| | 28/11/2024 Super tax plan left out of last-day Senate scramble, medicinal cannabis booms, Trump picks threatened |
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| | | | Morning everyone. The Albanese government is going to try to push 37 bills through the Senate today as the session heads towards a frantic conclusion. However, a contentious law to increase tax on super balances over $3m will most likely not be among them. Today we also hear from the Biloela family about why the immigration detention bill is wrong, there’s a boom in medicinal cannabis, and Australian researchers have built a tiny model dinosaur out of DNA. |
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| Australia | | Jurassic lark | Australian researchers have created building blocks out of DNA to construct a series of nano-scale objects and shapes, from a rod and a square to an infinitesimally small dinosaur. | Exclusive | The government’s contentious plan to increase the tax on superannuation balances over $3m has been all but abandoned, amid concerns that it could expose Labor to a repeat of the damaging franking-credits campaign that helped cost it the 2019 election. | Asylum plea | Priya Nadesalingam, the Tamil woman who won a long fight for her and her family to stay in Australia, has spoken out against the Albanese government’s immigration detention bill, saying her family’s redemption would have been “impossible” without access to a mobile phone while detained. | Sales high | The medicinal cannabis business is “booming”, with Australian sales likely to have quadrupled in the past two years and total spending on track to reach $1bn by the end of the year, according to a new report. | Trouble in Tassie | Senators Jacqui Lambie and Tammy Tyrrell have fallen out over the latter’s use of a map of Tasmania in her campaign logo – with the former saying it’s too similar to typography “long associated” with her JLN party. |
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| Full Story | | | Could the surviving members of the Bali Nine be coming home? Ben Doherty and Kate Lamb discuss the Bali Nine case and examine the delicate politics behind bringing the remaining members back to Australia. | |
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| In-depth | | The conviction of NSW police constable Kristian White for manslaughter after using a Taser on 95-year-old Clare Nowland closes one chapter on a story that has made headlines around the world. But questions remain about how it was allowed to happen, with experts telling Jordyn Beazley that it serves as a “powerful warning” about police use of force. |
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| Not the news | | What’s it like to be the child of Hollywood legends? Well, Stephen Bogart, the son of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, reveals that his parents left him for six months when Bogie went off to film The African Queen – even after his nanny dropped dead – and that “kids were second to their drinking and partying”. He tells Xan Brooks that it “took me years to feel comfortable with the whole Bogart thing”. |
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| Sport | | Cricket | Australia have barely more than a week to work out how to play Jasprit Bumrah or they risk a repeat of the first Test debacle. | Football | Australia’s most-capped player, Clare Polkinghorne, will play her last game of international football against Brazil in her home city of Brisbane. | WBBL | Sydney Thunder’s Phoebe Litchfield cracked 46 from 36 balls against Hobart last night to secure a six-wicket win and the right to play Brisbane tomorrow for a place in Sunday’s WBBL final. | Football | Liverpool are at home to Real Madrid in a clash of former winners in the Champions League this morning. Follow the action live. |
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| What’s happening today | Economy | Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock delivers the CEDA dinner address in Sydney at 6.30pm. | Business | Star Entertainment annual general meeting at 11am. |
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| Brain teaser | And finally, here are the Guardian’s crosswords to keep you entertained throughout the day. Until tomorrow. | |
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