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🚨 David Pocock senator David Pocock has called for Australia to cut all military ties with Israel and sanction government and IDF figures
“Future generations will ask why we didn’t do more…to stop this mass killing of civilians”
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🚨 Police will allege Sam Kerr called an officer a “stupid white bastard” after the Matildas captain was charged with intentially causing racially aggravated harassment, the Sun reports |
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🚨 Jack Karlson, aka ‘Mr Democracy Manifest’, has died, Seven reports
Karlson was the man in the viral video exclaiming "What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent Chinese meal?" as he was arrested in October 1991
He was 82 years old
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🚨 Labor senator Fatima Payman has accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza
She ended her speech by saying ‘from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’ – just days after Anthony Albanese said it was a violent statement
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🚨 Immigration NZ says Avi Yemini was denied a visa because he didn't do the paperwork required of someone with a criminal conviction - Yemini was convicted of unlawful assault against his ex-wife (per
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🚨 Queensland senator Gerard Rennick has resigned from the Liberal National Party
He will now form his own party – called ‘Gerard Rennick People First’ – and contest the next federal election, The Australian reports
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🚨 ALP senator Fatima Payman says ‘from the river to the sea Palestine will be free’ is NOT anti-semitic: “[It means] a desire for Palestinians to live in their homeland as free and equal citizens, neither dominating others nor being dominated over”: Guardian |
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🚨 6 News understands WA senator Fatima Payman is now seriously considering quitting Labor and voting for a pro-Palestine motion from the Greens
The defection could happen within days, with the Senate sitting next week
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🚨 Liberal MP Bridget Archer signs letter with crossbenchers calling for Australia to back ICC pursuit of Israeli and Hamas leaders |
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🚨 Faraz Tahir, a 30-year-old security guard on his first day at work, named as the fourth and only male victim of the Westfield Bondi Junction stabbing attack |
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Divide within Labor over Fatima Payman is growing, with one party source telling 6 News:
“[She] will go down in history as a hero. The party machine that tried to silence her will go down in history as snakes.”
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🚨 Video just published by the ABC shows Anthony Albanese telling Sarah Williams:
“Do you want me to speak or not? I’m the Prime Minister.”
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🚨 6 News Australia and Sky News Australia have announced they will merge, with 6 News to become News Corp’s youth-run operation
Announcing the move, Rupert Murdoch says he looks forward to working more with his grandson, Leo Puglisi
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🚨 Labor senator Fatima Payman has just CROSSED THE FLOOR to vote for a Greens motion recognising a Palestinian state
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WATCH LIVE RIGHT NOW:
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🚨 Sydney University branch of National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) votes 321-20 IN FAVOUR of institutional academic boycott of Israel |
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🚨 Labor senator Fatima Payman calls for recognition of a Palestinian state: "Videos are coming out of Rafah today with beheaded babies. This is deplorable. We must demand an end to this genocide, stop all trade, divest and recognise a Palestinian state" |
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“You should all be deeply, deeply ASHAMED!”
Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather hits out at the federal government over Gaza and Fatima Payman
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🚨 South Australian premier Peter Malinauskas announces he will seek to BAN ALL political donations
“Political donations are OUT”
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🚨 Merri-bek City Council in Melbourne votes to "fly Palestinian flag until there's a ceasefire in Gaza" and commits to not doing business with companies involved with weapons used in war: mayor Adam Pulford |
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The PM is being criticised from within for his response to Fatima Payman’s floor-crossing, with a Labor source telling 6 News:
“[He] and his faction are an example of the worst elements of this party, careerists with the veneer of change”
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🚨 The House of Representatives has voted 5-80 against a motion from the Greens to recognise a Palestinian state
Only independent Andrew Wilkie voted with the Greens, with Labor and the Coalition voting against recognition
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🚨 Israel has begun a ground invasion of Lebanon, with the IDF saying it is conducting "limited, localised and targeted raids" against Hezbollah targets
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🚨 Two premiers have so far commented on Sam Kerr’s alleged ‘stupid white bastard’ comment to a police officer - both saying it’s NOT RACIST
Four premiers and both chief ministers are yet to comment
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🚨 International Criminal Court seeks arrest warrant for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and top Hamas leaders for crimes against humanity and war crimes |
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🚨 Anthony Albanese has told the AFR that WA senator Fatima Payman should hand her seat back to Labor and contest the 2025 election with her soon-to-be-announced new party
Payman's term doesn't expire until 2028, and she is able to sit in the Senate until then
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🚨 Motion calling on the federal government to recognise an ‘independent and sovereign’ Palestinian state as a priority PASSES the NSW Labor state conference
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🚨 Senior Labor figures are now raising Fatima Payman's Afghan citizenship as "a risk to her remaining in the Senate because of a potential breach of section 44 of the Constitution" just hours after she quit the party: The Australian |
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🚨 At least 70 Palestinians killed and more than 200 wounded after being shot by Israeli forces while waiting for food aid in Gaza: witnesses, local media, Al Jazeera |
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🚨 Benjamin Cohen, who Channel 7 mistakenly identified as the Bondi Junction attacker, has settled his defamation case with confidential terms |
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🚨 Pro-Palestine protesters have stormed the Victorian Labor state conference, video from inside obtained by 6 News shows
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🚨 Two Yarra Valley Grammar students in Melbourne EXPELLED after ranking female classmates from "wifey" to "unrapeable": Herald Sun |
