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HOME DREAM TRASHED
An army veteran and his wife are suing a major regional racing club over claims of an illegal waste dump buried on their land. Their lawsuit alleges the rubbish included concrete, vet syringes and horseshoes.
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I WOKE UP IN A HORROR MOVIE
It was like any ordinary day for two best friends – shoe shopping, trying on make-up and laughing together about nothing in particular. Emma McLean and Lily Galbraith – best mates since year 7 – were visiting Brisbane from Adelaide for a childhood...
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TRADER FLAW
Hundreds of Australian investors are feared caught in a multimilliondollar scheme orchestrated by a bankrupt South Australian businessman whose collapsed companies bankrolled luxury cars and a planned $7.5m private jet. Administrators were appointed...
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POETIC INJUSTICE
An adulterous husband who conspired with his mistress to kill his wife is in a low-security prison, winning awards for his sad love poetry and colouring-in – for which the Correctional Services Department has apologised.
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CRASH CROW ON REPORT
Crows star Josh Worrell will face court after allegedly hitting a pedestrian last Friday. Worrell, 25, has been reported for aggravated driving without due care and failing to present to police quickly enough.
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PARENTS BOUNCED
Officials in Adelaide’s District Basketball league have issued 95 warning cards to spectators for insulting umpires, in an effort to combat abuse. Basketball SA initiated a trial in January in the league, issuing spectators cards as a first and final...
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CRICKET STAR ABUSED SON DUCKY TRIBUTE GOES VIRAL DEMON’S SECRET WEDDING
Social media giants continue to fail to protect children and young men from “devastating” sexual extortion, the nation’s online safety tsar says. eSafety Commissioner Julie SEAN FEWSTER REPORTS, PAGE 7 Inman Grant said there were “persistent gaps”...
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UNFIT FOR A KING
South Australia’s jewel in its tourism crown was secretly promoted to Buckingham Palace as a perfect spot for King Charles and Queen Camilla to visit during the 2024 royal tour, previously confidential records reveal.
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PRICES FALL OFF CLIFF MARRIAGE ALARM PLUS-ONES CAN BE OVER BALI FUELLING TOUGH RIB SURGERY COMEBACK
The federal government has repeatedly claimed house prices will not fall in the wake of its controversial budget – but analysis has revealed even Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s beachfront mansion has gone down in value. Exclusive new data reveals...
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CROW’S CRASH PROBE
Adelaide Crows star Josh Worrell was accused last night of colliding with a pedestrian as police investigate whether he might have accidentally run a red light while driving to football training. The defender, 25, allegedly struck the man as he...
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TRIPLE-O DEATH PROBE
Police have launched an investigation into the death of an elderly South Australian who, according to Liberal senator Kerrynne Liddle, died after allegedly being unable to connect to triple-0 during Telstra’s nationwide outage. The person died at a...
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DIALLING A DISASTER
Telstra’s five-hour nationwide mobile network outage brought down train services – including The Ghan – closed cafes and left up to 333 triple-0 calls unanswered.
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STEEL WORKS BIDDER ‘A CHEAT’
The billionaire head of an Indian coal giant bidding to take over the Whyalla steelworks will face corruption charges in an Indian court next week. Naveen Jindal, who is both chairman of Jindal Power & Steel and a government MP, will face a court over...
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CHINA GOES BALLISTIC
China yesterday launched a nuclear-capable longrange missile carrying a dummy warhead from a submarine in the Pacific Ocean – hours after Australia signed a landmark defence treaty with Fiji. Beijing said the missile test was a “routine” training...
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GENERATION ONLYFANS
OnlyFans agents are approaching underage girls on social media, promising them riches and fame on the pornographic platform when they turn 18. Industry insider turned anti-porn crusader Victoria Sinis (pictured) has exposed the sleazy tactics used by...
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PM zaps Aussies with $23bn hike
Supplementary numbers Division 1 prize: $6,437,537.94 Total pool: $18,878,410.30 0, 7, 6, 3, 3, 2 Division 1 prize: $134,268.60 Total pool: $337,959.38 Australian households have been slugged nearly $23bn extra for electricity over the past four...
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PM’S SEX SECRETS
Anthony Albanese has made an eyebrow-raising reference to his sex life during a comedy podcast before a damaging Newspoll yesterday revealed Labor’s support has slumped across three key states. The Prime Minister’s appearance on Nikki Osborne’s new...
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LABOR PAINS
Controversial anti-abortion campaigner Dr Joanna Howe has been expelled from the Labor Party, accused of breaching party rules by urging voters to support nonLabor candidates. It comes after Premier Peter Malinauskas voted in favour of a Bill from...
