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New Victorian Premier Ben Carroll has been given the seal of approval by Dan Andrews, despite his clear efforts to distance himself from the controversial former Labor state leader. On Wednesday, Mr Andrews congratulated Mr Carroll on his appointment, calling him a “great campaigner”, just a day after the new premier pointedly said he was “no Dan Andrews”. Latest:
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Jacinta Allan thanked her family, ministers, staff and unions comrades, as well as former Labor premiers Steve Bracks, John Brumby and Daniel Andrews during her resignation speech on Tuesday. “I finish by saying once more – thank you to the Victorian people,” Ms Allan said. “I didn’t achieve all I set out to do for you in this role … but I will leave knowing I made a difference. Thank you and goodbye.” Continue reading here:
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New Victorian Premier Ben Carroll has announced he will call a royal commission into the state’s construction sector. “Enough is enough,” Mr Carroll said in his first press conference as premier. “In my government, integrity will not be optional. Whether in business, politics or the union movement, there will be zero tolerance for those that misuse their positions,” he said. Lily McCaffrey has more:
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From the Bachelor’s Handbag (Woolies roast chook) to the Fridge Cigarette (Coke Zero), Australian slang is evolving far beyond Crocodile Dundee. Meet the anti-influencer behind The Deni Dictionary, a wildly popular Instagram page putting jet fuel into local vernacular. Listen to the full episode:
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Labor’s national conference had not even started when a spectacular blow up took place in Adelaide. This wasn’t a minor factional brawl between rival strands of the ALP over the diesel fuel rebate (although that fight is also brewing). It was a full-on diplomatic crisis. And it involved Xi Jinping’s China. Who else? Latest:
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In an extraordinary rebuke, Federal Court judge Ian Jackman has named and shamed six fellow judges who have failed to deliver decisions in cases up to three years after hearing them, condemning the “egregious” delays as “a real and growing threat to the rule of law in Australia”. Read more:
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When the mercury hit high 30s in Brussels last week, the European Commission switched off the airconditioning on the first seven floors, where most of the building’s 3000 staff work, but exempted floors eight to 13, where Her Majesty Ursula von der Leyen, the EC’s president, and her staff were no doubt mulling new ways to save the planet. Let them stay cool! Adam Creighton has more:
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The Albanese government has blindsided the financial sector with a surprise “death tax” on wills and estates, triggering urgent calls for clarification from wealth advisers. Under new budget measures, family trusts are set to be hit with a minimum 30 per cent tax rate. The new rule will also apply to the most common form of estate planning trust: the Testamentary Discretionary Trust. James Kirby has more:
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