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Embracing workers isn’t in the Liberal Party DNA. But the opposition leader could change that.

The testimony of the former Seven staffer tasked with securing an interview with Bruce Lehrmann elicited audible gasps in the court.

‘To bear witness in this way is to make ourselves vulnerable, to open ourselves up to loss and sadness.’

Taylor Auerbach has claimed he watched Bruce Lehrmann order cocaine and google sex workers that were later invoiced to Seven, and the charity that employed slain Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom has called for Australia to join in demanding an “independent, third-party” inquiry.

Why is Labor spending $1 billion to encourage solar panel production when there’s already a global glut of the things?

Samantha Mostyn helped drive the AFLW, supported the Voice and has a history in the ALP. Guess how the right took her appointment as governor-general?

Exclusive: Why did a federal transparency taskforce obstruct an attempt to make government less secretive? The public isn’t allowed to know.

This week’s Media Briefs brings you a grilling for Nine executives, ambiguity at the ABC, and an odd silence from Channel Seven over the Auerbach/Lehrmann saga.

Despite Albanese’s protestations about the murder of Zomi Frankcom, we’re still handing $900 million to the company that helped murder her.