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Good morning, early birds. New Resources Minister Madeleine King has confirmed Labor will support WA’s $16.5 billion offshore Scarborough gas project, and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has removed the Australian Federal Police from the Home Affairs portfolio. It’s the news you need to know, with Emma Elsworthy.

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

Mark Dreyfus, who will become attorney-general if Labor wins the election, has savaged the conduct of the trial of Bernard Collaery, and questioned the public interest in its continuation.

The Coalition has again stacked the highly-paid, quasi-judicial review body with its mates, on the eve of the election.

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After a six-year upper-house career, the Labor senator’s sudden death has prompted an outpouring of grief – and recrimination

Shadow Minister for Education and Women, Tanya Plibersek, says a Muslim woman on a train in Sydney would have no protection under the law if someone yelled at her for wearing a hijab. Is that correct? RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates.

Opposition confident it can make changes in Senate to neuter controversial statement of belief clause