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SOME THINGS ARE BIGGER THAN CRICKET... ... lies will eventually get out
Test legend David Warner has heaped pressure on Cricket Australia and the nation’s Test bowlers – backing Usman Khawaja’s claim that all players “were architects” of the 2018 sandpaper ball-tampering scandal and demanding “honesty and...
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Singing from the same songsheet, PM’S idols urge: ‘Tell AI giants where to shove it’
The writers and musicians behind Anthony Albanese’s favourite Australian songs have furiously urged the Prime Minister to back the rights of artists, while warning him of a dark path ahead if US AI firms get their way by influencing the government to...
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Tulle’s down, plum job for a fairy
The town of Caboolture north of Brisbane may not be the most obvious place for bespoke design, but it is here in her home studio that Anne Tytherleigh has spent more than 100 hours creating the exquisite pink multi-layered sparkly tutu for one of...
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Truth, treaty and Victorian Labor’s ceremonial smoking of taxpayer money
Victorian taxpayers were hit with a $545,000 bill for a Jacinta Allanled celebration of Labor’s Indigenous treaty which has also pumped tens of millions of dollars into groups involved in the reconciliation process. The cost of the John Cain Arena...
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THE DONALD DEFLATION
American voters have delivered a stunning rebuke of Donald Trump’s presidency, as Democrats swept both houses of congress in a massive protest vote driven by inflation, fuel prices and the Iran war. The result, which was widely seen as a referendum on...
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‘Will feel like a recession’
Australians will feel like they are in a recession by next year and low economic growth will be the “new normal”, Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock has warned, after declaring the year’s fifth interest rate hike was driven by domestic pressures and...
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MONEY MONSTER
A $170bn black hole discovered in Labor’s federal budget has sparked serious concern government spending and costs are blowing out by more than previously thought, fuelling inflation and likely triggering the fifth rate hike of the year at Tuesday’s...
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Trust Jim to snatch $3bn
Businesses are facing a hit of more than $3bn in the first year of Jim Chalmers’ trusts tax raid, as Anthony Albanese orders rolling cabinet meetings with his Treasurer to finalise a savings package and non-inflationary cost-ofliving measures in the...
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‘Not American’: Carey by the book
More than three decades ago, Australia’s greatest living writer, two-time Booker Prize winner Peter Carey, permanently moved his life to New York City – but don’t even think about calling him an American. “I’m Australian. I’m continually asking every...
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Urgent audit is answer for Albanese-Chalmers spending
commission of audit into the nation’s finances is needed immediately to deal with high, inflationary government spending and a lack of commitment to save more than spend, the former chief executive and independent commissioners of the country’s last...
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VICTORIA’S DECREE: FREE PASS ON OBSCENE DEBT ENDS … TODAY
Victorian leaders across business, sport, media and tech have joined together in a revolt over poor financial management and a debt bill approaching $200bn by 2030, urging political parties to outline how they will assure the state’s financial...
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Talking sewage: it’s black and white, PM misled parliament. Consequences? Zero.
Anthony Albanese has misled the parliament over his defence of a $6m grant to his local golf club, and there will not be any formal repercussions. The Prime Minister will get off scot-free without the traditional penalties associated with misleading...
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‘Crisis of truth, trust – not just temperature’
Telling the truth and honouring promises are more important to rebuilding trust in democracy than softening debate, Victoria’s election frontrunner Jess Wilson has declared, as Anthony Albanese flags a “longer-term response” to rising anger and hate in...
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LAST DAYS OF DANISTAN
Victorian Opposition Leader Jess Wilson is on course to become premier and likely lead a majority Coalition government, soaring to a commanding lead over Labor and One Nation a month out from one of the most significant state elections in decades. The...
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‘Like first flight’: Dawn of cancer vaccine
Medical oncologist Georgina Long has for months held tight the data that is electrifying the cancer world. As she unveils the clinical trial results that herald the birth of the world’s first therapeutic cancer vaccine, the pioneering oncologist’s...
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It all comes out in the wash, PM
Independent senator David Pocock has described Anthony Albanese’s actions as “not good enough”, after the Prime Minister claimed a dirt sheet distributed from his office about Helen Haines was merely aimed at highlighting that “people of integrity...
