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Judge to decide on future of Palmer trial

The presiding judge at Clive Palmer’s court battle with the liquidators of Queensland Nickel is to rule on an application for a permanent stay on the trial.

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Electoral boss gets five-year extension

Australian Electoral Commissioner Tom Rogers will stay on in the role until 2024 following a decision to give him a five-year reappointment.

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Barnaby lobbied PM and leader on abortion

Acting prime minister Michael McCormack says the NSW abortion bill is up to state parliament, after Barnaby Joyce called on the leader to speak out against it.

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Barnaby lobbied PM and leader on abortion

Acting prime minister Michael McCormack says the NSW abortion bill is up to state parliament, after Barnaby Joyce called on the leader to speak out against it.

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Church, Nitschke at Qld euthanasia probe

Church leaders and euthanasia campaigner Philip Nitschke will detail their opposing views on euthanasia at a Queensland inquiry on Friday.

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Dutton rejects ‘friends and enemies’ mould

Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton insists Australia does not need to choose between its largest trading partner in China and closest security ally in the US.

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Victoria dumps public drunkenness crime

Public drunkenness will be decriminalised in Victoria on the eve of a coronial inquest into the death of an Aboriginal woman who died in police custody.

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Trad has to go: Qld CFMEU boss

The future of Queensland’s deputy premier could come to a dramatic head at Labor’s state conference this weekend after a union chief called for her scalp.

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Surgeries cancelled at Brisbane hospital

A Brisbane hospital has been forced to cancel all but the most urgent operations after sterilisation equipment “malfunctioned”.

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Green light for $7m Mascot Towers repairs

Mascot Towers owners have passed a motion at an extraordinary general meeting to pay a $7 million levy plus GST to fund remediation work on the cracked complex.

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Morrison urges peace in Asia amid tensions

Australia has spoken out against coercion in Southeast Asia amid tensions between China and Vietnam over movements in the South China Sea.

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Gobbo’s lawyer continues police grilling

Investigations into Nicola Gobbo’s ‘nightmare’ life - and death threats from Melbourne’s criminal community - continue.

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Qld premier’s diary identified ASIO agent

The Queensland premier’s department says publishing a diary entry with the identity of a secret intelligence agent was an ‘administrative error’.

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Bourke St inquest to rule on pursuit call

A Victorian coroner will decide on Friday whether to keep secret details of Victoria Police’s pursuit policy from an inquest into the Bourke Street massacre.

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Vic murder victim’s family wants answers

The family of an elderly Victorian man stabbed to death on the street wants answers about who killed him, as police search for leads.

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Fischer in good spirits until the very end

Former deputy prime minister and Nationals leader Tim Fischer, who has died aged 73, was in “remarkably good spirits” until the end of his battle with leukemia.

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Missing Qld wife lived in fear: court

A Gold Coast mother lived in fear for her life as she pursued a divorce from the husband now accused of her murder, a court has been told

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Ex-Sydney magistrate due to be sentenced

Former magistrate Graeme Curran is due to be sentenced in the NSW District Court after being found guilty of indecently assaulting an underage boy in the 1980s.

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WA fashionista guilty of $163k boss theft

A fashion designer has been convicted of stealing cash from her boss while she worked as a part-time practice manager at a Perth physiotherapy clinic.

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