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Australian companies with more than 1,000 employees would have to publicly reveal how much they pay women compared with men under a federal Labor government.

But the prime minister, Scott Morrison, has said “you’d want to be confident you’re not setting up conflict in the workplace” before implementing such a policy.

Like all new prime ministers — and we are in a position in Australia to make lots of comparisons — Scott Morrison has been rifling about for some of those "cut through" phrases that will help both define him to voters and define the task the Government faces to its members.

“What a difference 113 years makes!” tweeted Green MP Golriz Ghrahraman, New Zealand’s first refugee MP, who featured in the updated photograph taken on Wednesday.

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The Opposition is calling on the Prime Minister to sack Mr Dutton, but Mr Morrison told Channel Nine there was no need.

Gandhi taught that nonviolence does not mean passivity. No. It is the most daring, creative, and courageous way of living, and it is the only hope for our world. Nonviolence is an active way of life which always rejects violence and killing, and instead applies the force of love and truth as a means to transform conflict and the root causes of conflict.

Nonviolence demands creativity. It pursues dialogue, seeks reconciliation, listens to the truth in our opponents, rejects militarism, and allows God's spirit to transform us socially and politically.

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With Psychology of the Rich Aunt, German author Erich Mühsam made his own ironic bid for immortality by announcing his discovery that immortality in fact exists ― specifically in the person of the Rich Aunt.