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Penalty rates backed as staff endure abuse

Workers are copping extreme forms of abuse during the Christmas trading period, with the prime minister joining the campaign to support employees.

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Anthony Albanese urges Australians to support others in need this Christmas

The prime minister joins volunteers to serve a Christmas meal to vulnerable people in Sydney, encouraging Australians celebrating over the festive period to reach out to anyone who is doing it tough.

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Albanese's Christmas message to Aussies

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has urged people to spread the spirit of Christmas and check on their neighbours who may be doing it tough.

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Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton thank emergency services, defence force members in Christmas messages

The prime minister and opposition leader wish Australians relaxed and happy holidays and thank emergency services and defence personnel for their ongoing service.

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'May Santa be good to every child': Prime Minister delivers Christmas message

Mr Albanese wished Australians a Merry Christmas, and thanked those rostered on to work on Christmas Day.

The Canberra Times

Australia already has a national gun database – so why has a police shooting prompted calls for a new one?

A police shooting in rural Queensland has renewed a push for a national gun register to better track firearms across state and territory borders.

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King Charles is Australia's new head of state. When could that change?

Could the coronation of Charles III as King of Australia next year revive the Australian republican debate? We spoke to two experts about what an alternative to the monarchy might look like.

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Hobart stadium talks constructive, says PM

The prime minister and Tasmania's premier have discussed federal funding for a new stadium that will lock in the licence for a Tasmanian AFL team.

AAP

Anthony Albanese announces greater Commonwealth support for NSW flood zones

The federal government commits an extra $182.2 million to help people in New South Wales who have become displaced or homeless because of the recent floods.

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Australia ready to work with elected gov't in Fiji -Albanese

Australia welcomes the democratic process that has taken place in Fiji and stands ready to work with whoever forms the new government, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Friday, adding that the process has been orderly.

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Hobart AFL stadium business case released, seeking $240 million from federal government

The Tasmanian government reveals its business case it hopes will convince the federal government to shell out $240 million to help pay for a brand new stadium in Hobart, which will in part be modelled on a yet-to-be-finished project in New Zealand.

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Australia-China talks under way, but relationship remains fraught and ripe to ‘explode’

The Australian foreign minister's visit to China has reignited hopes the two countries are on the road to patching up their relationship.

The New Daily

Grattan on Friday: Liberal post-mortem urges party to address flight of female vote – but not by quotas

The Liberal Party’s review of its election rout has highlighted the party’s broad and deep problem with the female vote, but shied away from recommending quotas to elect more women.

The Conversation

In Voices of Us, Tim Dunlop considers the outsiders re-energising politics – and takes aim at dumbed-down media and do-nothing politicians

Did Bill Shorten lose the unlosable election in 2019 because he was too frank about franking credits? Was John Howard’s defeat in 2007 a voter reaction against WorkChoices?

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Australia and China agree to continue high-level dialogue to ‘restore relations’

Ministers meet to restore relations between the two Asia-Pacific nations

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Foreign Minister Penny Wong raises human rights and trade in Beijing, while seeking 'structured dialogue' with China

The foreign minister says Australia is seeking to stabilise relations with China, but also raises trade "blockages" and human rights at talks during the first official visit to Beijing by a minister since 2019.

The Independent UK

Australian minister in China after long break in relations

Australia's foreign minister is in China for talks seeking to mend a long break in high-level ties that have prompted trade sanctions and political frictions

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'No conflicting interests'

Fifty years ago today, Australia established diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China. Here's a look back at the key moments that landed us where we are today.

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Wong arrives in China ahead of talks

Penny Wong will meet Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Beijing for the first talks between ministers in China in four years.

The Guardian - AU

New Zealanders’ path to Australian permanent residency eased by ditching income and health checks

Move is expected to help clear backlog of about 11,500 applications and could ease process for up to 300,000 Kiwis

The Conversation

View from The Hill: Rudd is highly qualified for Washington, but might find the diplomatic corset constricting

In appointing Kevin Rudd as ambassador to the United States, Anthony Albanese is sending someone with all the qualifications, and more, for what is a highly demanding diplomatic job in extremely uncertain times.

The Guardian - AU

‘Starting to warm up’: Chinese state media welcomes Wong visit after Coalition’s ‘stupid’ policies

Foreign minister says in Beijing she will press for detained Australians Cheng Lei and Yang Hengjun ‘to be reunited with their families’

The Guardian - AU

Australia-wide firearms register on national cabinet agenda more than 30 years after first being suggested

Renewed push comes after last week’s fatal shooting of two Queensland police officers and a neighbour in Wieambilla

The Independent UK

Former Australian leader Kevin Rudd appointed US ambassador

Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has been chosen as the nation’s next ambassador to the United States

Al Jazeera

Australia FM to push for release of citizens during China visit

Australian journalist Cheng Lei was detained in August 2020 and Chinese-born Australian writer Yang Jun in January 2019.

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