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The new draft of the religious discrimination bill was unanimously backed by the Coalition joint partyroom yesterday, and a plan by Woodside and BHP to develop a gas field off the coast of WA has received bipartisan support.

A Senate report into insecure work says wage theft and exploitative workforce practices have become the “contractual norm” in universities.

The prudential regulator is collecting more granular data on insurance premiums given the deteriorating experience in individual disability income insurance.

The prudential regulator is collecting more granular data on insurance premiums given the deteriorating experience in individual disability income insurance.

Liberal Senator Ben Small has, for some reason, recited an iconic shitpost word-for-word during Senate estimates. Yes, it includes imagery of pig manure and cartoonish heart-patterned boxer shorts. The Senate Environment and Communications Legislation Committee spent the morning looking at what tweets ABC journos have liked, ostensibly as part of a probe into former Attorney-General Christian Porter‘s dropped defamation suit against the ABC. This particular tweet was written in response to ...

Christian Porter twice attempted to settle his defamation case against the ABC, but the eventual agreement cost the public broadcaster handsomely.

The stance leaves no room for negotiation even though Acting Premier James Merlino on Sunday described the Morrison government as “disgraceful”.

Nearly four months after the military seized power in Myanmar, people are struggling to access healthcare. Hospitals are closed or occupied by the military and many facilities are severely understaffed, while COVID-19 remains a threat. The economic fallout of the military takeover has also resulted in reduced or uncertain access to services, including healthcare and clean water. MSF urges the military government to ensure people have unhindered access to healthcare, and to allow health workers ...

Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young (Image: AAP/Lukas Coch) Interesting interests It’s always fun peeking at recent updates to politicians’ registers of interests. Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young had to list every single person who contributed to a GoFundMe campaign to bankroll her lawsuit against former senator David Leyonhjelm. The list is two and a half pages long, and includes one Kevin Rudd. Elsewhere, Labor Senator Kimberley Kitching attended a masterclass on the US-Australia allianc...

A Jerusalem Day invite has exploded into controversy