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Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian, I'm Claire Harvey with the front's afternoon headlines. National Party leader Matt Canavan is heading for the House of Representatives, but Pauline Hanson's lieutenant, James Ashby, says he won't run for Parliament at all. If you want to be PM, you need to be in the House of Representatives. And as everything changes in federal politics, the jockeying is already on for the election due in 2028. There'd been widespread speculation Ashby, who is National Director of One Nation and has been orchestrating Pauline Hanson's success for decades, would run for politics under his own name. Now he's saying it's not on. That is to say, he sent the Australian a thumbs up emoji when we asked directly if he would run for any lower or upper house seat. Australia will be forced to keep a convicted Afghan drug courier and fraudster despite the government trying to kick him out. The 27-year-old refugee, who can be identified only by the pseudonym ZKDP, has been found by a tribunal to present a, quote, moderate risk of re-offending. The man came to Australia in 2013, aged 14, on a special humanitarian visa. He claims he was raped as a teenager in Australia and began using illegal drugs. In his early 20s, he was sentenced to seven and a half years in jail for supplying drugs, including ecstasy, ice and cocaine, and his visa was cancelled. He also was convicted of obtaining financial advantage by deception after scamming an elderly lady out of almost $ 2, 000. Now, the tribunal says his long-standing ties to Australia mean he should be allowed to stay here. Check out those stories live right now at theaustralian.com.au and come back to the front first thing in the morning for our look at the US midterms. As both the Republican and Democrat campaigns implode, we ask, have the Democrats chosen the right candidates to take on the Donald Trump effect this time around? That's right here Tuesday morning.