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Labor pledge to up NSW public school funds

Labor says NSW will be the first state committed to closing the public schools' funding gap if it wins the March election.

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Albanese promises National Aboriginal Art Gallery in Alice Springs and pivots towards the modern and mainstream in new cultural policy

The Albanese government’s cultural policy, released Monday, “puts First Nations first”, while also promising regulated Australian content on streaming services and a shift to greater support for the popular in the arts.

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Music, literature and First Nations at the forefront of a $300m boost to the arts, Labor to announce

Albanese government’s new Revive program an attempt to reverse declines to the arts sector but financial details not expected until May budget

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NSW Coalition pledges feasibility study for specialist domestic violence courts

Labor opposition says move a decade overdue, with similar courts already operating in Queensland and overseas

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Specialised DV court system on way for NSW

NSW won't yet replicate the specialised family violence courts in Queensland or Victoria, saying it needs a study to see how it would fit into its system.

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Scrapped Better Building Regions Fund sparks blame game over Macquarie Home Stay support

A NSW charity that routinely has to turn away rural hospital patients has been caught in the middle of an ugly pre-election dispute between Labor and the Nationals.

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What was the Northern Territory Emergency Response, better known in Indigenous communities as The Intervention?

The hardline Northern Territory Emergency Response was in place across the territory for 15 years. So, what was the policy that became better known as "The Intervention"?

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NSW Liberal Scott Yung turns down opportunity to run against Chris Minns again

Scott Yung came exceptionally close to dethroning Labor leader Chris Minns in 2019, but his decision to not re-run has left the Liberals without a candidate for the marginal seat just eight weeks from the election.

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‘No second prize’: Chris Minns and his pursuit of the NSW political throne

Within reach of forming a Labor government, the opposition leader has traded his charming firebrand persona for pragmatic centrism

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Major parties vow to remove barriers for victim-survivors of domestic and family violence ahead of NSW election

Less than two months out from the state election, the Coalition announces policies tackling safe and stable housing, while Labor commits to a specialist service for migrant and refugee women.

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Michael Pascoe: How the pokies lobby comes after politicians

There’s a quick way to tell if an electronic gaming machine policy is good or bad: If ClubsNSW is backing it, it will be bad.

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Why Queensland is still ground zero for Australian deforestation

Five years ago, bulldozers with chains cleared forests and woodlands almost triple the size of the Australian Capital Territory in a single year.

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Mayor runs for Liberal Sydney stronghold

A local mayor says he respects teal candidates but won't become one as he tries to wrest a long-held Liberal seat from the governing party at the NSW election.

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DSCC Chair Peters tapped for plum Senate Appropriations seat - Roll Call

Michigan Sen. Gary Peters, his party's Senate campaign chief, will serve on the Appropriations Committee this Congress.

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With only a simple yes or no vote available in the referendum, scenes on Invasion Day expose the problem Labor faces

Objections to the date of Australia Day persist, but this year opposition to the voice bubbled to the fore

The Guardian - AU

Why a voice to parliament won’t affect First Nations sovereignty as Lidia Thorpe fears

The senator is demanding Labor ‘be clear about our sovereignty’. Experts explain why the two issues are entirely separate

Newcastle Herald

Day of Mourning highlights perspectives on Voice to Parliament

Organises said they wanted to provide people with information to make their own decision.

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ANU Respect@Work report recommends employers pay employee's sexual harassment legal costs

The Attorney-General's Department commissioned the report as part of Labor's promise to implement all 55 recommendations of Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins' Respect at Work report into sexual harassment in Australian workplaces.

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NSW Labor chooses Bob Nanva as replacement for Khal Asfour in Upper House spot

Bob Nanva is credited with introducing corporate governance reform during an overhaul of NSW Labor after a corruption probe into party donations.

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NSW Labor sec drafted into upper house

Opposition Leader Chris Minns has made a captain's pick - drafting NSW Labor state secretary Bob Nanva into a vacant, winnable spot on the upper house ticket.

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Should Australia let Kanye West in?

Just one year after then-Immigration Minister Alex Hawke moved to expel tennis star Novak Djokovic from Australia on character grounds, his Labor successor, Andrew Giles, is faced with another controversial visitor in the form of Ye (formerly known as Kanye West).

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Vic debt would be lower under Libs: report

Victoria's debt would have been lower than forecast regardless of which party won the state election but the Liberals would have cut it more, a report says.

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Labor maintains lead over Coalition in both federal and NSW Resolve polls

A federal Resolve poll for Nine newspapers, conducted January 17-22 from a sample of 1,606 people, has given Labor 42% of the primary vote (steady since early December), the Coalition 29% (down one), the Greens 11% (steady), One Nation 6% (up two), the UAP 2% (steady), independents 8% (steady) and…

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South Coast daycare centre to close as lease with Department of Education not renewed

Parents with children at a South Coast daycare centre have been given one month to find a new service after the Department of Education announced it would not renew the lease for the site.

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NSW government headed for election defeat

An opinion poll predicts the NSW coalition government is headed for defeat in the upcoming state election.

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