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MP with incurable brain disease to quit politics

A newly elected Queensland MP diagnosed with an incurable brain disease the day he was sworn into parliament is quitting politics to focus on his young family.

AAP

Payman saga proves politicians and journalists are weaponising religion without understanding it

What is the point of boasting support for the first hijabi woman in Parliament only to reject the very system of meaning that inspires her to wear the hijab?

Crikey

Drug reform, treatment on agenda at long-awaited summit

The NSW government has set dates for its promised drug summit, but it is being urged to start taking harm-minimisation actions before the event starts.

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Countdown for APS guidance on right to disconnect as draft law released

Guidelines are being worked on for how the right would apply to the APS.

The Canberra Times

ALP backs female candidate's third run against Dutton

Ali France will get a third chance to run as the Labor candidate in the Queensland seat of Dickson, held by Liberal Leader Peter Dutton.

AAP

No, Labor shouldn’t ditch its caucus rules — they’re compromised and collectivist but more democratic

Arguing for the negative in this week’s Friday Fight: Crikey’s political editor Bernard Keane.

Crikey

Yes, Labor should ditch its caucus rules — if it wants to avoid becoming a shrinking cult

Arguing for the affirmative in this week’s Friday Fight: columnist Rachel Withers.

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Dutton doesn’t realise importing US politics means the death of the Liberal Party

As the Liberal Party has moved to the right, compulsory preferential voting has enabled the moderate centre it once represented to find new candidates.

Crikey

We’re beyond the culture wars now people, and it all kicked off with big inflatable baby Trump

Donald Trump started it. Boris Johnson gave it a red-hot go. Now the Coalition is having a crack. Across the Anglosphere, right-wing leaders are playing with traditional ideology in pursuit of working- and middle-class voters.

Crikey

Albo announces fresh candidates

Anthony Albanese is ramping up Labor’s election preparation with the announcement of new candidates, and Australia announces $250m in military support for Ukraine.

Crikey

PM's appointment of envoy questioned

Letters and Short Takes: Friday, July 12, 2024

Newcastle Herald

Grattan on Friday: Don Farrell has an electoral reform blueprint, but it could be a rough road to implementation

Don Farrell usually finds his way into the news cycle in relation to some or other trade issue. But Farrell, who’s special minister of state as well as trade minister, plans a throw of the dice soon that, if he can pull it off, would give him a place in…

The Conversation

Anthony Albanese appeals to western Sydney amid Muslim voting campaigns on Gaza war

The seats of Blaxland and Watson have higher percentages of Muslim voters than Labor’s 2022 winning margin

The Guardian - AU

ALP condemns Gaza school bombing amid community outrage

Federal cabinet minister Jason Clare has condemned the bombing of schools in Gaza, as Australian Muslims continue to warn they feel disenfranchised by Labor.

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Labor announces new candidates to take on Qld seats

A candidate defeated in the last federal election returns for Labor in the same Queensland seat, with the backing of his "very good friend" the prime minister.

Crikey

Under Minns, NSW is driven by gambling, shock jocks and idiocy

In another demonstration of the power of gambling interests in NSW, the Minns government is refusing to close the NSW greyhound industry.

Crikey

Dutton panics over ‘Muslim candidates’. But our parliaments are designed to be hung

Power-sharing is a standard part of parliamentary democracy. It’s time the major parties started acting like it.

Crikey

From broad church to narrow cult: Peter Dutton’s ‘Hansonisation’ of the Liberal Party

The Liberal Party has fully embraced the divisive right-wing populism past leaders worried would destroy it.

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Democrat Clooney turns back on Biden

George Clooney is the latest Democrat die-hard to tell Joe Biden to step aside, and Labor MPs have been told to leave the energy debate to the leaders.

The Guardian - US

For US democracy to survive, it needs progressives like Sanders and AOC

The Democratic establishment says this election is about preserving democracy – yet are more worried about looking disunited than winning

The Conversation

Fatima Payman advises Muslims: ‘Don’t establish a political party’

Senator Fatima Payman, who resigned from Labor last week to sit as a crossbench independent, says she would advise Muslims not to form their own political party.

The Conversation

Politics with Michelle Grattan: Fatima Payman on the challenges and opportunities of being a crossbencher

Western Australian Senator Fatima Payman quit Labor after defying the party’s “solidarity” rule. Her action, spurred by the Gaza issue, has intensified Labor fears about the possible impact of the Muslim vote in some of its safe seats at the election.

Crikey

Jillian Segal is an envoy for Israel, banking misconduct, and not much else

Jillian Segal has criticised ceasefire calls in Gaza and defended bombing hospitals. That, and her record at NAB, makes her a poor choice for a government role.

Crikey

Crikey readers on Labor and the division caused by the Payman saga

Some view the responses to Fatima Payman quitting Labor as ‘extremely poor and one-sided’. Others ask, ‘What is the issue here?’

Crikey

At the heart of the Payman pile-on lies a fundamental failure of imagination

Did Labor force Fatima Payman out as part of some broader political strategy? Or was it just plain old incomprehension and incompetence?

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