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POWER OF CIVILITY Drugs, rage and a family in tatters
Governor-general Sam Mostyn has urged Australians to unite behind a new era of decency and civility after the critically injured federal independent MP Helen Haines lost her second leg and her alleged attacker faced court for the first time. In a...
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GRIP OF MADNESS
The family of an erratic activist who allegedly attacked Helen Haines has revealed they were friends with the critically injured Indi MP and were assisting police on the “shocking and horrific crime”, as Anthony Albanese leads calls across the...
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CAR ATTACK ON MP
Police are investigating a targeted attack against federal independent MP Helen Haines who has been left critically injured after being hit by a car outside her electorate office, in one of the darkest days in Australian political...
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Macron ‘trembling’ but talking tough as smash-and-grab rioters set France alight
French protesters behind a weekend of riots and devastation claim lame-duck President Emmanuel Macron and his government are “trembling”, as he vows a crackdown to prevent violence in the lead up to next year’s elections. Just six months before Mr...
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BOM alert: widespread dodgy data deluges, storms expected
A forensic audit has uncovered false readings and widespread errors in the Bureau of Meteorology’s raw climate data, including blocks of temperature readings copied and pasted across different years and seasons, raising questions about the integrity of...
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‘My grandies deserve this’: Finally, a probe into murdered kids
The West Australian government has buckled to weeks of pressure and called an inquest into the 2022 murders of three young Indigenous children in Port Hedland, with grieving grandmother Dorothy Papertalk vowing “all the secrets” which led to the deaths...
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‘We shouldn’t turn on fellow Australians’
Jim Chalmers has warned leftwing activists not to campaign against One Nation from a position of “smug moral superiority”, declaring his budget of tax hikes was needed to stem the voter drift to the “far right” as it showed Labor was up-ending the...
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‘Kind, generous’ child rapist wins leniency because of ‘deep connection to country’
A revered community leader who showed no remorse for a campaign of rape and sexual abuse he wreaked on four young Indigenous children had his sentenced reduced because of his “significant connection to country” and “commendable” attempts to “keep his...
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‘Great loss for Australia’: Optimist Oli takes aim over Firmus flop
Oliver Curtis has taken aim at the “dim view” Australians hold of start-ups jostling for a front seat to the artificial intelligence boom after the spectacular collapse of his $44bn Firmus float. Curtis, who flew back on his private jet to Singapore...
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FRYDENBERG BLUEPRINT THE
Josh Frydenberg’s memoir, A Grateful Son, contains a manifesto for Australia’s future that is certain to be seen as a blueprint for a Liberal leadership return – while the former treasurer warns the party’s survival will be at risk at the 2028 federal...
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Teals’ ‘toxic sludge’: Frydenberg lays bare hate, hypocrisy of politics done differently
Josh Frydenberg has unloaded on nemesis Simon Holmes a Court and Kooyong teal MP Monique Ryan, accusing them of promising a new era of congenial politics while waging a “campaign thick with personal abuse” that included the renewables advocate...
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Three years on, one devastating reality ... activists are still ‘siding with Hamas’
Three years on from the murderous Hamas attack on Israel, propalestine activists refused to let Australia’s Jewish community have the day to themselves to honour the 1200 victims, mounting ugly protests in Sydney and Melbourne to condemn “Zionist...
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PM’S optimism over evidence: nation will hit 2030 target and PRE-COP was no flop
Anthony Albanese has declared “optimism” is an important ingredient in achieving global environmental action and he is confident that Australia will meet its 82 per cent renewable target by 2030 – despite the nation’s troubled energy transition. The...
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Lockdown in ALP donor’s mansion: pariah premier’s curious life
Former Victorian premier Daniel Andrews is living a secret post-political life in a multimillion-dollar luxury beachfront home belonging to a wealthy Labor donor who made payments to the party in a pattern similar to a practice the state’s...
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Not a Knight for fairytale: relentless Roosters win nailbiter for sweet 16th title
A fairytale transpired. Cross my heart and hope to die. The NRL grand final cruelly refused a feelgood triumph for the Newcastle Knights and yet the Sydney Roosters’ victory was a whopping great tale in its own right. A tightknit and committed group...
