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Crakanthorp's fate throws up Game of Thrones scenarios for Labor

Labor HQ would have to decide whether to hold preselection.

Newcastle Herald

The Australian Greens lost the rent cap battle, but will they win the war for votes?

Labor decried the party as ‘the axis of evil’ for siding with the Coalition, but pollster says their stance is a vote-winner

The Guardian - AU

The week in parliament: a bruising time for the voice and veteran affairs, punctuated by a bit of pop levity

Attacks on Marcia Langton prompt angry responses, Nick Kaldas delivers uncomfortable moments, and Marise Payne takes a bow

The Guardian - AU

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Labor makes decision on Greens' bill to lower the ACT's voting age

Labor thinks the bill could undermine compulsory voting.

The Canberra Times

How one of Melbourne’s most contaminated sites became a political battleground on housing

Labor says it is ‘pushing on’ with the development in the city’s north, while the Greens accuse it of winding back the original plan

The Guardian - AU

Attorney-General doesn't understand recidivist driver issue: Labor backbencher

Marisa Paterson says Shane Rattenbury does not understand the issue.

The Canberra Times

Grattan on Friday: Langton and Price fight with passion and gloves off for beliefs

Anthony Albanese cemented victory in the 2022 election by being mostly highly cautious and having Labor run, by and large, a tight campaign. If he loses the Voice referendum, which is looking very likely, his own overreach and the “yes” campaign’s ill-discipline will carry a good deal of blame.

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Bid to overrule drugs law slammed as 'stunt', as Lee kept in the dark

The move has been slammed as an 'assault on territory rights'.

The Canberra Times

ACT will study releasing cabinet papers sooner but Liberal's 30-day push fails

Liberals' proposed scheme 'concerning', government says.

The Canberra Times

Using Neville Bonner’s politics to guess his stance on the voice seems an indolent misuse of history

What would the first Aboriginal parliamentarian have thought of the voice to parliament? None of us can ever know – not even George Brandis

The Guardian - AU

The Long walk to Canberra for the voice brings a moment of hope for progress, unity and grace

‘Fear stops us from ever stepping out, we’ll never get anywhere – we will stay in the same place’, Albanese said

The Guardian - AU

Four-day week possible for ACT public sector workers, inquiry finds

It could potentially improve workers' wellbeing without hurting productivity.

The Canberra Times

Morning Mail: Qantas and soft power influence, MPs’ plea to free Assange, Earth risks ‘heart attack’

Airline’s main regulators are also members of the airline’s Chairman’s Lounge; poll tracker shows no campaign ahead in all states

The Guardian - AU

All parties supported this bus upgrade. They still found a way to stop it

MLAs could not find a way to agree on commitments to improve the route.

The Canberra Times

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The Guardian - AU

Julian Assange: more than 60 Australian MPs urge US to let WikiLeaks founder walk free

Exclusive: MPs from major parties say continued extradition and prosecution would be ‘unjust’ and lead to an ‘outcry’ in Australia

The Guardian - AU

‘Hi it’s Jacinta Price’: Liberal anti-voice mass text campaign branded ‘deceptive’ by teals

Australian Electoral Commission says texts purporting to be from no campaign leader are legal, but MPs say they are ‘predatory’

The Guardian - AU

Liberal senator Kerrynne Liddle rejects comments made by fellow voice no campaigner Gary Johns

Liddle responds to Johns’ claim that some people in Indigenous communities live in a ‘stupor’, and calls for greater respect in voice referendum debate

The Guardian - AU

‘Amazon effect’: can Labor’s industrial relations reforms protect workers in the gig economy?

Employees and experts hope the bill goes far enough, as it faces a Senate inquiry and attacks from industry groups

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The Guardian - AU

Jim Chalmers accuses Peter Dutton of being ‘chief propagandist’ of no campaign amid heated voice referendum debate – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU

Morning Mail: 10,000 missing in Libyan floods, police racism warning, Biden impeachment bid

Former Queensland officers say colleagues have gotten away with slurs

The Guardian - AU

Greens vow to ‘keep fighting’ on housing as party takes aim at Labor’s help-to-buy scheme

Adam Bandt says Greens will continue to ‘use our power’ in parliament to push for rent caps despite agreeing to future fund

The Guardian - AU

Albanese government not doing enough on climate crisis, majority of Labor voters tell poll

More should be done to prepare for the impact of heating, Climate of the Nation survey suggests, but certainty about the cause of extreme events falls

The Independent UK

Norway's conservative opposition wins local elections with nearly 26% of the votes

Norway's center-right opposition party has won local elections, with the conservatives of former Prime Minister Erna Solberg ahead of the governing Labor Party

The Canberra Times

Attempt to push back drug decriminalisation fails

The Liberals wanted it pushed back until after the next election.

The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: Karen Andrews alleges harassment in parliament; Kim Jong-un in Russia; and why we should keep cats indoors

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