For the first time one of the researchers monitoring pollution at the Murujuga rock art site speaks out publicly. Their report has become a point of controversy over the extension of Woodside's North West Shelf gas project.

Also on the podcast, the dreams of thousands of Tasmanian footy fans are hanging in the balance this morning, as the political chaos in that state threatens to derail the country's newest AFL club.

The Tassie Devils have become a political football after the parliament passed a vote of no-confidence in Premier Jeremy Rockliff.

The team entering the AFL is hinged on providing a new roofed stadium being built as a key condition of the government's deal with the league. But approval for the new stadium now faces great uncertainty.

And three members of New Zealand's Te Pāti Māori have now been suspended from New Zealand's Parliament following their haka protest during a Parliamentary session in November.

Te Pāti Māori co-leaders Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and Rawiri Waititi will be suspended for 21 days, and MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke suspended for seven days, taking effect immediately.

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