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Fosters growth of Politics and Law & Civics and Citizenship for WA students/teachers. Non-profit offers PD, seminars & publications on curriculum/topical events

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This year we will be using the below hashtags to help categorise our tweets and create a searchable database of P&L news that links to the WA syllabus.
Haylie Pepper@haylie_pepper26 Aug 2019
Guide to Y12 syllabus hashtags
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Judge demands answers from White House on deportation flights to El Salvador #12PAL20 #12PAL1 theguardian.com/us-news/2025…

Judge demands answers from White House on deportation flights to El Salvador

Jeb Boasberg instructs Trump administration to explain how refusal to return flights did not violate court order

theguardian.com
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Short-term politics keeps stalling long-term fixes. This bill offers a way forward #12PAL7 #11PAL6 #11PAL7 #11PAL11 theconversation.com/short-te… via @ConversationEDU

Short-term politics keeps stalling long-term fixes. This bill offers a way forward

In a rare act of bipartisanship, an independent MP and a Liberal backbencher have proposed properly factoring in young people’s needs when drafting new policy.

theconversation.com
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Eight Labor ‘climate champions’ to get election help from party’s grassroots environment action group #11PAL1 #11PAL15 #11PAL18 #12PAL20 #12PAL14 theguardian.com/australia-ne…

Eight Labor ‘climate champions’ to get election help from party’s grassroots environment action...

Exclusive: Ged Kearney, Kate Thwaites, Josh Burns, Jerome Laxale, Sally Sitou, Alicia Payne, Josh Wilson and Renee Coffey will get extra door-knocking, phone banking and push ads

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Climate 200 to help bankroll candidates in four Labor seats at federal election #11PAL1 #11PAL15 #11PAL18 #12PAL20 #12PAL14 theguardian.com/australia-ne…

Climate 200 to help bankroll candidates in four Labor seats at federal election

Exclusive: After supporting 23 candidates in 2022, including six successful teal independents, fundraising body to support 35 campaigns in this year’s ballot

theguardian.com
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Asylum seeker slated for deportation to Nauru has removal postponed due to legal challenge #12PAL8 #12PAL15 #12PAL21 #12PAL7 #11PAL1 #12PAL13 theguardian.com/australia-ne…

Asylum seeker slated for deportation to Nauru has removal postponed due to legal challenge

Home affairs minister Tony Burke says he is confident in government’s power to deport the man and ‘will proceed with removal to Nauru as soon as possible’

theguardian.com
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Clive Palmer loses High Court fight to re-register United Australia Party before federal election #11PAL18 #12PAL20 #12PAL8 abc.net.au/news/2025-02-12/a… via @ABCaustralia

Clive Palmer loses bid to re-register United Australia Party

Clive Palmer has lost his High Court bid to re-register the United Australia Party for this year's federal election, meaning the party's candidates will not be identified with the UAP on ballot...

abc.net.au
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‘Served their time’: Nauru president backs Australian plan to resettle three members of NZYQ cohort #12PAL15 #12PAL20 #11PAL1 theguardian.com/australia-ne…

‘Served their time’: Nauru president backs Australian plan to resettle three members of NZYQ cohort

David Adeang defends his government’s offer for 30-year resettlement visas to non-citizens in Pacific island nation

theguardian.com
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The AEC wants to stop AI and misinformation. But it’s up against a problem that is deep and dark #11PAL1 #11PAL16 #11PAL18 #12PAL20 #12PAL14 theconversation.com/the-aec-… via @ConversationEDU

The AEC wants to stop AI and misinformation. But it’s up against a problem that is deep and dark

‘Stop and Consider’ aims to help voters sift the real from the fake but it will take more than this to combat a growing and insidious problem.

theconversation.com
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Political donations data show who’s funding whom in Australia – but they are coming out far too late #11PAL1 #11PAL16 #11PAL18 #12PAL20 #12PAL14 theconversation.com/politica… via @ConversationEDU

Political donations data show who’s funding whom in Australia – but they are coming out far too late

While there’s plenty of information in the latest data disclosure, Australians are still in the dark about exactly who funds our political parties at election time.

theconversation.com
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All judges have 'absolute immunity' from civil lawsuits, the High Court rules #12PAL20 #12PAL17 sbs.com.au/news/article/all-…

All judges have 'absolute immunity' from civil lawsuits, the High Court rules

The High Court ruled judges have immunity from civil suits, overturning a $309,000 award to a man who was wrongly imprisoned by Federal Circuit Court Judge Salvatore Vasta.

