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Labor is set to spring a federal election surprise, anointing a 23-year-old cleanskin candidate to take on incumbent Rebekha Sharkie and high-profile Liberal Georgina Downer in Mayo, InDaily has confirmed.
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South Australian Centre Alliance MP Rebekha Sharkie has savaged the light workload of the federal parliament ahead of the next election.
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UPDATED: A leaked environmental draft plan from a Norwegian exploration company looking to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight shows the potential for an oil spill to blanket South Australia’s coastline and reach as far as New South Wales.
South Australian senators have expressed frustration at the national offshore oil and gas regulator for granting multiple extensions to Norwegian oil exploration company PGS to submit its application to conduct a seismic survey in the Great Australian Bight.
An adviser to Fraser Anning has quit after the Queensland senator used the Nazi phrase “final solution” in a controversial speech on Muslim immigration.
Insiders say the Liberals have “lessons to be learned” over their failed Mayo by-election campaign, but Georgina Downer appears likely to be re-endorsed as the party’s candidate as early as next week – despite some members privately declaring she will never win the seat.
Fresh from defeating his daughter in a by-election, Centre Alliance’s Rebekha Sharkie has hit back at former foreign minister Alexander Downer’s “elitist” attack on her.
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