Rhiannon Down

News Reporter @SkyNews in London. Formerly @australian in Canberra, Australia. Contact me at [email protected].

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🇦🇺 'I Wouldn't Go That Far': PC Boss Tables Verdict

▫Productivity Commission chair Danielle Wood has cast doubt on whether the economic reform roundtable’s outcomes can fully repair Australia’s sluggish productivity
▫Matthew Cranston, @gregbrown_TheOz @EwinHannan

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🇦🇺 ACTU To Knock Some Consensuses Into Bosses

▫The ACTU has launched an extraordinary attack on bosses and blamed ‘poor management’ for sluggish productivity, as employers unite ahead of the economic reform roundtable
▫@gregbrown_TheOz @mcranston1

#frontpagestoday #Australia @australian

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A former trade minister has urged Anthony Albanese to focus on the nation’s shared history with the US in a potential meeting with Donald Trump, declaring there was no basis on which Australia should be “conceding or negotiating”. @australian https://t.co/PqX2so6wcO

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🇦🇺 Seize Lesser Of Tax Evils, Libs Urged

▫Liberal Party supporters and former Reserve Bank board members have implored the Coalition to negotiate with Labor on an unrealised capital gains tax
▫@mcranston1

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🇦🇺 'Budget Or Bust For The Coalition'

▫Scott Morrison outlines pathway back for Coalition, hits out at Labor scare campaigns, and supports higher defence spending, after being awarded a King’s Birthday honours gong
▫@Chambersgc

#frontpagestoday #Australia @australian

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🇦🇺 Union Ambush Of The Nation

▫The Transport Workers’ Union has seized on Labor’s election win to pursue the ‘largest co-ordinated industrial campaign in Australian transport history’ as enterprise agreements expire
▫@EwinHannan

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Teal independents are on track to retain their numbers in the federal parliament, with Climate 200-backed Nicolette Boele appearing set to join them in parliament: https://t.co/Cu52dt6eGp

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🇦🇺 Moscow Comes Mocking

▫Moscow has warned Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton to stay out of its way in the Indo-Pacific, declaring Australia has ‘no cards’ to play to undermine Russia’s military co-operation with Indonesia
▫@bennpackham & Dian Septiari

#frontpagestoday #Australia @australian

[Rhiannon Down @rhi_down]

Peter Dutton has hit a camera operator after a kick went awry during a campaign photo opportunity at Cazalys Arena in Palmerston. ⁦@australian⁩

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Universities could be forced to reduce the number of foreign students to a percentage of their total enrolments, under a range of proposals floated by the Coalition in its election bid to slash migration. @australian
https://t.co/O25Ap1gHtQ

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A murderer who strangled his wife and disposed of her body in hydrochloric acid is fighting Home Affairs and Immigration Minister Tony Burke’s bid to deport him to Nauru. @australian
https://t.co/c7xPsLGL2t

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🇦🇺 National 'Nightmare' Of Teals On A Green Pitch

▫Top energy chiefs have warned a hung parliament would be responsible for ‘horrific’ policy outcomes

#frontpagestoday #Australia @australian

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🇦🇺 Grotesque Moment Calculated To Break A Nation's Heart

▫‘Monsters’: Heart-broken Israel unleashes after dead hostages returned in grotesque event
▫@jacquelinmagnay

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[Rhiannon Down @rhi_down]

The Albanese government is preparing to replace a controversial ministerial direction affecting student visas, as providers warn Labor’s “confused and mismanaged” policy approach is damaging the sector and the economy. @australian
https://t.co/mLqcIMKp6Q

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🇦🇺 PM's Agenda: Tick. Now For The Rally Hard Part

▫ALP clears decks with avalanche of legislation
▫RBA warns CPI job not done
▫@SarsIson @rhi_down

#frontpagestoday #Australia @australian 🇦🇺

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🇦🇺 Dutton Picks Cap Fight With Labor

▫Peter Dutton’s decision to block Labor’s cap on international students has created a chasm in the nation’s higher education sector
▫@rhi_down @JoannaPanagopo1

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[Rhiannon Down @rhi_down]

Independent Senator Lidia Thorpe has revealed a serious spinal injury caused by an assault at the MCG was behind her low attendance at parliament, missing a third of sitting days and voting in just 45 per cent of divisions this year. @australian
https://t.co/5imb1IvbCm

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🇦🇺 A Royal Pain In The House

▫Some Aboriginal leaders blamed the senator’s latest stunt on the Albanese Government’s vacating of Indigenous affairs since the referendum defeat ....
▫@PDGarvey @rhi_down

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🇦🇺 Crine-Time Drama Stars Ex-Detainees

▫A quarter of the foreign offenders freed under the High Court’s NZYQ ruling have been charged with a crime since their release, new figures reveal ....
▫@rhi_down & Mohammad Alfares

#frontpagestoday #Australia @australian 🇦🇺

[Rhiannon Down @rhi_down]

The Albanese government is seeking to avert another wave of dangerous non-citizens using the landmark NZYQ ruling to be released into the community by elevating the cases of two foreign criminals to the High Court. @australian
https://t.co/cjjbTBfPS3