Your AM Headlines + Should Influencers Play A Role In Politics?

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• The Northern Territory is set for a heated parliamentary debate over assisted dying laws.

• The state with the country's highest prevalence of poker machines has unveiled a new set of gambling reforms, but harm minimisation groups say they still fall short.

• Convicted criminals in Western Australia will no longer be able to use good character references to reduce their sentences.
• The world's oceans have just hit their hottest temperature ever recorded.

• A special allowance has been made for Jai Arrow to play two more NRL games so he can reach the 100 matches for South Sydney.

• And finally, a painting that sent shock waves through Australia when it was purchased by the government for more than a million dollars in 1973 is going on tour.
  
  

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Politicians are increasingly bypassing the press gallery for podcast interviews, a shift a new Griffith University report says is driving voters towards influencers over traditional media. But as Anthony Albanese has discovered after a joke on the Bush Deep podcast spiralled into a diplomatic row, the strategy comes with real risks.

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