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Agriculture department's financial woes are due to demerger with environment, David Littleproud says

Former agriculture minister David Littleproud says he is "totally surprised" to hear the Agriculture Department is facing hundreds of millions of dollars in cost blowouts, and points the finger at a decision by the Labor government as the cause.

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Super changes could affect 10% of people retiring in 30 years, Labor reveals

Coalition accuses government of misrepresenting impact, while crossbenchers push to further tighten tax breaks for wealthy

The Guardian - AU

Calls for changes to disaster arrangements after hailstorm leaves farmers with no income for a year

Some Queensland farmers lost 100 per cent of their crops during vicious weather last year but didn't receive government support as no disaster was declared. As climate change gets worse, they fear for their futures.

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NSW police says Lidia Thorpe will not be charged for blocking Mardi Gras float

Social media video shows senator laying in front of a float, temporarily blocking Oxford Street parade

The Guardian - AU

Parliamentary travel rules under scrutiny after Gold Coast trip by Nationals leader

While David Littleproud’s taxpayer-funded flight falls within parliamentary guidelines, the Gold Coast apartment he settled on three days prior to the flight has reignited discussion over defining official MP travel expenditure

The Guardian - AU

Voice to parliament no campaign to push for recognition of migrants as well as Indigenous people

Warren Mundine says no campaign will propose a new referendum on an acknowledgment in the preamble of the constitution

The Guardian - AU

Federal government pushing for opt-out alcohol restrictions in NT, minister reveals

Malarndirri McCarthy foreshadows ‘critical moment’ for NT government, signalling a further toughening of curbs

The Guardian - AU

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MP visits over Indigenous voice: Nationals

David Littleproud says more frequent visits from federal MPs would better help Indigenous communities, rather than a voice to parliament.

AAP

'Unlock rural phone towers so signal can be used regardless of telco'

Politicians are calling for all rural phone towers to be "unlocked", to let anyone use their signal regardless of what carrier they are with.

Newcastle Herald

Australian sporting codes reject need for more regulation of online gambling

Peak sports group tells parliamentary inquiry existing advertising restrictions are sufficient, despite rise in problem gambling

The Guardian - AU

Nationals harden stance against Indigenous voice after receiving more detail on proposal

Party leader David Littleproud says there’s ‘no position where the Nats would change their minds’

The Guardian - AU

Personal conversations not party press conferences will guide regional Australians on an Indigenous voice

Organisers say rural voters are not ‘empty vessels to be filled with political speak’ by the Nationals, who plan to oppose the voice to parliament

The Guardian - AU

How David Littleproud's electorate reacted to his Voice to Parliament announcement

Traditional custodians in the seat of Maranoa say they were expecting the Nationals leader to give them a call, but the phone never rang.

ABC News

Most of us understood the COVID rules well, so why don't fines stand?

If the rest of the population had reacted the same way as these selfish few, they would have been dying in the tens of thousands.

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The Guardian - AU

Peter Dutton saying maybe to the Indigenous voice but meaning no is not a cost-free exercise

Opposition leader faces a coterie of hardcore voice opponents in the Liberal party room, but saying no, and Australians voting yes, is a risk I wouldn’t want to take

The Guardian - AU

The rhetoric around the Indigenous voice to parliament shows it’ll be a rough campaign

If this week was an indication of the level of the debate, then Australia is in for a torrid time when referendum process begins in earnest

ABC News

Split in Nationals over Indigenous Voice to Parliament as Andrew Gee breaks ranks

Nationals frontbencher Andrew Gee breaks ranks with his colleagues, arguing it is "absurd" for his party to expect him to change his stance on supporting an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.

The Conversation

Albanese insists Voice will help 'close the gap', as divisions flare in Nationals

As the Indigenous Voice provoked divisions in the Nationals, Anthony Albanese rejected the party’s claim it wouldn’t help “close the gap” for First Nations Australians.

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The Guardian - AU

‘Eroded public trust’: text of Scott Morrison censure motion revealed as colleagues back former PM

But one opposition MP, Bridget Archer, says she is ‘inclined’ to support Labor push against the former prime minister

ABC News

Elder in David Littleproud's electorate rebukes Nationals over opposition to Voice to Parliament

Gunggari elder Lynette Nixon, who lives in western Queensland, joins a chorus of calls for the National Party to review its opposition to an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.

The Guardian - AU

Why do the Nationals oppose the Indigenous voice and do their arguments stand up to scrutiny?

David Littleproud says the move would add more bureaucracy while Uluru campaigners believe it would mean practical improvements to lives

AAP

WA Nationals support Indigenous voice

Western Australia's state parliamentary Nationals have split from their federal counterparts by expressing support for an Indigenous voice to parliament.

The Guardian - AU

National party ‘out of touch’ with regional Australia on Indigenous voice, campaigner says

Thomas Mayor has spent 18 months travelling around the country speaking about the Uluru statement and says rural people agree with it

The Guardian - AU

David Littleproud is a ‘kindergarten kid’ whose Nationals will be ‘left behind’ on voice, Noel Pearson says

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price caught in a ‘tragic redneck celebrity vortex’ and ‘punching down on other Blackfellas’, Cape York leader says

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Noel Pearson says 'kindergarten kid' David Littleproud capitulated on Voice to Parliament in blistering rebuke of Nationals

The Indigenous leader says the Nationals leader supported the Voice to Parliament until vocal opponent Jacinta Nampijinpa Price was elected — comments Senator Nampijinpa Price describes as "nasty".

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