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Foreign affairs & defence correspondent @GuardianAus ; previous roles at SMH/Age/Brisbane Times/Redland Times. Best way to reach me: daniel.hurst @theguardian .com
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It's been a bit over a year since I stopped tweeting, but I am still very keen to hear from and engage with readers. The days of the "Voice of God" style of journalism should be long gone. Best way to reach me is daniel.hurst
@theguardian
.com - put "Reader feedback" as the subject
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Scott Morrison just blocked his immigration minister, Alex Hawke, from answering questions about the Murugappan family
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Albanese on new naval base: "What we had was a drop to the papers about how there was an announcement about there being an announcement down the track. Sound familiar with this Government? We'll wait for a proper briefing. We will be constructive, as always."
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"It shouldn't take having children to have a conscience. And, actually, on top of that, having children doesn't guarantee a conscience" - Grace Tame on the PM's "as a father" wording
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After withdrawing an unparliamentary remark, Morrison says the Chinese govt "has picked their horse and he's sitting right there". Albanese seeks leave for a national security debate where each leader speaks for 10 min, Dutton shuts it down by saying it's a stunt
#QT
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Barnaby Joyce: "I am getting a sense you are not voting for me."
@gabriellechan
rejoiner: "Michael McCormack is my local member"
Gold
#NPC
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Q: When you look at the debate over gay, lesbian and trans students, do you think the Parliament is doing enough to protect their rights?
Grace Tame: "Why does one group of people have more of a right to be themselves than another, that's what I have to ask the Government."
#NPC
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"It is a $2.1 trillion economy. That's right - twelve zeroes," Morrison says.
But is that right? Maths experts: wouldn't this be 11 zeroes, not 12 zeroes?
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Scott Morrison implored reporters to “just look at the record”. So we did just that and found the claims by the prime minister and his senior ministers are either factually inaccurate, misleading, or lack context
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JOURNALIST: So I'll repeat Phil's question to you which you didn't answer.
PRIME MINISTER: No, I did answer it.
JOURNALIST: No, no, you didn't
@murpharoo
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Attention Ray Hadley: The high commissioner of Solomon Islands, Robert Sisilo, told Australia's Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade on 04/09/2020: "Lest we forget, climate change, not COVID-19, not even China, is the biggest threat to our security."
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Also from Morrison's interview with Nine this morning: "But you know, who knows what their policies are. Because, you know, it's after COP26 now. We still don't know what their 2030 target is."
Does Morrison not realise
#COP26
hasn't actually finished yet?
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ASIO boss Mike Burgess tells
#estimates
he deliberately didn't give particulars when describing foiled foreign interference plot last week because attempts are “not confirmed to one side of politics” or one jurisdiction
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Anthony Albanese has pledged to spend an extra $2.5bn fixing the problems in aged care if Labor is elected – as the major parties accelerate towards a campaign contest to be called within days.
@murpharoo
#Budget2022
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Desperate, dangerous and wrong: My comment on Dutton's question-time intervention
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Dumped minister Chester at a doorstop today: "I wouldn't normally comment on private conversations, but I'm gonna say the conversation I had with Barnaby was so incoherent yesterday, I couldn't actually explain what he was even saying to me."
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Albanese says it's a market failure that so many of the frontline workforce we are relying on most - cleaners, childcare workers, teachers, healthcare workers, nurses - are our poorest paid. "That's market failure, because price does not represent value."
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Ukraine's rep at the security council: "It’s too late, my dear colleagues, to speak about de-escalation - too late. The Russian president declared a war - should I play the video of your president? [Holds up phone] Ambassador, should I do that right now? Or you can confirm it."
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Australian Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus at
#NPC
in Canberra: "Mr Assange's case has gone on long enough. The Prime Minister has said this. The Foreign Minister has said this. I've said this. I will say it again: it has gone on long enough ..."
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Mathias Cormann’s flights aboard a Royal Australian Air Force special purpose aircraft over the course of 34 days cost a total of $380,000,
@GuardianAus
can reveal after analysing the defence department’s quietly released flight records.
#auspol
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In breaking news, Brittany Higgins has issued a statement saying she has today "reengaged with Australian Federal Police and will proceed with a formal complaint regarding the crime committed against me in what should be the safest building in Australia"
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Barnaby Joyce of $100 lamb roasts fame denounces false predictions
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An inquiry into the sports rorts scandal has accused the government of “obstruction” after the former minister, Bridget McKenzie, refused to appear and her successor blocked the release of advice about the legality of the $100m program.
