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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has promised a "government of ambition" ahead of the opening of the 47th parliament.

MPs and senators will gather in Canberra on Tuesday for a church service, Indigenous ceremony and parliamentary formalities for the first time since Labor's election victory over the Morrison coalition government.

Governor-General David Hurley will lay out the government's agenda in a speech.

"That governor-general's speech will outline a government of ambition, a government which sees it has a responsibility to break Australia out of the inertia that the former government was stuck in," Mr Albanese told the Labor caucus on Monday.

"We often came to the parliament without much to do in terms of an agenda before the parliament.

"This Labor government will not be like that and we will hit the ground running."

The Labor caucus on Monday endorsed a raft of legislation including a bill to deliver on the party's promise of a 43 per cent emissions target, which will be introduced on Wednesday.

Also on the program will be laws to abolish the cashless welfare card, reform aged care, make electric cars cheaper, create the agency Jobs and Skills Australia, roll out 10 days' paid domestic violence leave and stamp out inappropriate Medicare billing.

"Labor governments don't just occupy the space; we are here to make a difference," Mr Albanese said.

A private member's bill paving the way for the Northern Territory and ACT to legislate for voluntary euthanasia will be introduced to parliament next Monday.

Queensland MP Milton Dick will be nominated by Labor for Speaker of the House of Representatives, while WA senator Sue Lines will be the nominee for Senate President.

Mr Albanese reminded caucus members of the history being made with the new parliamentary term.

"This is the fourth time since the Second World War and the fifth time in a hundred years that Labor has formed government from opposition."

It won't be plain sailing for Labor.

The government will require the support of all 12 Greens senators and one other crossbencher to get bills through the upper house.

Greens leader Adam Bandt has promised "good faith" negotiations on the climate laws, but will be pressing for amendments to make them more ambitious.

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton will be seeking to hold the government to account over a planned move to abolish the building industry watchdog, the cost of living, and concerns about a potential foot and mouth disease outbreak.

Opposition spokeswoman Anne Ruston said she would need to see to believe Mr Albanese's pledge that the "tone" of politics would be raised to a higher standard under his government.

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Etienne Gould-Noonan was born 14 weeks early, the size of a Coke bottle.

His parents, Carmen Gould and Jonathon Noonan, couldn't donate blood to their desperately sick boy because of their time spent in the UK.

Australian health authorities are now overturning the decades-long ban on blood donors who lived in the UK between 1980 and 1996, after the prohibition was introduced in 2000 to stop the spread of mad cow disease.

The now eight-year-old Etienne had to rely on 58 blood transfusions while he spent 138 days in hospital after he was born in July 2014.

"It was something that absolutely saved his life, we wouldn't be here without it," Ms Gould says of the transfusions.

"We have always been unable to give blood. (Lifting the ban) is obviously something we want to support," she tells AAP.

Ms Gould's ban is even more unfortunate as she is a universal O-type.

The mother of the "always happy" Etienne laments never being able to meet or know the people who helped save her son's life.

Australian Red Cross Lifeblood says Monday's changes have come about as the risk of mad cow disease, also known as vCJD, has diminished.

The organisation continues to make desperate calls for blood donors, with the lifting of the ban partly prompted by the argument Lifeblood could have 18,000 more donors a year.

Donor services executive director Cath Stone was pleased reviews and risk modelling found the ban was no longer required.

Those who had previously been turned back from donating blood would be contacted by Lifeblood.

"We're thrilled to welcome these newly eligible donors to our centres around the nation," Ms Stone said.

Etienne was born at 26 weeks, the cut-off for a survivable pre-term pregnancy, and was the size of a 23-week-old.

He had a range of health problems, including brain and eye haemorrhages, a collapsed lung and sepsis.

At one point a priest was called to baptise the young boy because doctors didn't believe he would survive.

Photos show Etienne dwarfed by his parents' hands as they reach into the small incubator. Ms Gould, not allowed to stay overnight at the hospital, would often hide in empty rooms until visiting hours ended before sneaking into the ward to see her son.

He is now a healthy eight-year-old who Ms Gould says is stronger for having been through the ordeal. His blood type? B positive.

"He is hilarious. Very funny, just exuberant, loves life. He's personality plus," Ms Gould says.

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A shooting in Adelaide's north may be linked to rising tensions between two bikie gangs.

South Australia Police are investigating after shots were fired at a Burton home, north of the CBD, on Saturday night.

The incident is not believed to be random and there may be a link to the outlaw motorcycle gangs.

"Police are aware of an escalation in tension between two outlaw motorcycle gangs and believe that this incident is linked to this tension," Detective Chief Inspector Darren Fielke said.

"This behaviour and incidents like this are completely unacceptable."

The occupants who were home at the time were not injured.

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