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Does Rebekha Sharkie understand her seat’s voting preferences?

The longtime crossbencher says her electorate would expect her to work with Peter Dutton. But when pressed on Mayo’s two-party-preferred swing to Labor, a few bizarre minutes unfolded.

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Rex Patrick and Jacqui Lambie tell us their plan in one short car ride

Crikey called Rex Patrick and got a bonus chat with Jacqui Lambie, whose party he hopes to join as a comeback senator for South Australia.

Crikey

The door to an Australian tech tax is clearly ajar. Can Labor make it happen?

There’s a long track record of government subsidising traditional media – but patch-up jobs and sweetheart deals have reached the end of their useful lifespan

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Ex-Labor senator Fatima Payman appoints ‘preference whisperer’ Glenn Druery as chief of staff

Druery says Payman could become the next Senate powerbroker in the mould of Nick Xenophon or Brian Harradine

The Guardian - AU

The Coalition wants divestiture powers to fight supermarket price gouging. How would it work?

Greens and Coalition back the plan, but Labor says it’s too heavy-handed. Here’s everything you need to know about the proposal

The Guardian - AU

Actor Madeleine West joins campaign to stop paedophiles exploiting superannuation loophole

The actor and child sex abuse survivor says the notion that paedophiles can hold onto their wealth, while their survivors struggle, should be "upsetting for the entire society".

ABC News

Who is Josh Landis? Inside the charming emails of the pokies heavy at ClubsNSW

The ClubsNSW CEO has been sacked for comments he made about NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet. But Landis has a history of verbal stoushing.

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Adelaide man enlists help from former South Australian senator Nick Xenophon after losing $36,000 to scammers

Former South Australian senator Nick Xenophon is preparing legal action against one of Australia's biggest banks, alleging it failed to respond quickly enough to a scam.

ABC News

‘The real deal’: eight years in the red house, Jacqui Lambie still calls it as she sees it

The Tasmanian senator admits she was a wrecking ball when she first came to parliament, but Lambie 2022 is (mostly) not Lambie 2014

The Guardian - AU

SA parents sue the state over daughters' removal, as the case of Charlie remains in the spotlight

As the South Australian child protection system comes under fire over the death of six-year-old Charlie, the parents of two girls taken into care for a gluten allergy are suing the state government claiming they were illegally removed.

ABC News

More Senate results: Hanson wins easily, but Labor still on track for a friendly Senate

Buttons have now been pressed to electronically distribute preferences for the May 21 federal election in the Senate for South Australia, Tasmania and Queensland. I discussed the ACT and NT results that elected David Pocock to the Senate on Tuesday.

The Conversation

Labor likely to get a friendly Senate and secures House of Representatives majority

UPDATE: On Monday night, the ABC called Macnamara as a Labor hold, giving Labor 76 of the 151 House of Representatives seats, enough for a majority. In the two remaining undecided seats, Labor has taken a narrow lead in Gilmore, while the Coalition is likely to hold Deakin.

The Conversation

New Greens senator elected in South Australia, as One Nation, Nick Xenophon and Rex Patrick disappointed at results

South Australia will have two Greens senators for the first time since 2016, while Nick Xenophon and Rex Patrick almost certainly fail to get elected.

ABC News

Senate may have a progressive majority as Greens and David Pocock make election gains

If Saturday’s count points to the final result, Anthony Albanese’s government will not face a hostile upper house

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A deluge of gambling ads and odds — with no policy debate anywhere

Australians are some of the world’s biggest gamblers. Yet efforts to address this financial drain on the public are few and far between.

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Your Whirlwind Tour Of The Minor Parties Running At The Federal Election

A complete guide covering: the good, the bad and the ones that are poisoning your uncle's Facebook feed.

Crikey

Labor’s two-state wish list for progressive Senate control

Even with an Albanese government looking more and more plausible, it’s not a sure thing that Labor will have control of the Senate.

The Conversation

Race for the Senate: could Labor and the Greens gain control?

As well as the whole House of Representatives, 40 of the 76 Senate seats will be up for election on May 21. There are 12 senators per state and two per territory. At half-Senate elections, six senators for each state and the four territory senators are up for election. Unless…

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Xenophon urges housing royal commission

Independent Senate candidate Nick Xenophon has called for a royal commission into housing affordability, saying the issue has become a ‘real barbecue stopper.’

The Guardian - AU

AEC warns Australian political parties over ‘misleading’ postal vote applications

Forms sent back via political parties can be used to harvest personal information about voters

Crikey

It’s a Tassie thing: the upside-down and inside-out jockeying for Senate benches

There are 350,000 voters who select six senators every half-Senate election and it’s a weirdly wonderful battle for the crossbench.

The Conversation

State of the states: six politics experts take us on a trip around Australia

Over the next six weeks, Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Labor leader Anthony Albanese will dash around the country, trying to secure as many precious votes as they can.

The Guardian - AU

Scott Morrison in damage control in South Australia over submarine comments

There has been a fierce backlash over PM’s remarks that appeared to cast doubt on whether Aukus submarines would be built in Adelaide

ABC News

Paedophiles should forfeit superannuation to pay compensation, child sex abuse victim says

A victim of notorious South Australian paedophile Peter Liddy joins a call for child sex offenders to be stripped of their superannuation, and for the money to instead go towards redress.

The Guardian - AU

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