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Peter Dutton has rejected Roman Quaedvlieg’s intervention in the au pair saga, saying that claims his office sought help for a “mate” are false and fabricated.

"We’re in class action territory ... Those affected would be well-advised to seek legal advice" – former privacy commissioner David Watts on Daniel Andrews's government's privacy breach.

Labor has renewed its attack on Peter Dutton's eligibility to sit in parliament.

"It’s not renewable power that is hurting Australian consumers. It’s market power."

In the journalist Bob Woodward’s new book, Steve Bannon told Donald J. Trump that he (meaning Trump) was for the common man, against crony capitalism and insider deals.
“I love that,” Trump said, according to Woodward’s account. “That’s what I am, a popularist.”
Woodward completes the scene: “‘No, no,’ Bannon said. ‘It’s populist.’
... “‘Yeah, yeah,’ Trump insisted. ‘A popularist.’”
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Launching our #songsofBNE series at BIGSOUND this week, Brisbane acts Total Pace, Emily Wurramara, Austen and Screamfeeder covered some of their favourite local tunes. This is what they had to say at our Songs of Brisbane launch party!

The Nauru government has blocked the transfer of a critically ill refugee to Australia for healthcare, despite a court order, because a senior official was “not convinced” she needed it, the federal court has heard.

Pacific leaders at the Pacific Islands Forum issued the Boe declaration on Wednesday night, calling climate change “the single greatest threat to the livelihoods, security and wellbeing of the peoples of the Pacific”.
However the forum communique was endorsed by leaders “with qualification”.
When asked at a press conference if those qualifications came from a country “beginning with A”, Enele Sopoaga, the prime minister of Tuvalu, confirmed that “the name of the qualifier, seeking qualifications [started] with capital A”.

#BREAKING: Former border force chief Roman Quaedvlieg claims Peter Dutton's chief of staff called him personally, asking him to help "the boss's mate in Brisbane" over an Italian au pair who had been detained at Brisbane airport.

Tara Rose, a single mother of three on Centrelink, writes about her struggles paying healthcare bills and making ends meet this winter, saying: "I’m also very mindful that I, like so many others who struggle with financial insecurity, have the ability to make do and get by, even if only just. I still often go without, however I’m very thankful that my garden is now delivering in terms of therapeutic relaxation and fresh, homegrown vegies that we have enjoyed and thrived on this winter."

“Six years in there will kill him,” the 69-year-old jailed film-maker's son, Jesse Ricketson, said. “We need to get him home."

Australian employees of the company that runs the immigration centre on Nauru say they have been threatened with their jobs if they speak to journalists during the Pacific Islands Forum about what happens inside the island’s offshore processing regime.

The story of Jason Ball's coming out is not one story but hundreds of stories. As the first – and to date only – Australian rules footballer to come out as gay, his story has multiple layers that add up to him now being within striking distance of taking the Liberals’ blue-ribbon Melbourne seat of Higgins for the Greens at the next federal election.

Several theories have been floated and "deliberate interference in space" is one of them.

"I have seen and witnessed and experienced some appalling behaviour in Parliament, the kind of behaviour that 20 years ago when I was managing partner of a law firm of 200 employees, I would never have accepted."

"The New Yorker’s decision to give Bannon a platform was irresponsible and immoral," Arwa Mahdawi writes. "While it has rescinded the invitation, harm has already been done."

A semi-automatic rifle that shoots pepper-ball pellets, a 40mm launcher that shoots squash-ball-like projectiles, flash-bang devices …

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#EXCLUSIVE: Guardian Australia has launched #DeathsInside, a major investigation tracking every known Indigenous death in custody from 2008 to 2018. • Our reporting team spent months reading every available coronial file on an Indigenous death in custody and converted them into this interactive, searchable database – because when we went looking for the figures three years ago, we could not find them. • There have been at least 407 Indigenous deaths in custody since the 1991 ...royal commission, and 147 that we were able to find since 2008. Many of these deaths could have been avoided. • Check the comments on this post to find more information about this major project from Guardian Australia.
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88 days story?

Amazing how the guardian chose to not add all the details in regards to this story.

3 girls who had to be removed by police due to their behaviour (twice) get into the paper with their lies.

Most of the 88 day workers in Australia are great, but people like these 3 wreck it for everyone with their lies, behaviour, games, abuse, alcoholism, damage to hostel and vehicles, disregard for Australian laws, it’s pathetic how these type of people are “hard done by” Australia wide.

Seems to follow them around the country.

88 days story?

Amazing how the guardian chose to not add all the details in regards to this story.

3 girls who had to be removed by police due to their behaviour (twice) get into the paper with their lies.

Most of the 88 day workers in Australia are great, but people like these 3 wreck it for everyone with their lies, behaviour, games, abuse, alcoholism, damage to hostel and vehicles, disregard for Australian laws, it’s pathetic how these type of people are “hard done by” Australia wide.

Seems to follow them around the country.