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Michael Pascoe: Grants corruption rolls on, with bias in bowls too

Sure, $17.6 million is peanuts amid the Morrison government’s multibillion-dollar grants corruption, but let’s go bowling.

The New Daily

Grattan on Friday: Scott Morrison’s ministerial team looks far from match-fit

It sounded a touch desperate – Prime Minister Scott Morrison imploring backpackers to “come on down” to Australia, as the Omicron crisis escalated. “Enjoy

The New Daily

Grattan on Friday: Scott Morrison's ministerial team looks far from match-fit

It sounded a touch desperate – Prime Minister Scott Morrison imploring backpackers to “come on down” to Australia, as the Omicron crisis escalated.

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Revived Family First Party wins registration after SA Family First bid rejected

The Family First Party led by two former Labor MPs will be the only party with that name at the South Australian state election after another party with a similar moniker has its application for registration rejected.

ABC News

Albanese stakes out Coalition seats in Queensland as Morrison zeroes in on NSW ahead of election

Guardian Australia analysis of leaders’ visits since early December shows Labor focused on clawing back ground in northern seats

The Guardian - AU

UK’s Johnson Defies Calls to Quit as Ouster Bid Gathers Pace

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson defied calls to resign in a feisty performance Wednesday in Parliament — but it may be too little to prevent a push by his Conservative Party's lawmakers to oust him over a series of lockdown-flouting government parties. Pressure on the prime minister grew as one…

Asharq Al-Awsat

George Christensen's anti-vax comments could boost votes for 'populist fringe right'

As his retirement looms, George Christensen has again drawn fire over his stance on vaccines.

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Poor people don’t need more food banks, rebates and spin from politicians. We need more income support

Stereotypes and political rhetoric about poverty ignore the fact that welfare payments in Australia are obscenely low

The Guardian - AU

Coalition slumps in first poll of 2022 as voters lose confidence in Morrison's handling of pandemic

In the first national poll of the new year, a Resolve survey for the Nine newspapers, Labor had 35% of the primary vote (up three percentage points since November), the Coalition 34% (down five), the Greens 11% (steady), One Nation 3% (steady) and independents 11% (up two).

The Conversation

Australia PM's ratings take a hit months away from election, poll shows

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison's approval ratings slid after his handling of the Omicron-driven coronavirus outbreak fuelled a backlash, a widely watched poll showed on Tuesday, putting opposition Labor into a leading position months away from a federal election.

Reuters

Support for coalition drops in new poll

A new opinion poll has found voter backlash to the government in the wake of the Omicron variant and surging COVID-19 case numbers.

AAP

LETTERS: The time is wrong to deliver high-speed rail

Email letters@newcastleherald.com.au or send a text message to 0427 154 176 (include name and suburb).

Newcastle Herald

Community houses 'boarded up' in regional SA, leaving homeless to sleep in tents

Homeless people are forced to sleep in tents and public toilets in Mount Gambier, despite almost 50 social housing properties sitting empty across the region, a Labor MP says.

ABC News

Andrew Robb did not breach code of conduct by taking $880k consultancy role with Chinese billionaire, Scott Ryan says

Special Minister of State Scott Ryan defends former trade minister Andrew Robb, who began working as a consultant to a Chinese billionaire days after the 2016 federal election.

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Manus Island riot: Independent report by Robert Cornall details deadly detention centre violence

A Salvation Army worker identified as allegedly leading a fatal attack on Iranian asylum seeker Reza Berati on Manus Island in February is expected to be charged in Papua New Guinea. The PNG national has been named in an official report into the riots which took place at the Manus…

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