• PM defies gas sector with price cap, Musk loses $100bn in a year, Archie Roach given posthumous apology
    Dec 15 2022

    Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has warned gas companies against talking down their sector, Elon Musk has lost the title of world’s richest person and Police are investigating whether the trio who killed two police officers and a neighbour deliberately lured their victims to their remote Queensland property.


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  • Morrison evasive on robo-debt, crossbench approves energy plan, ambush teacher quit job over vaccine
    Dec 14 2022

    Former prime minister Scott Morrison has delivered an evasive performance at the robo-debt royal commission, the Albanese government’s plan to cap coal and gas prices is set to pass parliament today and one of the trio involved in a deadly ambush of police in Queensland last year quit her job at the local school because she refused to take the mandatory Covid vaccination.

     

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  • Police consider paranoid plot, Higgins reaches confidential settlement, New Zealand phases out smoking
    Dec 13 2022

    Police are investigating the apparent online promotion of paranoid conspiracy theories by one of the trio involved in a fatal ambush at a remote Queensland property, Former Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins has reached a confidential settlement with the Commonwealth after her claims of sexual assault at Parliament House and Former Coalition minister Marise Payne has told the robo-debt royal commission she doesn't know when the need for policy and law changes for the scheme “dropped off the radar”.


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  • Six killed at bush property, free Covid tests and therapy cut, another builder collapses
    Dec 12 2022

    Six people have been killed, including two police officers and three suspects, after an ambush at a remote Queensland property, The Albanese government has made sweeping changes to Australia’s Covid response and A NSW building company has announced bankruptcy, in the latest of a spate of companies going under in the construction sector.

     

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  • Greens reject coal compo, more activists face jail time, US grab alleged Lockerbie bomber
    Dec 11 2022

    The Greens will seek to vote down federal government plans for up to $500m in compensation for coal companies subjected to price caps, More than a dozen climate activists are facing possible jail time and the Libyan man suspected of making the bomb that destroyed a passenger plane over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 is in US custody.


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  • Green energy to fill gaps, police ‘interference’ claimed in Higgins’ case, federal EPA to assess new projects
    Dec 8 2022

    Federal and state energy ministers have agreed on a renewables “capacity mechanism” for energy security, Chief prosecutor in the trial of Bruce Lehrmann has complained that police engaged in “a very clear campaign to pressure” him not to prosecute the alleged rape of Brittany Higgins and Green groups have broadly welcomed Labor’s proposed overhaul of federal environmental laws.

     

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  • Morrison told of robo-debt illegality, Houston preached after abuse confession, raids halt far-right German plot
    Dec 7 2022

    Morrison was warned the robo-debt scheme would be illegal without major changes, Frank Houston continued preaching sermons for months after admitting that he had sexually abused a seven-year-old boy as heard by court and Thousands of German police have conducted raids on members of a far-right group allegedly plotting to overthrow the government by force.


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  • States asked to cap coal prices, cash rate hits 10-year high, ‘rock chicks’ find ancient treasure
    Dec 6 2022

    The Albanese government has requested that NSW and Queensland impose their own coal price caps, and is open to offering compensation to the states for any lost royalties,  The Reserve Bank of Australia has lifted interest rates by 0.25%, in its eighth straight rate rise, and a climate activist sentenced to 15 months’ jail for a protest on the Sydney Harbour Bridge is the niece of a senior minister in the NSW government who voted for anti-protest laws used to imprison her.

     

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    5 mins