sbs.com.au
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Labor backs mandatory sentences for terror and hate crimes amid Coalition pressure #12PAL2 #12PAL4 #12PAL5 #12PAL7 #12PAL12 #12PAL21 #12PAL20 abc.net.au/news/2025-02-05/l… via @ABCaustralia

Labor buckles to pressure over mandatory sentences for terror offences

Federal Labor has agreed to Coalition demands on mandatory minimum jail sentences, paving the way to pass the government's Hate Crimes bill in parliament.

abc.net.au
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Labor uses Treasury to claim Coalition's tax-free lunch policy would cost $1.6b a year, prompting Coalition anger #12PAL4 #12PAL5 abc.net.au/news/2025-02-04/c… via @ABCaustralia

Angus Taylor says Treasury costing of his lunch policy 'egregious politicisation'

Labor says the Coalition's election policy to offer tax-free lunches would cost the federal budget $1.6 billion a year, enlisting the Treasury in a political attack on the small business support...

abc.net.au
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Mandatory minimum sentencing is proven to be bad policy. It won’t stop hate crimes #11PAL1 #11PAL11 #11PAL12 #11PAL23 #12PAL20 #12PAL2 theconversation.com/mandator… via @ConversationEDU

Mandatory minimum sentencing is proven to be bad policy. It won’t stop hate crimes

Extensive evidence shows the government’s plan to legislate mandatory minimum sentences for hate crimes, including antisemitic acts, won’t be effective. Here’s why.

theconversation.com
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Misleading and false election ads are legal in Australia. We need national truth in political advertising laws #11PAL16 #12PAL20 #11PAL1 #11PAL18 theconversation.com/misleadi… via @ConversationEDU

Misleading and false election ads are legal in Australia. We need national truth in political...

A loophole in the Electoral Act means it’s perfectly legal to lie to voters – as long as it doesn’t happen during official election campaigns.

theconversation.com
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‘20 in a cell, no fresh air, drinking water above a toilet’: these are accounts from inside an NT watch house #12PAL23 #12PAL20 #12PAL21 sbs.com.au/nitv/article/20-i…

‘20 in a cell, no fresh air, drinking water above a toilet’: these are accounts from inside an NT...

Two Aboriginal women have described hot, overcrowded and poorly ventilated cells crammed with up to 20 people at the Alice Springs watch house.

sbs.com.au
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Here are all the changes Donald Trump signed off on during his first day as US president #12PAL1 #12PAL20 amp.abc.net.au/article/10484…

All the changes Donald Trump signed off on during his first day in office

Donald Trump signs the first lot of executive orders, including moves to withdraw the US from the Paris Climate Agreement and pardoning January 6 rioters. Here's what we know so far.  

abc.net.au
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'Blatantly unconstitutional': US judge blocks Trump's order to end birthright citizenship #12PAL1 # 12PAL20 sbs.com.au/news/article/blat…

'Blatantly unconstitutional': US judge blocks Trump's order to end birthright citizenship

A federal judge has temporarily blocked Donald Trump's executive order ending the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship, marking the first legal setback for the US president's hardline...

sbs.com.au
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More than 30 Australian laws changed overnight. Here's what's new #11PAL6 #11PAL7 #11PAL11 #12PAL2 #12PAL4 #12PAL7 #12PAL12 abc.net.au/news/2024-11-29/a… via @ABCaustralia

Australia's laws have suddenly changed on tax benefits and 12 other big issues

There are new laws for supermarkets, housing developers, victims of sexual violence, the Reserve Bank and many more, after the government ticked off dozens of items on its to-do list in a single...

abc.net.au
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Senate censures Lidia Thorpe for disrupting King’s reception and Ralph Babet for posting hate speech #12PAL14 theconversation.com/senate-c… via @ConversationEDU

Senate censures Lidia Thorpe for disupting King’s reception and Ralph Babet for posting hate speech

The Senate has censured two of its own, Lidia Thorpe and Ralph Babet, both of whom were absent when the votes were taken because of problems with their flights to Canberra.

theconversation.com
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Federal government loses High Court case over legality of curfew and ankle bracelets for those freed from immigration detention #12PAL14 #12PAL20 #12PAL1 #11PAL3 #11PAL1 abc.net.au/news/2024-11-06/f… via @ABCaustralia
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