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JEWEL STING
Adelaide Exchange Jeweller boss David Manning hired a private eye to nab a staff member now charged with theft after an industry associate saw her selling items at a pawn shop. Jewellery industry stalwart Nevenka Matias, 59, has appeared in court...
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AUCTION APOCALYPSE
Adelaide house prices have fallen for the first time in years and auction clearance rates are plummeting in the wake of Dr Jim Chalmers’ budget. PropTrack’s June analysis shows house prices dropped 0.2 per cent and auction clearance rates plunged 16...
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COP TURNS GUN ON WIFE
An on-duty SA Police security officer allegedly pressed his service weapon into his thenwife’s chest and flicked it, saying “this is how easily I could hurt you”.
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FLYING ON FUMES
A Qantas pilot reported his plane risked being on “absolute bare bones fuel” if he missed a final Adelaide Airport landing slot as wild weather forced an emergency diversion to the Edinburgh military base. Defence records released under Freedom of...
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GIANT FACE-BLOCK
Social media companies will now face fines of $99m as part of beefedup powers for Australia’s online safety tsar to better enforce the country’s world-leading age ban. More than six months since the laws came into effect, following the Sunday Mail’s...
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TO AID & ABET
Millions of taxpayer dollars are still flowing to a controversial UN relief agency in Gaza that has now sacked 70 workers after a US investigation found some staff had links to Hamas – a situation that “cannot be tolerated”, Australia’s top Jewish body...
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CALLING DR LOVE
A trusted family doctor in Naracoorte allegedly “groomed” a married patient for his own “deviant sexual satisfaction” while she was seeking fertility treatment and continued to have unprotected sex with her during IVF treatment and when she fell...
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GIANT PESTREL
More than 120 million birds in South Australia’s poultry industry are at risk of annihilation after the first case of the deadly H5 bird flu was detected in the state in a southern giant petrel at Port Elliot. Premier Peter Malinauskas revealed...
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ALBO AND JIM’S NEW LIE ON TAX DEAL WITH GREENS Top cops face revolt in the ranks Their final Showdown?
The plane that crashed into the Flight Training Adelaide hangar at Parafield Airport in April, killing flight instructor Robert Hoyle, 29, and a 24year-old trainee pilot, suffered engine failure and had a “fatigue crack” in an integral part of the...
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CABLE GUY
Premier Peter Malinauskas is planning to allow data centres to be built in the regions near renewable energy projects, which would result in a $6.8bn investment by private industry and create 300 jobs.
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TRANS GRAN THEORY
A close friend of Gus Lamont’s grandmother Josie Murray has revealed he challenged police that they were treating her as the main suspect in the four-year-old boy’s disappearance because she is transgender. Speaking publicly for the first time, Ms...
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GUS WENT MISSING BEFORE
Josie Murray says she scrambled desperately to find grandson Gus Lamont as night fell when he vanished last year and that police believed she was the “main suspect”. And the 75year-old has claimed it was not the first time he had gone missing.
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We’re with you, Mods
South Australians have rallied around Tony Modra as he battles critical injuries, with a great-grandmother recounting how she helped save his life. The 57-year-old Crows legend underwent facial surgery yesterday after a freak truck crash with a fallen...
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GRAVE FEARS FOR GODRA
Crows icon Tony Modra was fighting for life in Flinders Medical Centre last night after his cattle truck crashed near Victor Harbor. The legend, known as Godra, was flown to hospital.
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Pastor’s death was ‘suspicious’
An Adelaide pastor’s death was “suspicious”, and a potential beneficiary of his will stood to profit from a deliberate attempt to burn down the pastor’s house, a court has been told. The explosive allegations were aired in a Supreme Court trial over...
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WAR ZERO’S DARK HEART
Joel Richard Green, 50, is definitely a brute who admits he is a choker, assaulter and trespasser. Less clear is whether his claim to be a decorated US Marine and war hero is true. Green appeared in court in full US Marine dress uniform on Tuesday,...
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A PERFECT MURDER
Accused parent killer Raelene Polymiadis told an expartner insulin was the “perfect murder weapon” because it was naturally found in the body and was undetectable, a court heard. She denies she poisoned her parents.
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Emergency in hospitals
Hospital emergency patient numbers have spiked more than 50 per cent in 15 years, shocking official data reveals. Despite a record $11.4bn in annual taxpayer cash and 700 extra hospital beds, crushing health system strains are today laid bare for the...
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ULTIMATE GAME DAY 8-PAGE GUIDE
Fans Lachie Earl and Charlotte Parker at Sportys Bar in the Arkaba Hotel, at Fullarton. Picture: Dean Martin
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Tay Tay makes history YOU’RE INVITED Sacked APY boss in legal threat
Taylor Swift has become the youngest woman ever inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. The soon-to-be-married star, 36, broke the record previously held by Carole Bayer Sager, who was 43 when she joined in 1987. Stevie Wonder remains the...