@paul_karp
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Morrison uses inflammatory language to describe asylum-seeker boat arrivals as an "armada", meaning a fleet of warship / a naval invasion force
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Josh Burns to parliament
#QT
: "Why did the Prime Minister, when posting a video of his media conference to Facebook, delete any criticism of the Melbourne protests and only include the sections where he criticised vaccine mandates?..."
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"Amping up the prospect of war against a superpower is the most dangerous election tactic in Australian history – a tactic employed by irresponsible politicians who are desperate to hang on to power at any cost,” Wong will say a speech to the ANU tomorrow:
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Australian voters are unlikely to be told the full cost of scrapping the French submarine deal before the election, with Peter Dutton signalling the negotiations will not be wrapped up until after July
#AusVotes2022
#ausvotes
#auspol
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Tudge re Ridd: "We need a culture in our universities of accepting & welcoming open robust debate, even if some feel offended"
Tudge: “I will certainly not be supporting a curriculum doc that has ANZAC Day as a contested idea. It’s offensive to the diggers, all of our veterans.”
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Albanese announces a settlement with France’s Naval Group. $830 million in compensation. He says that brings total cost of the abandoned project to $3.4bn. Note: It’s wrong to present this as a saving compared to $5.5bn figure
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Albanese adds: "You can't actually defend the country with a media release. You need to defend the country with defence equipment and with skills. And we don't have that from this Government."
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He confirms Albanese gave an accurate account last week when the opposition leader said Asio chief had no concerns about his candidates
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Nearly two years before Mathias Cormann embraced the language of a “green recovery” and rapid net-zero emissions goals, his govt received a report rebuking it for Australia’s climate performance. It was from the OECD - the body he’s now campaigning to lead
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Albanese: "It's time for the PM to give both himself and Australians confidence that Mr Porter is a fit and proper person to hold the office of A-G. This is the first law officer of the land. That does matter. That does make a difference. This cannot be the end of the matter."
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The former Australian Army captain
@JasonScanes
, who has campaigned for years on behalf of Afghan nationals who served alongside Australia, said he was “disgusted” to hear Dutton “attacking and besmirching the good name of those interpreters”
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Labor really ramping up attack on PM over vaccine rollout.
> Butler (ABC): "He has let the country down very badly, & it's going to mean that we are going to end up locked up from the rest of the world for longer"
> Albanese: "This govt couldn't run a choko vine up a back fence"
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In a speech to an independent schools conference, the federal acting education minister sledges public school teachers ("you don’t have the bottom 10% of teachers dragging the chain") and students ("Trust me, they didn’t come from your schools")
@Paul_Karp
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"Trans people are constantly used as political pawns without care – this must stop"
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"What we did was clumsy. It was not done with a lot of grace,” Biden tells Macron re subs. “I was under the impression that France had been informed long before that the deal was not going through, I honest to God did not know you had not been.” Video:
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Nine newspapers and News Corp Australia have been urged by five federal crossbenchers to stop publishing advertisements from Clive Palmer that they say amplify misinformation during the pandemic, writes
@murpharoo
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"My govt will never be the preferred partner of a foreign govt," Morrison says in attack on Labor, hours after senior Dfat official Justin Hayhurst told Estimates Beijing "seeks to exploit social and other divisions in countries to pursue its interests – that’s very apparent"
#QT
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“Unfortunately, some of the speculation missed a key point. We stopped the plan before it was executed and the targets were not aware they were in fact targets,” Burgess says
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The Morrison government is backing Kerry Stokes to continue overseeing the Australian War Memorial amid new reports about the media baron’s support for former soldier Ben Roberts-Smith. The Greens argue the reports make Stokes’ position as chair untenable
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"This is not an act of aggression and is in fact fairly standard activity for navies" - international law expert
Here's a news analysis on Peter Dutton's Chinese spy ship intervention:
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Pursuing voter ID laws based on unsubstantiated suspicions of voter fraud, failing to unequivocally condemn extremists, labelling the opposition party "the enemy of the free people". Dangerous. Are we a couple of years behind the situation the US finds itself in?
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On Scott Morrison's Taiwan policy blunder,
@SenatorWong
tells
@GuardianAus
: "In diplomacy .. words matter. There are few more sensitive issues for our security than Taiwan and Mr Morrison’s lack of focus on detail is enough to keep you up at night"
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"How about we treat national security in the way it should be? Which is a bipartisan way with considered sober analysis, and with announcements that actually lead to outcomes."
