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Coalition and Labor received Huang Xiangmo donations despite warnings | Sky News AustraliaThe Coalition and Labor party continued receiving political donations from Chinese billionaire Huang Xiangmo despite warnings from ASIO, News Corp senior correspondent Charles Miranda says. \n\nMr Miranda has told Sky News that Mr Huang made 'multiple million dollar donations' even after ASIO had warned former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull and Labor leader Bill Shorten that the Chinese property developer was potentially an 'agent of influence' on the Chinese Communist Party payroll. \n\nMr Huang's citizenship application was stopped and his permanent residency cancelled by the Home Affairs office on Wednesday.\n\nThe decision from the department, made while Mr Huang was offshore, leaves him unable to re-enter Australia, where he has lived with his family since 2011. \n\nImage: News Corp Australia\n\n\n
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Solar panels to be installed on NSW homes if Labor wins state election | Sky News AustraliaLabor has pledged to install rooftop solar panels on half a million homes across New South Wales if it wins the upcoming March state election.\n\nThe program would see households with a combined income of $180,000 or less qualify for a rebate.\n\nIt is hoped the program will add solar power to an additional million homes over the next ten years and could save the average household up to $1000 annually.\n
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Coalition playing politics over border security: Labor | Sky News AustraliaLabor frontbencher Andrew Leigh says the government is running a ‘fear campaign’ over border security as parliament resumes this week.\n\nThe lower house is preparing to debate a bill first brought forward by Wentworth MP Kerryn Phelps, which gives doctors greater discretion to transfer sick refugees and asylum seekers to Australia from offshore detention camps.\n\nLabor leader Bill Shorten will receive an ASIO briefing on the legislation, with security agencies allegedly warning that the legislation could result in over one thousand refugees and asylum seekers transferred to Australia from offshore camps.\n\nMr Leigh says Labor is ‘open to a middle way’ that maintains Australia’s border security but allows sick asylum seekers and refugees to secure the medical treatment they need.\n\n\n\n
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Labor engaging in a grubby, pathetic smear campaign: Wilson | Sky News AustraliaFULL INTERVIEW: Liberal MP Tim Wilson says Labor is running a ‘grubby, pathetic smear campaign’ against him, as he continues to advocate against its franking credits policy.\n\nThe opposition has accused Mr Wilson of having a conflict of interest and is calling on him to resign from the house economics committee.\n\nLabor MP Matt Thistlethwaite says Mr Wilson is a shareholder in a company that has been leading an inquiry against Labor's franking credits policy, which was not declared during public hearings.\n\nMr Wilson has denied this, saying ‘he fully disclosed’ his shareholdings and says even if he had not, Labor’s policy doesn’t impact him directly.\n\nLabor is pushing forward with its policy to end excess cash refunds paid to retirees and superannuation funds, which if implemented will net the budget bottom line $55.7 billion within two years.\n\nMr Wilson says despite ‘the attacks against him’ he will continue to advocate against Labor’s policy.\n\n\n\n
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Labor refers Liberal MP Tim Wilson to AFP | Sky News AustraliaLabor has referred Liberal MP Tim Wilson, the chair of the inquiry into Labor’s franking credit policy, to the AFP. \n\nMatt Thistlewaite has urged authorities to launch investigations over claims Mr Wilson breached electoral laws by sharing voters data with Wilson Asset management. \n\nPrime Minister Scott Morrison has thrown his support behind the Liberal MP and says he will not be removing him as chair. \n\nImage: News Corp Australia \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Border battle looms as Labor back amendments to medivac bill | Sky News AustraliaFederal parliament will resume today for the first time in 2019 with the asylum seeker medical transfer bill to dominate talks. \n\nLabor is negotiating with crossbench MPs to change the proposed new laws after the party’s caucus endorsed compromises to the medivac bill ahead of a vote in parliament. \n\nPrime Minister Scott Morrison has warned the bill will weaken Australia’s borders and promises there will be no changes to border protection policies. \n\nThe Coalition has vowed not to support the amendments, meaning Labor will need six of the seven crossbenchers in order to pass the legislation through the lower house.\n\n\n\nImage: News Corp Australia \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Border battle looms as Labor back amendments to medivac bill | Sky News AustraliaPrime Minister Scott Morrison has doubled down on rejecting the asylum seeker medical transfer bill as federal parliament resumes for the first time in 2019. \n\nLabor is negotiating with crossbench MPs to change the proposed new laws after the party’s caucus endorsed compromises to the medivac bill ahead of a vote in parliament. \n\nIndependent MP Kerryn Phelps, who proposed the bill, told Sky News says she is open to the proposed compromises but will be seeking advice from people within the industry. \n\nImage: News Corp Australia\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Labor needs to 'move on' from border security debate | Sky News AustraliaFormer Labor minister Stephen Conroy says Labor needs to put the border security debate 'to bed' in order to prosecute other topics during the current sitting week in parliament.\n\nOpposition leader Bill Shorten is debating with the crossbenchers over a series of amendments to the medical evacuation bill, including allowing a minister to override a doctor's request to transfer a sick asylum seeker to Australia on medical grounds.\n\nPrime Minister Scott Morrison has warned the bill will dismantle offshore processing and weaken Australia's border security.\n\nMr Conroy says the Coalition has 'won the politics' on this issue, which has been 'messy' for Labor.\n\n\n
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Border battle looms as Labor back amendments to medivac bill | Sky News AustraliaPrime Minister Scott Morrison has doubled down on rejecting the asylum seeker medical transfer bill as federal parliament resumes for the first time in 2019. \n\nLabor is negotiating with crossbench MPs to change the proposed new laws after the party’s caucus endorsed compromises to the medivac bill ahead of a vote in parliament. \n\nIndependent MP Kerryn Phelps, who proposed the bill, told Sky News says she is open to the proposed compromises but will be seeking advice from people within the industry. \n\nImage: News Corp Australia
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