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The Labor party room has given the go-ahead to the gambling reform deal made with the Coalition, and plans to restrict gambling advertisements will pass into law later this week after three days of marathon parliamentary sittings.
Ahead of the vote, which is expected to run late into the night, Anthony Albanese thanked politicians “for coming together to deal with this issue and get a result that will work”.
Government MPs agreed to more than a dozen amendments made with the Coalition, but some members of the crossbench criticised the deal. Two Coalition MPs, Pat Conaghan and Andrew Wallace, crossed the floor in protest. The Greens called it “cowardly and careless”, while the independent senator David Pocock said it doesn’t go nearly far enough.
The changes include the creation of a national opt-out register for gambling advertising and making the start time for the three-ad-per-hour cap 5am, as well as establishing a review that will be implemented after three years. But the final version of the bill will not meet the standards laid out by late Labor MP Peta Murphy, whose report recommended a total ban on inducements and wagering ads.
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Armenian-Lebanese eatery Zareh has been named Gourmet Traveller’s restaurant of the year in a category of the annual industry awards that has historically been dominated by European-leaning cuisine and fine-dining establishments.
At the award ceremony in Sydney on Monday night, winners frequently referenced Australia’s migrant history and how it has shaped the local dining scene. In accepting the gong, owner Marc Polese paid tribute to “the immigrants that work alongside us and make this such a rich industry”.
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“They seem to be objecting largely based on the title using the word ‘genocide’.” – Adam Johnson, author of How to Sell a Genocide
A Sydney library in the same council area as Bondi beach has removed a book critical of Israel called How to Sell a Genocide, following a complaint reportedly from a survivor of the Bondi beach terror attack.
How to Sell a Genocide critiques what it claims is the US media’s “complicity in the destruction of Gaza”. The decision to remove the book was criticised by its author, Adam Johnson, who said calling Israel’s actions in Gaza a genocide was not “a fringe or radical position”.
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One Nation wants to restrict migration. A town in Barnaby Joyce’s electorate welcomes it
Since 2018, the New South Wales city of Armidale has been a designated site for resettling refugees. It’s a town that sits within the electorate of Barnaby Joyce. While Joyce was a key voice supporting Armidale’s establishment as a refugee resettlement site, he’s since defected from the Nationals to One Nation, a party which wants to ban all migrants who don’t speak English.
Guardian Australia’s community affairs reporter Adeshola Ore travels to Armidale to speak with Joyce and community members, including refugees, to find out how the town squares with One Nation’s vision of a monoculture. Watch the full video here.
Before bed read
In the latest piece from our A Job That Changed Me series, Jasper Peach ruminates on his years as a marriage celebrant and how he would grow to become uneasy with the institution of marriage altogether.
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