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Labor will vow to increase foreign aid to Pacific island countries, ramp up patrols to fight illegal fishing and boost regional broadcasting, as it makes an election pledge to “restore Australia’s place as first partner of choice for our Pacific family”
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Breaking: A senior UN official has warned the climate crisis will “wreak havoc” across the Australian economy if coal is not rapidly phased out, and joined those explicitly calling on Morrison govt to adopt more ambitious emissions goals.
@adamlmorton
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Alan Tudge today on free speech on uni campuses: "Ultimately, what we want to see is viewpoint diversity so that students are challenged with different ideas."
Also Tudge: objects to use of word contested in national curriculum
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When confronted by his inaction on the Brereton reforms, Peter Dutton attempts to shoot the messenger. Here are the facts:
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Acting ed minister Stuart Robert has said he does not know where Alan Tudge is; bizarrely claimed to have been doing his job for “almost 12 months”. Coalition attempted to cover up error with transcript claiming Robert said “a number of months”
@Paul_Karp
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Labor has written to the auditor general asking for an investigation into how Pauline Hanson came to use a novelty cheque with her face on it to announce a $23m taxpayer-funded federal grant to build a stadium in Rockhampton, writes
@Paul_Karp
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"So ASIO is proudly apolitical, the Director General Security - I am apolitical, our Act in fact requires us by law to be apolitical. ASIO is here to serve our national interest," not partisan or personal interests, Burgess says
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When something false is repeated after the error has been called out multiple times, it can only be described as a lie
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Exclusive: Australia has quietly dropped its recognition of West Jerusalem as capital of Israel, unwinding language adopted by Morrison govt after US moved its embassy from Tel Aviv.
Dfat says final status "to be resolved as part of any peace negotiations"
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Morrison’s office refuses to release his full text message exchange with Macron at centre of
#Aukus
row, citing reasons that undermine earlier selective leaking. Texts “communicated in confidence”; releasing may harm “Australia’s international relations”
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Peter Dutton has been accused of “whipping up fear” and playing “dog-whistle politics”, after he said some of the former Afghan guards and interpreters who worked with Australia had shifted their allegiance to the Taliban or al-Qaeda
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Australian charities fear a looming crackdown on the sector could silence their advocacy work, despite the Morrison government watering down several elements of its initial plans. Details and reaction:
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Updated: Australia’s acting PM, Michael McCormack, has been accused of embracing Donald Trump-style post-truth politics, after he said “facts can sometimes be contentious” and refused to rebuke a Coalition MP who likened mandatory masks to child abuse
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“Asio is not here to be politicised. It should not be,” Burgess tells
#Estimates
Question: Would you say it could undermine your credibility and your mission if you were to be seen as a partisan player?
"Absolutely. we need confidence of the people we protect."
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The pod:
Frydenberg: Climate issue “difficult for successive govts .. never seen an issue .. which has played to the extremes like this one”
@murpharoo
: “Well it plays to extremes because you guys weaponised it for 10 yrs”
JF: “Well I don’t accept that”
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"Taylor issued a press release making the same claim, but the statement did not explain how the numbers were reached or who did the analysis. His office did not respond to a request for the modelling on Tuesday morning."
@adamlmorton
#ausvotes
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Today
@GuardianAus
can reveal Richard Forbes, who was an adviser to the former deputy prime minister and Nationals leader Mark Vaile, is being paid $190,000 to produce videos documenting the recovery of communities affected by the “black summer” bushfires
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New from me: OECD members are being lobbied by the Greens to block Mathias Cormann’s leadership bid because of Coalition climate record, as the Australian government defends its financial backing for former minister’s jet-setting campaign around Europe
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Jacqui Lambie sinks Coalition plan to ban mobile phone access in immigration detention. "They’re using it the same way I’ve been using mine through Covid – just to get through the day." News wrap by
@Paul_Karp
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Important: Nearly 1,400 people in Afghanistan who were issued with emergency visas but never made it to Australia have had those approvals lapse, a Senate inquiry has revealed
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"Anyone can have a memory lapse, particularly when you are tired, and under pressure .. But Friday’s memory lapse .. will only serve to reinforce public perceptions the Morrison govt hasn’t grasped the magnitude of its responsibilities" -
@murpharoo
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Critical to the reform process was a pledge by then-minister Reynolds to keep public informed via parliament. How many times do you think Dutton – who took over in March 2021 – has updated parliament on the work of the oversight panel?
