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James MorrowNational Affairs Editor

James Morrow is the Daily Telegraph’s National Affairs Editor. James also hosts The US Report, Fridays at 8.00pm and co-anchor of top-rating Sunday morning discussion program Outsiders with Rita Panahi and Rowan Dean on Sundays at 9.00am on Sky News Australia.

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28 March 2024, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, MP Chris Bowen and MP Penny Sharpe visited the Hunter Valley to announce a $1 billion program that aims to boost the number of solar panels made in Australia. Liddell Power Station near Muswellbrook will be developed as a solar manufacturing hub. Photo: PMO / Supplied

How many planeloads of political staffers does it take to spend $1bn?

No one believes this green energy revolution will provide anything like the number of jobs or the salaries as currently exist in mines and power plants, writes James Morrow.

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Screen shots from video. Abu Ousayd (aka Wissam Haddad). On Friday 29 March, 2024 delivered a sermon at his Bankstown Islamic centre. (19:50) “Islam is not a passive religion. Yes we are peaceful, but there is a limit. “… If you attack our religion and our fellow brothers and sisters, and if you attack our lands, you are going to be met with men who love death more than you love life.” (16:55) He added: “Muslims are being killed, oppressed at the hands of the worshippers of cows, rats and monkeys.” (19:25) He declared if you “abandon jihad, Allah will send upon you humiliation and he will not remove it …”. Video: https://rumble.com/v4m6sht-friday-khutbah-ramadan-for-the-sahaba-ustadh-abu-ousayd.html

‘There is a limit’: Radical Islamic preacher’s Good Friday warning

A controversial Bankstown preacher has been referred to the police after delivering a fiery sermon on Friday claiming those who attack Islam will be “met with men who love death”.

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‘Air Force advice’ led Albo and Bowen to take two jets to Hunter trip

Energy Minister Chris Bowen has defended the use of two jets to get himself and the Prime Minister to the same solar energy announcement in the Hunter Valley.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. JANUARY 24, 2024: The Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese and Minister for Communications, Michelle Rowland announce the new ABC Chair Kim Williams at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Free speech could take a hit under proposed misinformation bill

Australians’ free speech could soon by limited by the “entrenched bias” of independent fact checkers under provisions of a proposed misinformation bill, new research has suggested.

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Sydney, August 26, 2005. Refugee supporters march along Sydney's George street to commemorate 'Tampa Day'. Tampa Day is a protest by the refugee support movement about an incident four years ago when the Howard government requested the crew of the vessel MV Tampa to assist asylum seekers whose boat was in danger of sinking off the West Australian coast only to be then refused permission to enter Australian waters. (AAP Image/Dean Lewins) NO ARCHIVING

The left hates borders, so why trust Labor when they say they can enforce them?

Anthony Albanese and Andrew Giles have a long history of being weak when it comes to detainees, and their latest attempts to legislate new powers are more about politics than anything else, writes James Morrow.

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Port chaos: Arrests as police clash with pro-Palestine protesters

Police have charged 19 people who gathered at an unauthorised pro-Palestine rally at Port Botany to protest against the unloading of an Israeli-owned shipping company vessel.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese signs journalist's arm and his front page on the WA GST funding guarantee. Picture: ABC

Albo using NSW’s GST riches to shore up Labor seats in Perth

Labor desperately wants to win more seats in WA to back it up against possible swings to the Coalition on the east coast at the next election. NSW taxpayers are helping to pay for this project

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125,000 new arrivals: record migration surge in just one month

Record numbers of permanent and long term visa holders in January are continuing to create pressure on the government over its promises to put an end to “Big Australia”.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. FEBRUARY 8, 2024: Climate Change and Energy Minister, Chris Bowen during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Bowen’s $100 billion net zero transition cost blunder

Energy Minister Chris Bowen has low-balled the cost of transitioning the country’s power grid to net zero by as much as $100 billion, experts have claimed.

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Youth crime 2023: Police seized imitation firearms during a raid on youth gangs in Cranbourne in April as part of Operation Alliance. Picture: Jake Nowakowski

Dutton flags federal ‘post and boast’ youth crime crackdown

Declaring “youth crime is out of control”, Peter Dutton plans to introduce legislation making it a federal crime for young criminals to promote their illegal activity online.

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