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Independent Senator Lidia Thorpe is manhandled after attempting to disrupt British anti-transgender rights activist Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, also known as Posie Parker at a Ã¢â¬ÅLet Womaen SpeakÃ¢â¬Â anti trans rally outside Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, March 23, 2023. (AAP Image/Michelle Haywood) NO ARCHIVING

Thorpe plays victim while flaunting privilege

Lidia Thorpe has used her senate platform to silence opponents and stoke division, while taking cheap shots at fellow parliamentarians, Indigenous leaders and law enforcement.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos MARCH 29, 2023: Opposition Leader Peter Dutton faced off with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during Question Time in the House of Representatives in Parliament House Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gary Ramage

Voice could disrupt stable government: Dutton

Peter Dutton has launched a fresh attack on the advisory body, in which he raised new questions over its operation.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 16: Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus during Question Time at Parliament house in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Labor’s confusion and chaos scoring own goal

The government’s effort to explain the Indigenous voice to parliament’s reach won’t be helped by contradicting messages from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Attorney General Mark Dreyfus.

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ABC host Jon Faine blasted over ‘urban white’ voice criticism

Broadcaster Neil Mitchell has lashed former ABC host Jon Faine and the ‘media elite’ over its treatment of voice critics.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos FEBRUARY 8, 2023: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton attended the UN Women Australia International Women's Day Parliamentary Breakfast, in Parliament House Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gary Ramage

Release Solicitor-General advice on voice: Dutton

Peter Dutton says he has questions on how the voice will deliver practical results, and wants transparency on its wording.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 2: Professor Megan Davis of The Government Referendum Working Group addresses the media after meeting with the Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton at Parliament house in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Voice working group ‘so close’ on advice

Members of the working group will meet with Anthony Albanese tonight to present in detail what they believe the referendum question, constitutional amendment and principles should be.

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ONE TIME USE - Only for Sarah Ison story in The Australian. No future use permitted without permission from Senator Kerrynne Liddle (see Notes). PRINT VERSION 22/02/2023: Kate Pitjara, one of about a dozen people living rough on the concrete slab a couple kilometres outside of Alice Springs Credit: Kerrynne Liddle

Alice Springs family living on a concrete slab finally moved into a house

The Central Australian family who have been living on a cement slab outside the township of Alice Springs for years are now all in temporary accommodation.

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Indigenous Australian, Minister Linda Burney, Attorney General Mark Dreyfus, Senator Pat Dodson and Indigenous leaders addressing the media about the voice in Adelaide on Friday. - Picture - Supplied

Voice ‘still on track’ despite delay on wording

A failure of Indigenous leaders to finalise its advice on a constitutional amendment won’t derail advisory body, Linda Burney insists.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos SEPTEMBER 29, 2022: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese attended the gathering. The first meetings of the Referendum Working Group and the Referendum Engagement Group in Parliament House in Canberra. The groups will work with Government on the next steps to a referendum in this term of Parliament to enshrine an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice in the Constitution. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gary Ramage

Voice working group poised to advise PM

Indigenous leaders begin their final voice meeting before presenting their preferred wording for a constitutional amendment to give the advisory body its power.

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15/7/20: Bret Walker QC leaves the Ruby Princes Inquiry in Sydney. John Feder/The Australian.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 2: Senator Pat Dodson at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Dodson tells ALP ‘act now on custody deaths’

Anthony Albanese’s reconcilation envoy Pat Dodson has urged his government to act on the ‘national disgrace’ of indigenous deaths in custody.

Tricia Rivera

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos DECEMBER 16, 2022: Federal Minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney addresses media ahead of the Joint Council on Closing the Gap meeting. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Jeremy Piper

Court in the act: what else is voice lobby not telling us?

The gamble by Yes activists that we would not look too hard at the proposed wording and its consequences, or stand up to bullying, has manifestly failed.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 06: Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor addresses the media at Parliament House on February 06, 2023 in Canberra, Australia. The political year intensified in Canberra on Monday as parliament sat for the first time for the year, with intense focus expected on the debate around the Voice to parliament. (Photo by Martin Ollman/Getty Images)

PM, Labor ‘break election promise on super’

Angus Taylor says Anthony Albanese has broken an ‘unambiguous commitment’ that he wouldn’t raise taxes on Australian super.

