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Afternoon Update: parliament’s rush to the finish line; asthma breakthrough; and an FBI most wanted’s hideout

Labor has done a deal with the Greens on housing and the environment while the Coalition is expected to support migration and social media bills

The Guardian - AU

Senate moving through 31 bills in frantic end to year as Labor strikes deal with Greens

Albanese government reliant on Coalition to pass three controversial migration bills and the under 16 social media ban

The Guardian - AU

Labor’s term began with promise on the environment. It ends with things worse than ever

The harsh lesson of this term of Parliament is that no major-party government can be trusted to take real climate action.

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Labor voted against the Libs’ immigration detention phone ban twice. Now it’s pitching a very similar proposal

‘It’s still, in substance, very much the Coalition’s bill from 2017 and 2020,’ the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre’s Jana Favero told Crikey.

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Lidia Thorpe suspended after racism row with Pauline Hanson

The independent senator threw pieces of paper at Hanson after the One Nation leader questioned Fatima Payman’s Senate eligibility, and there are still a least 37 bills the government wants to ram through on the last sitting day.

Crikey

Albanese government plan to raise tax on super balances over $3m all but abandoned

Exclusive: Amid a chaotic end to the parliamentary session, Labor fears a repeat of franking credit policy fiasco that helped cost the 2019 election

The Guardian - AU

Voters know the benefits of migration and want cuts anyway. And they’ll get what they want

Even if Labor had succeeded in curbing migration over the past 12 months, you can bet Peter Dutton would be promising that the Coalition would always be tougher on migration than its opponents

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Coalition boasts it’s ‘running the immigration system’ after deal to pass all three of Labor’s migration bills

The bills enable government to pay third countries to receive non-citizens and prosecute those who refuse to cooperate with deportation

The Guardian - AU

Marles the mediocre floats free of media scrutiny

Between the investigations into Thales and the legal action of his chief of staff, it’s getting harder for the media to ignore the flaws of Richard Marles.

Crikey

Anthony Albanese pressing hard for a majority at the next election

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is pushing through as much as he can in the last few sitting days as he strives for another electoral majority, and Jim Chalmers wants everyone to calm down about a Trump economy despite dire predictions.

Crikey

Social media companies won’t be able to compel people to provide digital or government-issued ID to verify age

Big tech platforms won’t be able to compel people to provide digital ID or government-issued identification documents such as a passport, when verifying age for social media accounts.

The Conversation

If so many experts oppose a social-media age ban, why is the government intent on rushing it through?

Labor has been at pains to say people won’t need digital ID or to hand over their passport – but there’s nothing in legislation preventing it

The Guardian - AU

Follow the likes: A list of public figures who support or oppose the teen social media ban

Advocates argue children need time to develop before venturing out on social media, while detractors say the bill has been rushed and that freedom of expression is at risk.

Crikey

What has happened to gambling reform under Labor? It’s simple – the government has been cowed by vested interests

A year ago, at Peta Murphy’s funeral, I felt sure her legacy would be honoured. Now it seems any gambling ad reform has been squibbed

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Greens concede on Labor’s housing bills

The Greens have agreed to help Labor pass its housing bills after a protracted fight, and RBA analysis predicts ‘strong negative impacts’ if Trump’s extreme economic agenda comes to pass.

The Guardian - AU

Australia should delay social media ban until age-check trial finishes, Google and Meta say

Coalition-backed bill is ‘inconsistent and ineffective’ and should not go ahead until after trial is completed next year, Meta says

The Guardian - AU

Albanese hands Chandler-Mather a political power lesson as Greens exhibit internal jitters

The Greens are trying to hold on to their older base while positioning themselves as the party of renters – and the balancing act is proving difficult

The Guardian - AU

Labor and the Coalition are closing in on a deal to pass a trio of controversial migration bills. What is in them?

Government accused of enabling a form of ‘human trafficking’ by the campaign group Labor for Refugees NSW

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Labor gave the public one day to weigh in on teen social media ban. It got 15,000 responses

Elon Musk helped boost interest in the inquiry by making a viral post on X. Then the submissions started flooding in.

Crikey

Social media bill shows liberalism has fled Dutton’s Liberal Party

Under Peter Dutton, the Liberal Party has abandoned many of its core tenets. By supporting Labor’s online ID plan, it’s now ditched the last of its liberalism.

The Guardian - AU

Musk argues social media bill may not be lawful – as it happened

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Thirty bills still before Parliament in final sitting week

The government is scrambling to pass, scrap or delay dozens of bills in the last sitting week of the year, and developing countries are incensed by the ‘bad faith’ climate deal struck at COP29.

The Guardian - AU

Deal or no deal: can Labor avoid an ‘end-of-year dumpster fire’ and pass its legislative agenda?

If Peter Dutton senses an opportunity in blocking bills in the lead-up to an election, he might just take it

The Guardian - AU

Greens and some independents are biggest winners from Labor’s proposed donation cap, data shows

Labor and Coalition would have missed out on $4.1m and $4.7m in donations after public funding boost, while the Greens would have been $2.9m better off

The Guardian - AU

Hasty decisions and backroom deals betray Labor’s dire need for a decent story

With Peter Dutton growing in confidence, Labor needs more than just a blizzard of new laws to show voters that it can put the country on the right track

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