PoliticsLatest: Lidia Thorpe suspended from Senate after chamber antics
The suspension of Lidia Thorpe comes after the independent senator tore up a motion and marched out of the chamber with her middle finger raised.
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Albanese’s cheap media shot turns into a strategic error
Anthony Albanese’s ABC radio interview on Friday was meant to be a cunning political ploy, showing that Labor had thought of the idea of pushing China from the Port of Darwin first. It turned into a word salad of uncertainty, dressed in contradictions and confusion.
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Coalition policy will ‘deter high-quality students’ from unis
The International Education Association of Australia chief executive says the Coalition did not consult the international education sector on its proposed international student policy.
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