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magic lign ocean Max Chandler-Mather and Adam Bandt (Image: AAP/Lukas Coch) HOUSING AND SOCIAL MEDIA With so many bills before Parliament still waiting to be passed, scrapped or delayed before the end of this week there’s no shortage of angles this morning, although two measures in particular are attracting significant attention. The government’s housing bills and its rushed attempts to get the teen social media ban agreed upon have been dominating coverage overnight. Yesterday, the Greens agreed to pass the Albanese government’s Help to Buy and Build to Rent schemes after failing to win any of the concessions the party had held out so long for. As mentioned in yesterday’s Worm , it had been reported the prime minister went into this final sitting week planning on not conceding to any Greens amendments. On Monday afternoon his housing reforms managed just that. Guardian Australia flags Greens leader Adam Bandt and housing spokesperson Max Chandler-Mather claimed in a press conference they had pushed Labor “as hard” as they could without success. “The Greens can announce that we’ll be waving through Labor’s two housing bills after accepting that Labor doesn’t care enough about renters to do anything meaningful for them,” Chandler-Mather said. Earlier in the day Housing Minister Clare O’Neil had continued the government’s line that the Greens were deliberately blocking housing legislation during a housing crisis. “For two-and-a-half years now, the Australian Greens have done nothing but block and delay the action the government has attempted to take on housing,” she told ABC’s Radio National. Chandler-Mather countered at his press conference by saying his party had “passed every single piece of Labor’s housing legislation”, adding: “And if we come to the next election and there’s still a housing crisis — well, that’s a question Labor has to answer.” The Greens housing spokesperson is up again at the National Press Club later today for the Housing Policy Debate . AAP reports opposition housing spokesperson Michael Sukkar will “hint at ‘a comprehensive package’ of reforms aimed at freeing up access to finance” at the event. “If there’s one message I want Australians to take away from my remarks today, it’s that the coalition will not accept a generation of Australians not having the same opportunities that previous generations have enjoyed for home ownership,” Sukkar is expected to say. The other planned reform grabbing a lot of headlines this morning is the government’s pitch to ban children under 16 from social media. The Senate committee’s remarkable one-day hearing is due to report back today with plenty of opposition voiced to the government’s attempts to get the legislation passed before Parliament rises at the end of the week. AAP has compiled the objections from the social media platforms and says the Coalition has said it will reserve its final decision on the bill until it has received answers from the government. Meanwhile, Guardian Australia flags the Greens and One Nation have accused the government of trying to “ram” the legislation through Parliament. Meta said in its submission to the Senate inquiry there had been “minimal consultation or engagement” and called on the government to wait for the results of the age verification trial, which is not set to report back until the middle of next year. Snap Inc meanwhile expressed concern at “the extremely compressed timeline”, X criticised the “unreasonably short time-frame of one day”, and TikTok had a range of “serious, unresolved problems” with the proposals, AAP flags. The bill is set to be debated later this week. Capital Brief reported yesterday the government is also this week finalising its package of media reforms, which the social media platforms and search companies will no doubt have plenty to say about too. ECONOMIC SHOCKS As the government tries to get as much of its agenda passed this week as it can, it is also dropping pledges it knows it has no hope of getting done before election day. The Australian Financial Review reports the plan to increase the tax on superannuation accounts worth more than $3 million is unlikely to pass Parliament before the federal election. The paper says the legislation has been left off the bills the Albanese government is trying to pass this week and even if Parliament does return in February (which many reckon it won’t) it stands little chance of passing without major changes “with every Senate party and crossbencher opposed to it”. With so much government legislation still up in the air, the AFR also flags the Senate’s sitting hours have been extended this week. Elsewhere in its coverage , the paper says it has had internal analysis by the Reserve Bank of Australia about the impact of a Donald Trump presidency released to it under freedom of information laws. The analysis, which was conducted three weeks