Shadow treasurer Chris Bowen will pitch to many workers’ discontented with their lot, declaring in his first economic speech of the year that these people are being denied “a fair go”.
The government has been hopeful that it can persuade independent Cathy McGowan to break ranks with other crossbench supporters of the bill.
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Scott Morrison and David Coleman said: “There are now only four asylum seeker children on Nauru and they have all been approved for departure to the United States of America with their families”.
Sheep on one of the voyages in 2018
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More than 1500 sheep died across these voyages collectively from heat
stress, injury or disease – which was nevertheless under the official
“reportable mortality” rate.
The plan will be backed by the April 2 budget and other announcements.
in coming months, Morrison says.
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In a major economic address in Brisbane on Tuesday, Morrison will point out that at the coming election only half of those of voting age
will have been through a recession in their working lives.
Northern Territory Senator Nigel Scullion has announced he’s retiring at the next election.
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Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion and Minister for Human Services and Digital Transformation, Michael Keenan, have announced they will leave politics at this year’s election.
Two heroes of the Thai cave rescue, Craig Challen and Richard Harris, are joint Australian of the Year for 2019.
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A retired vet and an anaesthetist from Western Australia share the honour for 2019 after they used their medical and cave-diving skills to rescue 12 boys and their coach from a Thai cave in 2018.
In his speech Frydenberg repeats Scott Morrison’s warning that storm clouds hang over the global economy.
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As it approaches the election, the government’s economic pitch on its
record is being linked to the argument that the Coalition is the best
manager in uncertain times.
Rudd and his wife, Therese Rein, were receiving ALP life memberships at the conference.
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Broad has been forced to quit as assistant minster to McCormack after sensational claims about exchanges with a young woman he met through a “seeking arrangement” website.
In a counter attack against the Coalition, which is running hard on the ALP being soft on borders, Shorten accused the government of “telling lies about Labor” and thereby “doing the dirty work of the people smugglers.”
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He said the $500 million would directly improve orderly regional processing and resettlement in the region and countries closer to where refugees originally come from.
As environmental laws were foreshadowed at the Labor national conference, outside a climate change rally was in full swing.
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Labor would create a new Australian Environment Act and establish a federal Environment Protection Agency in its first term.
He will be regarded as a safe and uncontroversial choice, although some critics will say the government should have looked beyond former military ranks.
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison timed his news conference in Canberra with the governor-general designate to coincide with Bill Shorten’s opening address at the ALP national conference in Adelaide.
Labor would work with community housing providers, the residential construction sector and institutional investors.
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In his Sunday announcement, Shorten says the ALP’s ten-year plan to build 250,000 houses and units would be Australia’s “biggest ever investment in affordable housing”.
The government briefed Indonesia before the Prime Minister outlined the new Australian policy in a speech in Sydney on Saturday.
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Morrison announced a compromise position that recognises West Jerusalem as Israel’s capital but does not move Australia’s embassy there until a peace settlement determines Jerusalem’s final status.
Morrison said the government.
had been working on the issue since January.
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Opposition leader Bill Shorten slammed the proposed body was “not a
fair dinkum anti-corruption commission”. It would be limited in scope
and power and had no transparency.
Fifield said he recognised the broadcasters’ charters were broad and.
allowed flexibility in how their boards implemented them.
The health program was unveiled as the federal, state and territories meet in Adelaide on Wednesday for the Council of Australian Governments with health one of the items on the agenda.
The final day of parliament was just like the other sitting days of 2018: chaotic.
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In the final sitting week for the year, the encryption bill was finally passed, and the Liberal Party changed its rules to prevent sitting prime ministers being toppled.
Scott Morrison on Wednesday produced his own bill and suggested both sides give their parliamentarians a conscience vote.
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The Victorian backbencher has announced she is quitting the party to join the crossbench, launching a scathing attack on the right wing of the Liberal Party in the process.
Poverty means many kids have to go to school without the right uniform - which can lead to being ostracised.
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Education through to the end of high school is a birthright in Australia but many kids are missing out on important parts of that birthright in ways that leave them feeling like losers and outsiders.
Ryan declined to name names, but his reference to the media was.
directed at commentators on Sky in the evening and the Sydney shock
jocks.
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In a critique of federal influences in the rout of the Victorian Liberals, Ryan, a former vice-president of the state division, pointed to swings in seats “that are the cradle of the Liberal party”.