Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles has been given nine days to hand over documents revealing the dates and cost of every flight he took on VIP aircraft in the past year.
Federal parliamentarians have returned to Canberra after a three week break, with workplace issues and cost of living pressures expected to dominate the sitting fortnight. The government's changes aim to ensure labour hire workers are paid the same as directly engaged employees doing the same job at the same site.
Given the hard power realities of great power competition between the US and China, it’s hard to see how ASEAN neutrality fits with “ASEAN centrality” and the idea that South East Asia should play a meaningful role in determining Asia’s future.
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