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Two former detainees arrested and charged – one for sex offence, the other for drug possession

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Original article by Joe Kelly, Greg Brown
The Australian – Page: 1 & 4 : 5-Dec-23

A total of 148 people have now been released from immigration detention in the wake of the High Court’s landmark "NZYQ" decision, of which two have already been arrested. One of those arrested had allegedly assaulted a woman in a South Australian hotel and was a known sex offender. The second former detainee was arrested and charged with drug possession in Sydney. The Opposition has described the two arrests as a "catastrophic failure" and has repeated its calls for Immigration Minister Andrew Giles and Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neill to be sacked. The federal government has released preventative detention legislation that seeks to protect the public from the non-citizens, with the Opposition challenging the government to state how many of the 148 it would make applications for under its proposed legislation, with Peter Dutton suggesting it could be as few as four.

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AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF HOME AFFAIRS

Roy Morgan Poll on Federal voting intention shows support increasing for both major parties as two-party preferred result narrows: ALP 51% cf. L-NP 49%

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Original article by Roy Morgan
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 5-Dec-23

The ALP is now on 51% (down 1.5% on a week ago) ahead of the Coalition on 49% (up 1.5%) on a two-party preferred basis, according to the latest Roy Morgan Poll on Federal voting intention conducted last week. The primary vote of both major parties strengthened with the Coalition now on 37.5%, up 2.5% ahead of the ALP on 32.5%, up 0.5%. The Greens are down 1% to 12.5% and One Nation is unchanged on 5%. Support for Independents dropped 0.5% to 8.5% and was down 1.5% to 4% for Other Parties. This Roy Morgan Poll is based on interviewing a representative cross-section of 1,730 Australian electors from November 27 – December 3, 2023. For further details watch Roy Morgan’s weekly Market Research Update video presented by Roy Morgan CEO Michele Levine on Tuesday afternoon.

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ROY MORGAN LIMITED, MORGAN POLL, AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY, LIBERAL PARTY OF AUSTRALIA, NATIONAL PARTY OF AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIAN GREENS, ONE NATION PARTY

States take on Albanese in GST spat

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Original article by Phillip Coorey, Patrick Durkin
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 1 & 4 : 30-Nov-23

The federal government is under pressure from the states and territories to permanently retain the goods and services ‘no worse off guarantee’, which is slated to end by 2026-27. The guarantee was introduced in 2018, with the aim of compensating the states for GST revenue they lost as part of a deal to put a ‘floor’ under the allocation for Western Australia. Victoria’s Treasurer Tim Pallas contends that ending the guarantee would be ‘disastrous’ for the states, as they would be collectively $4.9bn worse off each year. The guarantee will be on the agenda for a meeting of the state and federal treasurers in Brisbane on Friday.

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VICTORIA. DEPT OF TREASURY AND FINANCE

Business pans unfair IR deal with Greens

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Original article by David Marin-Guzman
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 5 : 30-Nov-23

The federal government’s Closing Loopholes Bill was passed by the lower house on Wednesday, with more than 80 amendments that Labor had agreed to implement. However, employers’ groups have criticised a Greens amendment that will have major implications for the government’s intractable bargaining laws, which allow unions or employers to unilaterally go to arbitration after nine months of failed bargaining. The amendment means that employees’ existing conditions cannot be reduced via such arbitration. Australian Chamber of Commerce & Industry CEO Andrew McKellar says the Fair Work Commission will make a lot more unilateral decisions as a result of this amendment, which will in turn further reduce productivity.

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AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY, AUSTRALIAN GREENS, AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY

‘Uncharted territory’: 60pc of public servants now working from home

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Original article by Joe Kelly
The Australian – Page: 4 : 30-Nov-23

New data shows that 57 per cent of federal public servants now have access to working from home arrangements, compared with 46 per cent in 2021. Australian Public Service Commissioner Gordon de Brouwer says the growing number of public servants who are working from home has implications for resources, property management and workplace design. Meanwhile, de Brouwer says the latest ‘state of the service’ report shows amongst other things that bullying and harassment rates in the public service are still too high, while the gender pay gap has narrowed to 5.2 per cent.