before the US election, found that under an “extreme” scenario of Trump imposing massive tariffs on Chinese goods, China’s economic growth would slow. That decline would have “relatively strong negative implications for Australia given the strength of export trade links”, the RBA analysis reportedly said. “In the extreme scenario, weaker export demand, and slower growth would be disinflationary, putting downward pressure on policy rate expectations, government bond yields and the Australian dollar. Equity prices would likely decline as earnings expectations are revised down.” The Australian carries the same analysis, which it also said it obtained under freedom of information laws. Elsewhere, AAP reports “Australia is waving goodbye to budget surpluses and returning abruptly to deficit”. The newswire flags the Deloitte Access Economics’ (DAE) prediction of a $33.5 billion deficit in 2024/25. During the last financial year a $15.8 billion surplus was recorded, so if the prediction proved correct it would “amount to the largest nominal contraction in the underlying cash balance on record, outside the pandemic”, AAP said. DAE partner and report co-author Stephen Smith also expressed concern about the impact on the Australian economy of Trump’s threatened tariffs. Back to Canberra to finish, Guardian Australia reports the government and the Coalition are close to a deal on passing all three of the migration bills up for debate tomorrow. The AFR says today’s focus will be on legislation related to multinational tax, education measures, and wage rises for childcare staff. ON A LIGHTER NOTE... It’s almost Christmas and Jude Law has taken it upon himself to remind people that movies aren’t real life. Apparently, fans of the 2006 festive film The Holiday were upset this week to learn the picturesque cottage that Kate Winslet’s character swaps for an LA pad belonging to Cameron Diaz’s is in fact not real. (Which is not new news, as MyLondon put it back in 2020: “The exterior was built especially for the movie on a hill outside [the village of] Shere.”) Appearing on BBC Radio 2, last week, Law was asked by a fellow guest, actress and comedian Kerry Godliman, if it was possible to Airbnb the famous cottage from the film. Cue Jude ruining everyone’s fun by, as reported by Yahoo , saying: “That cottage doesn’t exist. Ooh yeah. So, the director [ Nancy Meyers ], she’s a bit of a perfectionist — toured that whole area and didn’t quite find the chocolate box cottage she was looking for. So she just hired a field and drew [what she wanted] and had someone build it. But here’s the funny thing, if you watch it, so, we were shooting it in the winter here and every time I’d go in that door, we cut, and we shot the interiors in LA, about three months later.” So if you didn’t know before, now you do, films aren’t real life folks. Say What? Look, I remind myself that very many people didn’t vote Labour at the last election. I’m not surprised that many of them want a rerun. That isn’t how our system works. Sir Keir Starmer The UK Prime Minister has responded to an online petition signed by two million people calling for another election. The petition has been promoted by the likes of Elon Musk and Nigel Farage . As The Guardian puts it, calling for an election less than six months after the last one “and when the government has a working majority of 163 is clearly bonkers”. CRIKEY RECAP Labor gave the public one day to weigh in on teen social media ban. It got 15,000 responses ANTON NILSSON and CAM WILSON Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (Image: AAP/Mick Tsikas) The snap inquiry into Labor’s bill to ban under-16s from social media has generated a huge interest from the public, receiving about 15,000 submissions in just over a day, Crikey understands. The first and only hearing in the inquiry kicked off at 9am on Monday and was due to finish at midday. When the hearing was halfway done, at 11am, just 28 submissions had been uploaded on the committee website. The keen interest in the inquiry was boosted by a viral post from Elon Musk , who helped give the bill global media attention when he responded to a post on X by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese with the message: “Seems like a backdoor way to control access to the internet by all Australians.” Can Australia rely on its diplomats to be diplomatic? MARGARET REYNOLDS Despite this extensive in-service training of career diplomats, Australian governments frequently appoint politicians with scant special diplomacy skills to represent the nation overseas. Critics argue that elected members and senators representing either the Liberals or the ALP are not necessarily familiar with world affairs, and many would doubt their capacity to be diplomatic. Government leaders often make ambassadorial appointments when rewarding former ministers. These appointments are criticised as “jobs for the boys” — and