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No, Mr Morrison – the safeguard mechanism is not a 'sneaky carbon tax'

Prime Minister Scott Morrison this week claimed Labor was planning a “sneaky carbon tax” should it win power, and Nationals senator Matt Canavan declared the goal of net-zero emissions by 2050 was “dead”.

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Scott Morrison is setting up another fake fight on a carbon ‘tax’

With Australia’s lived experience of global heating, you would think we’d have moved past grown men staging hyperbolic encounters with invisible things

The Guardian - AU

Knights members deserve more than they got in loss to Parramatta

"I am embarrassed to say that I am a supporter."

Newcastle Herald

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Scott Morrison's use of 'blessed' thrust NDIS back into spotlight, raising questions neither side is prepared to answer

A political scuffle over the Prime Minister's clumsy use of the word "blessed" has thrust the NDIS back into the spotlight and triggered important questions about the scheme's sustainability. However, they are questions that neither side of politics is yet prepared to answer.

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Could the 2022 election result in a hung parliament? History shows Australians have nothing to fear from it

The first two weeks of the 2022 election campaign have increased the possibility that neither of the two major parties will gain a majority in the House of Representatives.

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Politics with Michelle Grattan: Andrew Wilkie invites independent candidates to call him for a chat about approaching a hung parliament

Andrew Wilkie, MP for the Tasmanian seat of Clark, has “lived” a hung parliament. In 2010, Wilkie did a formal “deal” to support Julia Gillard. When later she didn’t deliver on his key issue of gambling reform, he broke it off.

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Coalition’s gender problems come home to boost Labor and independents

The polls seem to show that female voters don’t have a lot of time for Scott Morrison and his Liberal Party — a bad omen for May 21?

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This budget, amid talk of deficits, consider the lessons we ought to have learned

A decade ago, and years before Treasurer Josh Frydenberg promised a budget that was “back in the black”, Prime Minister Julia Gillard promised the same thing.

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Kim Carr retiring from Senate at election

Victorian senator and former Labor minister Kim Carr is retiring from politics at the upcoming election.

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New Zealand refugee resettlement deal with Australia to happen nine years after initial agreement

New Zealand will take 150 refugees from Australia each year for three years, settling a deal first struck by former prime minister Julia Gillard almost a decade ago.

ABC News

The Gonski ‘failure’: why did it happen and who is to blame for the ‘defrauding’ of public schools?

The 10-year anniversary of the plan has sparked criticism of the successive governments’ failure to implement the report’s recommendations

The Guardian - AU

After the trauma of defeat, it makes sense for Labor to play it safe. But why has it taken so long for Albanese to define himself?

Labor’s current mindset is planning and hoping. But the party needs a gear change to convince voters their leader is the man for the moment

The Guardian - AU

Women need to beware of losing out through flexible working – Theresa May

The Conservative backbencher was in conversation with Australian ex-premier Julia Gillard to mark International Women’s Day.

The Independent UK

As the Coalition plays up China fears ahead of an election, how might Albanese position himself?

Anniversaries come and go, but 2022 might come to be regarded as unusually significant in Australian election-year politics.

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Julia Gillard: ‘There have been many takes on the misogyny speech. This is a truly special one’

Yolŋu artist Dhambit Munuŋgurr has been waiting a long time to get Gillard’s attention. On Friday at the National Gallery of Victoria, they finally met

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