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Good afternoon, readers. Wednesday is heavy on politics, with Victoria on track to legalise euthanasia, the dual-citizenship fiasco claims another scalp and a generation mourns David Cassidy.

Good afternoon, readers. Wednesday is heavy on politics, with Victoria on track to legalise euthanasia, the dual-citizenship fiasco claims another scalp and a generation mourns David Cassidy.

Victoria set to pass assisted dying bill

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews with a Labor volunteer from the Northcote campaign during the State by-election for the Northcote District in Melbourne, Saturday November 18, 2017. (AAP Image/Mal Fairclough) NO ARCHIVING

Victoria is on track to having the country’s first euthanasia program in more than 20 years after the controversial legislation passed the Victorian parliament’s upper house this afternoon.

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Australian Conservatives candidate Joram Richa on the right. His brother Chechade Richa of Verum Media on the left. Picture: Supplied

Bernardi set to unleash Bennelong candidate

Cory Bernardi has chosen 25-year-old Joram Richa to run for the Australian Conservatives in the NSW Bennelong by-election. Richa will be unleashed into battle against Liberal candidate John Alexander and Labor’s Kristina Keneally. Mr Richa is pictured on the right.

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Nick Xenophon Team (NXT) Senator Skye Kakoschke-Moore announces her resignation at a press conference at her office in Adelaide, Wednesday, November 22, 2017. Nick Xenophon Team senator Skye Kakoschke-Moore has announced she is a dual citizen having inherited British citizenship from her mother and will resign. (AAP Image/David Mariuz) NO ARCHIVING

NXT senator quits over citizenship

Nick Xenophon Team senator Skye Kakoschke-Moore has quit parliament after confirming she holds dual-citizenship with Britain, the latest politician to be undone by the seemingly never-ending piece of string the dual-citizenship fiasco has become.

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ACL MD Lyle Shelton speaks at The Australian Christian Lobby "Embolden" conference at the Wesley Centre in Sydney, Saturday, November 18, 2017 (AAP Image/Ben Rushton) NO ARCHIVING

Freedoms ‘axed by Christmas’

ACL head Lyle Shelton says five million Australians will have their right to freedom of speech “wiped out before Christmas”. Mr Shelton has taken issue with the Turnbull government appointing Philip Ruddock to assess Australia’s religious protections.

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David Cassidy plays at Randwick Racecourse in 1947. Supplied: davidcassidy.com

David Cassidy dies, aged 67

David Cassidy, the star of the 1970s musical sitcom The Partridge Family, has died from organ failure, aged 67. The former teen heart-throb was called a “health hazard” by the then Victorian Health Minister Alan Scanlan after 300 teenagers fainted and 50 more were injured at a concert at the MCG.