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Australia’s youngest-ever senator Charlotte Walker has a lot to learn but says she is ‘not naive’

Walker unexpectedly took the sixth Senate spot for Labor in South Australia at the election on 3 May – her 21st birthday

The Guardian - AU

ABC doing ‘all the heavy lifting’ as commercial networks abandon local kids’ TV drama

Just $1.75m spent on genre across free-to-air networks as advocates warn of ‘broader erosion’ of cultural investment

The Guardian - AU

Australia elects youngest ever senator as 21-year-old Charlotte Walker takes office in surprise result

“Obviously, there's a lot of pressure," the 21-year-old senator said

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Who Is 21 Y.O. Charlotte Walker AKA The Youngest Senator In Australian History?

Australia has just welcomed its youngest senator ever, with 21-year-old Charlotte Walker snaring South Australia's sixth upper house seat.

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‘It’s a moral issue’: Jacinta Allan faces backlash from own MPs as pokies reforms stall

Exclusive: Victorian premier confronted at Labor caucus meeting after budget forecasts $5.9bn in taxes from poker machines over next four years

The Guardian - AU

Labor gains a Senate seat from the Liberals in South Australia, while Jacqui Lambie is re-elected

Buttons have been pressed to electronically distribute preferences for the Senate in South Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory. Labor gained a seat from the Liberals in SA, with the other two unchanged. There’s also been further counting in close lower house seats.

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Pauline Hanson's daughter defeated by firebrand senator

Old faces and newcomers will be welcomed to the Senate as Labor's landslide federal election victory continues to generate surprise results.

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Call for sanctions on Israel over Gaza food blockade

A Labor backbencher is pushing for the Albanese government to impose sanctions on Israel and its top officials over its blockade of food and medicine in Gaza.

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Morning Mail: Call for disaster ‘volunteer army’, car hits Liverpool parade, rock art fears over gas plan

Veteran-led frontline groups say federal funding needed to build 10,000-strong unit; fans injured in victory parade

The Guardian - AU

Death in custody investigated – as it happened

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Fears Queensland is ‘closed for clean business’ as LNP cancels billion-dollar windfarm despite conditional approval

Green groups and industry war axing of Moonlight Range Wind Farm project risks undermining confidence in renewables

The Guardian - AU

Winds of change: govt urged to seize energy mandate

More renewable energy projects should go ahead in Australia and be approved faster after Labor's federal election win, experts say.

AAP

'Hannah's smiling down on us': landmark laws begin

Five years after a horrific attack, coercive control has become a criminal offence in Queensland in a "bittersweet" day for a murdered mother's parents.

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Labor women make history by overtaking men in cabinet. So is the job done?

The Albanese government has achieved a striking gender equality milestone following its election for a second term.

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Knife-edge seat set to undergo partial recount

Almost one month since the last ballots were cast, recounts will get under way in some of Australia's closest election contests.

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Fears super tax rise for rich will whack housing market

Slapping taxes on high superannuation balances may be well intended, but the federal government's plan could harbour some pitfalls.

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Here come the culture wars: can Queensland’s LNP resist wading into the ideological mire?

David Crisafulli’s small-target election campaign has created problems for how the LNP governs that are already beginning to show through

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Knife-edge recounts could decide parliament's make-up

Australia's parliament won't be fully known until a recount in one seat split by eight votes, with an incumbent requesting a recount in another.

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Two seats still undecided three weeks after election

Australia's next federal parliament is taking shape as the margin in one of two remaining electorates narrows to just three votes.

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Political leader's partner mired in misused funds claim

Claims that public funds have been misused in the running of a popular waterfront precinct centre on the husband of a territory's chief minister.

The Guardian - AU

Court’s nuanced analysis of McKenzie’s secret recording in Roberts-Smith appeal a far cry from Sky News claims

All the same, the Nine reporter found it a ‘terrifying experience to be put before the full bench of the federal court’. Plus: SBS returns to ‘Sex Before Soccer’

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Corroboree 2000, 25 years on: the march for Indigenous reconciliation has left a complicated legacy

First Nations people please be advised this article speaks of racially discriminating moments in history, including the distress and death of First Nations people.

The Guardian - AU

Ditching the Liberals can put the grunt back into the Nationals – Australia’s rural party

Rural Australia holds the balance of power – if it wants to exercise it – in pretty much every parliament

The Guardian - AU

Dozens of Victorian public school upgrades delayed until after state election

Environment groups say nature and biodiversity has also been short-changed by the Victorian budget

The Guardian - AU

Murray Watt knocks back objections to Woodside’s North West Shelf extension and clears way for final decision

Environment minister due to decide on controversial plan by end of the month in one of his first major challenges in new portfolio

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