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GATHER TOWN
Reigning Gather Round Premier Peter Malinauskas has inked three more years and a parade of stars through the CBD, amid a push to make Adelaide the permanent home of the festival of footy. Speaking alongside AFL chief executive Andrew Dillon at...
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Fund to fire the ‘liar’ races to $1m
One Nation raised over $1m in less than 24 hours in a tit-fortat fundraising appeal that asked supporters to donate $29 in a bid to “fire the liar’’ Anthony Albanese. Leader Pauline Hanson said she was blown away by the outpouring of support and said...
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CONSULTANTS CASHING IN
Taxpayer-funded spending on external consultants or contractors has ballooned to more than $4m a day despite the state’s public service booming to record numbers, official figures reveal.
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Beatrice, Eugenie’s royal return
Beatrice and Eugenie have broken cover to attend their biggest royal event since their father Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest. Peter Phillips, the son of Princess Anne, tied the knot with nurse Harriet Sperling in a romantic ceremony at All Saints...
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ORANGE CRUSH
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has shrugged off criticism of her age, saying it’s the X factor driving her success, as she warned “we’re going to end up a Third World nation” if Labor wins another election.
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10-game ban for footy thug act
An Adelaide Footy League player’s season could be close to over after receiving a major suspension for an ugly late hit on an opponent. Scotch Old Collegians C Grade player Colby Whitbourne has been banned for 10 games for the incident involving a...
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$53b album of greatest hits
State debt will explode to $53.65bn for the first time with the blowout to fund the $15.4bn South Rd tunnels and the $3.2bn new Women’s and Children’s Hospital. In handing down the state budget yesterday, Treasurer Tom Koutsantonis insisted South...
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THE Exclusive RATE HEIST
The $40m redevelopment of Jetty Rd will bite Holdfast Bay Council residents who face the highest residential rate rises of any metropolitan council. The coastal council’s proposed 6.6 per cent average residential rate rise is the result of an...
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TAKING THE MICKEY
Doctors claimed trips to Disneyland, Bali wellness retreats, bags and watches worth up to $23,000 on a $64m taxpayer-funded “professional development” fund. The Independent Commission Against Corruption has placed the fund under scrutiny.
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BUSH MATTERS
The largest conversation between the bush and powerbrokers starts today, as News Corp Australia launches its 2026 Bush Summit campaign. Regional Australians can have their say on issues that matter most in a new poll, which will help frame debate at...
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FROM THE HEART
Eddie Betts was always the man for the big occasion – and yesterday the Crows legend brought sheer joy to a community that needed it. Betts and fellow AFL stars Willie Rioli, Darryl White, Ben Dixon and Joel Selwood united at the Team Alice Community...
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RUNDLE ST BLUES
Retailers are moving out of one of Adelaide’s premier shopping strips in droves, leaving behind a “decomposing” stretch of empty shops and creating a record 10 per cent vacancy rate. There are 19 vacant or closed retail and hospitality spaces on...
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DON’T FEAR OUR BOTS
Chinese people working in Australia are “not spies”, one of the nation’s most senior diplomats has declared while promoting the widespread use of Chinese-built humanoid robots in Aussie homes.
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RENT RISE JIMFLATION
Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ negative gearing and capital gains tax changes will push rents up by as much as $477 a year by the end of the decade, according to new modelling that predicts the contentious reforms will exacerbate the nation’s housing crisis.
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THANKS FOR BRINGING MY ISIS BRIDE DAUGHTER HOME
Australia does not have enough fuel, bombs and soldiers to defend itself, a scathing report has found. The Australian Strategic Policy Institute has sounded an alarm as the Iran war, Russia’s increasing aggression in Europe, and China’s open...
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THANKS FOR NOTHING
South Australians will be the only ones copping a hit to their default energy prices, with reductions in other states. Flat rate residential power prices will jump by $33 (1.4 per cent) under the finalised Default Market Offer put forward by the...
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LEGEND
Neale Daniher excited footy fans with his feats as an AFL player and coach – then inspired them with his brave battle against motor neurone disease. The 2025 Australian of the Year has been remembered as a courageous fighter after he died yesterday,...
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TRAVISTY
Antimo Iannella Cricket superstar Travis Head and his wife Jessica have been deluged with vile social media abuse from trolls following an on-field clash with Indian legend Virat Kohli. The Adelaide couple’s Instagram accounts – and even their wedding...
