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Labor slightly helped by Victorian and WA draft federal redistributions

The electoral commission today released draft boundaries from a federal redistribution of Victoria and Western Australia. In WA, the new seat of Bullwinkel was created, while in Victoria, Higgins was abolished.

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Tingle stated the obvious, and the obvious is based on evidence

Tingle gets the backing of Crikey readers, who say those in the Coalition and the media who are criticising her need to examine Australia’s racist history.

Crikey

Morning Mail: Coalition’s ex-detainee curfews challenged; ANC on the brink in South Africa; unpacking Barnaby Joyce’s new boots

Measures for former detainees called ‘unconstitutional’; watershed moment looms in South African politics

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Coalition’s ex-detainee curfew amendments made regime unlawful, high court told

Exclusive: Lawyers for YBFZ argue default ankle bracelets and curfews are punitive and breach the separation of executive and judiciary

The Guardian - AU

Grattan on Friday: Government’s pursuit of a hate speech law could take it down another cul-de-sac

Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus and his “shadow”, Michaelia Cash, are both volatile characters. When they met this week to discuss the government’s draft religious discrimination bill, an incendiary issue in the best of circumstances, sparks flew.

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Federal Human Rights Act could help prevent policy failures like robodebt, parliamentary inquiry says

Proposed act would mean rights must be considered when making laws but opposition rejects ‘excessive restrictions’ it could impose

The Guardian - AU

Sleight of hand: Australia’s net zero target is being lost in accounting tricks, offsets and more gas

Despite what Madeleine King might say, fossil gas is not a “transition fuel”.

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Australian children’s television production has tanked. Blame Paul Fletcher.

Bluey won’t save us — the latest ACMA report shows the devastating consequences of the Coalition’s decision to remove local content quotas for children’s television in 2021.

Crikey

Forget the Frontbench: A new column interrogating the players shaking up Australian politics

A growing force is changing the political landscape as we know it. Rachel Withers profiles the figures upending federal politics.

Crikey

Sleight of hand: Australia’s Net Zero target is being lost in accounting tricks, offsets and more gas

In announcing Australia’s support for fossil gas all the way to 2050 and beyond, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has pushed his government’s commitment to net zero even further out of reach.

The Conversation

Migration has been blamed for the housing crisis, but it’s not that simple

Cutting permanent migration and capping student numbers won’t help much – but experts say it could hurt a whole lot

The Guardian - AU

Two murderers and 26 sex offenders released under NZYQ ruling not electronically monitored

ABF commissioner tells Senate there is a ‘big difference between some murders and other murders’

The Guardian - AU

NSW government ‘very concerned’ about asbestos found in Sydney landscaping soil

Minister says ‘it’s illegal’ after Guardian revelations of contaminated products on sale in stores, but Greens say it’s ‘obvious’ new laws not enough

The Guardian - AU

CSIRO stands by nuclear power costings that contradict Coalition claims

The Coalition has attacked the GenCost report that found nuclear power plants would be at least 50% more expensive than solar and wind

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Is Australia a racist country? We asked 5 experts

Over the weekend at the Sydney Writers’ Festival, high-profile political journalist Laura Tingle told the audience Australia is a racist country, and always has been. It prompted widespread media coverage and criticism from Coalition politicians and media commentators.

The Guardian - AU

ABC denies holding emergency talks after Laura Tingle’s ‘racist country’ comments criticised in Murdoch press

Tingle says Australia is a ‘racist country’ in response to question at Sydney writers’ festival about Peter Dutton’s immigration policy

The Guardian - AU

Peter Dutton tells colleagues Labor’s hate speech crackdown is a ‘trap’

Opposition leader labels proposed hate speech offence a Labor ‘wedge’ as negotiations falter on religious discrimination bill

The Guardian - AU

Immigration minister re-cancels visa of alleged murderer released after AAT ruling

Andrew Giles expressed his ‘thoughts’ for the family of the alleged victim, a 22-year-old man killed in Brisbane in May

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The Guardian - AU

Change in visa rules was to apply in absence of ‘serious offending or family violence’, Andrew Giles was told

Labor is standing by ‘ministerial direction 99’ despite cases that appear at odds with advice given in early 2023

The Guardian - AU

On Australia’s climate and extinction crises, the major parties both have questions to answer

The Coalition has no climate policy. But Labor’s positions are undermined by its confused stance on gas and the delay of new environmental laws

The Guardian - AU

Coalition’s brave nuke world a much harder sell after new CSIRO report

The agency’s GenCost analysis says a first nuclear plant for Australia would deliver power ‘no sooner than 2040’ and could cost more than $17bn

The Guardian - AU

Submissions, witnesses, questions … then nothing. Australian government cites ‘passage of time’ for silence on reports

Dozens of parliamentary reports dating back as far as 2008 have suddenly received the same sad 24-word response, saying their findings are from too long ago to justify more

Crikey

For Liberal eyes only: How senators pitch themselves to party colleagues

Party brochures leaked to Crikey show how Liberal Senate incumbents Hollie Hughes and Andrew Bragg, and challenger Jess Collins, are pitching themselves ahead of a preselection fight on Saturday.

Crikey

How much do we really want productivity growth? Turns out, not so much

The easiest way to lift productivity is to get rid of workers. But how serious are we about improving our productivity performance?

The Guardian - AU

Morning Mail: Virgin pilots warn of fatigue, Albanese attacks ‘shallow’ Dutton, tourist’s terror attack escape

Senior staff say working practices pose a ‘clear and present’ safety risk; the prime minister accuses his rival of ‘fuelling division’

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