indeed very few women have been anointed with this benefit. (We have yet to see a minor party or independent political appointment, so the partisan nature of this process reinforces the view that diplomacy should be about more than mateship.) Such political appointments can take advantage of the particular skills or experience of former parliamentarians, particularly in the case of former treasurers, ministers or prime ministers. However, it must be frustrating for career diplomats to be overlooked when their political masters prefer familiar former parliamentarians instead of professionals with years of experience in diplomacy and international relations. It might be easier to ask which of Trump’s cabinet picks HAVEN’T been accused of sexual misconduct CHARLIE LEWIS The relative calm in Trumpworld since the withdrawal last week of Matt Gaetz — the former Florida congressman initially tapped to be attorney-general — has given America-watchers the chance to ask broader questions about a second Trump administration. Questions like “Just how practical are the policies being promised?” and “Wait, how many of his cabinet choices have been accused of sexual misconduct?” READ ALL ABOUT IT Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos vows to fight back after vice-president makes public assassination threat (ABC) Netanyahu nears decision on ceasefire with Hezbollah, officials say ( The New York Times ) ($) Sixteen missing after Red Sea tourist boat sinks (BBC) University vice-chancellor pay to mirror top public service jobs ( The Australian ) ($) Trump Pentagon pick attacks UN and NATO and urges US to ignore Geneva Conventions ( The Guardian ) Barbara Taylor Bradford, the ‘grand dame of blockbusters’, dies aged 91 (Sky News) THE COMMENTARIAT Federal election 2025 will be the first vote where gen Z and millennials outnumber baby boomers at the ballot box — Patricia Karvelas (ABC): The era of baby boomers as the dominant voting force in Australian politics is at an end and the impact will play out at the next federal election, due by May. If you listen carefully, you can already hear that politicians know the power and numbers have shifted to younger people. We are already seeing political parties shift demographic focus and it’s something that will differentiate this next election from others in recent times, with a noticeable focus on young people. The 2025 federal election will be the first election where gen Z and millennials will outnumber boomers in every state and territory, dramatically changing the way political parties campaign and target voters. This is no small thing. Policy and political announcements designed around the perceived needs of boomers have been at the heart of Australian politics. Changing voter demographics will introduce a seismic shift. I used to think Australia was best served by a majority government. Now I’m not so sure — George Megalogenis (Guardian Australia): A comparison with Britain’s July 2024 election shows the Australian difference. The British people followed our lead by electing a Labour government with just a third of the primary vote, and sent a record number of women to the House of Commons (40.5%, compared with the 39.1% elected to our House of Representatives in 2022). The UK’s voluntary first-past-the-post voting system secured a landslide victory for Keir Starmer’s Labour; under our compulsory preferential voting system, Albanese’s Labor squeaked in with a majority of two seats. The revelation is in the splintering of the conservative vote. The majority of those who turned against Scott Morrison’s blokey government created a new independent female centre in the cities; by contrast, in the UK the Tories lost ground to the nationalist right. Where former Liberal voters elected Zoe Daniel and Allegra Spender to the House of Representatives, their counterparts in the UK sent Brexit town crier and Trump supporter Nigel Farage to the House of Commons. Australia’s protest vote sits in a global category of its own at the moment because it aims to force change on the system, not disrupt it. This tells us something about our underlying trust in the idea of government, and our willingness to be led from the centre, not the fringe. Whether it achieves its ambition will depend on the long-term significance of the last election. Did it signal a realignment which transferred power from the conservative regions to the progressive cities? Or was it just another version of the stalemate we have endured since 2010, in which no major party is able to govern with authority because each represents only a fraction of a divided nation?The Golden State Warriors face the New Orleans Pelicans in a group stage NBA Cup game on Friday, Nov. 22, 2024 (11/22/24) at Smoothie King Center in New Orleans, La. How to watch: Fans can watch the game for free via a trial of DirecTV Stream or fuboTV . You can also watch via a subscription to Sling