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Albanese government considers ‘world-leading’ ban on smart glasses in public offices and buildings

Minister for public service says the devices pose ‘legitimate privacy and security concerns’ in commonwealth-run workplaces

The Guardian - AU

Labor accused of throwing creatives ‘under the bus’ with proposal to ease copyright protections for AI giants

Compromise revealed as senior personnel from OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT, meets Albanese ministers

The Guardian - AU

Political blame game as deadly gang war violence erupts

Pressure to clamp down on gang violence has state and federal leaders pointing fingers over the difficult task of tracking down perpetrators who are overseas.

AAP

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Push for path to appeal computer-determined health care

Independent MPs will back a bill to change the automated decision-making pathways the government uses to determine key health funding.

AAP

View from The Hill: Did Albanese’s language against One Nation ‘cross a line’ or is Pauline Hanson just playing victim politics?

The major political parties are struggling to find ways to effectively counter Pauline Hanson and One Nation.

The Conversation

Afternoon Update: Australian missing in Nepal-Tibet floods found alive; Ray Hadley takes stand at Alan Jones trial; and the Kākāpō bounces back

Foreign minister ‘incredibly thankful’ another Australian has been found and says they have spoken with their family

The Guardian - AU

South Australian Labor government ‘implores’ Albanese government to legislate telehealth for VAD care

The Malinauskas Labor government is challenging Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s resistance to making telehealth available in voluntary assistant dying (VAD) care.

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Pauline Hanson calls for two nuclear plants on east coast and insists policy is nothing like Dutton’s failed plan

One Nation leader also calls for taxpayer funding to keep coal-fired Loy Yang power station operating as part of ‘diversity’ of power

The Guardian - AU

No smart glasses ban as traders told to police use

The federal government has called for venues to make efforts to stop non-consensual recording with smart glasses, as privacy fears are raised about the devices.

AAP

Frequent FOI breaches revealed in transparency fail

Integrity advocates want the Albanese government to pick its stalled freedom of information reform back up after a study highlighted disclosure concerns.

AAP

David McBride leaves prison on parole after being jailed for leaking Afghanistan war documents

Attorney general grants former army lawyer’s release after 27 months in jail

The Guardian - AU

Cut-price smart glasses trigger privacy investigation

Australia's privacy watchdog has been asked to examine issues with smart glasses as access to the technology grows and a cut-price version sells out in stores.

AAP

Icac hears of friendship breakdown between Reformers members – as it happened

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Sweeping changes made to working-with-children checks

The nation's attorneys-general have tackled priority areas for keeping children safe following a string of abuses in childcare settings.

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Grattan on Friday: A reluctant Albanese is under pressure over telehealth for VAD

At last week’s Labor conference, which was totally under the prime minister’s thumb, only one issue was contested on the floor: support for the use of telehealth in voluntary assisted dying care.

The Guardian - AU

Anger at Labor as Rex Patrick faces potential six-figure legal fee if he loses Aukus documents battle

Australian government insists legal costs should be paid by former senator as FoI fight escalates

The Guardian - AU

Labor women outnumber men in the caucus. Why are they overlooked as Albanese’s potential successor?

Kate Ellis now heads an all-female executive as women hold a majority in the party room for the first time. But when talk turns to leadership, women barely rate

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Labor national conference backs use of telehealth in voluntary assisted dying care

Labor’s national conference has written into the party platform support for telehealth as part of voluntary assisted dying care.

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Anti-racism measures bolstered after One Nation rise

Labor members have committed to implementing national anti-racism plans, while speaking out against the threat One Nation poses to multicultural communities.

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New anti-slavery laws raise 'red tape' concerns

Business groups are worried new measures proposed to push large companies to keep slavery out of their supply chains wont work and will add red tape.

The Canberra Times

Our leaders are gutless prisoners of entrenched corruption

Is it any wonder voters are angrily switching to One Nation?

AAP

MPs blast potential legal bill for FOI request

Former senator Rex Patrick faces the prospect of paying the government's legal bills for requesting information around AUKUS waste dump sites.

The Guardian - AU

Lambie, Hanson and Pocock form unlikely alliance to protect transparency campaigner Rex Patrick

Exclusive: Patrick is using freedom of information rules to seek where nuclear waste from Aukus submarines will be kept

The Guardian - AU

Jonno Duniam calls Pauline Hanson’s push for monoculture ‘bizarre’ – as it happened

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Labor considers landmark human rights law ... again

Australia is the only advanced democracy without a human rights act or bill of rights - but Anthony Albanese's government isn't in a hurry to change that.

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