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Schoolyard scrap over funding promise in NSW election

NSW Labor says its commitment to increase public school funding has been independently costed, but the education minister says it doesn't add up.

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Labor MP to return to parliament as she fights cancer

Peta Murphy will continue to advocate for her community after undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer, saying she's determined to use her platform for good.

AAP

Labor gears up for climate policy fight

The government's climate policy is being pincered by the opposition and the Greens, forcing Labor into a battle on two flanks.

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Whistleblower bill excluding sexual harassment complaints from protection goes too far, Greens senator says

David Shoebridge says employment-related complaints should also be protected as whistleblowers ‘too often lose their careers from speaking out’

The Guardian - AU

Former deputy prime minister John Anderson joins group spearheading "no" campaign on the Voice

Former deputy prime minister John Anderson is one of the six- member committee launched on Monday to spearhead the “no” case in the Voice referendum.

The Conversation

After years of austerity, Revive writes the next chapter in Australian literary culture

The Albanese government’s Revive is Australia’s first national cultural policy in ten years. The last was the Gillard government’s Creative Australia in 2013.

The Conversation

Former German army officer joins Libs' fight

The Service NSW senior executive has a PhD in computer science.

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‘The government has listened’: Australia’s peak bodies praise $300m federal arts policy

Launched by Anthony Albanese at Melbourne live music pub the Espy, the policy offers welcome support for the beleaguered industry

The Guardian - AU

Labor's national cultural policy includes streaming quotas, reimagined Australia Council, and new body targeting misconduct in arts industry

The government just launched the first national cultural policy in a decade. Here's a short-cut guide to the major commitments and wins for the sector, and what's missing.

ABC News

Murdoch granted leave to expand legal case – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU

State Labor promise $400 million education 'top-up' fund for Gonski reforms

The NSW opposition is planning to move ahead with school Gonski funding, injecting $400 million into the plan, if they are elected in March.

ABC News

'How can I pay wages?': Western Sydney businesses on the brink of collapse over light rail construction

Western Sydney's light rail construction has one year to go before the first stage is completed, but some small businesses on the construction route say they won't last that long.

ABC News

Alan Kohler: Australia’s new emissions trading scheme is a carbon tax. That’s fine

It won’t be the companies that swallow the cost of emissions reduction, it’ll be the customers who pay, writes Alan Kohler.

The New Daily

NSW Labor pledges $400m for education to ‘end the war on teachers’ if elected

Education Future Fund will aim to address underfunding of public schools by hiring more teachers and making intensive tutoring program permanent

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Adam Bandt accuses Albanese government of ‘greenwashing’ for allowing new coal and gas mines

Greens leader’s criticism suggests party will rekindle demands to add climate trigger in safeguards scheme or limit use of carbon offsets

AAP

Labor pledge to up NSW public school funds

Labor says NSW will be the first state committed to closing the public schools' funding gap if it wins the March election.

The Conversation

Albanese promises National Aboriginal Art Gallery in Alice Springs and pivots towards the modern and mainstream in new cultural policy

The Albanese government’s cultural policy, released Monday, “puts First Nations first”, while also promising regulated Australian content on streaming services and a shift to greater support for the popular in the arts.

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Music, literature and First Nations at the forefront of a $300m boost to the arts, Labor to announce

Albanese government’s new Revive program an attempt to reverse declines to the arts sector but financial details not expected until May budget

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The Guardian - AU

NSW Coalition pledges feasibility study for specialist domestic violence courts

Labor opposition says move a decade overdue, with similar courts already operating in Queensland and overseas

AAP

Specialised DV court system on way for NSW

NSW won't yet replicate the specialised family violence courts in Queensland or Victoria, saying it needs a study to see how it would fit into its system.

ABC News

Scrapped Better Building Regions Fund sparks blame game over Macquarie Home Stay support

A NSW charity that routinely has to turn away rural hospital patients has been caught in the middle of an ugly pre-election dispute between Labor and the Nationals.

ABC News

What was the Northern Territory Emergency Response, better known in Indigenous communities as The Intervention?

The hardline Northern Territory Emergency Response was in place across the territory for 15 years. So, what was the policy that became better known as "The Intervention"?

ABC News

NSW Liberal Scott Yung turns down opportunity to run against Chris Minns again

Scott Yung came exceptionally close to dethroning Labor leader Chris Minns in 2019, but his decision to not re-run has left the Liberals without a candidate for the marginal seat just eight weeks from the election.

The Guardian - AU

‘No second prize’: Chris Minns and his pursuit of the NSW political throne

Within reach of forming a Labor government, the opposition leader has traded his charming firebrand persona for pragmatic centrism

ABC News

Major parties vow to remove barriers for victim-survivors of domestic and family violence ahead of NSW election

Less than two months out from the state election, the Coalition announces policies tackling safe and stable housing, while Labor commits to a specialist service for migrant and refugee women.

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