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Labor MP admitted to hospital for tumour surgery

Gilmore MP Fiona Phillips will take time away from parliament to recover from surgery to remove an oral tumour.

AAP

Pro-Palestine protests closing MPs’ electorate offices ‘have no place in a democracy’, Albanese says

Prime minister denounces ‘actions to intimidate’ as Australia Palestine Advocacy Network condemns his remarks

The Guardian - AU

How do we prepare for life on a hot planet?

By the middle of the century, Australian society is likely to become so stressed that the cohesion of the nation will be at risk.

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No, Ed, we don’t need a company tax cut

Do we need a company tax cut to stimulate manufacturing investment? No, and no. And also, no.

Crikey

Abolishing Higgins seat sent everyone into a frenzy for all the wrong reasons

The draft redistribution of Victoria, which abolishes the electoral seat of Higgins, resulted in slew of hot takes.

Crikey

Labor to allow foreign citizens to join ADF

Labor will loosen entry requirements for the ADF to allow permanent residents from the US, UK, New Zealand, Canada and Pacific Island nations to serve. And two-thirds of voters support increasing the age limit for social media use.

Crikey

ADF to recruit foreigners amid muddle over eligibility

Allowing foreigners to join the Australian Defence Force under a fast track to citizenship is a "positive step" but will likely only have an incremental impact.

AAP

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Guardian Essential poll: two-thirds of voters support raising minimum age for social media to 16

Survey also shows increasing desire for government regulation of hate speech and artificial intelligence

The Guardian - AU

UK Labour Seeks To Reassure Voters On Defence

Britain's Labour opposition party committed Monday to ensuring the UK's nuclear arsenal, pitching itself as strong on defence for July's election in contrast to the last vote, when it lost heavily.

International Business Times

Council pushes for clean-up support in the wake of damaging weather

The council wants more support for residents to clean up debris.

Newcastle Herald

‘Reckless’: Penny Wong condemns Peter Dutton’s threats to cut ties with International Criminal Court

Foreign minister also accuses the Greens of involvement in ‘violent and aggressive protests’ in Senate estimates

The Guardian - AU

Voluntary assisted dying laws set to pass ACT Legislative Assembly this week

Few amendments to the legislation are expected.

The Canberra Times

Josh Frydenberg rules out seeking Kooyong preselection

Former Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has ruled out attempting to displace Amelia Hamer as the Liberals’ candidate for Kooyong.

The Conversation

12 countries across the world have lowered their voting age from 18. Australia should be next

Young people are more politically engaged than ever before. It’s time they were given equal representation.

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The Guardian - AU

The deportation debate is toxic politics – if the system is truly broken, we need more than kneejerk solutions

Too afraid to oppose the Coalition’s repressive measures, Labor is now struggling with the legacies of both the failed home affairs experiment and the human mess of immigration detention

Crikey

There’s no time to indulge Labor’s love affair with gas — it delays the inevitable

Labor claims gas is critical to the net-zero pathways of Australia’s trading partners. This ignores the exponentially growing affordability of renewables.

Crikey

Josh Frydenberg — no ticker, no start

Josh Frydenberg didn’t have the guts to go after Scott Morrison and stuffed a return to Kooyong when he didn’t know he could win. So why should he get another crack now?

Crikey

Frydenberg eyes a comeback

Former treasurer Josh Frydenberg is back in the picture in Kooyong, and a murderer and an attempted murderer were among 25 people released into the community following the High Court’s decision on indefinite detention last year.

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Newcastle Herald

Was the long wait for last leg of bypass a punishment for city?

It has only taken 50 years to find an alternative route

The Guardian - AU

Murderer and attempted murderer among 25 detainees released by ministerial discretion, documents reveal

Exclusive: Legal challenge discloses number of non-citizens already released by ministerial discretion higher than first thought

The Conversation

View from The Hill: Josh Frydenberg mulls political temptation after Kooyong gets new draft boundaries

Josh Frydenberg is mulling over whether to try to make a lunge for his old Melbourne seat of Kooyong, now that new circumstances have suddenly raised his political heart rate.

AAP

Mixed emotions over possible Frydenberg revival

Former federal treasurer Josh Frydenberg is reportedly reconsidering taking a tilt at the seat he lost at the last election despite a woman being pre-selected.

AAP

Pro-Palestine protesters shut down major intersection

Activists brought Melbourne to a halt by recreating the wreckage of a bomb site while hundreds more in Sydney called on the government to sanction Israel.

The Guardian - AU

The winners and losers of Australia’s proposed electoral redistribution explained

Labor has lost a key seat in Victoria but could replace it by picking up a newly created electorate in Western Australia

The Conversation

View from The Hill: parliamentary sittings have become as painful for Albanese as they were for Morrison

It was often said of the former Morrison government that it found parliamentary sittings particularly fraught. The same has become true of its successor.

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