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The truth: unbreakable Susie punctures culture of silence hiding unspeakable reality
Hidden deep in the spinifex scrub of Port Hedland, at the end of a lonely dirt track just a stone’s throw from BHP’S gatehouse, lies an old mattress. The hard bite of a dozen Pilbara summers has eaten away most of its white wadding, leaving a rusty...
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An Indian pilot and an Israeli civilian: two new heroes born out of hijack terror
The Indian pilot and the Israeli passengers. On Flight FZ1073, two new classes of hero were born. The chief Israeli hero of course was a civilian. Once more some maniac – as Donald Trump put it, “perhaps a terrorist, perhaps a whack job” – attacked...
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‘Tried to murder pilot’: Israel fears terror attack as rogue co-pilot attempts hijack
Passengers and crew on board a jet flying from Dubai to Tel Aviv subdued the co-pilot mid-flight after he allegedly stabbed the pilot in an attempt to hijack and possibly crash the plane. Passengers on Flydubai flight FZ1073 described scenes of chaos...
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HOMEGROWN HARM
The Reserve Bank has warned Labor that homegrown pressures are the driving factors behind its move to hike interest rates to a 15-year high, contradicting Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers’s repeated claims the Iran War is the main source of the...
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LAND OF RISING SUM
The Albanese government has breached a longstanding unspoken tax cap and is on the precipice of becoming the highest taxing administration on record, as Jim Chalmers attempts to deflect blame on inflation by declaring interest rates are rising all over...
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Fairytale and Knightmare: the rise and fall of champions will bring you to tears
Heartbreaking. Awful. Sickening. Devastating. Cruel. Nathan Cleary tried his guts out. Suffered a crushing and gruesome injury from an illegal tackle. The saddest sign in Australian sport this year. Penrith Panthers’ co-captain attempted to play with...
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Who runs the world? Place your alpha bets
The way the world really works was on brutal display in New York and Washington this week. At the White House, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, modern masters of the universe, alphamale bruisers, two ruthless, selfobsessed national leaders of the era’s...
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Bot-rot: Medicare hack exposes flaws at all levels
A world-first government-system hack by a rogue artificial intelligence agent was kept secret by Openai for weeks, as the tech giant demanded Labor water down copyright laws and argued its investment in domestic AI training was crucial to Australia’s...
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World order is broken, PM declares after US slap
Anthony Albanese will declare the rules-based world order is no longer working and warn the US and China that the Indo-pacific is not a “chess board” for global superpowers, after Donald Trump undermined the Prime Minister’s international agenda by...
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Six weeks with a broken hip and no care: girl’s case emerges as elders unite for action
A 14-year-old girl from the Frisby Court house at the centre of the nation’s Indigenous child-neglect scandal was left without medical treatment for a broken hip for six weeks, leaving doctors horrified when she was eventually taken to hospital. The...
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FOREVER DEFICIT
Jim Chalmers has assured Australians that personal income tax cuts are still part of his economic plans, despite revelations the country faces 40 years of budget deficits, ballooning debt, and an economy that will remain largely reliant on...
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THE ALBANESE COLLAPSE
Labor’s primary vote has collapsed to a near record low of 27 per cent for the first time since 2012 – down from 37 per cent in September last year – as nearly two-thirds of Australians say they aren’t satisfied with Anthony Albanese’s...
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Statement from broken heart: show leadership
A key proponent of the Indigenous voice has accused the federal government of having “thrown their hands up” and failed to show serious leadership to protect Aboriginal children, as Labor braces for a damning assessment of Australia’s broken...
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Agency delivers boy from kindy to meth den, via text
The grandparents of a young Indigenous boy who have been his sole carers since birth were only informed by text message that child-protection officials had removed the four-year-old from school and placed him into the hands of his meth-addicted and...
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VOICE OF RECKONING
A senior Indigenous elder from the West Australian region at the heart of a major child-protection scandal has issued a national call for abused children to be taken away from “bad parents” who should be charged with neglect, declaring that the current...
