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Hello readers. The government’s tax deal sparks a showdown with the gas lobby, and Nick Kyrgios hits the pub as rumble with Rafa looms.

Minister for Finance Matthias Cormann addresses media at the Mural Hall in Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, 4 July, 2019. Independent Senator Jacqui Lambie has thrown her support behind the federal government's income tax cuts, gauranteeing the $158bn package will become law. (AAP Image/Sam Mooy) NO ARCHIVING

Gas lobby showdown

The gas industry has slammed Centre Alliance’s gas reforms, which it claims to have secured in exchange for supporting the tax cuts bill.

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Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese face off at Parliament House yesterday. Pictures: Gary Ramage

ALP amendments in limbo

Crossbench support for full tax cuts package won’t stop Labor moving its amendments in the Senate. Sid Maher reckons it’s game, set and match to the PM on the first fair dinkum day of the new parliament Keep up with the latest from parliament in our live blog, PoliticsNow.

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Nick Kyrgios and pub stint

Nick hits pub

Nick Kyrgios has prepared for one of the biggest matches of his career, a Wimbledon showdown with bitter rival Rafa Nadal, with a long session at his favourite watering hole.

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Bourbon mixes with water in the Kentucky River, Wednesday, July 3, 2019, following an overnight fire at a Jim Beam distillery in Woodford County, Ky. Firefighters from four counties responded to the blaze that erupted late Tuesday. (Pat McDonogh/Courier Journal via AP)

Bourbon in the water, fire in the sky

Fire has destroyed a Jim Beam warehouse with 45,000 barrels of bourbon, spilling whiskey into US rivers.

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A polar fox is fitted with a satellite tracking collar in Krossfjorden, Svalbard, a Norwegian Arctic archipelago, on July 29, 2017, as part of research conducted by the Norwegian Polar Institute. Norwegian researchers said Tuesday July 2, 2019, that this young female arctic fox, shown in this photo, has been tracked walking from northern Norway to Canada’s far north, a distance of 4,415 kilometers (2,737 miles), via Greenland in 76 days. (Elise Stroemseng/Norwegian Polar Institute via AP)

Fox on the run

An Arctic fox has crossed sea ice to North America, covering 4400km from the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard to Canada.

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fragment view of the road under construction

The long read: Roads to redemption?

Infrastructure will save our economy, but the hurdles are many. Adam Creighton reports.