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Grattan on Friday: Experts want Albanese to lead on indoor air quality as part of pandemic planning

Last month, a delegation led by Brendan Crabb, head of the Burnet Institute, a prestigious medical research body, met Anthony Albanese in the prime minister’s parliament house office.

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Mineral Resources and Woodside donated to WA Labor while it mulled gas policy changes

A ban on exporting offshore gas was lifted in WA this week, and the Greens say two of the ‘biggest winners’ were the massive resources companies

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Western Australia’s EPA has made a big call on a major gas expansion. Will state and federal governments back it up?

The environmental regulator has a history of backing fossil fuels – that is why its preliminary view on Woodside’s Browse project is extraordinary

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Politicians in the mix for King's Birthday honours? It's a bit of a joke

Letters: 'King's Birthday or April Fools' Day?'

Newcastle Herald

Pandemic hardline premier honours 'independent of govt'

The prime minister has played a straight bat when asked about the inclusion of a hardline pandemic-era premier in the King's Birthday Honours list.

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Labor ex leaders take top honours for King's Birthday

Two controversial premiers, sporting heroes and the incoming governor-general feature in the King's Birthday 2024 Honours List.

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Perth’s ‘rancid’ Yagan Square is a monolith to the mining booms’ missed opportunities

The mining boom brought the promise of ‘rejuvenation’ and ‘reimagination’ to the WA capital. The reality turned out a little different.

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Which Australian politicians have tried to sue for defamation over the past decade?

Defamation is one of the great Australian pastimes. Crikey took a look back at which politicians have decided to take their tiffs into court.

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From ‘accidental premier’ to trailblazing leader, Annastacia Palaszczuk’s power sprang from her warm personal politics

The Queensland premier leaves office as perhaps the most successful Labor politician in a generation

The Guardian - AU

A 15-Year-Old Has Pled Guilty For Shooting A Gun At A Perth High School

Former Premier Mark McGowan referred to the incident as "the sort of thing you see on television in the United States."

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Morning Mail: death toll climbs in Middle East; spotlight on power of fossil fuel lobby; Australia lose World Cup opener

Israelis search for missing relatives after a surprise attack by Hamas

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Voices about to get much louder

Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price says shareholders of Australia’s biggest companies are not happy that millions were donated to the Yes campaign and deserve a Senate inquiry, and former WA premier Mark McGowan is accused of pressuring the state’s independent Environmental Protection Authority to scrap its climate guidelines.

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Mark McGowan phone call allegation puts fossil fuel influence in WA under spotlight

Former premier’s behaviour, if true, is ‘certainly improper’ and ‘ethically questionable’ and shows power of oil and gas interests, Carmen Lawrence says

The Guardian - AU

Our leaders are burning out while polarisation splits the nation and erodes trust in politics

After the voice referendum on 14 October, an act of leadership will be needed to knit the country back together

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Grattan on Friday: In the second half of this term Albanese will need to concentrate on delivery

Labor’s national landscape is changing. Daniel Andrews’ abrupt exit from the Victorian premiership this week is the latest development in a wider picture.

AAP

Andrews the latest 'COVID-19' leader to call it quits

Daniel Andrews is the latest premier to resign citing some level of burnout, with just two state or territory leaders still holding office since the pandemic.

Crikey

COVID back under the microscope

Today Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will announce a ‘deep’ inquiry with wide-ranging powers into Australia’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the 21-year-old male Liberal candidate for Mark McGowan’s WA seat wanted to know if his female Labor opponent would resign if she got pregnant.

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Strong political leaders are electoral gold – but the trick is in them knowing when to stand down

March this year marked the 60th anniversary of a famous “gotcha” moment in 1963, when Labor leader Arthur Calwell and his deputy, Gough Whitlam, were photographed outside the Hotel Kingston in Canberra.

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Mark McGowan has been auditioning for his new mining job for six years

The former WA premier quit politics partly due to the strain of constant conflict, so it’s no surprise he’s headed to the resources sector, having kept conflict at a minimum with that industry.

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Chinese checkers in the sky

Australia has tracked hundreds of Chinese satellites monitoring the Talisman Sabre and Malabar war games over northern Australia and Sydney Harbour, and vapers used templates provided by the tobacco and vaping industry in submissions to the government’s vaping reforms consultations.

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'No' to the Voice takes lead in Essential poll; huge swing to Libs at WA state byelection

A national Essential poll, conducted August 2–6 from a sample of 1,150, gave “no” to the Indigenous Voice to parliament a 47–43 lead, reversing a 47–43 lead for “yes” in this poll in early July. While Newspoll and Resolve polls had given “no” a lead in June, this is the…

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Missing ADF personnel involved in Queensland helicopter crash identified – As it happened

All the day’s news as it happened

Crikey

Politics in WA has suddenly got very interesting

Tomorrow’s byelection for former WA premier Mark McGowan’s seat of Rockingham has taken on great significance.

The Conversation

Voice support slips again in national Resolve poll; massive swing in WA puts Libs ahead

A national Resolve poll for Nine newspapers, conducted July 12–15 from a sample of 1,610, had “no” to the Indigenous Voice to parliament leading in a forced choice by 52–48 (51–49 in June). Initial preferences were 42% “no” (up two), 36% “yes” (down six) and 22% undecided (up five). I…

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Resolve first national poll to have 'no' ahead in Voice referendum, but Essential has 'yes' far ahead

A federal Resolve poll for Nine newspapers, conducted last week from a sample of 1,606, had “no” ahead by 51-49 in a forced choice question on the Indigenous Voice to parliament referendum to be held later this year.

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