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The Latest Breaking News from Barnaby Joyce

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has stepped down as chair of Fox News and News Corp and eldest son Lachlan looks set to take the reins, and former Labor minister and No campaign director Gary Johns has called for a ‘very, very heavy cultural intervention’ for Indigenous kids.

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Afternoon Update: UN warns climate inaction has ‘opened gates to hell’; Frydenberg won’t contest election; and a new review website for subpar rentals

Meanwhile, Twitter has been ranked the worst of five major tech platforms for spreading climate change misinformation

The Guardian - AU

Albanese accuses Warren Mundine of splitting from no campaign over treaties and Australia Day

PM’s response comes as senior Liberal source says Mundine ‘made it very difficult for himself’ in race to succeed retiring NSW senator Marise Payne

The Guardian - AU

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Don’t listen to Barnaby Joyce – New England loves renewable energy

The loud bloke in a hat’s increasingly pro-nuclear, anything-but-renewables stance is out of touch with his NSW electorate

The Guardian - AU

View from The Hill: Australia's bid for Julian Assange's freedom presents formidable problems for Joe Biden

In his relatively brief time as prime minister, Anthony Albanese has had very extensive contact with US President Joe Biden. According to the prime minister’s office, Albanese has had four formal meetings with him, plus two Quad meetings, and several other less formal discussions. They’ll rub shoulders again at the…

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Afternoon Update: Hong Kong’s heaviest rain in 139 years; faulty seatbelt cameras in Queensland; and climate activists halt US Open

City records 158mm of rain in an hour, causing widespread flooding and disrupting road and rail traffic

The Guardian - AU

Peter Dutton rejects Nationals push to overturn commitment to net zero

Liberal leader says Coalition ‘committed’ to policy after Barnaby Joyce labelled its cost ‘utterly untenable’

The Guardian - AU

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Barnaby Joyce labels net zero ‘utterly untenable’ as potential Coalition rift emerges over climate

Michaelia Cash insists Liberals are committed to 2050 goal under Peter Dutton as National party conference considers dropping the policy

The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: Labor under fire over Qatar Airways decision; sharks attack yacht off Cairns; and AFL clubs rake in $40m from pokies

Transport minister defends decision not to grant Qatar Airways additional capacity, claiming the request was ‘unprecedented’

The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: unions welcome Joyce’s early exit; Australia tops G20 coal emissions; and the Rolling Stones’ new album

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The Guardian - AU

Australian MPs to lobby US to drop Julian Assange prosecution or risk ‘very dangerous’ precedent for Russia and China

Cross-party delegation of Australian politicians to travel to US in attempt to build momentum against extraditing WikiLeaks founder

The Guardian - AU

Joyce, Ryan and four other Australian politicians to share hotel in DC during Assange lobbying trip

They usually work together in Canberra, but later this month they’ll share a hotel in DC paid for by the Assange campaign.

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Thomas Mayo urges regional NSW to vote yes as Armidale turns out for Indigenous voice event

Three hundred people packed into Armidale town hall to hear the yes campaigner, four months after New England hosted no campaign event

The Guardian - AU

Last supper?

In its attempt to be light-hearted, Kitchen Cabinet has steered into dangerous waters

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A retiring NZ MP has suggested joining Australia – we should at least think about it (before saying no)

Big policy ideas usually don’t come up in parliamentary valedictory speeches – they’re for saying goodbye and thank you. So departing Labour MP Jamie Strange was the exception last week when he made a case for New Zealand and Australia becoming one country.

The Guardian - AU

The week in review: the Matildas’ public holiday debate was ultimately moot – but let’s not live in the past à la Barnaby Joyce

In a week that left Joyce even more red-faced than usual, he wasn’t the only politician to find himself as a man out of time

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Blast from the past for Linda Reynolds

Former defence minister Linda Reynolds has recanted her Supreme Court evidence that she was never told Brittany Higgins had disclosed ‘I remember him on top of me’, and the Labor Party memberships of two Melbourne men were renewed for two years after they died.

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Barnaby Joyce reignites an age-old question: can politicians operate TVs?

Our one-time acting prime minister is the latest casualty of the decades-long feud between politicians and television sets.

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The colour of his skin

Australian Jewish Association head David Adler has been slammed for posting ‘grotesque’ and ‘disgusting’ slurs over the colour of journalist Stan Grant’s skin, and a group of former Labor heavies has urged PM Anthony Albanese to push harder to get Julian Assange home before he dies.

The Guardian - UK

The England v Australia rivalry rears its head in a World Cup semi-final

In today’s Football Daily: The World Cup semis loom, TV troubles and more

Evening Standard

Own goal! Australia’s former deputy PM missed nail-biting World Cup win after watching wrong match by mistake

Australia’s former deputy prime minister has revealed that he missed his country’s dramatic penalty shootout win over France because he was watching the wrong match.

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Barnaby Joyce Admitted To Accidentally Watching The Wrong Matildas Game & At Least A Win’s A Win

Barnaby Joyce has admitted that he spent his Saturday night watching the wrong Matilda's game when a pub played a match from July.

The Independent UK

Australian politician accidentally watches wrong Women’s World Cup match at pub

Former deputy PM red-faced as he admits missing historic penalty shootout

The Guardian - AU

Barnaby Joyce admits watching wrong Matildas game after pub showed July friendly

Former deputy prime minister says ‘such is life’ after pub showed Australian team’s July friendly rather than thrilling Women’s World Cup quarter-final win over France

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Inquiry savages Shane Drumgold

ACT chief prosecutor Shane Drumgold is reportedly accused by the Sofronoff inquiry of having ‘knowingly lied’ during the Bruce Lehrmann rape case, and the Finance Department spent $32,000 on an external consultant to get advice on external consultants.

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