issues

Labor this week had its first face-to-face national conference in five years, and it all went Anthony Albanese’s way. He won on AUKUS and rallied the party faithful, who did not rock the government’s boat.

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View from The Hill: Labor conference gives Albanese a firm ‘yes’ on AUKUS

Predictably, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese got his way on AUKUS at Labor’s national conference on Friday.

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Labor thrashes out Aukus position at party conference amid dissent from MP and unions

Heckling, outrage and claims of ‘appeasement’ as stage-managed debate at ALP event gives way to genuine disagreement

The Conversation

The US navy is still more powerful than China's: more so than the Australian government is letting on

The federal Labor government today used the ALP national conference to address internal dissent over the controversial AUKUS security pact and its plan for acquiring nuclear-powered submarines.

The Guardian - AU

ALP national conference day 2 – as it happened

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NSW splits planning and environment mega department – as it happened

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Morning Mail: police investigate violent arrest; Aukus fight in Labor ranks; Indigenous Vietnam veterans identified

Shock at violent arrest of Aboriginal man with disability; Labor seeks to ward off dissent over Aukus nuclear submarine deal; researchers identify 285 Indigenous servicemen who fought in Vietnam

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Richard Marles moves to head off Labor conference fight over Aukus submarines

Deputy PM will offer reassurances on nuclear non-proliferation and waste amid grassroots dissent over the program

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Grattan on Friday: Albanese is determined to keep Labor’s eyes firmly focused on a second term

Labor is less than halfway into its first term, but Anthony Albanese is focused, laser-like, on its second one. Securing it, that is.

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