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CLEAN-UP OR COVER-UP
Exasperated police were called “more than 50 times” to a trashed house where abandoned Indigenous children were fending for themselves, and alerted government authorities “dozens of times” without action being taken – laying bare the scandalous failure...
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THE DISCARDED GENERATION
The West Australian government is scrambling to address shocking revelations that vulnerable Indigenous children at dire risk of sexual abuse and neglect are being ignored by local authorities, admitting it was unacceptable that kids as young as five...
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Back to the stinging Sixties
Australia’s biggest employers have gone to war with the Albanese government over tax, industrial relations and red-tape policies strangling the economy, after new data revealed Jim Chalmers will deliver the worst decade of productivity since records...
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Fight to save cancer kids: how grieving mum’s gift sparked a science revolution
Childhood cancers, including the worst types of brain tumours, are the first target of a new strategic research plan aimed at extending the lives of people with cancer and shoring up Australia’s access to innovative drugs and groundbreaking...
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RSL’S serve to ‘offensive’, ‘un-australian’ Hanson: you’re insulting all veterans
The Returned Services League has accused Pauline Hanson of being “extremely offensive” to all veterans for her attack on Liberal frontbencher Andrew Hastie, in a striking intervention that intensifies pressure on the One Nation leader. The feud,...
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‘#vote #laborparty’: Golf club in $6m grant furore supported its ‘Albo’ to a tee
Anthony Albanese has an extensive history of supporting and using the Marrickville Golf Club, which has become the centre of an infrastructure grant controversy that is overshadowing his parliamentary agenda – with the club in his inner Sydney...
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One Nation’s liar for hire: aspiring premier now admits amphetamine use, crime past
Embattled One Nation figure Warren Pickering will lead the party to November’s state election in Victoria despite admitting that he took amphetamines, drove while over the alcohol limit and engaged in “sexual deviance” while bringing up four children...
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Spotlight on taxpayer grant as Hanson insists ice allegations a ‘personal matter’
One Nation’s frontman in Victoria, Warren Pickering, was ordered to repay $13,500 of a first homeowner grant, raising further doubt about his capacity to lead the party to November’s state election. The revelation will intensify pressure on Mr...
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‘Drugs, deviance’: questions One Nation frontman will not answer about his past
One Nation has called in lawyers to defend the party’s Victorian leader, Warren Pickering, against contested historical allegations by his former lover and partner of 18 years that he led a secret life of illicit drug taking and “sexual deviance” while...
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I could’ve shouted louder but others needed to act
Spy chief Mike Burgess has expressed profound frustration that his repeated warnings about antisemitism posing the country’s deadliest threat were underestimated by those in leadership positions prior to last year’s Bondi terror attack. In his first...
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Bowen’s Ministry of Truth is here to tell you that energy policy is going perfectly
Chris Bowen’s department has launched a cross-agency working group to fight back against “climate misinformation” it claims is thwarting the nation’s troubled green energy transition, as the Climate Change Authority led by Matt Kean stands accused of...
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BRACE FOR AN IRATE RISE
Jim Chalmers has admitted his negative gearing and capital gains tax reforms contributed to house prices plunging since the May budget, but he vowed not to overhaul the tax policies even if they proved to have a long-term negative impact on the...
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Frantic families turn amateur sleuths as nation runs low on timber for cremations
A pilgrim’s trek was not Suhasini Reddy Kandimalla’s first choice when the Brisbane mother of two began planning a holiday with her Hyderabadi cousins earlier this year. The mad keen hiker had instead been hoping to trek Nepal’s famed Annapurna...
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Calamity’s cruel wake: from a brother’s plea for help to pots atop mass graves
As army and civilian helicopters roar across the skies above Dhunche, the district capital of Nepal’s flood-ravaged Rasuwa district, Sudarshan Pandey paces furiously outside the gates of an army base, looking for someone – anyone – to listen to...
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Orange flames licking at the House of Labor
Anthony Albanese has declared war on right-wing populists “peddling dangerous, divisive and dishonest” politics after Pauline Hanson claimed a historic state by-election victory over Labor and Newspoll revealed One Nation had reclaimed its mantle as...
