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Kamala Harris edges ahead of Donald Trump in national polls for US election

The United States presidential election will be held on November 5. Election analyst Nate Silver’s national poll aggregate has Democratic nominee and current vice president Kamala Harris leading Republican nominee and former president Donald Trump by 45.5–44.1%, with 5.0% for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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Media exposure has forced the government’s hand on Centrepay. The contrast with robodebt could not be more stark

The Centrepay revelations should shock Australians – but not the government, after years of complaints about financial exploitation

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Higgins and Sharaz schemed to ‘ambush’ Reynolds, lawyer tells trial – as it happened

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Grattan on Friday: Welcome King Charles, farewell the republic as Albanese casts aside lost causes

Anthony Albanese can’t escape the powerful symbolism. In October he is due to greet King Charles on Australian soil – hard on the heels of formally burying Labor’s hopes of turning Australia into a republic.

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View from The Hill: Dutton tells Netanyahu he’d improve relations with Israel, as danger for Australians in Lebanon rises

Peter Dutton has met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other top figures in a three-day visit to Israel this week that has further underlined the unravelling of bipartisanship towards that country.

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Concerns NDIS changes will create robodebt 2.0 are ‘complete rubbish’, Bill Shorten says

Experts have warned new rules have ‘flavour and smell’ of the unlawful program but NDIS minister says comparison is ‘without basis’

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The Coalition’s home affairs experiment was doomed to fail. Tony Burke has a huge job on his hands

The vision of making immigration function as part of Australia’s national security and law enforcement apparatus is hopefully over

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Tony Burke wins Home Affairs

In the latest cabinet reshuffle, the prime minister has entrusted Tony Burke with both Home Affairs and Immigration, and Australian athletes already have four gold medals at the Olympics.

Crikey

Rupert Murdoch’s own children don’t trust him. Why should anyone else?

Why are senior Labor figures paying court to the Murdochs when Rupert’s own children clearly don’t trust or believe him?

Crikey

'In the national interest': Dutton spruiks nuclear vision in Muswellbrook

Peter Dutton and Barnaby Joyce sell nuclear in Muswellbrook.

Newcastle Herald

Coalition’s nuclear plan delaying decisions on renewables, investors say

Talk of building reactors in Australia is breeding uncertainty and delaying decisions to back major solar and wind projects

The Guardian - AU

Why is it the media, not our regulators, that uncovers misconduct? Follow the money…

Australia has poor regulators and poor regulation because governments find it in their interests to let it be like that.

Crikey

Climate 200 to splash $1.2m in 2024 as Greens, Muslim groups circle major parties

The 2022 election saw voters abandon Australia’s major parties. But will the age of independents continue?

Crikey

CFMEU prospered while the Coalition watchdog was fast asleep (again)

The Coalition wants to reestablish the Australian Building and Construction Commission. It’s been tried twice before — and been a dud twice.

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Labor has narrow Newspoll lead but behind in other polls; Labor doomed in Queensland

A national Newspoll, conducted July 15–19 from a sample of 1,258, gave Labor a 51–49 lead, unchanged from the previous Newspoll, three weeks ago. Primary votes were 38% Coalition (up two), 33% Labor (up one), 13% Greens (steady), 6% One Nation (down one) and 10% for all Others (down two).

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New watchdog needed to weed out ‘toxic elements’ in CFMEU, independent MP says

Zoe Daniel says previous body set up by Coalition to oversee unions was ‘so politicised’ that it could not be effective

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CrowdStrike has ‘issued a fix’ to Windows outage – as it happened

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Business and farming groups say 2030 emissions target ‘critical for investments’ after Dutton ditches policy

Groups that often support Coalition – including Australian Industry Group and National Farmers’ Federation – call for ‘credible and consistent framework’

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'Universal frustration' for Canberra tech firms as govt contracts go overseas

A series of recent revelations has left local CEOs exasperated.

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Energy regulator says nuclear unlikely before 2050 as Chris Bowen attacks Coalition’s ‘risky’ plan

Australian Energy Regulator chair says Australia is ‘probably a decade too late’ for nuclear power despite opposition’s pledge to build first two plants by 2037

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Mining giant to cut 700 jobs – as it happened

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Crikey

Trump basks as Biden infighting returns

Donald Trump has received a hero’s welcome at the Republican National Convention as Joe Biden struggles to shake calls to step aside, and Chris Bowen brings the nuclear debate back into focus.

Crikey

Unlike Keir Starmer’s, Albanese’s cabinet mostly went to elite fee-paying schools

What does it say about Australia’s Labor government that more than half of cabinet ministers went to independent or Catholic schools?

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Democracy might be under threat. Security bureaucrats are not

The Trump assassination attempt has got Australian politicians excited that they too could be under threat — which would mean we need to give even more money to security agencies.

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Labor and Albanese’s slide continues in Resolve poll, as major parties tied

A national Resolve poll for Nine newspapers, conducted July 10–13 from a sample of 1,603, had Labor and the Coalition tied at 50–50 by 2022 election preference flows, a one-point gain for the Coalition since June by my calculations.

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