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As Julia Gillard calls for the ALP to re-invent itself, Malaysia says the refugee swap deal should go ahead.

Julia Gillard is in Canberra. She’ll deliver a speech at an event hosted by the Chifley Research Centre at Old Parliament House from 10.30am. The event will be webcast and linked to a Twitter chat, and will be followed by a Q and A session afterwards.

In the speech, the PM will: attack the dominance of Labor’s factions by proposing to broaden the party’s base through online memberships and trialling US-style primaries to choose candidates. The Prime Minister will also ask party officials to recruit 8000 members a year – double the current rate – and adopt issue-based campaigning in the style of activist group GetUp! to reconnect with the community. (report)

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Tony Abbott made his weekly appearance on the Today show this morning. Ahead of a briefing from government officials on amendments to the Migration Act in Melbourne this afternoon, Mr Abbott signalled he was unlikely to back Labor’s legislation. “Julia Gillard has alliance partners, she should be asking Bob Brown to support her policy,” he said.”This is not about Nauru, they could have had Nauru at any time … This is not about the principle of offshore processing, this is about Malaysia.”

Across the shows: Australian Agenda will feature Opposition Treasury spokesman Joe Hockey with Peter Van Onselen, Paul Kelly and Jennifer Hewett. Mr Hockey will be followed by The Australian’s media editor Stephen Brook talking about the media inquiry.

On Meet the Press, Greens leader Bob Brown will be grilled by Jessica Irvine, Glenn Milne and host Paul Bongiorno. Former Liberal Senator Amanda Vanstone is the second guest.

Diary: A Senate committee is inquiring into a carbon tax in the main committee room. today. Another hearing into interactive and online gambling and gambling advertising will get under way from 9am.And from 9.30am a public hearing into the Native Title Amendment (Reform) Bill 2011gets under way.

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The Sydney Morning Herald reports: MALAYSIA remains strongly committed to the refugee exchange with Australia, with its Home Affairs Minister criticising the Coalition’s alternative of sending asylum seekers to Nauru as highly unlikely to stop human traffickers.

The Herald Sun reports: TIM Mathieson wants political “bullies” to give the Prime Minister a break.

The Canberra Times reports: NORTH Canberra residents were woken by a series of huge explosions and fireballs from a factory fire in Mitchell early this morning, as emergency services raised fears over the spread of toxic smoke plumes across the area.

The Australian reports: A TRADITIONAL Aboriginal payback for the apparent suicide of a 22-year-old woman is thought to be behind the death of her 24-year-old boyfriend.

The Advertiser reports: THE man hand-picked by Prime Minister Julia Gillard to spearhead national mental health reform has resigned after just a week in the job.

The West Australian reports: WA’s manufacturing sector is shedding almost 150 jobs a day as the strong dollar makes imports cheaper and workers chase higher wages in the State’s mines. New figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics reveal that for the first time since the 1920s there are now more people employed in mining in WA than in manufacturing

News.com.au reports: THE federal government has confirmed the death of an Australian soldier in a vehicle crash in East Timor.

The Daily Telegraph reports: INFRASTRUCTURE NSW chair Nick Greiner has put the blowtorch on Premier Barry O’Farrell, writing a submission to the government’s electricity inquiry arguing for a full privatisation to raise more than $20 billion.

The Courier Mail reports: PREMIER Anna Bligh has slapped down calls for an early election after her deputy Paul Lucas confirmed speculation that he would quit politics at the next poll.

The NT News reports: ANIMALS Australia is demanding an apology and a full retraction from Liberal senator Chris Back for accusing the organisation of paying Indonesian slaughtermen to abuse cattle on camera.

The Hobart Mercury asks: Is this the stupidest driver in Hobart? (Picture)

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Stirring the pot: Malcolm Turnbull appeared on Lateline last night. Video here on why the media inquiry is a sop to the Greens, why he will not be voting for the carbon tax and why the Labor Party were foolish to dump Kevin Rudd as leader.

