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Latest news and comment on the Labor party and Australian politics
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Opposition leader to dig in behind ETS and goal of sourcing 50% of electricity from renewables by 2030
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Get on with it, Bibi: Turnbull's message to Netanyahu on peace deal
Katharine Murphy Political editor
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Senator says Clean Energy Finance Corporation rule change would mean other energy projects would miss out
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Israel’s prime minister will be its first serving PM to visit Australia but he is expected to face protests
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Bill Shorten says Malcolm Turnbull wants to give the big four banks ‘billions of dollars in tax giveaways’
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The intensifying political dynamics on climate policy may feed the conflict god, but the rancid partisan rivalry isn’t a bit of abstract culture war – it’s failure with real consequences
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The age discrimination minister and first female Labor minister in the federal government says life has taught her to be patient
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Former Queensland Labor premier excited to ‘lead and shape’ reforms as federal party pushes for royal commission
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Rob Pyne braces for an unfavourable report by a parliamentary committee on his proposed changes to the Health Act
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Labor MP Andrew Giles says Liberal party ‘tantrum’ over ‘failed election campaign’ shouldn’t hinder multi-party reform efforts
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Committee wins praise for advocating removal of right to refuse same-sex weddings on basis of ‘conscientious objection’
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Bob Carr and Gareth Evans say Benjamin Netanyahu’s settlement building risks creating conditions for ‘apartheid state’ in Israel
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As Labor, Greens and majority of Senate crossbench rule out passing omnibus savings bill, Mathias Cormann warns the government will have to raise taxes
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Party’s federal director tells parliamentary committee that rules should ‘capture all participants’ in democratic process
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A summary of polling on Australian politics and national opinion
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Politics of fear and anger has buried tradition of reform, says NAB chair Ken Henry