Noah Yim, Geoff Chambers and Patrick Commins

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Former North Queensland Cowboys and Queensland player Matt Bowen visited the Cape York community of Aurukun, 800 kilometres north west of Cairns, along with the Queensland Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Partnerships Curtis Pitt. General, generic, stock photo of Aurukun residents walking along the road. PICTURE: BRENDAN RADKE

‘Healing’ approach for Indigenous child protection

A report into regional and remote communities backs education and early intervention to break cycle of trauma.

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ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos February 23 2023: The Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese during a visit and media announcement at the Flinders Medical Centre in Adelaide. NCA NewsWire / David Mariuz

‘Be honest’: IPA calls for PM’s pension figure

In a stoush triggered by proposed super changes, Anthony Albanese has been labelled ‘evasive’ over silence about his own pension provisions after denying the IPA analysis of about $400,000 a year.

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China Covid crisis a ‘key risk’ to Australia

Treasurer Jim Chalmers warns China Covid wave will have a ‘substantial impact’, posing one of the biggest risks to our economy this year.

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WOODFORD, AUSTRALIA - Newswire Photos DECEMBER 28, 2022: Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaking during the Festival Address at Woodford Folk Festival, Woodford, Queensland. Picture: NCA Newswire / Claudia Baxter

PM: Voice will deliver ‘an even greater nation’

Anthony Albanese reaffirms commitment to a Voice referendum while taking a swipe at noisy anti oil and gas protesters who marked the start of his Woodford festival address.

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KOCH COLUMN : CHINA .. Chinese tourists take photographs in front of the Sydney Harbour Bridge in Sydney, Australia, on Monday, Dec. 24, 2012. At least 150,000 people from mainland China and across Asia are projected to descend on Sydney, Australia's most populous city, during the New Year's Eve and Chinese New Year period. Photographer: Brendon Thorne/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Tourism sector welcomes China’s border call

Beijing’s plan to open its borders and ease Covid rules sparked a surge in travel inquiries within minutes of its announcement.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 8: Minister for Industry, Energy and Emissions Reduction of Australia Chris Bowen MP during Question time at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Climate target needs ‘substantial effort’

Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen says Australia is not on track to hit Labor’s 43 per cent emissions reduction target.

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(L-R) Nationals Member for Calare Andrew Gee, Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources David Littleproud and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure and Transport Barnaby Joyce at a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Tuesday, February 6, 2018. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

Nationals split over Voice to Parliament

The party’s West Australian office and a veteran frontbencher are the latest to support the referendum.

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03/06/2022 : Noel Pearson delivering a talk about Mabo, at his old school, St Peters Lutheran College in Indooroopilly, Brisbane. Lyndon Mechielsen/The Australian

Stab of recognition at Pearson’s words

Noel Pearson is right when he says Aboriginal people are simply not in the friendship and family groups of the overwhelming number of Australians.

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Foreign Minister, Senator the Hon Penny Wong, attended the 12th East Asia Summit Foreign Ministers Meeting at the Sokha Phnom Penh hotel. On the 4th and 5th of August, 2022, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator the Hon Penny Wong, visited Cambodia to attend the ASEAN Foreign Ministers Meeting in Phnom Penh. Picture: DFAT / Michael Godfrey

Wong slams China on missile launches

Foreign Minister condemns China for launching ballistic missiles in waters around Taiwan and Japan, shortly after walking out on a Russian speech.

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NSW Minister for Small Business Eleni Petinos speaks to the media during a press conference at Parramatta Park in Sydney, Saturday, January 2, 2016. (AAP Image/Bianca De Marchi) NO ARCHIVING

Minister sacked after staff bullying claims

NSW frontbencher Eleni Petinos has been sacked by Premier Dominic Perrottet after she was accused this week of bullying her staff.

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Voice should be fully formed before poll: Langton

Marcia Langton has warned of the risks in going to a referendum on a voice to parliament without a fully formed model describing how the body would work.

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Libs to debate members’ call to silence voice

West Australian Liberals will consider a motion calling for the party to oppose an Indigenous voice to parliament.

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State ready for a voice of its own

South Australia will implement its own voice to parliament next year.

David Penberthy

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Leap of faith on voice support

The leaders of major faiths will declare their support for an Indigenous voice in the Constitution as the Albanese government tests for the consensus it needs for a successful referendum.

Paige Taylor

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Jacinta Nampijinpa Price at Alice Springs, 23/05/2022. PHOTOGRAPH: CHLOE ERLICH

Greens ‘a bigger threat to Indigenous voice’

The incoming Indigenous MP for Australia’s Red Centre has declared the Greens are a bigger threat to the Voice to parliament than the Coalition.

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