The answer is zero.
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Federal Labor is demanding the Morrison government “urgently explain” more than $30m in environmental offsets it bought for the western Sydney airport, joining the Greens in calling for an investigation.
@_LisaMCox
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Australia’s deputy prime minister has refused to say he accepts key findings of the latest global summary of climate science, declaring he won’t be “berated” or participate in a “kangaroo court”. Here's the full news story:
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Govt attacks Labor for flagging tax crackdown on multinationals
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This is getting very messy, just before the election campaign formally begins.
Part 1: Michael Towke claims cabinet minister texted ‘I believe you’ following allegations against Scott Morrison
@msmarto
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Labors asks why not Zoom, after Morrison says Cormann would have contracted Covid-19 if he had used commercial flights for his OECD campaign. It's also emerged Cormann is planning another leg of his travels after Europe, with a visit to South America
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"Don't listen to George Christensen. He's not a doctor," Morrison says, but his MP is "allowed to speak his mind"
"Australia is a free country,you can't go around locking people up for what they say as Australians."
(No one suggesting that - but remains in Coalition party room)
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Australian govt has missed a deadline to decide on compensation for victims of alleged war crimes in Afghanistan, potentially leaving it for post-election. Also the updates to parliament promised by former minister Reynolds seem to have fallen by wayside:
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The aged care royal commission has criticised the Morrison govt for failing to establish independent monitoring and reporting of aged care quality outcomes, as performance during the pandemic dominated first day of federal parliament since June
@murpharoo
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Updated again: McCormack rejects calls for apology for comparing Capitol siege to Black Lives Matter protests, saying "bleeding heart" confected outrage and "all lives matter". Bowen says acting PM's attempt to diminish BLM movement "was beyond disgusting"
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Morrison statement on Tudge: "Today he has informed me that in the interests of his family and his own well-being and in order to focus on his re-election as the Member for Aston he is not seeking to return to the frontbench, and I support his decision."
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Penny Wong tells
@murpharoo
relationship with China is “complex and challenging and difficult”, “only made harder by the playing of domestic politics with that”. Dialogue is important but a Labor govt won’t take a backward step on substantive disagreements
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New from me: A former senior Howard government media adviser has been awarded a $190,000 public relations contract with Australia’s bushfire recovery agency without a full tender process
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Oh dear. Colbeck was due to brief cabinet on 5 August about the Victorian aged care situation “but my IT systems were down so that briefing .. was conducted by Minister Hunt"
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Perrottet says he believes Morrison went too far in describing the state’s anti-corruption watchdog as a “kangaroo court”. Premier says Icac “plays an important role in upholding integrity and confidence in politicians and in public servants”
@mmcgowan
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Tech companies should ���disrupt and deter” people attempting to search for rightwing extremist content and Australia should join its Five Eyes allies in proscribing some far-right groups as terrorist organisations, according to Kristina Keneally.
@paul_karp
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Now would be a good time to repost this piece by
@AdesholaOre
on what has happened with public and non-govt school funding since Gonski:
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Burgess doesn't want to confirm or deny specifics. But IF intelligence misused, that would be "a problem" but if it were hypothetically misused, he would look at whether investigation required
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Morrison, during an interview with Sky News on Monday, did not deny he had not contacted the global chief of Pfizer to push the case for more supply to Australia. “I’ve spoken to the head of Pfizer in Australia,” the PM replied, saying he was dealing with the local branch
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Morrison answered for him, saying the matter is still to be determined by the courts. He says there has been no finding of protection for the family, insists govt policy has not changed
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Labor’s Mark Dreyfus has flagged he will seek an urgent briefing from the attorney general’s department on the handling of the Bernard Collaery case, should he be appointed Australia’s first law officer.
@knausc
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AEC launches legal action against Laming for allegedly failing to disclose his political links on a Facebook page. Move comes after
@GuardianAus
revealed in April he was operating 35 Facebook groups – at least one for each suburb in electorate
@msmarto
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There needs to be a serious national discussion about extent to which the man who carried out Christchurch massacre was radicalised in Australia,
@KKeneally
says. It shows “where that hate can lead & why we need to act as a society and parliament and govt”
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Burgess, speaking generally, says he is able to have very robust discussions with all elements of the political class and the official world to make it clear what he thinks is appropriate or inappropriate: “I can assure you I will continue to do that when things like this happen”
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