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Amelia Hamer, the Oxford-educated grandniece of former Victorian Liberal premier Sir Rupert “Dick” Hamer, is weighing a bid to be Liberal candidate for Kooyong.

Despite the astronomical cost, Defence Minister Richard Marles said AUKUS is a ‘modest step’ in the face of Chinese military expansion. And his party agreed.

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The national conference debate highlighted the dissent within Labor branches over the shift to nuclear-powered submarines and the stronger alliance with the US.

The prime minister is already crafting a post-referendum Plan B, while the Liberals seem to be banking on chaos and instability of the past to see them through.

Nuclear energy, Dutton and SMRs; CBA and Albanese; GST fraud fallout; housing crisis; ALP conference and AUKUS.

The 49th Labor National Conference is underway in Brisbane, with 400 delegates voting on the Party's policy agenda. Cost of living, housing, and climate have dominated debate on day one of the three day event as the Prime Minister seeks to appease the unions as well as concerns from the Australian public.

Anthony Albanese says strong economic and national security credentials, and keeping promises, are vital to staying in power.

It is not inconceivable that right now, Labor is notionally in minority government.

But a bid at the ALP conference to push Labor into intervening more directly in the housing market failed.