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SCAR WARS
A UK cosmetician to the stars, whose clients include 1990s pop star Peter Andre and TV personality Kerry Katona, has been served with a $1m South Australian lawsuit over his signature product. Warren Lee Millington and his company have been accused of...
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SKI CRASH MUM JAILED
A mother of two has been jailed for being drunk when she drove a high-powered speedboat at Mannum and ran over a swimmer – causing horrendous injuries. Amy Michelle Lohf, 44, looked shocked when she was taken silently from the dock into the cells as...
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ULTIMATE INSULT
Veterans Affairs Minister Matt Keogh has spent more on a return flight for his wife than the annual travel budget he axed for the grieving parents of war hero Cameron Baird. The WA federal MP claimed $2881.40 of taxpayers’ money to jet wife Annabel...
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LIDDY LOOSE
Ex-magistrate Peter Liddy will be released from prison into home detention until a court determines if the monstrous pedophile can control his sexual desires. Liddy (pictured) will enter house arrest in 15 days with an electronic monitoring tag.
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OK, SEE THE EVIL
This picture of quadruple “Bodies in the Barrels” killer James Spyridon Vlassakis was more than a quarter of a century in the making. In a seismic decision on Tuesday, the state’s highest court revoked orders that have banned publication of Vlassakis’s...
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POSSUM TRAGICS
A Possum Park protester threatened to reveal the home address of Peter Malinauskas in an “extreme” act over the felling of trees for the revamped North Adelaide Golf Course. Police are now monitoring social media activity, as protest organiser and...
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REV UP OUR CAR INDUSTRY
Anthony Albanese wants to reboot the Australian car industry nearly a decade after the Holden factory closed, amid a global surge in EV sales. It comes as Aussies aged 30-45 lead a major new push to buy Australian.
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WE DON’T TRUST YOU
Most Australians think Anthony Albanese broke a promise not to touch negative gearing and that federal budget changes should have been put to the people at an election. A Freshwater Strategy poll has found the budget has gone down like “a lead balloon”.
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SUPER SEVEN
Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles has lauded Australia becoming a member of an “elite group” of seven countries by acquiring nuclear-powered submarines to counter China’s unprecedented military build-up. The Advertiser’s Defending Australia summit...
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BOY SAVED BY A GENIUS
Elle Halliwell sobbed as her son Tor, 9, met Adelaide University and SAHMRI Professor Timothy Hughes. Almost a decade ago, Elle was diagnosed with cancer, and 48 hours later discovered she was pregnant. Doctors in Sydney advised her to terminate her...
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BACK IN FRACK
A ban on gas fracking in the state’s South-East will be axed by Premier Peter Malinauskas, who says the Iran war has shown Australia has “to take energy security and sovereignty seriously”.
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CHALMER GEDDON
Home raider Jim Chalmers will abolish negative gearing on future purchases and replace the 50 per cent capital gains tax offset with inflation indexation in a spectacular broken election promise. The Treasurer repeatedly blamed the war in Iran as he...
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ANIKA SKYWALKER
Under-fire Albanese government minister Anika Wells hosted a meeting with a South Australian minister at his wife’s 40th birthday party and claimed the business class trip on taxpayers. The Communications Minister’s office had reportedly declined to...
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DOLLARS AND SENSE
Peter Malinauskas is demanding a surge in defence spending and skilled migration – slamming the current “regressive, ill-informed debate about migration” and acknowledging this puts him “out on the political cliff”.
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CASH TO SPY FOR IRAN
Iranian-linked and state-tolerated spy networks are using an “audacious” Telegram campaign to recruit Aussie informants to monitor the Israeli diaspora, gather intelligence and “co-operate” with the regime for a “handsome reward”.
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SAM’S PAIN
Adelaide Crows grand final ruckman Sam Jacobs has opened up about a succession of tragedies that has shaped his identity. Jacobs, 38, has spoken publicly for the first time about the deaths of six significant figures in his life – including his...
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BRIDE & SNEAK
ISIS bride Janai Safar, who once said she “never regretted” living under Islamic State, was arrested last night at Sydney Airport, where she was taken through a side exit to a police car. The scenes contrasted with Ben Roberts-Smith’s dramatic tarmac...
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DADKILLING CRACK MONSTER
David Andrew Eldridge made a video saying he had to “kill myself or kill my father” and described himself as “crack monster” on a mission to “save the world” after he allegedly killed his dad Robert.
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HOME WRECKERS
Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock has taken her most aggressive swipe at the government for fuelling inflation through high spending, warning Australians were becoming “poorer” and headed for a “very, very tough time”.
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LORD OF THE LIES
Jim Chalmers has proudly boasted he could backflip on a pledge not to raise property taxes because his government had already broken another election promise. The Treasurer’s confession came as a real estate expert warned that winding back capital...
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