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🚨 Israeli forces have stormed Al Jazeera’s bureau in Ramallah in the West Bank, ordering it to close for 45 days
Al Jazeera says no reason for the decision was provided
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Finalised results have confirmed the Libertarian Party has won a record 10 seats in NSW’s local government elections
The party had just 1 councillor going into last month’s vote, and will now turn their attention to this month’s Vic local elections
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🚨 Former NSW minister Rob Stokes, who the federal Liberals have just appointed to a committee to oversee the NSW Liberals, says he WAS NOT ASKED ABOUT THE ROLE AND CANNOT ACCEPT IT due to other commitments: SMH
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🚨 Victorian Liberal Party leader John Pesutto is set to face a leadership spill in coming days, 6 News understands
News Corp reports that ‘a group of MPs believe they now have the numbers to force a spill of the party's entire leadership group’
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🚨 Fatima Payman has been SUSPENDED INDEFINITELY from the Labor caucus by Anthony Albanese, hours after she said she was prepared to cross the floor again
6 News understands Payman is upset at not being allowed to vote her conscience
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SENATOR FATIMA PAYMAN: "Sigmas, goofy ahh, fanum tax, just put the fries in the bag little bro, locked in, brainrot, Kai Cenat, skull emoji, Duke Dennis, dub with the bros on Fort, chat, CEO of Ohio, taking an L, opps, gyatts, aura, SKIBIDI"
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🚨 Fatima Payman has been SUSPENDED INDEFINITELY from the Labor caucus by Anthony Albanese, hours after she said she was prepared to cross the floor again
6 News understands Payman is upset at not being allowed to vote her conscience
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🚨 Bruce Lehrmann ordered to pay $2M to Network 10 over failed defamation case after being found, on balance of probabilities, to have raped Brittany Higgins |
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Labor source with insight into party membership speaking to 6 News: "As MPs do their tour of their local branches over winter break, they are in for a reckoning with the anger of the membership. There is open rebellion brewing." |
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🚨 Channel 10 reports PM Scott Morrison is preparing to SACK a ‘scandal-plagued minister,’ but the MP ‘doesn't even know they are about to be dumped’ |
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LNP Senator Gerard Rennick during a speech about COVID-19 vaccines: "Govern me harder daddy"
The phrase will now be in the parliamentary Hansard forever
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🚨 Pro-Palestine protestors have climbed onto the roof of Parliament House in Canberra saying ‘Australia is a country founded on genocide’ |
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Earlier today, 6 News - very briefly - reported on claims of ‘40 babies being beheaded by Hamas’
Our tweet was up for no more than 2 minutes and removed the moment it became clear the claims could not be verified, including by other media
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Journalist: “Was there a moment where you realised it was time to move on?”
Adam Simpson: “Probably your 300th article”
The departing West Coast coach says media can be “cruel” and tells them “we’re human” ⬇️
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Ahead of the 2022 election, Payman was unable to formally revoke her Afghan citizenship (she is an Aus citizen) because the embassy had no contact with the Taliban; legal advice given to Labor stated Payman was still eligible as she had taken 'all reasonable steps' |
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🚨 NSW Premier Chris Minns sacks Labor MP Anthony D'Adam from parliamentary secretary positions after D'Adam accused police of using "fear and intimidation" to control pro-Palestinian protesters |
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🚨 Anthony Albanese is facing backlash after asking shadow treasurer Angus Taylor: “Have you got Tourette’s?”
The PM withdrew the remark in parliament, but Liberal senator Anne Ruston has called it ‘despicable’ and called on him to apologise to the Tourette’s community
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🚨 NSW Electoral Commission rejected Liberal Party's claim it breached regulations; the second failed attempt from the Liberals to reopen candidate nominations in 24 hours
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🚨 Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the US Justice Department that will see him plead guilty and be freed after spending five years in a UK prison: NBC News |
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🚨 Two Labor MPs have split with the federal government after it was announced gender and sexuality questions would be dumped from the 2026 census
Peter Khalil & Josh Burns both say they SHOULD be included, with Burns saying “it’s not much to ask for people to [count]”
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🚨 Seven releases statement after naming wrong person as Westfield Bondi Junction attacker: “The mistake was human error. It was escalated immediately and rectified. Seven sincerely apologises for the error.” |
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Labor source speaking to 6 News: "This is a mess entirely of the government's own making, and any obsessions by members over Payman's status in the caucus must simply be keen to see the loss of more safe Labor seats in Western Sydney" |
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🚨 Fatima Payman has been SUSPENDED INDEFINITELY from the Labor caucus by Anthony Albanese, hours after she said she was prepared to cross the floor again
6 News understands Payman is upset at not being allowed to vote her conscience
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🚨 Family of Ashlee Good, who was killed in Westfield Bondi Junction yesterday, says her 9-month-old baby is doing “very well” after surgery |
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WATCH: Albanese is asked: “Have you tried to reach out to Sarah Williams after what happened?”
Albanese: “I wish Sarah well. I wish Sarah well, she did very well in organising the rallies as did everyone there”
He does not answer the question
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ABC political reporter Nour Haydar has resigned over concerns about the national broadcaster’s Israel-Hamas war coverage, as well as its treatment of culturally diverse staff
She’s told Nine that the decision was not made lightly
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🚨 Anthony Albanese has backflipped on the government’s planned exclusion of gender and sexuality questions from the 2026 census
He’s now told the ABC the government WILL work to include an LGBTQ+ question, following public backlash from Labor MPs over the past day
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🚨 We have been blocked by
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We believe it is irresponsible for a major corporation to block a news outlet for reporting on them.
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