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Brittany Higgins's husband David Sharaz is served bankruptcy papers by former Senator Linda Reynolds, as she tries to recover damages awarded to her by a Perth court for defamation.

‘It’s not just a few extremists or populists – Hastie, Price and their cabal – blowing the dog whistle now; the Liberals are all taking the coward’s route,’ Julian Hill says * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Labor has accused the Coalition of importing Trump-style culture wars to damage Australia’s international migration program, defending tight controls on overseas arrivals and blaming conservative MPs including Andrew Hastie for “dog whistling”. Labor’s assistant minister for citizenship and multicultural affairs, Julian Hill, will tell a major conference in Melbourne on Friday that opposition attacks on net overseas migration ignore the fact many skilled workers stayed in Australia after the Covid-19 pandemic due to the strong labour market, and will challenge the Coalition to explain where it would make further cuts to the migration program. Continue reading...

A man was found with gunshot wounds on a street in Riverstone, in Sydney's north-west. A short time later two burnt-out cars were discovered nearby.