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Water, then torture: families’ haunting vigil
Crowded around a makeshift help desk outside Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan Teaching Hospital on Friday afternoon, dozens of desperate families search for news of loved ones missing since a glacial tsunami swept through northern Nepal on Wednesday. Each fresh...
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VALLEY OF DEATH
Authorities are frantically working to establish the fate of at least 34 Australians missing in a catastrophic flash flood that tore through the Himalayan border region of Nepal and Tibet, obliterating mountain communities and sparking fears of the...
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Study breaks are over: ALP’S migration plan
Anthony Albanese is close to finalising an immigration crackdown headlined by new restrictions on international students and their family members, a six-month limit on visitor visas, moves to stop students shifting courses and a clamp on onshore visa...
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Mediocre nation: business warns of competition crisis as Labor unrest grows
Australia’s biggest employers have warned Anthony Albanese that the nation’s “mediocre” global competitiveness must be urgently reversed, amid growing unrest in Labor ranks over higher rents and Jim Chalmers’ struggles to sell his big-taxing...
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Labor’s stealth ‘super tax’
A new tax on superannuation has been discovered among Labor’s capital gains rules that will hit an estimated $372bn worth of assets, prompting one of the biggest super funds in the country to demand a rethink, labelling it a “higher tax” on...
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‘High Court’s challenge to foil antisemites’
Federal Court judge Ian Jackman has questioned the High Court’s longstanding “dogmatism” on freedom of speech, arguing the nation’s highest legal authority needs to reconsider how antisemites are abusing past rulings on political communication to...
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MY CULTURE IS HURTING
It was an unthinkable crime: three young children stabbed and strangled to death in a murderous rampage at the hands of their mother in the West Australian mining town of Port Hedland. And yet internal government documents show the WA Department of...
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Graveside promise to The Poisoned Wife
The former teenage babysitter at the heart of a 40-year-old murder mystery has broken her silence with fresh revelations in a new investigative podcast series, The Poisoned Wife. Rosslyn Mcqueen died from strychnine poisoning when five months pregnant...
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Defeat of Metoo mob: $1.5m for Higgins’ boss
Former Liberal staffer Fiona Brown has settled her claim against the commonwealth for $1.48m, almost $1m less than Brittany Higgins received in a settlement partly based on her false allegations that Ms Brown, her then-boss, had tried to cover up her...
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RENTAL DISORDER
Australia’s largest rental property manager has affirmed that Jim Chalmers’ budget could lead to a 30 per cent spike in costs for tenants, as Anthony Albanese and the Treasurer launched a public assault on analysis showing their budget housing...
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Swans ‘sex assault’ probe: stars questioned, AFL world in shock over hotel allegations
Multiple Sydney Swans stars have been questioned by Victoria Police over an alleged sexual assault that could lead to players being stood aside on the eve of the AFL finals. In a bombshell scandal that has plunged the Swans and the AFL into a crisis,...
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‘PIERCE ANTISEMITES’ SECRECY VEIL’
Disability royal commission chief Ronald Sackville has challenged the antisemitism royal commission’s superficial probe of the October 9 Opera House rally and nationwide anti-israel protests, arguing its formidable powers could have been used to unmask...
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Unfathomable betrayal of whistleblower: jaw-dropping case against ALP, Bornstein
Andrew Wilkie rises to his feet in parliament’s Federation Chamber, surrounded by the mountain of folders he wants to table: 40,000 files that expose the secrets of the Hillsong church and humiliate the charities regulator that was supposed to be...
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Treaty or trick? Canavan goes head on against ‘global tyranny’ … and Hanson
Nationals leader Matt Canavan is calling for a full audit of more than 4000 international treaties to which Australia is a party, to prevent foreigners, international organisations, unelected bureaucrats and those seeking to impose a “global tyrannical...
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Tehran trip-up: professor unmasked but questions grow for University of Sydney
A high-profile professor who collaborated on research with Iranian engineers can be unmasked as the University of Sydney academic allowed to violate a travel ban to visit Iran. The university claims it wrongly gave permission for its chair of supply...
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