TV , which is offering half off your first month. Here’s what you need to know: What : NBA regular season Who : Warriors vs. Pelicans When : Friday, Nov. 22 (11/22/24) Time : 7:30 p.m. ET Where : Smoothie King Center TV : ESPN Live stream : DirecTV Stream (free trial), fuboTV (free trial) *** Here’s an NBA story via the Associated Press: MILWAUKEE (AP) — Doc Rivers got emotional Wednesday when speaking about Bob Love, the former Chicago Bulls star forward and three-time All-Star who died Monday at the age of 81 after a long battle with cancer. Love, who spent 11 years in the NBA, forged a special bond with Rivers when the Milwaukee Bucks coach was a teenager growing up in Chicago. “He was a big guy in my life,” Rivers said before the Bucks game against the Bulls in Milwaukee on Wednesday night, his voice breaking. “Really an impressive guy. People remember Bob from basketball and I really don’t. He was a great basketball player but I met him when I was young, in high school.” Rivers said he first encountered Love at a park in Chicago and took note of Love’s severe stuttering problem. “I remember him talking to me and really struggling,” Rivers said. “I thought how courageous that was. That an NBA player would speak to a bunch of kids at a park. It was just so impressive to me.” A relationship between Rivers and Love took root. “For whatever reason, Bob took a liking to me,” Rivers said. “He would give me his shoes. Just a powerful guy. A tough guy. I think he epitomized Chicago in a lot of ways with his toughness and how we grew up.” Rivers said other young Chicago basketball players at that time, including Mark Aguirre and Hall of Famer Isiah Thomas, also took a liking to Love. “Bob was our guy and I think we all took that toughness from him,” Rivers said. He noted that Love, who was an All-Star for three straight seasons from 1970-73 and averaged a team-high and career-best 25.8 points during the 1971-72 season, struggled after his basketball career but was able to overcome one of his biggest challenges after he left the game. “He conquered the hardest thing that he could conquer and that was his stuttering problem,” Rivers said. Rivers, getting emotional again, said he wanted Love, whose No. 10 jersey hangs in the rafters at the United Center, to be remembered, and not just for what he accomplished on the court. RECOMMENDED • nj .com What channel is the Golden State Warriors vs. New Orleans Pelicans game tonight (11/22/24)? FREE LIVE STREAM, Nov. 22, 2024, 1:30 p.m. What channel is the Dallas Mavericks vs. Denver Nuggets game tonight (11/22/24)? 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Brazil’s federal police last Thursday formally accused Mr Bolsonaro and 36 other people of attempting a coup. They sent their 884-page report to the Supreme Court, which lifted the seal. “The evidence collected throughout the investigation shows unequivocally that then-president Jair Messias Bolsonaro planned, acted and was directly and effectively aware of the actions of the criminal organisation aiming to launch a coup d’etat and eliminate the democratic rule of law, which did not take place due to reasons unrelated to his desire,” the document said. At another point, it says: “Bolsonaro had full awareness and active participation.” Mr Bolsonaro, who had repeatedly alleged without evidence that the country’s electronic voting system was prone to fraud, called a meeting in December 2022, during which he presented a draft decree to the commanders of the three divisions of the armed forces, according to the police report, signed by four investigators. The decree would have launched an investigation into suspicions of fraud and crimes related to the October 2022 vote, and suspended the powers of the nation’s electoral court. The navy’s commander stood ready to comply, but those from the army and air force objected to any plan that prevented Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s inauguration, the report said. Those refusals are why the plan did not go ahead, according to witnesses who spoke to investigators. Mr Bolsonaro never signed the decree to set the final stage of the alleged plan into action. Mr Bolsonaro has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing or awareness of any plot to keep him in power or oust his leftist rival and successor. “No one is going to do a coup with a reserve general and half a dozen other officers. What is being said is absurd. For my part, there has never been any discussion of a coup,” Mr Bolsonaro told journalists in the capital Brasilia on Monday. “If someone came to discuss a coup with me, I’d say, that’s fine, but the day after, how does the world view us?” he added. “The word ‘coup’ has never been in my dictionary.” The top court has passed the report on to prosecutor-general Paulo Gonet. He will decide whether to formally charge Mr Bolsonaro. Rodrigo Rios, a law professor at the PUC university