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Left-leaning coalition predicted to win Norwegian parliamentary vote
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Norway’s left-leaning opposition has ousted the country’s Conservative-led government in parliamentary elections, exit polls have predicted, but the exact shape of the “Red-Green” coalition set to run the Nordic count...
Coalition invests further $50m in new vaccine campaign to sway reluctant Australians
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Another $50m will be spent trying to convince the 20% of Australians who are reluctant to get a Covid-19 vaccination. The federal government on Sunday launched a new campaign promoting an expanding network of vaccinat...
Coalition acknowledges targeted lockdowns may still happen once vaccination rate exceeds 70%
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The federal finance minister, Simon Birmingham, has acknowledged that targeted lockdowns could still happen once 70% aan 80% of adults are vaccinated, and has moved to reassure Australians “we are not about to walk awa...
Poland’s coalition under threat as parliament votes on media bill
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The future of Poland’s three-party coalition government has been thrown into doubt as parliament votes on Wednesday on a controversial media ownership bill that could lead to the country’s largest remaining independen...
Coalition believes it has numbers to stop Great Barrier Reef being listed as ‘in danger’
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Australia’s global lobbying offensive to keep the Great Barrier Reef off the world heritage “in danger” list has secured support from at least nine of the 21-member committee that will make the decision, according to ...
‘Ludicrous’: Coalition paid $115,000 a space for car park in Melbourne
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The Coalition’s commuter car park fund paid $115,000 a space for a project in the Melbourne suburb of Berwick, which the auditor general found was almost double the benchmark price. Stuart Norman, the chief executive ...
Israeli coalition faces early test over illegal West Bank settlement
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Leftwing Israelis have accused the country’s new government of kowtowing to the right over the handling of an illegal settlement near the West Bank city of Nablus, in what is viewed as an early test of the ideological...
‘Sports rorts on steroids’: scathing report finds Coalition car park program not effective or merit-based
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Not one of the 47 commuter car park sites promised by the Coalition at the 2019 election was selected by the infrastructure department, with projects worth $660m handpicked by the government on advice of its MPs and c...
National aged care plan did not exist before Coalition published ‘7th edition’ in late 2020
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Experts have accused the federal government of “revising history” by describing the current national Covid aged care plan as the “7th edition” when no prior editions of the document exist. The aged care royal commissi...
‘Dead in the water’: key crossbenchers reject Coalition demand to back new environment standards
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The Morrison government is attempting to stare down the Senate over changes to conservation laws, warning the wording of controversial new environment standards before parliament is “not negotiable” and will not be st...
‘Dead in the water’: key crossbenchers reject Coalition demand to keep new environment standards
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The Morrison government is attempting to stare down the Senate over changes to conservation laws, warning the wording of controversial new environment standards before parliament is “not negotiable” and will not be st...
Israeli coalition ousts Netanyahu as prime minister after 12 jare
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Israel’s longest-serving leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, has been ousted from office by a loose coalition of rivals from across the political spectrum, united by their wish to end his 12-year run in power. The opposition ...
New Israeli coalition government seeks to put an end to the Netanyahu era
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Benjamin Netanyahu is due to be ousted from office on Sunday by a new Israeli government formed with the primary aim of dethroning the country’s longest-serving leader. A motley grouping of politicians, including form...
Two Coalition MPs say it is time to bring Biloela family back from Christmas Island
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Two government MPs have expressed support for the Murugappan family and called for them to be returned to the mainland, putting more pressure on the Morrison government to act. The government’s intransigent and hardli...
Coalition urged to expand Covid disaster payments after workers barred from program
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Australia’s peak welfare body has urged the federal government to expand its Covid-19 disaster payments, after Victorian workers who had their hours slashed but maintained a small income learned they were barred from ...
Overseas travel permits rising despite Coalition pledge on tightening rules amid Covid
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Amper 12,000 Australians received permission to travel overseas in May, a higher rate than the preceding three months, despite the federal government promising to look at tightening exemptions. According to a Guardia...