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Labor’s frozen ham, Lehrmann lawyer’s weird tweets, and the AFR spits in our faces again

From the bunker this week: Murray Watt endorses ham caps, the sporadic and strange tweets of Steve Whybrow, and Sussan Ley’s grand delusion.

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Turnbull’s a friend in deed for Macron

Former PM Malcolm Turnbull has been building bridges over the troubled waters of Australia and France’s Scott Morrison-shipwrecked relationship, and the News Corp campaign to unseat Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk continues unabated.

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Australia and France sign military access agreement as post-Aukus tensions ease

Reciprocal access to military bases and training facilities to be granted in clear break from diplomatic rupture over failed submarine deal

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Hope springs eternal for Sussan Ley

Sussan Ley says Australians have moved on from the Scott Morrison era and the Libs plan to win back every teal seat they lost, and undercover police officers were left out in the cold by the AFP, putting their lives at risk.

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Australia and France strike defence pact on base access

A security agreement and a road map spanning greater co-operation in the Pacific have been unveiled by France and Australia.

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Albanese is prioritising governing over spectacle – but in an era of zero-sum politics, is it enough?

Dutton’s polarising political theatre rates in the modern engagement economy, but governing? Not so much

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Grattan on Friday: As Albanese's fortunes slide, people start to wonder what sort of PM Peter Dutton might make

Peter Dutton has his tail up, but he’s being careful to manage expectations. As the opposition celebrates its suddenly improved fortunes, Dutton told the party room this week that inevitably the government would recalibrate over the summer break.

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Coalition plan to privatise visa processing to be subject of new inquiry

Announcement comes after revelation Infosys had 46 meetings with lobbyist Scott Briggs to discuss bid for IT work

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Dutton gives Christmas 'gift' of running Lego gauntlet

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has shared the Christmas spirit with families in need, but his donation comes with a warning to unsuspecting barefoot parents.

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Francesca Albanese: My trip was paid for by the UN

UN expert Francesca Albanese has denied her trip to Australia was sponsored by Palestinian lobby groups, and mining billionaire Gina Rinehart’s latest scathingly brilliant idea is for Perth and the Gold Coast to host a dual-city Commonwealth Games.

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Craig Thomson pleads guilty to COVID fraud

Former Labor MP Craig Thompson pleads guilty to dishonestly receiving $25,000 in COVID grants, and Peter Dutton says passing retrospective legislation that gives the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission more powers proves the government and opposition can work together just fine.

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Albonomics is delivering for struggling workers. He should keep the party going

The jobs market is buoyant… for now. Australians must hold politicians to their word.

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Why do corporations get to ride roughshod?

Australia's population seems blind to the disgusting activities of corporations.

Newcastle Herald

The week in parliament: political debate sinks to new lows as Scott Morrison begins hard relaunch

Labor MPs frustrated by lack of fight back, the Nationals get rowdy and Alex Hawke’s Photoshop fail

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Reforms to stop Scott Morrison secret ministries pass

Reforms to prevent another power grab from undermining Australia's democracy have passed the upper house, almost a year on from a damning report.

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Incompetence, culture wars and conservatism dominate our political cycle

Will voters reward an effort to govern well, or will they be keener on following Peter Dutton into culture wars? The opposition leader wants to find out.

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As school students strike for climate once more, here's how the movement and its tactics have changed

On Friday, students will once again down textbooks and laptops and go on strike for climate action. Many will give their schools a Climate Doctor’s Certificate signed by three leading climate academics.

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Teal MPs condemn opposition leader – as it happened

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Sweaty T-shirts, tampons and other ‘weird shit’ people have sent to politicians

Last week it was a bag of weed sent to Scott Morrison. This week ANU researcher Daniel Casey offers a wild history of props being sent to PMs.

Newcastle Herald

There are bigger lessons for society amid the strain on our schools

Teachers are a scapegoat of a bigger problem.

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Not even ScoMo could sour Albo’s Beijing trip — but why does China bother with us?

After an ‘extraordinary turnaround’ in relations, culminating in a top-level visit, China can show the world it’s capable of managing relationships.

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Scott Morrison, man-o’-war

Liberal backbencher and former PM Scott Morrison says he went to Israel because ‘Jewish Australians need to know that their cause is a right one’, and Qantas, Virgin and Crown Resorts paid no corporate tax in 2021-22 but mining giants Rio Tinto and BHP were some of the biggest corporate…

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Warts and all: The War on 2023 returns to Newcastle this month

A new addition to the show is the Defo (defamation) Awards.

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Which one of you drongos tried to send Scott Morrison a bag of weed?

Someone tried to find out if there had been any drug offences reported in Parliament House and made an intriguing discovery.

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Labor turns back 200 asylum seekers

Asylum seeker boats carrying 200 people have been either turned back or those on them returned by plane seven times since the Labor government was elected in May last year, and China’s Premier Li Qiang says his constituents reckon PM Anthony Albanese is ‘a very handsome boy’.

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