in the city of Curitiba, said Mr Bolsonaro could face up to a minimum of 11 years in prison if convicted on all charges. “A woman involved in the January 8 attack on the Supreme Court received a 17-year prison sentence,” Mr Rios told the Associated Press, noting that the former president is more likely to receive 15 years or more if convicted. “Bolsonaro’s future looks dark.” Ahead of the 2022 election, Mr Bolsonaro repeatedly alleged that the election system, which does not use paper ballots, could be tampered with. The top electoral court later ruled that he had abused his power to cast unfounded doubt on the voting system, and ruled him ineligible for office until 2030. Still, he has maintained that he will stand as a candidate in the 2026 race. Since Mr Bolsonaro left office, he has been targeted by several investigations, all of which he has chalked up to political persecution. Federal police have accused him of smuggling diamond jewellery into Brazil without properly declaring them and directing a subordinate to falsify his and others’ Covid-19 vaccination statuses. Authorities are also investigating whether he incited the riot on January 8 2022 in which his followers ransacked the Supreme Court and presidential palace in Brasilia, seeking to prompt intervention by the army that would oust Mr Lula from power. Mr Bolsonaro had left for the United States days before Mr Lula’s inauguration on January 1 2023 and stayed there for three months, keeping a low profile. The police report unsealed on Tuesday alleges he was seeking to avoid possible imprisonment related to the coup plot, and also await the uprising that took place a week later.The standard Lorem Ipsum passage, used since the 1500s "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. 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NoneNoneWEST LAFAYETTE — Braden Smith had 24 points and 10 assists, and No. 8 Purdue held off Maryland for an 83-78 win on Sunday. Trey Kaufman-Renn scored 21 points for the Boilermakers (8-2, 1-1 Big Ten), who bounced back after a loss to Penn State on Thursday. Camden Heide added 15 points and Fletcher Loyer finished with 12. Derik Queen led the Terrapins (8-2, 1-1) with 26 points on 11-of-18 shooting and grabbed a team-high 12 rebounds. Ja’Kobi Gillespie scored 18 points and Selton Miguel and Rodney Rice each had 13. Julian Reese fouled out with five points and seven rebounds. Purdue used an 8-0 run to take a 77-67 lead with 2:00 left. Smith sparked the run with a 3-pointer. Heide made three late foul shots to help close it out. The Terrapins led 36-31 at halftime. Both teams made 13 of 35 shots in the first half, but the Terrapins had three more 3-pointers Maryland: The Terrapins held its own for most of the game in a road battle. Maryland held a 37-34 rebounding advantage, but that narrowed from a 25-16 edge in the opening half. Purdue: After shooting 37% in the first half, the Boilermakers made 53% of their shots in the second half. Despite Maryland’s size advantage, Purdue had a 42-32 edge in points in the paint. The Boilermakers went 7 for 16 from 3-point range in the second half after going 2 for 10 from deep in the first half. Maryland hosts St. Francis (Pa.) on Dec. 17, and Purdue plays No. 22 Texas A&M on Saturday in Indianapolis.

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Hubbard scores 14 of his 25 points late as Mississippi State pulls away from Prairie View A&M, 91-84IOWA CITY — Iowa’s 29-13 win over Maryland in the first start of Jackson Stratton’s career at Iowa improved the Hawkeyes’ record to 7-4 with one game remaining in the season. Following the 16-point win over the Terrapins and ahead of a matchup with the Nebraska in a battle for the Heroes Trophy, uncertainty continues to reign at quarterback, the Huskers may have regained their early season rhythm and stakes seem lessened. In his first career start, Stratton led an efficient and effective Iowa offense down the field on three straight drives of 12 or more plays to start the game, resulting in 10 points and lopsided time of possession numbers. However, once the game went final, Stratton’s stat line showed limited usage for the former fourth-string walk on as he finished with 76 passing yards on 10-of-14 passing. The Hawkeyes ran the ball 58 times in the win and, though Stratton flashed the ability to throw to the wide side of the field early, rarely looked to give their third different starting quarterback of the season a chance to showcase his skillset. Following the win, Ferentz praised Stratton and said he assumed the former Colorado State transfer would be the starting quarterback against Nebraska. “He is the leader of the group right now,” Ferentz said. Despite Ferentz’s postgame comments, Cade McNamara, who started the first eight games of the season, issued a statement on social media Friday indicating his intentions of playing against the Huskers if he were cleared