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Censures, coffees and a clinched deal: MPs off for Xmas

Parliamentarians are preparing to head home for the year after a far from lacklustre final day in the halls of power.

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Teen social media ban a step closer despite concerns

A social media ban is looming for Australians aged under 16 after the measure to force restrictions on many platforms cleared its first hurdle in parliament.

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Social media companies won’t be able to compel people to provide digital or government-issued ID to verify age

Big tech platforms won’t be able to compel people to provide digital ID or government-issued identification documents such as a passport, when verifying age for social media accounts.

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Greens to ask Senate to vote to jettison anti-abortion bill in bid to split Coalition on issue

Senator Larissa Waters plans to move motion to discharge abortion bill sponsored by Matt Canavan and Alex Antic

The Guardian - AU

Some Nationals disgruntled by Labor’s electoral spending caps as crossbench fury grows

Labor shuts down a bid by independent MP Kate Chaney to send proposed reforms to an inquiry

The Guardian - AU

Senate censures Lidia Thorpe for disupting King’s reception and Ralph Babet for posting hate speech

The Senate has censured two of its own, Lidia Thorpe and Ralph Babet, both of whom were absent when the votes were taken because of problems with their flights to Canberra.

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‘Take a deep breath on being Trump-esque’: senior Coalition figures reject backbench push to rethink net zero

Nationals senator Matt Canavan and MP Keith Pitt both spoke out about the party’s climate policy in the wake of Donald Trump’s win

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Grattan on Friday: Donald Trump’s win will make 2025 even more challenging for Anthony Albanese

Early Wednesday evening, Queensland Nationals senator Matt Canavan raced down the Parliament House stairs to collect a bag of McDonald’s from an Uber. To celebrate Trump’s victory, he called out as he ran.

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Matt Kean says Australia must take ‘strong and decisive action’ on climate crisis despite Trump re-election

Chair of Climate Change Authority says ‘climate change waits for no one’ as pressure mounts on Coalition to dump net zero commitment

The Guardian - AU

Labor has ‘pressed pause’ in fight to contain spread of fire ants, invasive species council says

Fire ants ‘not taken seriously’ by federal government, experts say

The Guardian - AU

Authorities cop fire over response to ant 'super pest'

Critics have blasted the federal government for "failing to grasp the urgency" of tackling potentially devastating invasive fire ant incursions.

AAP

How the abortion bandwagon has proved a useful vehicle for political advantage

From Queensland to South Australia, tacticians of different stripes have been able to leverage the conviction of true-believers

The Guardian - AU

CHOGM to talk climate change (but not slavery reparations)

The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting kicks off in Samoa today with climate talks on the table, and despite their best efforts the Libs can’t keep the issue of abortion out of the news.

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Senior Coalition women and senator Matt Canavan reject Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s abortion comments

Shadow Indigenous Australians spokesperson says she ‘cannot agree’ with later term abortions, sparking rebuke from Sussan Ley, Jane Hume and Bridget McKenzie

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The campaign by out-of-touch elites to ban abortion is now a federal election issue

Peter Dutton needs to find a way to reassure voters he won’t be changing abortion laws while satisfying extremists in his own ranks who want to end women’s right to choose.

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View from The Hill: Should we accept displaying the Hezbollah flag as (shocking) free expression?

In May 1970, about 70,000 people occupied the Melbourne CBD for the moratorium protest against the Vietnam war.

AAP

Blues top Maroons in pollie state of origin, of sorts

A rampaging Sam Thaiday was no match for David Pocock's staffer as NSW politicians claimed victory over their Queensland rivals in parliament's State of Origin.

The Guardian - AU

Andrew Forrest says Coalition’s abandonment of 2030 emissions target would ‘decimate’ economy

Mining magnate says investors need certainty as opposition’s climate policy comes under increasing scrutiny

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Vomit-inducing deepfake nudes show yet again that when misogyny intersects with AI and elitism, girls get hurt

The Bacchus Marsh grammar allegations are shocking but not new. Barely regulated tech has made school student pornographers a global phenomenon

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Student AI deepfake images reflective of porn crisis

Pornography is driving bad behaviour in Australian schools with an artificial intelligence deepfake scandal reflective of a crisis, experts have warned.

AAP

Funding woes put ballet school at risk of curtain call

Queensland Ballet's academy faces the prospect of closure, say the dance company's leaders who are calling for more federal funding to ensure its survival.

The Guardian - AU

Matt Canavan claims Trump convictions a ‘political witch hunt’ as Greens declare Republican ‘unfit to be president’

Anthony Albanese refuses to comment on Trump guilty verdict as minor parties condemn or celebrate result

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Matt Canavan mocks ‘woke’ budget item that his own party lobbied for

‘If you want actual chicken, then that’s what it should be called,’ Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie once said.

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Most ABF women allege sexual discrimination

Nearly all surveyed women in the Australian Border Force say they have experienced sexual discrimination, calls for age limits on social media use, and the latest round of politicians found jetting around on taxpayer’s money.

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The week in parliament: Albanese’s attempts to appease Dutton land Labor in a political quagmire of its own making

Curtailing of parliamentary debate frustrates crossbench, terse words over bureaucrat’s tears, and unlikely bedfellows on excessive-deaths motion

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