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  • Former Labor MP and dissenter Harry Quick

    Last Labor dissenter weighs in on Payman, sperm donations destroyed, dozens dead in Hindu crush

  • Labor senator Fatima Payman in the Senate chamber at Parliament House this week.

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    Australia politics live: Albanese offers olive branch to Payman; anti-protest laws ‘attacking our fundamental rights’

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  • Former Labor MP Harry Quick at his home in Hobart, Tasmania.

    Former dissenting Labor MP backs Fatima Payman and says party needs to reconsider rules

    Last time a Labor MP voted against the party position was 2005 when Tasmanian MP Harry Quick opposed anti-terrorism legislation

  • Older Australians pressured into paying unfair robotax debts will not be compensated, government says

  • A third of land set aside for restoration in worse state than before, Australian offset audit finds

  • Photos of Australian children used in dataset to train AI, human rights group says

  • Mass purge of frozen sperm donations ordered as Queensland audit exposes misidentification risk

  • How high inflation has changed what we eat – Full Story podcast

  • Political strategist Glenn Druery having ‘informal conversations’ with Muslim groups and Fatima Payman

  • More rain forecast for Sydney and Brisbane while Melbourne set for coldest morning of 2024

Australian politics

  • Peter Dutton, David Littleproud and Angus Taylor

    Supermarket chains could be broken up for price-gouging as ‘last resort’ under Coalition proposal

  • Labor senator Fatima Payman

    Shorten says senator’s suspension gives all parties time to ‘work out what’s important’ – as it happened

  • Parliament House in Canberra

    Muslim Vote group says it will target Labor ministers and whip at next federal election

  • A man looking at a mobile phone with its screen pixellated

    Children could be blocked from social media as well as porn sites in Australian trial of age check technology

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Opinion & analysis

  • the Spotify logo seen displayed on a smartphone screen near a pair of earphones

    Spotify’s new audiobook bundle may reduce music royalties and shortchange authors

    Millicent Weber for the Conversation
  • Peter Lewis

    The Coalition’s nuclear fantasy serves short-term political objectives – and its fossil fuel backers

    Peter Lewis
  • Gabrielle Chan

    Extravagant maker of schemes: unpicking Barnaby Joyce’s anti-renewables campaign

    Gabrielle Chan
  • Helen Sullivan

    A rat: ‘We can no longer live as rats: we know too much’

    Helen Sullivan
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  • Health minister ‘deadly serious’ about enforcing new laws as vapes ban kicks in – video

  • Ellen Dwyer, an incident controller in the rescue team, says they are 'pleased' they have been able to remove a significant amount of weight and rope from the whale

    Rescue team cuts 800kg of tangled ropes and buoy from humpback whale off Gippsland coast – video

    Ellen Dwyer, an incident controller in the rescue team, says they are 'pleased' they have been able to remove a significant amount of weight and rope from the whale
  • The WikiLeaks founder has just ended a 12-year legal battle by accepting a plea deal that saw him accept one charge under the US espionage act

    'Julian plans to swim in the ocean every day,' says Stella Assange after husband freed – video

    The WikiLeaks founder has just ended a 12-year legal battle by accepting a plea deal that saw him accept one charge under the US espionage act
  • State department official Matthew Miller says the WikiLeaks founder 'put the lives of our partners, our allies and our diplomats at risk'

    Julian Assange put people in danger, US state department says after his release – video

  • Wife of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange asks for privacy after his arrival in Australia following plea deal

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    Stella Assange asks for time to ‘let our family be a family’ after husband's release – video

  • Australian prime minister says he had 'very warm discussion' with WikiLeaks founder after his arrival in the country

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    Assange 'generous in praise' of Australia's effort to secure his release, says Albanese – video

  • WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrives in his home country of Australia after years fighting a legal battle

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    Moment Julian Assange gets off plane as he arrives in Australia – video

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