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Industry Minister Ed Husic has given the green light to a series of manufacturing grants which were under review due to fears about the way they were announced by the Morrison government.

The government is reviewing whether funding for a grants program approved by former prime minister Scott Morrison will still go ahead.

Good morning, early birds. Unvaccinated teachers will be back in classrooms in Victoria next week, and a former senior executive has accused Australia’s largest philanthropic journalism fund of “a lack of transparency” about how grants were awarded. It’s the news you need to know, with Emma Elsworthy.

In these opening weeks, the new prime minister is drawing on Labor songlines from the 1980s and 90s

Mr Albanese sets off with the stated aim of renewing relations with Indonesia, which has been at the centre of so many diplomatic ups-and-downs.

Ahead of Jakarta trip, PM flagged push for deeper ties with neighbours while ‘recognising the challenges’ of China’s involvement in region

Aly and Husic, sworn in holding Qurans, say they feel the ‘weight of the moment’ after past Islamophobia and division

Labor MP Ed Husic said he "felt the weight of the moment" to be one of the first two Muslim ministers to be sworn into Federal Parliament.

Although Labor hasn't been in government since 2013, almost half of the new cabinet have past experience as government ministers.