Your morning Briefing: ALP’s asylum vow: you can stay

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Hello readers. Labor vows to asylum seekers that they can stay, and ScoMo rattles the tin in Toorak.

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten holding a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

‘You can stay’

More than 10,000 asylum-seekers, who arrived in Australia under the open-border policies of the Rudd and Gillard governments and are still being processed almost a ­decade later, would be given permanent protection and a pathway to ­citizenship under a Shorten ­government.

Labor deputy leader and senior Left faction figure Tanya Plibersek will shelve her previous opposition to the Coalition’s boat turnback policy to help Bill Shorten avoid an embarrassing challenge to his asylum-seeker policy next week.

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Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May returns to Downing street after postponing a parliamentary vote on her Brexit deal in London on December 10, 2018. (Photo by Ben STANSALL / AFP)

More Brexit mayhem

UK plunged into political mayhem as Theresa May vows to gain “assurances’’ from the EU after deferring the Brexit vote by up to five weeks. Ticky Fullerton, meantime, writes that we are watching a slow train wreck as Ms May loses control and her Brexit deal goes off the rails, perhaps taking her with it.

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There are only 2 genders t-shirt

‘Why I don’t dare wear this’

My daughter gave me a T-shirt stating that there are only two genders, writes Greg Melleuish. Should I take the risk and wear it to work? My answer is no. I would expect that some ideologically motivated individual would go through the various codes of conduct looking for a basis to lay a complaint against me.

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Rod Clement Margin Call cartoon for business 11-12-2018Version: Business Cartoon (1280x720 - Aspect ratio preserved, Canvas added)COPYRIGHT: The Australian's artists each have different copyright agreements in place regarding re-use of their work in other publications.Please seek advice from the artists themselves or the Managing Editor of The Australian regarding re-use.

ScoMo rattles tin

It was the summer’s evening Scott Morrison came to Toorak to thank Melbourne’s establishment — and ask for their money, writes Margin Call.

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Johannes Leak’s view

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