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Morning mail: preparations for Queen’s funeral, nearly half on jobseeker unable to work full time, Australia’s Cop bid

Monday: Anthony Albanese describes meeting with King Charles ahead of the Queen’s funeral as a ‘great honour’. Plus: can Qantas return to its former glory?

The Guardian - AU

Australia is pushing to host a Cop meeting – if successful it would be forced to ramp up climate action

Winning the 2024 climate talks could pressure Australia to rejoin the Green Climate Fund, increase its 2035 emissions target, and ditch new coal and gas developments

The Guardian - AU

Free carbon credits could threaten Australia’s emission reduction targets, Labor’s advisers warn

RepuTex says safeguard mechanism could hand free credits to big industrial polluters and lock in fossil fuel production

The Guardian - AU

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As resistance grows to the fossil fuel regime, laws are springing up everywhere to suppress climate activists

Along with subsidising big polluters, governments are setting in place repressive anti-protest laws to protect them

The Guardian - AU

State Opposition vows to fund 500 new paramedics in rural New South Wales

Labor is vowing to fix rural and regional health in NSW, starting with hiring more paramedics.

ABC News

Labor doubles Coalition funding promise for Maroondah Hospital, to be renamed after Queen Elizabeth II in billion-dollar upgrade

The announcement comes just one day after a Coalition funding promise for the same hospital in Melbourne's east.

ABC News

‘The real deal’: eight years in the red house, Jacqui Lambie still calls it as she sees it

The Tasmanian senator admits she was a wrecking ball when she first came to parliament, but Lambie 2022 is (mostly) not Lambie 2014

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From sex activist to progressive trailblazer: Fiona Patten’s remarkable rise to influence

The new wave of teal independents seeking to impact politics could learn a lot from Victoria’s ‘hardest working MP’

The Guardian - AU

More paramedics part of NSW election pitch

NSW Labor has announced a plan for more paramedics in rural and regional areas as it begins wooing voters ahead of the March state election.

AAP

Jacqui Lambie says major parties ‘killing’ Australia and blasts Labor over stage three tax cuts

Senator tells Festival of Dangerous Ideas the rise of the teals is ‘the breakthrough our country’s been waiting for’

The Guardian - AU

Are Australia’s whistleblowing laws fit for purpose? A former tax officer’s hearing may tell us

Richard Boyle will try to convince a court he should be protected by the Public Interest Disclosure Act. If he fails, the calls for a legal overhaul of whistleblower protections will likely be overwhelming

The Guardian - AU

The pageantry of the royal succession has all but eliminated debate on an Australian republic

The full apparatus of the monarchy has been deployed to preserve itself – rousing nostalgia for an age when the world bowed to Britain

The Guardian - AU

Push to erase ACT's historical housing debt gathers strength

The Chief Minister has again promised the millions spent on servicing the decades-old loan would be invested into "much-needed" social and affordable housing in the nation's capital.

The Canberra Times

Strictly Ballroom stars celebrate its 30th anniversary with fans in Canberra

A fully restored version of the 1992 film was screened at the National Film and Sound Archive on Friday night

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Victorian independent in winnable position in once-safe Liberal seat of Mornington, poll suggests

Exclusive: Frankston hospital doctor Kate Lardner in similar place to ‘teal’ MPs Zoe Daniel and Monique Ryan at same time in their campaigns

Newcastle Herald

Cessnock nurse poised for seat in Parliament

The wife of mayor Jay Suvaal is poised to claim a place in NSW Parliament after Labor's right faction handed her an unbeatable position on the party's upper house ticket.

The Independent UK

Biden, Dems see both political, economic wins in rail deal

President Joe Biden is hailing a labor agreement that avoided a strike that would have shut down railroads across the country as a win for America

The Conversation

Nearly 30% of Australia’s emissions come from industry. Tougher rules for big polluters is a no-brainer

Australia’s historic climate law passed the Senate last week and enshrined an economy-wide target to reduce emissions. But an important measure to reduce Australia’s industrial emissions is still up for debate: the “safeguard mechanism”.

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The Guardian - AU

Federal government urged to extend voting rights to 16 and 17-year-olds and prisoners

Submissions into 2022 election inquiry include calls for regulation of ‘electoral lies’ and stricter caps on political donations

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Biden says deal to avert rail strike is a ‘big win’ for America

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden hailed a tentative railway labor agreement, one that he helped broker and that averted an economically perilous nationwide work stoppage less than two months ahead of the November midterm elections.

Chicago Sun-Times

Railroad strike averted: With tentative deal, Metra trains may run as scheduled

President Joe Biden says a tentative railway labor agreement has been reached, averting a strike that could have been devastating to the economy before the midterm elections.

The Conversation

Grattan on Friday: Defeat of the Voice would be a body blow for achieving a republic

The passage of the proposed referendum on a Voice to Parliament could be a necessary, albeit not a sufficient, condition for Australia to become a republic in the next few years.

AAP

Cloud over veteran NSW Labor MP's future

A long-serving NSW upper house MP looks set to lose his spot on Labor's upper house ticket when the right faction holds a crucial preselection meeting.

The Guardian - AU

Peter Dutton hits out at republicans seeking ‘political advantage’ from Queen’s death

Opposition leader accuses Labor minister of rewriting history over suggestion King Charles III might not appear on $5 note

AAP

Vic Labor pledge $300m for ambos, hospital

The Andrews Labor government has pledged more than $300 million to set up a new Victorian paramedics network and further redevelop a regional hospital.

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