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Chequed out: Channel Seven pays the price for Bruce Lehrmann Spotlight revelation

The Walkley Foundation strips Seven’s Spotlight of its ‘Scoop of the year’ nomination after details of payments. Plus: Gideon Haigh leaves the crease

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Michaelia Cash claims PM denied her right to defend herself before government paid $2.45m to Brittany Higgins

Liberal senator claims she was not allowed to participate in process that led to personal injury settlement between federal government and Higgins

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Bruce Lehrmann’s media payouts: $500k+

Bruce Lehrmann raked in more than half a million dollars from media organisations, and Simon Birmingham, opposition foreign affairs spokesman, will lead a group of cross-party MPs to Israel next week.

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As the political clock ticks relentlessly, there is little time for substance over optics in parliament

Labor hoped there would be time to form a careful response to the high court’s immigration detention decision – but at the daily politics Oscars, spectacle is all

The Guardian - AU

Labor passes preventive detention laws as judges gain power to cancel citizenship of serious offenders

Move comes as attorney general Mark Dreyfus has fiery exchange with reporter over government’s response to high court indefinite detention ruling

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Aussie terrorists, spies to have citizenship stripped

The Commonwealth will be able to apply to strip the citizenship of convicted terrorists if they are dual Australian nationals after new laws passed parliament.

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New preventative detention laws pass parliament

Serious offenders recently released from immigration detention are now subject to preventative detention measures after laws passed federal parliament.

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Mark Dreyfus approved human rights commission’s intervention in indefinite detention case

Attorney general signed off on AHRC’s intervention in favour of the plaintiff NZYQ, provided it made clear it was doing so on its own behalf

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Support program to help combat modern-day slavery

More than $12 million in federal funding will go towards a specialised program to help victims of forced marriages in Australia to get help.

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‘Overreach from the start’: Security monitor drops a bomb on secrecy act

An independent review has savaged the legislation used to attempt to cover up the trial of Bernard Collaery and called for significant amendments.

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Report urges open justice in national security cases

A new report by an independent monitor says laws to protect national security should not come at the expense of a defendant's right to a fair hearing.

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Australia to get its first anti-slavery commissioner

New laws have been introduced to appoint Australia's first anti-slavery commissioner to tackle issues like sex trafficking and exploitation.

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Bans on Nazi symbols and salute pass lower house

New laws banning public displays of Nazi symbols have passed the House of Representatives with bipartisan support.

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Queensland leaves federal Labor a distant second in transparency

The Albanese government committed to better political donation laws ahead of last year’s election. It’s still done nothing.

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Australia to ban Nazi salutes in bid to combat antisemitism surge

The government will also ban the public display of symbols of proscribed terrorist organisations

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Government appoints new disability discrimination boss

The federal government has named human rights advocate Rosemary Kayess as Australia's new disability discrimination commissioner.

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Nazi salute to be outlawed to stop 'glorifying hatred'

Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus says there's no place for glorifying hatred in Australia as he moves to ban the Nazi salute.

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Labor and Coalition team up to retrospectively authorise ‘unlawful’ use of material gathered by Australian agency

Bill authorises previous uses of coercive powers, removing legal question mark that had dogged Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission

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Dreyfus pushes substantive overhaul of secrecy laws after years of expansion

Secrecy laws applying to public servants will be simplified and improved, and there will be better protections for journalists.

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It’s a travesty McBride had to plead guilty, but the public want whistleblower reform

Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus pledged to establish a whistleblower protection authority in 2019. He needs to get a move on.

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Secrecy law reforms shield journalists

Under changes to federal secrecy laws, journalists cannot be prosecuted for some secrecy offences unless the attorney-general says so, and former NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian’s name has been thrown up as a possible new CEO for Optus after the departure of Kelly Bayer Rosmarin.

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Step forward to combat child exploitation worldwide

Australian and US officials have convened the first meeting of a new council to tackle child exploitation as new technologies pose problems.

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Australian military whistleblower pleads guilty over Afghan Files leak

David McBride claimed leak of classified material detailing alleged war crimes in Afghanistan was in public interest

The Guardian - AU

Albanese government to consider further whistleblower protections amid calls for ‘robust’ dedicated authority

Federal attorney general releases new consultation paper as the government moves toward releasing a second stage of public interest disclosure reforms

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Military shouldn't 'blindly follow orders', court hears

Lawyers for David McBride are defending his leaking of classified information about war crime allegations, saying it was in the public interest.

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