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Video
(2min 11sec),
12 Sep 2014:
Australia's terrorism alert level has been raised from medium to high. The change announced by Tony Abbott means a terrorist attack is now considered "likely". He stressed it did not mean a terrorist attack was imminent. "We have no specific intelligence of particular plots," he told reporters in Melbourne. The move was foreshadowed by the Asio director-general, David Irvine, earlier this week amid fears that Australians returning from the battlefields of Syria and Iraq could pose a danger.
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12 Sep 2014: Prime minister says the change should make no difference to normal activity, but people might notice more security
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12 Sep 2014:
The prime minister was officially opening the Peter Doherty institute for infection and immunity at the university
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11 Sep 2014: PM says ‘a specific request for military assistance hasn’t yet come’ but that if it does it would be considered
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11 Sep 2014: Warwick Smith: A consequence of a donation-driven approach to politics is that areas of political debate are in policy areas that the wealthy elite don’t care about, like same sex marriage or abortion
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10 Sep 2014:
If you can’t deliver certainty, then uncertainty will have to do. And uncertainty has its own potent rhetorical currency
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9 Sep 2014: Indigenous affairs minister Nigel Scullion says constitutional changes will need to be ‘mainstream’ and not a bill of rights
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Video
(4min 07sec),
9 Sep 2014:
It has been a year since the Abbott government was elected, and The Roast team have a few nice words for pretty much no one
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9 Sep 2014:
Cam Smith: Like the Obama birth certificate conspiracy, the idea that Tony Abbott could be brought undone by a technicality is seductive – and easier than building a political alternative
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9 Sep 2014: Two agree to ‘coordinate closely’ on humanitarian crisis and steps needed for international community to ultimately destroy Isis
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9 Sep 2014: A new poll reveals the foreign minister is the most popular minister and Joe Hockey is the least popular
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9 Sep 2014:
Andrew Herington, an adviser to groups opposed to the controversial link, asks whatever happened to the pledge of a cost-benefit analysis for big projects?
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9 Sep 2014: Correspondence made public by the NSW corruption watchdog reveals a broader malaise within the Australian political system brought on by the scramble for election funding
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8 Sep 2014: Newspoll puts prime minister’s net approval rating at minus 19, with Bill Shorten’s at minus seven
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8 Sep 2014:
Richard Ackland: James Ashby’s explosive relevations on 60 minutes have seriously upset the conga line of Coalition denialists
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