from concussion protocol for game action. Answer: Stratton Nebraska topped Wisconsin 44-25 on Saturday to become bowl eligible for the first time since 2016, when Mike Riley was the head coach. During the win, the Big Red showed flashes of their September selves, racing out to a 34-10 lead behind an efficient and mistake-free Dylan Raiola at quarterback, a strong rushing attack and an opportunistic defense. The Badgers managed to cut the lead to 37-25 with 6:03 remaining in the fourth quarter before a late touchdown sealed the win for the Huskers. The win seemed to demonstrate a return to form for Nebraska as they looked more like the team that raced out to a 28-0 lead in the first half against Colorado than the team that lost to Indiana 56-7. However, did the Huskers fully shake off their struggles after a four-game losing skid? Answer: The fan base hopes so. Saturday will be the test. With Iowa firmly planted at the top of tier two Big Ten teams in the standings with little room to improve their standing and Nebraska reaching bowl eligibility last week, the Black Friday tilt between the two programs does not have the same stakes as in years’ previous. Though Nebraska cannot spoil an Iowa Big Ten Championship bid and the Hawkeyes cannot stop the Huskers from reaching a bowl game, the game remains a pivotal contest for both teams. Nebraska hopes to win to generate excitement into the offseason and important recruiting periods. A three-game winning streak (with a win in a bowl game) would be its strongest finish to a season since winning four straight to cap the 2008 season — Bo Pelini’s first as head coach at Nebraska. For Iowa, a win would once again bring supremacy to the Hawkeyes over the once proud program, give them a chance at closing the season on a three-game win streak and give them nine wins in the last 10 matchups. Though this game possesses no grand national implications on college football, there is still plenty to play for on Friday. Answer: Glory, bragging rights, a trophy — everything that makes college football great. Special teams, pair of defensive stops, explosive run put Iowa over top against Maryland Iowa rides ground game to bounce back win at Maryland, Kaleb Johnson surpasses Shonn Greene 5 Takeaways from Iowa’s bounce back win over Maryland Get local news delivered to your inbox!Ryder Novock notches hat trick, as Country Day gets past Ike, 5-2, thanks to second-period flurryPeter Kramer/NBC has stated that he will "most likely" pardon those involved in the , starting on the first day he takes office for his second term. On Sunday, Dec. 8, the president-elect, 78, sat down with NBC’s for a wide-ranging interview on , and spoke about his plans to pardon those who have been charged with crimes for their roles in the Capitol riots. He that he and his associates are "looking at it right now." As reports, more than 1,251 people have been convicted or pleaded guilty in connection to the Capitol attack, with at least 1,572 defendants having been charged in total. Per the outlet, at least 645 defendants were sentenced to periods ranging from a few days to 22 years in federal lockup, with 250 people currently in custody. "Those people have suffered long, hard," Trump told Welker. "There may be some exceptions to it, I have to look." Related: "Their lives have been destroyed... These people have been in jail, I hear that jail is a hellhole," Trump added. "So yeah, most likely I'll do it very quickly." The president-elect then spoke about what he called the "corrupt system," before confirming that he and his staff will "look at everything," including "individual cases," and will be "acting very quickly." Trump will be taking office for his second term in the White House on Jan. 20. "I'm looking [at] first day," he said. "These people have been there, how long has it been, three or four years? They're in a filthy, disgusting place that shouldn't even be allowed to be open." Peter Kramer/NBC Related: Trump's interview with Welker, 48, was filmed two days prior to its air date on Friday, Dec. 6, according to a from NBC. It marked Trump's first network interview since . Welker last sat down with Trump for an interview on NBC in September 2023. During the 2024 election cycle, Trump rarely spoke with mainstream media outlets, opting to mostly do interviews with Fox News and various podcasts instead. Last month, Trump won the 2024 presidential election when he in the early morning hours of Wednesday, Nov. 6. Trump, who previously served as president from 2017 to 2021, clinched a rare non-consecutive term and became the first convicted felon and the oldest person elected to the role. His opponent, , who made history as America's first woman vice president on the winning ticket with President in 2020, became to lead a major party's presidential ticket. airs Sundays on NBC. Read the original article on

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