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Grattan on Friday: Donald Trump’s win will make 2025 even more challenging for Anthony Albanese

Early Wednesday evening, Queensland Nationals senator Matt Canavan raced down the Parliament House stairs to collect a bag of McDonald’s from an Uber. To celebrate Trump’s victory, he called out as he ran.

The Conversation

Australia’s conservatives praise Trump’s ‘self-belief’ as PM sends congratulations

Anthony Albanese, Peter Dutton, Tony Abbott and Scott Morrison send messages as Adam Bandt criticises ‘dangerous demagogue’ and calls on PM to cancel Aukus

The Guardian - AU

Morrison and Abbott praise Trump – as it happened

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University fees to be set by new commission as Labor urged to reverse Scott Morrison’s price hikes

Anthony Albanese hits out at Coalition MP who got a ‘free education’ but is now ‘lecturing people they can’t have their debt reduced’

The Guardian - AU

Report Into Government’s Response To Pandemic Reveals ‘Australia Was Not Prepared’ For COVID

The newly released COVID-19 Response Inquiry Report has torched the Scott Morrison Government's vaccine "strollout" response.

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After 25 years of piss-taking Australia’s politicians, the ‘disturbingly accurate’ Wharf Revue bows out

The minds behind the satire reflect on a quarter century of politics and belters

The Guardian - AU

Flipping the bird aside, as Dutton trashes the Liberal brand, teals look even more appealing

Where to for affluent voters who want smaller government and climate action? Certainly not the Liberals, weekend election results suggest.

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To Boris Johnson, Brexit is vindicated by AUKUS

History is written by the victors, and in the former UK prime minister’s memoir ‘Unleashed’, AUKUS is cast as a singular achievement of Brexit.

Crikey

Early budget points to likely May federal election

The 2025 schedule for federal parliament has revealed possible timings for the next election, following an earlier than usual budget

AAP

Turnbull on set with Stormy Daniels, News Corp’s ‘recess’ gongs, and where’s Abbott meeting Liz Truss?

In this week’s Tips and Murmurs, we try to snag a date with Lachlan Murdoch, and share more FOI absurdity.

Crikey

Single parents in Australia are owed $3.7bn in child support. Anne says no leader has been ‘brave enough’ to fix it

Anne*, who lived in poverty with her two sons, wrote to Scott Morrison, Alan Tudge and Christian Porter about the unfair system but never heard back

The Guardian - AU

Australia’s mining lobby is running a pro-nuclear campaign using Liberal Party-linked ad firm

Exclusive: Topham Guerin, best known for its role in helping global conservative political campaigns and a number of other controversial clients, has been enlisted to promote nuclear energy in Australia.

Crikey

More than 430,000 Australians could have owned their own home today – if not for 7 prime ministers’ inaction

Thirteen years ago at the tax summit called to discuss the Henry Tax Review, David Koch stopped discussion of negative gearing dead in its tracks.

The Conversation

Grattan on Friday: Experts want Albanese to lead on indoor air quality as part of pandemic planning

Last month, a delegation led by Brendan Crabb, head of the Burnet Institute, a prestigious medical research body, met Anthony Albanese in the prime minister’s parliament house office.

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No clear winner for Australia in US poll: former envoy

Australian businesses could be hurt no matter who wins the US presidency, with flagged economic policies aimed at China potential threats, a former envoy says.

The Independent UK

Australia's treasurer will visit China this week in the latest sign that bilateral ties are mending

Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers will become the first government minister from Australia in that key economic role to visit China in seven years

Crikey

The Albanese government: A safer pair of hands to do the selling out

The Brits think Keir Starmer is doing a bad job. Oh mates, hold my colder, better beer…

The Guardian - AU

Albrechtsen more interested in a ‘fair’ Lehrmann trial than Higgins’ alleged rape, columnist tells News Corp event

Opinion writer from The Australian tells colleagues much of the media appear to have applied ‘believe all women’ only to Brittany Higgins

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‘Grow up Albo!’: How Crikey readers feel about Labor, less than a year out from the election

While many draw the line at comparing Albanese to Morrison, Labor’s ‘childish’ refusal to negotiate with the Greens has not gone down well with readers.

Crikey

Labor’s primary vote falls in hung Parliament power race

New polling shows Labor’s primary vote is continuing to fall, and Peter Dutton is standing by his nuclear pitch (but continues to withhold the project’s costing).

The Guardian - AU

Grace Tame: ‘I’ve had such a strange life, really’

The child sexual abuse advocate on surviving the pressures of being thrust into the spotlight, and why it’s nearly impossible to take a rest

Crikey

Yes, Albo is the new ScoMo — he’s more of the void

The only real difference between Anthony Albanese and Scott Morrison is that Albo would have made a pretty successful Coalition prime minister.

Crikey

No, Albo isn’t the new ScoMo — he may still believe in something

Like many in Labor, Albanese is scarred by Bill Shorten’s 2019 defeat.

Crikey

Albanese cements Australia’s status as the global village idiot

Anthony Albanese is only the latest politician to propose internet censorship. For a quarter of a century, Australia has had a succession of dumb censorship ideas.

Newcastle Herald

Minister forms preliminary view that PEP11 gas project should not proceed

Signs are not good for Asset Energy's offshore gas project.

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