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The Latest Breaking News from Monique Ryan

Treasurer Jim Chalmers will tell a mining conference today that we don’t need to choose between mining and renewable energy, and independent MP for Kooyong Monique Ryan has claimed 27 business class flights worth $28,000 in her first year in Parliament.

Crikey

Albo: Thanks but No thanks, ‘friend’

Anthony Albanese tells Peter Dutton his speech recommending a delay to the Voice referendum was ‘totally devoid of empathy’, and Treasury secretary Steven Kennedy is reportedly on the shortlist for the RBA governor’s job.

Crikey

ABC, Monique Ryan and Crikey roasted at Canberra’s Midwinter Ball

The prime minister and opposition leader both cracked jokes while the Canberra press gallery sipped wine and munched on striploin steak.

Crikey

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Push to change kids' appetite with junk food ad ban

Junk food companies would be restricted from marketing their products to kids on TV and radio while online ads would be banned outright under a proposed bill.

AAP

The science that unlocked a rare genetic mutation in the Folbiggs — and set Kathleen free

Extensive scientific and medical evidence proved to be key to setting Kathleen Folbigg free, 20 years after she was convicted of killing her four children.

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Pressure for national ban on logging native forests

Crossbench MPs have urged the government to implement a national ban on native forest logging, following Victoria's move to end the practice.

The New Daily

Kathleen Folbigg inquiry to shortly decide child killer's fate, two decades after conviction

Kathleen Folbigg was found guilty of killing her four children 20 years ago today. An inquiry will soon decide whether the woman dubbed as "Australia's most hated woman" at the time was wrongly convicted.

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Darwin’s ‘sustainable’ Middle Arm development is key to huge fossil fuel projects, documents show

Exclusive: Middle Arm has been sold as ‘sustainable’ but papers reveal the Albanese government was briefed on the project’s links to new fossil fuel developments, including fracking in the Beetaloo basin

The Guardian - AU

Chalmers’ budget cuts a fine figure

The surplus of $4 billion expected to be announced in tonight’s budget will be Australia’s first in 15 years, and former independent MP Monique Ryan’s chief of staff Sally Rugg has walked away from her unfair dismissal case against her old boss.

Crikey

Sally Rugg accepts $100,000 to settle workplace dispute with MP Monique Ryan

Payment to former chief of staff involves no admission of fault by member for Kooyong or government

The Guardian - AU

Labor’s changes to gas tax will deliver little if any extra revenue, analysts say

Greens label move as ‘less than the bare minimum’ while Monique Ryan says Australia remains a ‘global laggard’ on taxing industry

The Guardian - AU

What's it like inside the Canberra bubble? Six first-time politicians spill the tea on the ABC's new social-first show

From forging unexpected friendships to spending their first parliamentary pay cheque, six federal parliament newbies share their experiences with the ABC's new social-first show that uncovers the realities of life inside the Canberra bubble.

ABC News

Albanese breached workplace law by cutting crossbench staff, Sally Rugg claims in court

Filing by former political staffer says PM was aware of heavy workloads and that staffing cuts would lead to longer hours

The Guardian - AU

Julia Banks: Why the modern Liberal Party seems unable to ‘do the right thing’

At the end of the day, robust political debate shouldn’t displace civility, treating people with respect and doing the right thing.

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ACT plans hefty restrictions or possible ban on ‘insidious’ sports gambling ads

Attorney general Shane Rattenbury says territory may take action unilaterally if federal government does not act

The New Daily

Michelle Grattan: Could Josh Frydenberg still have a path to the Liberal leadership?

Frydenberg hasn’t declared whether he will run again for Kooyong, but he hasn’t lost his political ambition., Michelle Grattan writes.

The Conversation

Grattan on Friday: Could Josh Frydenberg still have a path to the Liberal leadership?

One of those closely watching the extraordinary legal face-off between independent Monique Ryan and her former high-profile staffer, Sally Rugg, will be Josh Frydenberg, who lost Kooyong to the “teal” at last year’s election.

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Crikey

Under the Rugg: staffers work long hours for big bucks. Like it or leave it

Monique Ryan has every right to want her chief of staff to ‘go the extra mile’, Crikey readers say. Big salary. Big expectations.

Crikey

Labor won the $3m super fight. Now it can, and must, set the agenda

Labor owns the RBA’s economy, like it or not. It must make its plans explicit, and exclude the right — even if the Greens attack from the left.

The New Daily

What are ‘reasonable’ hours? The Ryan-Rugg legal stoush may help the rest of us know

The outcome will turn on what “reasonable” means. There is no simple definition of this in Australian workplace law.

The Conversation

What are 'reasonable' hours? The Ryan-Rugg legal stoush may help the rest of us know

The court case against federal independent parliamentarian Monique Ryan by her former chief of staff Sally Rugg will, according to Rugg’s lawyers, open the door to legal action “by every Australian worker experiencing exploitation because of a contractual obligation to perform undefined ‘reasonable additional’ hours”.

The Guardian - AU

Morning Mail: gender super gap revealed, Thorpe denies dating former bikie, UK to block asylum claims

Study highlights glaring financial inequality as we mark on International Women’s Day; senator says she was made to say she was in a relationship

ABC News

Calls for Australia's employment laws to be overhauled in wake of stoush between Sally Rugg and Monique Ryan

A Federal Court challenge between high-profile political staffer Sally Rugg and teal MP Monique Ryan shines a light on Australia's "troubling" parliamentary culture and prompts experts to call for employment legislation to be overhauled.

The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: critics warn RBA risks ‘overshooting’ on rate hikes; Sally Rugg’s court loss; and Sphinx-like statue found in Egypt

Australians with a mortgage have been hit with a record 10 consecutive interest rate rises as the Reserve Bank lifted the cash rate to 3.6%

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