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Julian Assange writes letter to King Charles and urges him to visit Belmarsh prison

The WikiLeaks founder writes that he has been captive in the prison for more than four years ‘on behalf of an embarrassed foreign sovereign’

The Guardian - AU

Extra billions flowing into budget but real wages not tipped to grow for another year

Workers will have to wait another year before their wages outstrip the rising cost of living, according to Treasury forecasts to be released next week.

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Victorian Liberals' bitter infighting seems more and more likely to end up in court. Can Dutton stop it?

The crisis consuming the Victorian branch of the Liberal Party sounds a warning to centre-right parties that pursuing the culture wars now gripping the United States and other countries brings dangerous volatility. And little public support.

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Afternoon Update: inflation to decline faster than predicted; author Gabrielle Carey dies; and King Charles’s unnecessary coronation

Australia’s near-term inflation should decline faster than previously predicted as wage growth ‘momentum’ eases and economy slows, RBA says

The Guardian - AU

Crown duel: Monarchists accuse ABC of coronation panel ‘blatantly stacked’ with republicans

Coverage a scaled back affair after criticism of reverential tone for Queen’s funeral. Plus: Bell Shakespeare complains about ‘cruel and unfair’ review

The Guardian - AU

Dutton joins Albanese for the first time to back end to Assange’s UK incarceration

Opposition leader supports diplomatic intervention in WikiLeaks founder’s case, saying it has ‘gone on too long’

The Guardian - AU

‘Ramping up’: Bipartisan support for Assange resolution cause for optimism, brother says

Optimism has lifted the Assange campaign, after the PM aired frustrations with the government’s gridlocked diplomatic efforts to free the WikiLeaks co-founder.

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Treasurer Jim Chalmers insists nation's most vulnerable will be supported in federal budget

Treasurer Jim Chalmers says he has not forgotten the nation's most needy as he prepares to hand down next week's budget which is expected to have a strong focus on cost of living support.

ABC News

Moira Deeming faces new challenge as Victorian Liberals push for vote to expel her from party

Peter Dutton tells state colleagues ‘I want this mess sorted out’ after MP threatened to sue

The Guardian - AU

Victorian Liberal leader John Pesutto threatens Moira Deeming with expulsion, Dutton flags federal intervention

Exiled Liberal MP Moira Deeming could be expelled from the party next week after threatening to take legal action to reverse her partyroom suspension.

ABC News

Dutton weighs intervention for troubled Victorian Libs

The federal Liberal leader has not ruled out intervention after Victorian exiled MP Moira Deeming announced plans for legal action against the party.

The New Daily

Grattan on Friday: Albanese enjoys London limelight while Chalmers sweats in budget spotlight

The timing of history. How Anglophile and monarchist Tony Abbott would love to have been the prime minister attending the coronation. To say nothing of John Howard, a key figure in fending off an Australian republic in 1999.

The Conversation

The No campaign for the Voice to Parliament is winning the media battle

The Yes side’s most authoritative voices emerged as those with the fewest mentions over the first two months of the campaign.

Crikey

Albanese government to raise tobacco tax by 5% a year to make smoking ‘more unattractive’

Health minister announces new tax measures shortly after revealing sweeping reforms to crack down on vaping

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Guardian Essential poll: Australians back jobseeker increase and look to budget for cost-of-living relief

Poll also suggests honeymoon glow has not worn off Anthony Albanese as support for Peter Dutton continues to slide

The New Daily

Not so fast: Tony Abbott calls for the Voice referendum to be cancelled

Tony Abbott entered the debate on this year’s Indigenous Voice referendum on Monday just as had been predicted.

Crikey

On the Voice, ‘both sides’ journalism risks giving racism a platform

US journalist Wesley Lowery derides the ‘paint-by-the-numbers balance’ of contemporary journalism. Is this a problem here in Australia?

The New Daily

The Liberals are the fifth iteration of our main centre-right party. Could The Voice hasten a sixth?

Peter Dutton’s defensive posture of just appealing to "the base’" and trying to hold the Liberals together may prove the losing gambit.

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The Liberals are the fifth iteration of Australia's main centre-right party. Could the Voice campaign hasten a sixth?

Party stability on the progressive side of politics, and repeated party reconfiguration on the conservative side of politics, is a marked contrast in the history of Australia’s two-party political system.

The New Daily

Voice campaign puts Victorian Liberals’ split in the spotlight

Victorian Coalition MPs are set to decide on a free vote on the Voice, potentially placing them in conflict with a binding federal stance.

ABC News

A new study on masks is being used to claim they are harmful to human health. But experts say the proof isn't there

A recently released study has been circulating online, which some are using to claim as proof masks are harmful to humans. What do the experts say?

Crikey

Leying her cards on the table

Deputy Opposition Leader Sussan Ley has called for unity in the Liberal Party, saying ‘the time to sook and moan is done’, and there’s a push for councils in SA to change their bylaws so transgender, intersex and gender-diverse people can choose which public toilet they use.

Crikey

Is the Liberal Party really that divided?

The intra-party tension faced by the Liberals isn’t on the scale of implosion of the UAP. Not yet, at least.

ABC News

Peter Dutton says the gender pay gap was 17.4 per cent under Labor and fell to 13.8 per cent under the Coalition. Is that correct?

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton says the gender pay gap under Labor was 17.4 per cent and fell to 13.8 per cent under the Coalition. RMIT ABC Fact Check looks at the numbers.

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Will a preoccupation with party unity destroy the Liberal Party?

Such has been the turmoil over the Liberal Party’s recent decision to join the National Party in campaigning against the forthcoming referendum on the Voice to Parliament that even some of the most reliable supporters in the media have remarked on the internal division.

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