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| UpdatedAssistant Treasurer Robin Scott has become the second Victorian state Labor MP to resign in the wake of an expose into former Labor powerbroker Adem Somyurek.
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| UpdatedMedia reports claim to have uncovered branch stacking on an "industrial scale" in the Victorian Labor Party. But what exactly is branch stacking?
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| UpdatedNSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian says her Government will consider laws to better protect monuments after a second statue of Captain Cook was vandalised in Sydney at the weekend.
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| UpdatedDaniel Andrews says Essendon MP Danny Pearson will replace Mr Somyurek as Local Government Minister, a move in apparent conflict with constitutional limits on the number of Upper House MPs required to be in Cabinet.
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Daniel Andrews says the state of Victoria would continue to reopen, utilising a strategy of quickly tracing and locking down disparate outbreaks of COVID-19.
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The coronavirus pandemic has seen the new Premier's popularity reach significant heights — could it be enough to convince the Liberal Party to roll the dice on an early Tasmanian election?
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The Deputy Prime Minister says the need to prevent a second wave of infections outweighs the right to protest.
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Virginia and David are back in the studio, wrapping up the biggest stories of the week and giving you a preview of this Sunday's episode of Insiders ABC.
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Fourteen people will contest the Eden Monaro by-election, triggered by the resignation of Labor MP Mike Kelly.
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| UpdatedJonathan Doig, who stood for the Greens in the Sydney electorate of Cook at last year's federal election, is charged with watching and directing live child abuse in the Philippines.
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The Queensland Premier struggles to explain apparent contradictions in coronavirus restrictions in the wake of last weekend's Black Lives Matter protests.
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Frustrated by failed talks with unions, Industrial Relations Minister Grace Grace is set to pull the trigger on extraordinary legislation to enforce the Premier's promise of a 12-month wage freeze for the Queensland public service.
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| UpdatedQueensland has made extraordinary strides in containing coronavirus and one case shouldn't sully the State Government's whole response, but the handling of a mistaken COVID-19 death could sway community confidence away from Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk.
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Concerns were raised that investors may not get on board and back Australian gas, while Nationals Senator Matt Canavan pushed for the expansion of Australia's manufacturing and natural gas sectors.
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The Nationals Senator talked up the possibility of surge in global demand for gas.
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| UpdatedStudent activist Drew Pavlou, who has been critical of the University of Queensland's links to Chinese Government organisations, says he has been suspended by the university for two years after a misconduct hearing.
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| UpdatedThe ACT Opposition's spokeswoman for police and emergency services apologises after it was revealed she lost her licence for multiple speeding offences and had been cycling to work for months.
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| UpdatedHomeschooling during the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed growing inequality within Queensland's education system, as some parents are forced to choose between paying bills or providing critical equipment for their children.
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Two long-term residents are helping their community get infrastructure and services in one of Queensland's fastest growing suburbs.
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| UpdatedMayor Tom Tate says the Premier has "lived up to her leadership" as political pressure to open the state's borders intensifies.
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| UpdatedFiona Kotvojs will recontest the federal seat of Eden-Monaro, following weeks of Coalition infighting that led to two state cabinet colleagues pulling out of the race for preselection.
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| UpdatedSouth Australian Premier Steven Marshall says health authorities will not see the results of a Liberal Party survey asking voters to rank which coronavirus restrictions they would like to see eased next.
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| UpdatedQueenslanders have always had a level of scepticism for their southern neighbours — fuelled further when they're being dictated to by New South Welshman. But putting pressure on Annastacia Palaszczuk to reopen the state border underestimates the political capital the Premier has as she chooses to stand firm in an election year
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