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Can’t see the wood for the … net-zero zone
The naked stumps point to the sky, like a macabre memorial to the avenue of grand native trees that once lined this dirt country lane in the central west of NSW. The once-leafy corridor, with its centuries-old trees and listed biodiversity values,...
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NATION COMES A CROPPER
Australian farmers are warning the nation is racing towards catastrophe due to dwindling fertiliser supplies and no immediate federal government rescue plan, raising the prospect of multi-million-dollar crop losses and rising food prices and...
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EPIDEMIC OF EMPTY
Australia’s port operators warn that a diesel scramble could stall trade nationwide, paralysing container terminals and emptying supermarket shelves, while the escalating fuel crisis is threatening fresh vegetable supplies and forcing companies to...
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CONFIDENCE KILLER
Jim Chalmers has warned that the economic impacts of the Iran war could be as damaging as the Covid pandemic or the global financial crisis, telling business leaders his doomsday predictions of the local impact from the Middle East conflict released...
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With a South Australian senator like this, do Libs need enemies?
Pauline Hanson will pitch a policy agenda to voters disillusioned with the major parties that prioritises abolishing the Department of Climate Change, replacing large-scale renewable projects with coal and nuclear, and delivering tax incentives to help...
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‘Are you for Australia?’ Mali’s Hanson strategy
Labor needs a clear economic case for immigration and must put the question of “are you for Australia?” before appealing to sneering progressives, South Australian election victor Peter Malinauskas has declared, as he counsels Anthony Albanese and...
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Feast of ‘Australiana’ a dinner winner
Six years ago, during Victoria’s punishing Covid lockdowns, young chef Hugh Allen began taking therapeutic walks through his home town. Then 24 and head chef at vaunted Melbourne fine diner Vue de Monde, Allen, now 30, was pondering the future, his...
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Coal king flies high … after ‘peak ESG’
Coal baron Matt Latimore has a message for the naysayers who believe the glory days for his industry are over. “I think it is definitely a case that peak ESG has passed and there’s more realisation and pragmatism around … and we’re not quite in the...
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Richest of rich ... and the biggest losers
Software is so old hat. Old industries are back in fashion for our richest billionaires, while a couple of one-time technology gurus have suffered a massive cut in their fortunes. For the first time in eight years, the total fortune of the annual...
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RATE RISE WE HAD TO HAVE
Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock is hoping a second consecutive interest rate rise – bringing Australia to the highest in the Western world – will not tip the country into a recession, warning that the days of 2 to 3 per cent growth are over. Ms...
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THEIR VOICES WERE SILENCED WITH BULLETS
For 47 years innocent Iranians have been killed again and again by the Islamic regime, each time under a different label: “enemy of Islam”, “rioter”, “spy”, or “a threat to national security”. This time, when millions of people took to the streets in...
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Unmasked: the nation’s shyest billionaire
Australia’s most reclusive billionaire is a cryptocurrency magnate who is living quietly on Melbourne’s fringe. It’s here he has gone to extreme lengths to protect his identity. But while Russell Wilson is far from well known, his career and life to...
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‘Holy crap, it worked!’: the tech guru, his staffy cross, CHATGPT and a cure for cancer
Riddled with cancer, Rosie the rescue dog had only months to live, until her dogged owner collared a chatbot to collaborate with elite medical scientists in the quest for a cure. Now the hi-tech teamwork has unleashed an experimental medicine that...
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From ‘don’t panic’, to a genuine Chris Crisis
Labor has declared a “national crisis”, increased petrol supply by allowing dirtier fuels and released reserves, as the price of oil jumped above $US100 a barrel in the wake of further attacks by Iran on the Strait of Hormuz. While US President Donald...
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Bondi inquiry crisis: PM’S top expert quits
Former spy boss Dennis Richardson has abruptly quit the antisemitism royal commission over concerns his authority and ability to make recommendations relating to intelligence and law enforcement in the wake of the Bondi massacre had been diminished...
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WAR’S TOXIC PENALTY
Anthony Albanese has ordered Australian military personnel into a Middle East war zone for the first time since Afghanistan as the Reserve Bank warned that the Iran conflict could unleash “toxic” inflation and higher interest rates. An E-7A...
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CRUDE SHOCK OF WAR
Inflation in Australia could jump as high as 5 per cent in coming months amid concerns of an imminent petrol supply crunch, as the war with Iran and the shuttering of the Strait of Hormuz threaten to spark a global oil crisis. The mullahs defied...
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‘Light from darkness’: love emerges from the horrors for two Bondi heroes
Amid all the misery and grief still attached to last December’s Bondi massacre, there is a story that brings a smile to the face of everyone who hears it. It’s a story of love found in the most unlikely of places and, at its deepest, a reminder that...