Pokies revolt: A LARGE group of Labor MPs is threatening to vote in caucus against the poker machine deal that the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, cut with the Tasmanian independent Andrew Wilkie in a bid to save their seats. (Phillip Coorey reports)

HSU: THE union boss Michael Williamson failed to disclose that his son was using a Health Services Union building to run a recording studio. (Kate McClymont reports)

New PM: AN accountant who put on his first pair of shoes when he was 16 to visit his father’s relatives in Melbourne has in six short weeks taken a firm grip on the steering wheel in Papua New Guinea. (Rowan Callick reports)

Pay cut: THE next governor of the Reserve Bank will take a pay cut after Treasurer Wayne Swan yesterday took away the bank’s power to set its chief’s salary. (Phil Jacob reports)

Save our footy: SENATORS from all sides of politics and every state have voted to unanimously reject ABC plans to dump SANFL broadcasts. (Miles Kemp reports)

Spat: TWO prominent Jewish MPs have engaged in a public spat over which of the major political parties is a bigger friend of Israel. (Dan Oakes writes)

Coke or Pepsi? A century-long cola war has taken on a new shape as a fight over bottle design makes its way through the Federal Court. (report)

Gough Times: MALCOLM Turnbull has raised the spectre of Labor reviving Gough Whitlam’s controversial proposal for a government-owned newspaper as the Coalition steps up its attack against the media inquiry. (Katharine Murphy reports)

Missile defence: SENIOR US government officials have confirmed that Washington intends to step up co-operation with Australia on missile defence. (Brad Norington reports)

Return to sender: THOUSANDS of angry voters have posted the Gillard government’s glossy brochures promoting the carbon tax back to Climate Change Minister Greg Combet. (Gemma Jones reports)

Online scrutiny: ABC website The Drum and SBS online could find themselves scrutinised by the government’s media inquiry. (Christian Kerr reports)

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Chris Bowen reports: WE’VE heard the mantra so many times: John Howard stopped the boats. Well, in September 2001, in response to the Tampa affair, the Howard government introduced its Nauru solution and about 1800 asylum-seekers arrived on boats in the first 100 days following that announcement.

Michelle Grattan writes: Caucus should wait and see what happens into early 2012.

Dennis Shanahan writes: JULIA Gillard is in a deep hole over her Malaysia alternative to the Howard-era Pacific Solution of Nauru and Manus Island in Papua New Guinea. And the Prime Minister is going to have terrible trouble getting out of it.

David Penberthy writes: The American media theorist Marshall McLuhan said that the medium is the message. I’m not really sure what it means but it seems a suitably pretentious way to start a column about the condition of pretentiousness; that is, the state of being up one’s self, a show pony, a poseur.

Graham Richardson writes: PARLIAMENTARY privilege is a special privilege indeed. At its best it should provide the courageous parliamentarian with a platform to expose injustice without the fear of legal consequences.

The Advertiser editorial: THE ABC is adamant no decision has been made to reduce television coverage of local sports, in particular the South Australian National Football League.

Piers Akerman writes: OPPOSITION Leader Tony Abbott is being urged by misguided souls to help Prime Minister Julia Gillard amend the Migration Act to breathe life into the dead Malaysian Solution.

Jessica Irvine writes: It’s time to stop talking about productivity. I realise this statement represents economic blasphemy of the highest order, on a par with the assertion that ”that Adam Smith guy was a complete airhead, wasn’t he?”. But bear with me.

Paul Fletcher writes: THE recent announcement by Broadband and Communications Minister Stephen Conroy of an independent inquiry into Australia’s print media raises many questions.

Dennis Atkins writes: SPEAKER Harry Jenkins reckons everyone is on a learning curve as he tries to change the federal parliamentary game, but to the casual observer it looked more like a bunch of pre-schoolers fighting over the sandpit equipment.

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