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Coalition lags Labor in election promises that bolster NSW budget, official costings reveal

State Parliamentary Budget Office estimates Labor’s pledges would improve bottom line by $1.4bn compared to the Coalition’s $97.2m

The Guardian - AU

Embattled lawyer chosen as Labor's replacement for retiring stalwart Alannah MacTiernan

A recount confirms community lawyer Ben Dawkins will replace Alannah MacTiernan in the upper house, but WA Labor veterans declare they don't want him representing their party.

ABC News

New South Wales Labor's promise to scrap public sector wage cap could cost billions, review finds

Voters will go to the polls on Saturday without knowing the budget impacts of Labor's signature policy to scrap the public sector wage cap, but it is likely to cost billions of dollars.

ABC News

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Does Australia have the appetite for economic change, or are we stuck with a system that rewards the rich?

Decades of rewarding the wealthy for being wealthy at taxpayer expense has created a fortified ghetto of advantage

The Guardian - AU

Government's deadline to staff aged care facilities with registered nurses 24/7 will not be met, minister concedes

Labor promised to have nurses in aged care homes at all times within a year of winning the federal election. The aged care minister now admits the government will miss that deadline.

ABC News

Dodson resists calls to fund Voice referendum information campaign

How the referendum on an Indigenous Voice to Parliament will be run is taking shape, with the Opposition pushing for equal funding for "yes" and "no" campaigns.

The New Daily

Dominic Perrottet gives strongest endorsement yet of Indigenous voice but says ‘we don’t need a treaty’

NSW Labor opposition has committed to beginning a treaty process with state’s Indigenous people if it wins 2023 election

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NSW election on knife’s-edge in final week countdown

The NSW election is on a knife's edge with the latest poll showing a late resurgence by the coalition but Labor is still on track to form minority government.

The New Daily

Labor commits to help end sexual violence in the Hunter if elected

Newcastle MP Tim Crakanthorp has made a $20,000 commitment to help eliminate sexual violence if Labor wins the state election this weekend.

Newcastle Herald

Online yarning circles create space to hear about voice

Proponents of an Indigenous voice are inviting people to online yarning circles as debate continues in the Senate over how the referendum campaigns will be run.

AAP

NSW Resolve poll has narrow lead for Labor five days before election

The New South Wales state election will be held on Saturday. I had a preview of both the lower and upper houses last week.

The Conversation

Parramatta voters hit hard by rental crisis could return key Western Sydney seat to Labor

The key Western Sydney seat lost by Labor in 2011, has the second-highest proportion of renting households in the state, for voters under stress it will be front of mind at the ballot box.

ABC News

Business groups push for climate deal but warn government against conceding too much to Greens

The government has been locked in negotiations with the Greens and key crossbenchers for weeks over its proposed changes to the so-called safeguard mechanism, with the Coalition remaining steadfastly opposed.

ABC News

Voters will reward Perrottet's pokies pluck, ex-PM says

John Howard has backed Dom Perrottet's courage on pokies as a public health peak body marks down Labor's pokies policy and budget black holes are revealed.

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The Guardian - AU

Labor’s opposition to Iraq war ‘vindicated’, Richard Marles says

Defence minister says any decision to engage in armed conflict should be better debated and scrutinised

The Guardian - AU

Dominic Perrottet on poking the ClubsNSW beast: ‘I didn’t start with many friends’

The NSW premier explains why he put his career on the line as the days count down to the state election

The Guardian - AU

Coalition’s super changes will affect three times as many people as Labor’s plan, modelling shows

Jim Chalmers says figures based on Treasury projections reveals opposition’s ‘deception’

The New Daily

Liberals set to relinquish record reign at NSW election

NSW is on the verge of ending a record run of Liberal rule as voters begin casting their votes in the NSW state election.

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Newcastle Herald

'We are fearful': Pressure on Labor to make PEP-11 decision

'We are fearful that Madeline King is not going to cancel the PEP-11 permit.'

ABC News

Labor's Manuel Brown says support for a Voice to Parliament in Arafura helped secure by-election win

Labor's Manuel Brown made his first public appearance in Darwin following last night's Arafura by-election victory.

The New Daily

Greens vow to block Labor’s carbon-pollution plan unless coal mines and gas wells are banned

The federal government's signature climate policy faces a Senate blockade unless the Greens are promised no new coal mines and gas wells

AAP

Research points to 'unlikely' need for new coalmines

The Greens are maintaining pressure to stop new coal and gas projects from opening in exchange for their support on the government's signature climate bill.

ABC News

Dominic Perrottet and Chris Minns address rallies ahead of NSW election

Six days out from the NSW election, rivals Dominic Perrottet and Chris Minns both give speeches in Western Sydney, with the cost of living and privatisation high on the agenda.

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Literal Nazis Protested Trans Folk Outside Vic Parliament Get These Cunts The Fuck Outta Here

“Their evil ideology is to scapegoat minorities - and it’s got no place here,” wrote Premier Dan Andrews.

AAP

'Let's get to work': Labor claims vast NT seat

Labor's Manuel Brown has secured victory in the Northern Territory seat of Arafura, which covers remote areas like Arnhem Land and the Tiwi Islands.

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