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Angus Taylor is the new leader of the Liberal Party following a successful leadership spill; The NSW Police watchdog announced it was in the public interest to investigate police actions at a protest at Sydney Town Hall on Monday; The Health Star Rating system looks set to become mandatory on all packaged foods in Australia, after ministers agreed the voluntary system was not working; Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych has appealed against the decision to disqualify him from the Winter Olympics; James Van Der Beek's family has reached its GoFundMe target in less than 24 hours.
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Guest: Amy Remeikis, Chief Political Analyst at The Australia Institute & Contributing Editor at The New Daily
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And in headlines today, Cooper Woods has stunned himself as well as the moguls world by coming from nowhere to win gold, claiming Australia's first medal of the Milan-Cortina Olympics
The special party room meeting to decide the future of the Liberal leadership is set for 9am today
Israeli President Isaac Herzog has wrapped up his visit to Australia with thousands taking to the streets in a final wave of protests marking the end of a controversial week
US President Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan has announced that the ICE immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, known as Operation Metro Surge, will be wound down
The head of Meta's Instagram has testified during a landmark social media trial in Los Angeles that he disagrees with the idea that people can be clinically addicted to social media
Katie Holmes is mourning the death of her Dawson's Creek co-star James Van Der Beek, saying it's "a lot to process"
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Angus Taylor will challenge Sussan Ley for the Liberal leadership ahead of Friday’s party room vote; James Van Der Beek has died at 48 from colorectal cancer; A US lawmaker accused Attorney General Pam Bondi of hiding names of Jeffrey Epstein’s associates; Alice Springs rivers surged after storms, cutting roads and stranding residents; Australia appointed diplomat Pablo Kang as special envoy to Laos over teen methanol deaths; Zayn Malik says he was never truly “in love” with Gigi Hadid.
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Angus Taylor has resigned from the shadow cabinet, but hasn't yet called a leadership spill against Liberal leader Sussan Ley... so what's going on here?
Political analyst Amy Remeikis joins us to unpack what happens from here.
And in the headlines today, Liberal MP Angus Taylor has finally pulled the trigger on resigning from the Liberal shadow cabinet, signalling an imminent leadership spill against Sussan Ley; Police powers which paved the way for a chaotic protest crackdown will be challenged after medics reported being pushed by officers while attempting to treat the injured; Canadian Prime Minister Mark ‌ Carney has had to hold back tears as he promised the country they would get through what he called a "terrible" shooting at a high school in British Columbia; The man who was detained by police in Tucson in relation to the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, says he doesn’t know who she is and had nothing to do with it; The triple 0 call made by teen hero Austin Applebee after swimming for four hours to save his stranded family has been released showing how calm he was in the moment; Australia's best hope for a Winter Olympian to successfully defend their title has passed with moguls superstar Jakara Anthony slipping in the final at the Milan-Cortina Games
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A man has been detained over the disappearance of 84yo Nancy Guthrie, the mother of Today show host Savannah Guthrie; All eyes are on Canberra waiting to see if the Liberal leadership spill will happen today; Hundreds of people have turned out to protest the Australian visit of the Israeli President as his trip takes him to Canberra; A record of a call US President Donald Trump made back in 2006 challenges how much he knew about Jeffrey Epstein's underage sex trafficking ring; A Norwegian Winter Olympian is going viral for admitting to the world that he cheated on his girlfriend; Britney Spears has reportedly sold off the rights to her music catalogue for an undisclosed sum
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