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HELLFIRE FOR IRAN
Iran has delayed announcing a new supreme leader fearing he will be assassinated, as Donald Trump declared he would be choosing the country’s next ruler, Israel boosted its campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon and the US claimed Iran’s military...
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WORLD’S WIDE WAR
Donald Trump’s military campaign against Iran is spiralling beyond the Middle East as NATO air defences intercepted an Iranian missile on its way to southern Turkey, a US submarine torpedoed an Iranian warship off Sri Lanka and Europe moved to defend...
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ROAD TO REVOLUTION
Israel has vowed to eliminate any Iranian leader who threatens the Jewish state, “no matter what his name is or where he hides”, as hardliners in the regime prepare to appoint a new supreme leader, with the son of assassinated ayatollah Ali Khamenei...
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WAKE UP, FREE WORLD
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he is fighting Iran on behalf of “slumbering democracies” that are asleep to the threat of the Islamist regime, as Donald Trump holds open the option of US boots on the ground to eliminate Tehran’s...
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Double jeopardy for Israel
Israel is fighting Iran and its proxies on two fronts after a resurgent Hezbollah attacked the country’s north to avenge the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, with the Jewish state returning fire at targets in Beirut as the war against the mullahs...
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DEATH TO TYRANNY
Donald Trump has launched a historic attempt at regime change in Iran, with Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and much of his military leadership killed in a barrage of missile strikes, sparking widespread celebrations from Iranians. Amid the largest...
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Jewish mum’s role in jail break from hate
Ellie Nagel is sitting in Sydney’s Parklea Prison, an entirely unfamiliar setting for this Jewish religious studies and classical Hebrew teacher and mum of three. “It was my very first time entering a prison, but I made an appointment and went there to...
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Hamas diaries: how fanatical killers still fight on under Israeli soldiers’ feet
The grainy surveillance footage captured something unusual: shadowy figures moving through a torrential dust storm in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza. Wrapped in blankets to evade satellite detection, at least one carried a Kalashnikov rifle. A short time...
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Two more ‘extremists’ among Australian ISIS brides, Syrian camp chief reveals
The head of Syria’s Roj internment camp has revealed two additional Australian ISIS brides considered to be “extremists” are being held separately from the group of 11 women and 23 children at the centre of a political stalemate over their...
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Warning Bell: focus on antisemitism first
Royal commissioner Virginia Bell has issued a veiled swipe at activists and agitators who risk derailing her long-awaited federal inquiry, insisting her overriding priority will be confronting entrenched antisemitism in the aftermath of Australia’s...
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Potential $420,000,000,000 hit of Hanson’s migration policy ... and a widow’s warning
One Nation’s plan for “net zero” migration could blow out Australia’s debt by almost $420bn over the next 10 years, while barely making a dent in the nation’s welfare bill over the same period, bringing into question the core of Pauline Hanson’s...
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GP squeeze, flat tax: no price tag on grievance
One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce says metropolitan-based GPS should be barred from participating in Medicare unless they spend a period of time practising in the regions, downplaying the impact of bulk-billing rates by declaring there was an “an abundance...
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Caught in headlights, downfall complete
A stunned Andrew Mountbattenwindsor was released after 12 hours under arrest but the nightmare for the eighth in line to the throne, and the royal family, has only just begun. Several unmarked vehicles arrived at his former home – Royal Lodge in...
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Arrest of Andrew: the royal reckoning
Andrew Mountbatten-windsor’s fall from grace has plumbed dramatic new lows with his arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office – the biggest scandal to engulf the royal family in modern times. King Charles’s brother, who once swanned around...
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Henchman’s daughter walks straight in door
The daughter of a sanctioned Iranian military leader – who acted as an adviser to the Ayatollah and has been accused of involvement in Tehran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs – was granted permanent residency and obtained health qualifications...
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Albanese’s message for ISIS brides: no sympathy and expect full force of the law
Thirty-four Islamic State-linked Australians trying to return home from Syria deserve no sympathy and will face “the full force” of the law, Anthony Albanese has declared, as his government considers issuing temporary orders to prevent some of them...
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NINE’S HUSH-MONEY SCANDAL
The Nine newspapers paid Ben Roberts-smith’s former lover $700,000 in hush money after she made allegations against its star reporter, Nick Mckenzie, in a secret agreement the media giant fought to have suppressed for 50 years. The extraordinary...
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CONVICT CEO RIDING A UNICORN
It was, depending on who you ask, a “robust” exchange of ideas, or “just a couple of blokes talking”. When Regal portfolio manager Jackson Aldridge buttonholed Oliver Curtis, CO-CEO of data centre technology company Firmus, at a Morgans small caps...
