Your afternoon Briefing
Good afternoon, readers. Labor has created a citizenship hit list and why Bill Shorten wants to ban alcohol from political events.
Good afternoon, readers. Labor has drawn up a citizenship hit list of 14 MPs and Senators and why Bill Shorten wants to ban alcohol from political events. Plus, The Australian launches a ground-breaking, major podcast series - The Teacher’s Pet.
Labor’s Coalition citizenship hit list
Labor has drawn up a hit list of 14 Coalition MPs and Senators who it says fail the government’s test of possible dual citizenship. But there is one main problem, according to Peter Van Onselen.
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‘Best not to serve alcohol, PM’
Bill Shorten has called for Malcolm Turnbull to ban alcohol from political events after a man was fined for allegedly abusing the Prime Minister and ‘giving him the finger’ at a pub.
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‘Kim will be very, very happy’
Donald Trump has offered Kim Jong-un a guarantee: surrender your nuclear arsenal and stay in power — or meet the same fate as Colonel Gaddafi.
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I don’t know if I trust Bill: Setka
Militant construction union boss John Setka says he doesn’t know whether he trusts Bill Shorten, and plans to give the Labor leader six months to prove himself as prime minister.
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A family like most others
Australians see much of their own families in the Windsors, and even Jack the Insider, a republican, sees this wedding as a cause for celebration. Here’s why the nation will be fixed to their screens as Prince Harry and Meghan Markle wed.