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Why teal independents are seeking Liberal voters and spooking Liberal MPs

ELECTIONS
Why teal independents are seeking Liberal voters and spooking Liberal MPs Amy Nethery, Deakin University One of the Morrison government’s biggest challenges in this election campaign is the rise of the “teals”, a group of 22 independents who have received funding from Climate 200. Running on platforms of science-backed climate action, integrity...
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Russia Seeks to Annex Occupied Ukraine as Invasion Goals Shift

OPINION
Nearly 10 weeks into the war and with its troops making only marginal gains in Ukraine’s east, Russia is focused on cementing both military and political control over the territory it has taken so far. The Kremlin is installing occupation governments, ordering locals to use rubles for transactions and, according...
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Why Barnaby Joyce’s ‘gift’ to farmers of a $5.4bn dam could create the ‘most expensive water’ in Australia

POLITICS
If the $5.4 billion Hells Gates Dam project, recently announced by Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce, goes ahead in north Queensland, it could create the most expensive water in the country, according to a water engineering expert. "If you were to follow the principles of the National Water Initiative and have some sort of cost recovery...
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Paid access to politicians

ELECTIONS
The former chairman and co-founder of Aspen Medical has revealed how the company obtained access to senior ranks of the Coalition government by participating in political fundraising and appointing a former Liberal cabinet minister to its board. The company has earned $1.6 billion over the past two years, the bulk...
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US can seize Russian oligarch’s $436m superyacht: Fiji court

ELECTIONS
A Fiji court has ruled that the United States can seize a Russian-owned superyacht, 21 days after the luxury vessel Amadea arrived in the Pacific island nation and was detained by police. US authorities assert that the Amadea is ultimately owned by Russian oligarch Suleiman Kerimov, who has been sanctioned...
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ScoMo: Australia could become an unrecognisable “public autocracy” if a national ICAC with teeth was established

ECONOMY
By Emma Elsworthy, Worm editorAustralia could become an unrecognisable “public autocracy” if a national ICAC with teeth was established — according to Prime Minister Scott Morrison, that is. The PM told the SMH that the watchdog shouldn’t look at pork-barrelling in marginal seats, but rather focus on criminal activity, declaring...
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RBA Governor Philip Lowe is hiking interest rates. Worst case, it’ll mean an extra $600 per month on a $500,000 mortgage

ECONOMY
The bank expects worse inflation to come, warning that it sees “headline inflation of around 6% and underlying inflation of around 4.75%; by mid 2024, headline and underlying inflation are forecast to have moderated to around 3%”.     Isaac Gross, Monash University Reserve Bank Governor Philip Lowe has announced he will lift...
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Taylor’s obsession with failing, inflationary coal will help kill off AGL split

ELECTIONS
By Bernard Keane Crikey Politics Editor Scott Morrison and Angus Taylor have spent the past three and a half years trying to chain Australia to an unreliable and uneconomic source of power that now threatens to send family electricity bills skyrocketing — but ironically may also help Mike Cannon-Brookes in his...
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Voice from The Heart

BIASED HISTORY
The Uluru Statement from the Heart outlines the path forward for recognising Indigenous Australians in the nation's constitution. It was endorsed with a standing ovation by a gathering of 250 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders on May 26, 2017, following a four-day First Nations National Constitutional Convention held at...
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‘Time is now’: Australia-wide campaign for referendum

FUA AWARDS
By Natassia Chrysanthos A new campaign will tell Australians that the time has come to decide if they want to recognise the nation’s first people in the Constitution as it calls on the country to support its first referendum since 1999. The landmark call to action – backed by campaign veterans,...
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