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Labor passes preventive detention laws as judges gain power to cancel citizenship of serious offenders

Move comes as attorney general Mark Dreyfus has fiery exchange with reporter over government’s response to high court indefinite detention ruling

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Labor down but still has large lead in federal Resolve poll; it's close in Queensland

A federal Resolve poll for Nine newspapers, conducted November 29 to December 3 from a sample of 1,605, gave Labor 35% of the primary vote (steady since November), the Coalition 34% (up four), the Greens 12% (down one), One Nation 5% (down two), the UAP 1% (down one), independents 9%…

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Labor and Greens strike deal to establish nature repair scheme

Legislation being debated in the Senate will create a market to encourage private spending on projects that protect and restore biodiversity

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Mark Dreyfus approved human rights commission’s intervention in indefinite detention case

Attorney general signed off on AHRC’s intervention in favour of the plaintiff NZYQ, provided it made clear it was doing so on its own behalf

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Morning Mail: Coalition flies to Cop28, Westpac suffers major outage, UK nuclear site hacked

Customers lose access to accounts and cards after system update failure; conservative lobby groups fund trips by frontbenchers to Cop28

The Guardian - AU

Greens accuse Labor and Coalition of ‘race to the bottom’ over migration bill – as it happened

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Coalition to have sizeable contingent at Cop28 despite Peter Dutton jibe at climate change minister’s attendance

Frontbenchers Paul Fletcher and Bridget McKenzie part of group of nine MPs who will be in Dubai funded by Coalition for Conservation and Environmental Leadership Australia

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Two immigration detainees charged after release due to high court ruling

Coalition calls for Clare O’Neil and Andrew Giles to resign as fallout from NZYQ decision continues

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Dutton urges PM to put preventive detention on national cabinet agenda – as it happened

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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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‘Unacceptable risk’ test to determine if freed migrants go back to detention under proposed law

Labor hopes to push new laws through parliament this week to allow courts to order the re-detention of migrants or refugees freed after the landmark NZYQ high court ruling

The Guardian - AU

If Labor wants to break a high court losing streak, it must take the drafter’s pen off Peter Dutton

Being in the right is not worth much if the Albanese government allows the opposition to bully it into making laws that won’t stand up in court

The Guardian - AU

Labor’s new laws to re-detain migrants at risk of reoffending to be modelled on Coalition’s anti-terror orders

The draft laws allow the government to apply to a court to put migrants released after a landmark high court decision back in detention

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Murray-Darling Basin plan: what Labor’s new ‘breakthrough’ laws mean for the environment and communities

New legislation extends the timeframe of the plan for three years and removes a cap on water buy-backs to support the river system’s health. Here are the details

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The week in parliament: things get ugly on immigration detention with political blood spilled on both sides

Only one more joint sitting day to go in a brutal year, Ed Husic weighs in on theatre controversy and a hint of Christmas cheer

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‘Overreach from the start’: Security monitor drops a bomb on secrecy act

An independent review has savaged the legislation used to attempt to cover up the trial of Bernard Collaery and called for significant amendments.

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Peter V’Landys accuses politicians of ‘outright lies’ as plan to extend Racing NSW chair Russell Balding’s tenure fails

Racing body will need to scramble to replace chair after Coalition and crossbench team up to try to strengthen oversight

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22bn tonnes of CO2 emissions on the cards

If the Labor government approves the 30 coal and gas projects on the table it could put 22 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, and Anthony Albanese has mocked the 15-strong Coalition group that attended the ‘cooker fest’ in London last month.

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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.

The Guardian - AU

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

The Guardian - AU

Net zero by 2050 and interim target of 70% emissions reduction by 2035 passed by NSW parliament

Greens and Coalition band together to force Labor to pass stronger greenhouse gas legislation than original policy

The Guardian - AU

Labor blames Peter Dutton’s decisions as immigration minister for ‘mess’ of indefinite detention

Opposition leader allowed a man referred to as NZYQ apply for a visa after being convicted of raping a child

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Ministers will no longer approve Australian Research Council grants under bid to stop ‘political interference’

Labor move follows review that found trust had been ‘dramatically eroded’ by controversial grant decisions made by former Coalition ministers

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Extra senators for ACT and NT will benefit left but increase malapportionment

The Poll Bludger has summarised the final report of the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters (JSCEM) that was released Monday. The most contentious recommendation is that the number of senators for both the ACT and the Northern Territory be increased from two to four.

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‘Reflects the community’: Victoria achieves gender parity among MPs for the first time

Premier Jacinta Allan says the affect of female MPs’ voices can be seen throughout their work in parliament

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