PoliticsNow: China's Xi sees 'light of hope' despite end of zero-Covid
As several countries, but not Australia, impose Covid restrictions for intending Chinese arrivals ahead of the country's January 8 reopening, President Xi Jinping says the 'light of hope is right in front of us'.
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Free market path to lift Indigenous
Labor has handed its new tsar for Aboriginal business extraordinary powers that could make remote-community residents the owners of defence infrastructure and the funders of energy projects.
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Call for origin labels on imported timber
About a quarter of timber tested in Australia last year had incorrect species or origin labels. The industry wants new laws to prevent it happening and to support Australian producers.
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