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Stadium images fail to allay Cenotaph sight worries

Newly released renders of Hobart's proposed AFL stadium haven't eased concerns about the visual impact on the city's nearby Cenotaph.

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Higgins and Sharaz schemed to ‘ambush’ Reynolds, lawyer tells trial – as it happened

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'Kick the can down the road': Liberals say reform can't come soon enough

Labor says it's 'just another conservative, right-wing agenda'

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Queensland police data shows youth crime at near-record lows. So why the ‘tough on crime’ election talk?

The LNP has its ‘adult time for adult crime’ policy and Labor touts its ‘toughest in the nation’ stance

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Grattan on Friday: Welcome King Charles, farewell the republic as Albanese casts aside lost causes

Anthony Albanese can’t escape the powerful symbolism. In October he is due to greet King Charles on Australian soil – hard on the heels of formally burying Labor’s hopes of turning Australia into a republic.

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Labor’s first female frontbencher and feminist trailblazer immortalised in Canberra statue

Susan Ryan found it ‘intolerable’ that women were not treated equally, introducing world-leading legislation on sexual harassment

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Mood-altering drug use a 'human right': top prosecutor

Australia's longest-serving public prosecutor is pushing for a Portuguese-style cannabis model that decriminalises drugs and brings users before experts.

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Women's rights pioneer honoured for life of advocacy

One of Australia's most important female politicians has been commemorated for introducing a world-leading act that would protect millions of people.

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View from The Hill: Dutton tells Netanyahu he’d improve relations with Israel, as danger for Australians in Lebanon rises

Peter Dutton has met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other top figures in a three-day visit to Israel this week that has further underlined the unravelling of bipartisanship towards that country.

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Could government bail out Rex?

Any potential buyers for the airline would need to make a massive investment in new planes, and the latest Closing the Gap report is deeply concerning for First Nations peoples.

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Morning Mail: Jess Fox snares second gold, university staff face violent threats, Matildas out of Olympics

Jess Fox defends Olympic canoe single title; old-school cheating still rampant at Australian universities; fears of regional war spread after Hamas leader’s death

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Housing revamp is NT Labor's headline election pledge

Leaders Eva Lawlor and Lia Finocchiaro have gone head-to-head in a civil debate as the NT government prepares to enter election caretaker mode.

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Rex is Labor’s chance to terrify Qantas and curtail its gouging, lying and rorting

A bailout of Rex Airlines is the perfect vehicle for the government to re-enter aviation and subject Qantas to real competition.

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As many as 360 workers sacked at Rex with hundreds more jobs to go

Employees reportedly told the airline will no longer operate flights between capital cities

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Regional Express folds

Regional areas are fearful of losing jobs and tourism after Rex went into voluntary administration yesterday, and the latest inflation data is set to be released.

Newcastle Herald

Newcastle independent councillor John Church won't seek reelection

Outgoing councillor urges voters to break Labor bloc's control.

The Guardian - AU

Australia’s inflation rise could light the fuse on an early election

The government’s popularity may pivot on Wednesday’s CPI figures and a pre-Christmas poll would be a prospect if it viewed the RBA’s job was done

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Concerns NDIS changes will create robodebt 2.0 are ‘complete rubbish’, Bill Shorten says

Experts have warned new rules have ‘flavour and smell’ of the unlawful program but NDIS minister says comparison is ‘without basis’

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Housing approvals fall to lowest level in 12 years despite Labor’s pledge of 1.2m new homes

Approved dwellings drop 6.5% in June amid high interest rates and building costs as CoreLogic rues ‘dismal result’

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‘Preference whispering’: regularly exploited voting system should be scrapped, Victorian inquiry finds

Labor-led inquiry calls for end to group voting tickets that have benefited micro parties

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Call for voting reform to end 'preference whispering'

The Victorian government has been urged to move legislation to scrap group voting tickets as they sow distrust in the system.

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AUKUS is a fiscal crime — no amount of propaganda will change that

Have defenders of AUKUS actually bother to read the long list of scathing ANAO reports on how bad the defence department is?

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Labor boldly proposes to prevent competition from getting worse… eventually

New powers for the competition regulator probably won’t commence until well into next year — and will be limited by judges in an appellant-friendly system.

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Burke to Indonesia, Dutton to Israel

The new home affairs minister is off to Indonesia to talk security and people smuggling, while Clare O’Neil tries to convince Australians Labor’s housing investment is enough.

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Malarndirri McCarthy is the new Indigenous Affairs minister. She faces an extremely difficult task

Linda Burney, Minister for Indigenous Australians, announced her retirement from politics last week, and Labor has quickly appointed Northern Territory Senator Malarndirri McCarthy to take over the portfolio.

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