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AUSTRALIAN PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

Albanese insists ALP will honour its stage three tax cut promise

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Original article by Tom McIlroy
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 4 : 30-Nov-23

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has reiterated in parliament that Labor remains committed to implementing the Coalition’s legislated stage-three personal income tax cuts, which are slated to take effect in mid-2024. Labor had committed to proceeding with the tax cuts during the 2022 federal election campaign. Albanese has also told Labor’s final caucus meeting for the year that keeping election promises is critical to maintaining trust with voters, with the nation due to go the polls again in 2025.

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AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF THE PRIME MINISTER AND CABINET, AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY

Bill shock fears risk NDIS deal

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Original article by Sarah Ison, Stephen Lunn, Greg Brown
The Australian – Page: 1 & 5 : 30-Nov-23

The federal government will push for an overhaul of the National Disability Insurance Scheme at a meeting of the national cabinet on 6 December. However, several state and territory governments are believed to have warned that they will not agree to any NDIS reforms unless they know just how much the changes will cost them. NDIS Minister Bill Shorten has declined to comment on how the proposed reforms would affect state government budgets. However, he has emphasised the urgency of reining in the cost of the scheme.

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Almost half of Australians (49%) say the Australian Government should not take sides in the current crisis in Israel and Gaza

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Original article by Roy Morgan
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 30-Nov-23

Now 49% of Australians say the Australian Government should ‘not take sides’ in the current crisis in Israel and Gaza, according to a special Roy Morgan online survey conducted in conjunction with the Islamic Society of South Australia. This compares to 19% who say the Government ‘should do more to support Palestine’ and 17% who say the ‘Australian Government should do more to support Israel’; 15% of respondents don’t know. The survey also found that 39% of Australians say the Government is ‘favouring the Israelis’ compared to only 10% who say the Government is ‘favouring the Palestinians’. Meanwhile, 80% of Australians say Hamas should return the Israeli hostages unconditionally, while 40% of Australians say the Israeli army should withdraw their armed forces from Gaza immediately and 33% say they should not. This special Roy Morgan online survey was conducted with an Australia-wide cross-section of 1,006 Australians aged 18+ from Thursday November 16 to Monday November 20.

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ROY MORGAN LIMITED, ISLAMIC SOCIETY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA

RBA won’t lift rates again, says OECD

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Original article by Michael Read
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 4 : 30-Nov-23

The latest CPI data has strengthened the case for leaving Australia’s official interest rates on hold in December, with the annual inflation rate falling from 5.6 per cent in September to just 4.9 per cent in October. Meanwhile, the OECD expects the cash rate to remain on hold at 4.35 per cent until the September 2024 quarter, while the Paris-based organisation forecasts that a gradual easing of monetary policy will see it fall to 3.6 per cent by the end of 2025. Meanwhile, the OECD expects cost-of-living pressures to reduce Australia’s GDP growth from 1.9 per cent in 2023 to just 1.4 per cent in 2024. It also anticipates that inflation will fall below three per cent by 2025.

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ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT

Roy Morgan Poll on Federal voting intention shows support for the ALP recovering – up 3% points: ALP 52.5% cf. L-NP 47.5%

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Original article by Roy Morgan
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 29-Nov-23

The ALP has regained the lead on 52.5% (up 3% on a week ago) ahead of the Coalition on 47.5% (down 3%) on a two-party preferred basis, according to the latest Roy Morgan Poll on Federal voting intention conducted over the last week. The result halts a run of three straight weeks of declines for the ALP. On primary vote the Coalition is now on 35% (down 2.5% from a week ago), ahead of the ALP on 32% (up 2.5%). The Greens are unchanged on 13.5% and One Nation is on 5%, down 1.5%. There has been a gain in support for Independents on 9%, up 2%, but a drop in support for Other Parties on 5.5%, down 0.5%. The latest Roy Morgan Poll is based on interviewing a representative cross-section of 1,379 Australian electors from November 20-26, 2023. For further details watch Roy Morgan’s weekly Market Research Update video presented by Roy Morgan CEO Michele Levine.

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ROY MORGAN LIMITED, MORGAN POLL, LIBERAL PARTY OF AUSTRALIA, NATIONAL PARTY OF AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY, AUSTRALIAN GREENS, ONE NATION PARTY