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TURN BACK THE VOTES
New Liberal leader Angus Taylor has vowed to deliver an “Australians first” agenda that includes hardline immigration policies, unabashed patriotism and economic liberalism, declaring the nation’s borders were currently open to people who “hate our way...
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WILL GOOD OPPOSITION START TODAY? DO ... OR DIE.
Angus Taylor is poised to become the 17th Liberal leader on Friday morning, as several Sussan Ley allies concede she is likely to lose a spill and leading conservatives warn the desertion of two million supporters since May risks the very survival of a...
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TAYLOR ALTERATION
Conservative MP Angus Taylor has quit the Coalition’s frontbench and declared he does not have confidence in Sussan Ley to restore the support of the Liberal Party, paving the way for a spill of the leadership by Friday. Mr Taylor did not say whether...
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PM stares down Hard Left
A frustrated Anthony Albanese has warned violent protesters and their political backers that dealing with Israel is crucial to advancing peace in the Middle East, as he and the Jewish state’s visiting President, Isaac Herzog, seek to heal a years-long...
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DIGNITY v DISGRACE
Pro-palestine protesters screamed vile slogans in three capital cities on Monday night during ugly rallies against the visit of Israeli President Isaac Herzog just 57 days after Sydney’s Jewish community was devastated by the Bondi terror attack in...
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Plea for ‘calm and respect’
Bondi Beach massacre survivors have implored the nation and leftwing activists to treat the visit of Israeli President Isaac Herzog with calm and respect, declaring the Jewish state figurehead’s fourday tour should be a moment that sparks a new era of...
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Universities stand idly by as cheating students ‘lobotomise’ their brains with AI
Student cheating at universities is now at endemic levels, with AI tools such as CHATGPT completing a majority of assignments and coursework and producing worthless degrees, while software designed to identify AI is either under-used or not deployed at...
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Chinese strategists, Sicilian uncles: how sun set on Hastie’s ambitions … for now
Sun Tzu – the ancient Chinese strategist whose seminal work Andrew Hastie was caught studying in question time this week – had one golden rule for winning a war: let your enemy crumble of their own accord. “If you wait by the river long enough, the...
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Daughter of royal commission’s lead lawyer led uni pro-palestine activism
The daughter of the senior counsel assisting the antisemitism royal commission is a prominent pro-palestine student activist, who led the University of Sydney’s student body in rallying against the “ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians” and called...
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WRONG WAY, YOU PAY
Jim Chalmers’ productivity agenda is crumbling and Labor faces inflation surging to more than 4 per cent, price growth staying elevated until mid-2027 and at least one more interest rate hike, after the Reserve Bank raised rates and delivered dismal...
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Spending forecasts do a number on the RBA
The Reserve Bank risks mismanaging higher inflation by placing too much faith in increasingly underestimated Treasury spending projections, economists have warned, ahead of what is likely to be the first interest rate rise in more than two years on...
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Alcaraz steals the punch line as Joker comes up short
And so here we are inside Rod Laver Arena. Where the atmosphere is celebratory before we even know what happens. Somebody is about to make history. Perhaps Carlos Alcaraz will win the Australian Open to complete the fabled career grand slam. Perhaps...
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Charlotte writes to you from her (very) raw heart
Not long after her divorce at the tender age of 29, Charlotte Ree poured her story of heartbreak into a powerful memoir that brimmed with love, family drama, and home cooking. A generation of young women have devoured her words. The bestselling...
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Brunch time for Libs: breakfast summit fails to strike pact so Ley not toast ... yet
Sussan Ley has renewed hope that she can cling on to her tenuous leadership of the Liberal Party after conservative rivals Andrew Hastie and Angus Taylor failed to strike a deal in a secret breakfast meeting with factional powerbrokers in...
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Diplomat dictates terms: play by China’s rules or Beijing will torpedo trade (again)
China’s top official in Australia says the Xi regime could withdraw “substantive” investments should Labor pursue its election promise to take back the Port of Darwin, as he said Beijing would “take measures to protect” its business interests...
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‘Licence to preach and teach Islam’: Morrison
Scott Morrison is urging Muslim leaders to accredit preachers, translate religious teachings into English and clamp down on links to foreign Islamist groups, in a taboo-breaking agenda to cast extremism out from mosques and schools. In one of the most...
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Traitors versus the true: our values under siege
The nation’s social cohesion crisis has heightened after shocking displays of antisemitism, violence and extremist rhetoric on Australia Day, with a rudimentary explosive device thrown into a crowd being treated as a potential mass casualty event,...
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Australian of the Year aims for stars to make space for next gen
Katherine Bennell-pegg is aiming for the stars and wants to bring Australia with her, as the astronaut and new Australian of the Year starts a push to grow the nation’s space sector and prepare our school children for a new age of exploration. The...
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