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Greg Brown is the Canberra Bureau chief. He previously spent five years covering federal politics for The Australian where he built a reputation as a newsbreaker consistently setting the national agenda.

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Labor to target Dutton

Labor will be targeting Peter Dutton’s seat of Dickson at the next election, warns Opposition Finance Spokesman Jim Chalmers.

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Glen Eira Mayor Cr. Mary Delahunty is starting a public art program to stop tagging on signal boxes and other public places across the city. Picture: Chris Eastman

Right at the heart of ALP gender woes

Talented women shut out of winning safe seats are deserting Bill Shorten’s Victorian Right faction for the Left.

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Industrial Relations

Federal Opposition Leader Bill Shorten alights from his Queensland Jobs Not Cuts bus in Logan, south of Brisbane, Thursday, January 17, 2019. Mr Shorten will visit a number of marginal seats in the state in the coming days. (AAP Image/Dan Peled) NO ARCHIVING

Fairer go for local workers, vows ALP

Labor has fired a pre-election shot at multinationals, vowing to put more projects into the hands of local companies and workers.

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Prime Minister Scott Morrison and MP Kelly O'Dwyer are seen during a joint press conference in Melbourne, Saturday, January 19, 2019. Australia's Industrial Relations Minister Kelly O'Dwyer has quit politics to spend more time with her family and to try for a third child. (AAP Image/Ellen Smith) NO ARCHIVING

PM denies MPs are jumping ship

PM rejects suggestions MPs are weighing up their careers ahead of possible poll defeat, accusing ALP of ‘sledging’ Kelly O’Dwyer.

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Indigenous

Federal Opposition Leader Bill Shorten, flanked by Labor's candidate for Lilley Anika Wells, speaks to the media during a visit to the Prince Charles Hospital in Brisbane, Friday, January 18, 2019. The visit is a part of Shorten's Queensland jobs Not Cuts bus tour to a number of marginal seats in the state. (AAP Image/Dan Peled) NO ARCHIVING

Republicans welcome ALP’s Voice priority

Australian republicans have welcomed Bill Shorten’s vow to fast-track a referendum for the indigenous ‘voice to parliament’.

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National Affairs

2016 Federal Election Liberal Party election night function in Hobart picture of Senator David Bushby

Lib senator quits for plum post

Senator David Bushby has been unveiled in a prized overseas role before he has formally resigned from parliament.

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National Affairs

Federal Opposition Leader Bill Shorten speaks at a press conference outside Logan hospital during his Queensland Jobs Not Cuts bus tour in Logan, south of Brisbane, Thursday, January 17, 2019. Mr Shorten will visit a number of marginal seats in the state in the coming days. (AAP Image/Dan Peled) NO ARCHIVING

Shorten to fast track voice poll

Bill Shorten says he will hold the vote to change the constitution in the first term of a Labor government if he becomes PM.

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Foreign Affairs

A sign welcoming Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is seen as he receives a ceremonial greeting on arrival at Nausori Airport, 19 kilometers out of Suva, Fiji, Thursday, January 17, 2019. (AAP Image/Dan Himbrechts) NO ARCHIVING

Leaders cordial as ScoMo drinks in welcome

Scott Morrison and his Fijian counterpart have agreed that terrorist Neil Prakash will die in jail.

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23/12/2016: Robert Tickner at home in Balmain. AustraliaÕs longest-serving indigenous affairs minister has called for Malcolm Turnbull to seize control of a moribund relationship with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, describing the state of indigenous disadvantage as Òtruly a national embarrassment of successive governmentsÓ.Pic by James Croucher

Cross-party support ‘vital for voice vote’

Australia’s longest-serving indigenous affairs minister bipartisan support is imperative to estable an indigenous voice to parliament.

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Foreign Affairs

A screen-grab taken on Friday, July 20, 2018, of Australian-born Islamic State terrorist Neil Prakash, who could now be freed from Turkish custody if the court determines he isn't under investigation for other crimes. (AAP Image/Supplied) NO ARCHIVING

Issue ‘dealt with’ before meeting

Scott Morrison says the citizenship status of terrorist Neil Prakash was not raised in his meeting with the Fijian prime minister.

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