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Labor’s carbon tax package and the political stand-off over asylum-seekers will dominate the political agenda today.

Julia Gillard is in Canberra and has a day of meetings, interspersed by question time. She has no media appearances planned.

Tony Abbott is in Canberra for the sitting day.

Kevin’s back: At least for a few hours. Capital Circle hears Mr Rudd, who has been on leave since having surgery, had planned to cancel his appearance at the Sarcoma Ball charity event last night. He returned to parliament late in the day after the Coalition refused to guarantee him a pair for divisions on the carbon tax legislation. Mr Rudd was ultimately granted a pair. But since he was in the parliament already, we hear Mr Rudd decided to attend the charity ball as planned. Now that he has risen from his sick bed, Kevin 747 flies to the United States today with Defence Minister Stephen Smith to attend the AUSMIN talks with US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta and Secretary of State Hilary Clinton. He even found time to tweet last night: “Back to work this afternoon. Two weeks ahead of time. Thanks for all the support.”

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In Canberra: Innovation, Industry and Science spokeswoman Sophie Mirabella is at the National Press Club to talk about why “Manufacturing Matters”. Defence Minister Stephen Smith is holding a press conference at 10am in Sydney. Greens Senator Larissa Waters will hold a press conference at 10am in the Senate Courtyard.

Committees: Inquiries into political parties and election campaign funding, Multiculturalism, National Memorials Ordinance 1928 and animal welfare standards in Australia’s live export markets continue today.

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The Sydney Morning Herald reports: LABOR was on ”on the right side of history” in finally pushing through a carbon tax, the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, declared as the Coalition accused her of ”ramming through” the tax and vowed to use every tactic to try to thwart it.

The Daily Telegraph reports: FORMER prime minister Kevin Rudd has set a new international benchmark for travel, clocking up more than $1 million on flights and hotel suites in his first nine months as Foreign Minister

The Age reports: THE Gillard government is expected to unveil today a new inquiry into the media after a tussle last night with the Greens about whether concentration of ownership should be on the table.

The Courier Mail reports: KEVIN Rudd was forced to make an early return to Parliament last night to prevent the Coalition delaying the carbon tax legislation and seizing control of an inquiry into the laws.

The Herald Sun reports: THE Federal Government is likely to announce tomorrow the details of its media inquiry but has rejected calls that it should try to break up Rupert Murdoch’s News Limited.

The West Australian reports: Julia Gillard has declared that the carbon tax will be accepted by Australians in the same way they embraced Medicare and compulsory superannuation.

The Australian reports: THE head of a Chinese firm, his wife and three others are being investigated over claims they used inside knowledge of the group’s plans to take over Australian mining companies to make almost $2 million in profits betting on the sharemarket.

The Advertiser reports: SENATOR Nick Xenophon is at war with the SA Catholic Church over sex abuse claims, naming a respected priest he claims is at the centre of rape allegations.

The Canberra Times reports: Australia is spending proportionately less on public education and more on private education than almost any other developed country, according to a new OECD report on global education.

The Financial Review reports: Federal Treasury has warned the Gillard ­government that the GST has become less robust and increasingly inefficient as it leaks $15 billion a year due to tax breaks on items such as private health insurance, private schooling and existing housing. The warning comes as the government resists calls to increase the GST rate or widen the base of the tax.

The NT News reports: DETAINEES slept in the kitchen and dining room of the Northern Immigration Detention Centre after dormitories were burnt down in a recent riot.

The Hobart Mercury reports: POKER machines take about $175,000 in profits a day in the city of Hobart or about $62 million a year.

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Asylum stance: TONY Abbott yesterday hardened his opposition to Julia Gillard’s plan to legislate to revive her stalled Malaysia Solution, describing the policy as flawed and attacking the Prime Minister as stubborn and graceless. (Matthew Franklin reports)

Intervention: GOVERNMENT officials have been told to immediately start helping people in South Australia’s Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands obtain ready access to fresh, affordable food. (report)

Whose ABC: THE SANFL has accused the ABC of being in breach of its Australian content charter by planning to dump local football coverage. (Miles Kemp reports)

Education exporters: AFTER a decade of continued growth, Australia now ranks third behind only the US and Britain in hosting the largest number of international tertiary students, a new OECD report reveals. (Andrew Stevenson reports)

HSU Watch #1: PARAMEDICS claim that an uncompetitive and compulsory insurance scheme they were forced into by the Health Services Union has delivered $35 million into an industry fund of which the HSU boss, Michael Williamson, is a director. (report)

HSU watch #2: UNION boss Mike Williamson, facing a police fraud investigation, is paid $111,000 a year from two state government jobs, including one he lobbied Labor for just before the state election. (report)

Power shock: THE nation’s new consumer watchdog has vowed to fight for a fairer deal for electricity customers after acknowledging households have been slugged too much. (Karen Collier reports)

Steel inquiry: AUSTRALIAN steelmakers will be able to trigger two inquiries by the Productivity Commission when the carbon tax comes into effect — one into the impact of the carbon price on their operations and a second into whether coal companies are passing on carbon costs to the industry. (Sid Maher reports)

Golf tragic: THE United States President, Barack Obama, has been advised to leave his golf clubs at home when he visits Australia in November. (Phillip Coorey reports)

Women needed: JULIA Gillard has labelled the fact that just 3 per cent of ASX 200 companies have female chief executives as ”unacceptable”.  (report)

Welcome: Arthur Sinodinos will enter the Senate. (Christian Kerrreports)

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Malcolm Farr writes: It’s probably a bit late in the show but this still needs to be said: IT IS NOT A BLOODY CARBON TAX.

Peter Costello writes: Julia Gillard says we don’t need one but Malcolm Turnbull says we do. The Business Council of Australia says we should. The chief executive of the Commonwealth Bank and the chairman of Fairfax Media have given support. Access Economics supports it but another think tank – the Institute of Public Affairs – does not.

Andrew Bolt writes: ONLY now are we finally meant to care that Labor’s slack border policies have killed more than 400 boat people. Only this week does the Gillard Government finally admit that four per cent of the people lured into the boats drown at sea.

Tony Wright writes: IT WAS, Julia Gillard kept declaring, a historic day.

Dennis Shanahan writes: THE Gillard government has decided to go ahead with a media inquiry, but it won’t go as far as the one Bob Brown called for in the wake of the British phone hacking scandal at the News of the World.

Jacqueline Maley writes: CARBON tax rallies at Parliament House have acquired a certain reputation of late, but yesterday’s was rather different.

Sarah Hanson-Young writes: Is our News Limited?

Janet Albrechtsen writes: SEXISM again? Think again.

Matthew Stevens writes: WHO could have guessed when Julia Gillard emerged from Labor caucus with Kevin Rudd’s shiny scalp and a promise to promptly replace the politically disastrous resource super-profits tax that we would see parliament debating carbon tax legislation before the circuit-breaking mineral resources rent tax.

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