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Diplomats avoid Markson, Lib candidate’s surreal dance party, and Hanson’s Freudian slip

Today in Tips and Murmurs, Pauline Hanson calls for hard-working Aussie families to be deported, and we look back at when the ABC actually stood by its journos.

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Albanese cements Australia’s status as the global village idiot

Anthony Albanese is only the latest politician to propose internet censorship. For a quarter of a century, Australia has had a succession of dumb censorship ideas.

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Angus Taylor goes ‘nuts’ as NSW Liberals defy Peter Dutton in internal meeting

‘Angus was ropable’ about the defeat, one source said.

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Grattan on Friday: Liberals send in veteran warhorses to deal with party’s hot mess

Finally, just months out from the election, the Liberal Party is tackling the Augean stable that is its New South Wales division. It is a task that should have been a priority two years ago, after the division’s toxic factionalism had been on inglorious display in the run-up to the…

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Australian political donations: here’s who gave the most in 2022-23

Latest Australian Electoral Commission figures give voters insights into how much each party, or candidate, is getting and who they’re receiving it from

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Funding the 12-metre platypus, and other decisions that troubled the Howard government

The 2003 cabinet papers reveal debates ranging from privatisation and workplace relations to spam and the World Expo in Japan

The Guardian - AU

Ian Spink obituary

Choreographer, creative director and co-founder of Second Stride, a company that transformed contemporary dance in the 1980s

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1,700-year-old Roman watchtower ruins discovered in Switzerland

Archaeologists in Switzerland have unearthed the remains of a fourth century A.D. watchtower built to protect the edge of the Roman Empire.

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Is the Liberal Party really that divided?

The intra-party tension faced by the Liberals isn’t on the scale of implosion of the UAP. Not yet, at least.

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ABC’s new ombudsman Fiona Cameron brings a political past — but will it matter?

The political history of new ABC ombudsman Fiona Cameron is closely linked with the Coalition. Is there any basis for fears of political bias?

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