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Top stories in the Australian newspapers on 8 January

Top stories in the  Australian newspapers on 8 January

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According to the Herald Sun, a disturbing new drug called "monkey dust", which is being passed off as ecstasy on on dance floors and at music festivals nationwide, has triggered a major health alert.


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According to the Herald Sun, a disturbing new drug called "monkey dust", which is being passed off as ecstasy on on dance floors and at music festivals nationwide, has triggered a major health alert.


Herald Sun:

A disturbing new drug called "monkey dust", which is being passed off as ecstasy

on dance floors and at music festivals nationwide, has triggered a major health

alert.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has denounced Fraser Anning for attending a far-

Right rally in St Kilda, after the Queensland senator charged taxpayers almost

$3000 for business class flights from Brisbane to Melbourne.

The Australian

'Melbourne's Vietnamese community has distanced itself from an ugly rally at St

Kilda organised by right-wing extremists, despite senator Fraser Anning's claims

shopkeepers who had fallen victim to gang violence had voiced support for the

event.

Liberal Democrat senator David Leyonhjelm will quit federal politics at the end

of next month to contest the NSW state election, when he will compete against

former party member Mark Latham to clinch one of 21 seats.

More than a million Australians would pay the top tax rate within six years -

nearly double the current number - if Labor won government and followed through

with its promise to reverse the planned increase of the top marginal tax

threshold to $200,000.

SMH

The NSW government is investigating the cause and extent of ''shocking'' algal

bloom events in the state's far west that may have killed more than a million

fish.

NSW Labor MP Lynda Voltz will resign from the upper house to contest Auburn, the

seat held by former opposition leader Luke Foley who quit parliament amid sexual

harassment allegations.

The federal election campaign is set to be run against a backdrop of falling

property prices with warnings of a further 7 per cent dive in some Sydney home

values this year as cash-strapped households take on more debt to keep up their

spending habits.


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