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Medicare overhaul targets doctor quality and affordability

GPs will receive government funding for longer appointments and more affordable care under a huge overhaul of Australia's Medicare system.

The New Daily

'Taking action now' on health reform, a national firearms register and an Adelaide burn — here's what happened at national cabinet

From tackling a struggling healthcare system, to a potential national firearms register, to a cheeky exchange between two premiers, here are the key moments from national cabinet.

ABC News

Britain ‘relaxed’ about Australia omitting King Charles from new $5 banknote, high commissioner says

‘It is for Australia to decide what it wants on its coins, and on its notes,’ Vicki Treadell says

The Guardian - AU

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Energy relief plan won't be 'one size fits all': PM

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says energy relief isn't a "one size fits all" plan, as the nation braces for skyrocketing electricity and gas prices.

AAP

No firm movement on health funding as national cabinet briefed by ASIO on sovereign citizens — as it happened

Doctors are criticising recommended changes to the healthcare system after national cabinet announces it will wait until April to decide how to address issues in the sector — as it happened.

ABC News

Barnaby Joyce says Labor hasn't released the wording to enshrine the Voice to Parliament in the constitution. Is that correct?

Barnaby Joyce says Labor has not released the detail of the wording change to the constitution for the Voice to Parliament. Is that correct? RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates.

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PM secures state and territory support on referendum

All state and territory leaders have signed a statement of intent to support the referendum on an Indigenous voice to parliament.

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Morning Mail: Albanese’s voice pledge, Turnbull raises Aukus sovereignty risk, Shell profits double

The prime minister will go ahead with the referendum even without bipartisan support, he tells us

The Guardian - AU

Leaders hunt for national solutions to health care woes

State and territory leaders hope innovative, national solutions to solve issues in health care will come out of a meeting with the prime minister.

AAP

‘Relatively common’: WA’s lost-and-found radioactive capsule not the only missing material around

The tiny capsule that fell out of a Perth-bound truck captured the world’s attention, but experts say hundreds of radioactive sources go missing each year

The Guardian - AU

Albanese says voice referendum will go ahead even if political dissent presents risk of failure

Exclusive: Prime minister says there are many obstacles but it is an important opportunity for First Nations recognition that should not be wasted

The Guardian - AU

Grattan on Friday: Chalmers attracts some flak for blue sky ideas but the government has bigger problems

Jim Chalmers likes to say we need national “conversations” about the economic issues facing the country. Now, just as the new parliamentary year is set to begin on Monday, Chalmers has bought himself a doozy of a conversation, with his essay advocating we embrace “values-based capitalism”.

The Conversation

Malcolm Turnbull says Labor has failed to answer if Aukus deal compromises Australian sovereignty

Former PM says if operation of nuclear subs depends on US then that is ‘a momentous change which has not been acknowledged’

The Guardian - AU

Indigenous people to be explicitly recognised as 'First Peoples of Australia' in proposed constitutional change

A fourth sentence explicitly recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the traditional owners of Australia could be added to the constitution if a referendum on the Indigenous Voice to Parliament succeeds.

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Australia prepares to unveil AUKUS nuclear submarine plans in the United States

Anthony Albanese is expected to detail Australia's preferred nuclear submarine option on American soil next month, alongside US President Joe Biden and his British counterpart Rishi Sunak – raising the prospect of a potential new boat design involving all three allies.

ABC News

No immediate action on Alice Springs alcohol bans, Prime Minister says governments will listen to community

It could be up to a week before a decision is made on whether Intervention-era alcohol bans are reinstated in central Australia in a bid to arrest a spike in crime and alcohol-fuelled violence.

ABC News

Peter Dutton commits to continue to meet with Voice referendum working group

The opposition leader vows to continue to meet with Indigenous leaders helping to shape the looming Voice to Parliament referendum, after talking with the group for the first time.

The Guardian - AU

Report into Alice Springs unrest recommends urgent alcohol ban in central Australian communities

NT chief minister met with prime minister on Thursday afternoon to discuss report, which will be released after it is considered by cabinet next week

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Pat Turner urges government not to sit on Dorrelle Anderson's report examining crime and alcohol in Alice Springs

Leading Indigenous administrator — and co-chair of the Joint Council on Closing the Gap — Pat Turner is calling for the immediate release of Dorrelle Anderson's report on alcohol restrictions in the Northern Territory.

ABC News

Police stop heated clash at Sydney church ahead of George Pell's Sydney funeral

Survivors of child sexual abuse and their supporters are involved in a heated clash with a group of people outside a Sydney church on the eve of Cardinal George Pell's funeral.

The Guardian - AU

Morning Mail: Albanese warns of ‘insecure world’, high gas prices hit homes, Italy’s nonna no-go

In an exclusive interview, PM defends Aukus pact and lays out Australia’s strategic planning

The Guardian - AU

Voice working group says Dutton committed to ‘further talks’ – as it happened

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Indigenous voice supporters woo backing of top Liberal

The government's referendum working group will try to win Opposition Leader Peter Dutton's support before the Indigenous voice to parliament vote.

AAP

Top-level talks on remedy for rising health care costs

Anthony Albanese wants federal, state and territory healthcare systems to work together better but faces calls from leaders to increase Commonwealth spending.

Newsroom.co.nz

Christopher Luxon absent as Chris Hipkins steps into the floodlights

Unless a policy reset deals decisively with the cost of living, Three Waters, the public health system, and law and order, Chris Hipkins’ Cabinet reshuffle will quickly be seen as merely a rearrangement of the deckchairs, writes Peter Dunne

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