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Annastacia Palaszczuk, Australia’s longest-serving female premier, was underestimated until the very end

The Queensland premier always called her own shots. Right up until her retirement announcement, she took people by surprise

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The migration strategy won’t silence Dutton but Labor is backing away from the feared Big Australia

The Albanese government is reducing migrant intake as it seeks to make inroads to easing the population and housing squeeze before the next election

The Guardian - AU

With Annastacia Palaszczuk gone, can Labor achieve the unachievable in Queensland?

Democracies are, by nature, systems of stability and change.

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Annastacia Palaszczuk’s anointed successor, Steven Miles, likely to face challenge, say Queensland Labor MPs

While the deputy premier is considered frontrunner, suggestions his two rivals may team up would make vote ‘incredibly close’

The Guardian - AU

From ‘accidental premier’ to trailblazing leader, Annastacia Palaszczuk’s power sprang from her warm personal politics

The Queensland premier leaves office as perhaps the most successful Labor politician in a generation

The Guardian - AU

Bill Shorten says it would have ‘helped’ if high court released reasons for indefinite detention ruling earlier

High court demolished indefinite detention system and ‘within one month the Albanese government’s resolved it’, Labor minister says

The Guardian - AU

Coalition opposes Australia tripling renewable energy, backs nuclear power pledge at Cop28

Ted O’Brien declares global climate summit ‘the nuclear Cop’ despite only 11% of nations backing the pledge

The Guardian - AU

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Sixth former immigration detainee arrested in Melbourne for allegedly breaking curfew

Government scrambles to respond to last month’s high court ruling which led to the release of at least 148 detainees

The Guardian - AU

PM will be hoping there's time to reset going into 2024

After a difficult end to the parliamentary year, Anthony Albanese will be hoping the summer break will give his government time to refresh going into 2024.

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Somehow Australian politics has delivered a Christmas miracle – and that’s a big deal

Anthony Albanese’s success in pushing ahead on NDIS reform is a triumph of hope over experience. Can Peter Dutton rise to the occasion?

The Guardian - AU

This Margot Robbie Front Page On The West Australian Is Causing Controversy For Guess Fkn Why

Margot Robbie's appearance on the front page of The West Australian newspaper has the wildest reasoning ever.

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Daniel Andrews fires up over ‘Dictator Dan’ moniker and Sky News After Dark ‘bullshit’

Former Victorian premier hits back at ‘haters’, including those who labelled him a ‘control freak’ and ‘dictator’, in first interview since leaving politics

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Ex-Premier Andrews denies public service is politicised

Former Victorian premier Daniel Andrews has rejected the state's public service hs become politicised following a report by the Ombudsman.

AAP

Thousands to share in $560m toll relief scheme

Random checks will be conducted to ensure a relief scheme in "the world's most tolled city" is getting to the right people, the NSW roads minister says.

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Hanson COS Ashby to stand for One Nation at election

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson's chief of staff James Ashby will stand for the party in the state seat of Keppel at next year's Queensland election.

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Grattan on Friday: winners and losers in end-of-year report card on Albanese ministers

It’s not just kids who get report cards (PDFs these days) as school breaks up. So do government ministers, when parliament rises at year’s end.

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Kim Beazley's daughter promoted to government ministry

Hannah Beazley, the daughter of former federal Labor leader and diplomat Kim Beazley, will become a minister in the WA government.

The Guardian - AU

Penny Wong warns there are ‘increasingly few safe places’ for civilians in Gaza as conflict spreads

Australian foreign minister also endorses US defence secretary’s comments on Israel-Hamas war that ‘you can only win in urban warfare by protecting civilians’

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'Economic vandalism': deal struck on Labor's same job, same pay laws

The mining union and Minerals Council of Australia are divided on it.

The Guardian - AU

Labor’s same-job, same-pay laws pass parliament after deal with Lambie and Pocock

Splitting bill means reforms to the gig economy, road transport industry and casual work will have to wait until 2024

AAP

Workers win extra protection as Labor seals Senate deal

Frontline workers will soon be given extra protections after Labor struck a deal with the Senate cross bench to pass several industrial relations reforms.

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Fifth former detainee arrested as extradition looms

Police have arrested another person who allegedly committed fresh offences after being released from immigration detention.

The Guardian - AU

As the political clock ticks relentlessly, there is little time for substance over optics in parliament

Labor hoped there would be time to form a careful response to the high court’s immigration detention decision – but at the daily politics Oscars, spectacle is all

The Guardian - AU

Fourth former immigration detainee charged after release due to high court ruling

45-year-old Sudanese-born man who allegedly stole luggage at airport becomes latest former detainee charged following NZYQ decision

The Guardian - AU

Labor passes preventive detention laws as judges gain power to cancel citizenship of serious offenders

Move comes as attorney general Mark Dreyfus has fiery exchange with reporter over government’s response to high court indefinite detention ruling

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