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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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Migrants carry ALP economy
Australia’s economic recovery is increasingly relying on higher immigration, the Reserve Bank has warned, with productivity growth going backwards and unemployment to jump, placing Labor’s economic agenda under increased pressure. As Anthony Albanese...
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Great Resilient Reef: reports of wonder’s death have been wildly exaggerated
Despite decades of scientific consensus that it is facing a catastrophic climate change triggered demise, the Great Barrier Reef is refusing to die. The latest results from the Australian Institution of Marine Science shows that coral cover on the...
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Shock at Frydenberg Bondi inquiry snub
Prominent business, national security and ALP figures are calling on the royal commission into antisemitism to reconsider its “deeply distressing, surprising and puzzling” decision to exclude Josh Frydenberg – the highest-ranking Jewish-australian...
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TWO TECH MOGULS. ONE LOOSE CANNON
Mike Cannon-brookes accused co-founder Scott Farquhar of behaving “like a bully” amid a dispute between the billionaires known inside their Atlassian software giant as “the year of not talking”. The duo, who started Atlassian in 2002 after leaving...
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Victoria, 2026 ... where the Premier has to promise: ‘No more backroom deals’
Victorian Premier Ben Carroll has stepped up his attack on the Daniel Andrews era, declaring there will “never ever” be another hotel-room deal behind a minister’s back and saying the state’s anti-corruption watchdog’s findings have vindicated his late...
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‘Intolerable’ stench of Dan pollutes Premier
Premier Ben Carroll is locked in an integrity war with Daniel Andrews after he savaged the former premier’s conduct as “intolerable”, only for Labor’s exleader to claim he had been vindicated by Victoria’s anticorruption watchdog’s eight-year...
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ALP turns blind eye to house market mugging
Property owners have been warned to brace for a 10 per cent decline in house prices across major east coast cities, undermining Labor’s claims that its budget tax grabs on investors and business owners would not have a hard negative impact on home...
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Calculating predator or target of treachery? Jones’ alleged sins broadcast for all to hear
Graphic allegations of sexual touching and indecent assault against broadcaster Alan Jones have been laid out in court, including that the veteran radio star squeezed the genitalia of a young sportsman who he paid a weekly salary, kissed him without...
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Howard maps migrant middle path for Taylor
John Howard has declared that One Nation’s push for a monoculture is “pointless”, as the nation’s second longest-serving prime minister praised post-world War II migration as a resounding success and advocated for a conservative path for “Australian...
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Arnhem clans strike deals as harmony achieved … it must be a case of Garma
Northern Territory Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro and clan leaders in Arnhem Land have put aside their differences to unveil a series of historic deals on housing, land and business that would see the mining town of Nhulunbuy come under Aboriginal...
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‘Respect, gratitude, good fortune’ … and a dose of alleged ALP biffo on the side
Anthony Albanese is refusing to stand down his special envoy for defence and veterans’ affairs, Luke Gosling, after the Darwin Labor MP was charged with two separate counts of assault against the King’s representative in the Northern Territory. Mr...
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Taking a giant leap towards bright future: Arnhem Land kids fast closing the gap
In the coastal community of Gunyangara, Aboriginal families are closing the gap one school day at a time. The Dhupuma Barker school began humbly in 2021 with two second-hand transportable cabins on an isolated peninsula in Arnhem Land. Today, it is an...
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ALP’S bold new vision: clean up its own mess
Victorian Labor will attempt to cling to power with an audacious 123-day campaign that will repudiate the Andrews-allan legacy, after new Premier Ben Carroll vowed to establish a royal commission into the CFMEU corruption scandal and refused to back...
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FACELESS BEN COUP
Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan has dared Labor MPS to blast her out and risk a bruising six-week leadership contest after refusing to step aside in the face of a challenge from Deputy Premier Ben Carroll and a wide-cross section of her party telling...
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Marles disarms Labor right
Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles privately admitted the wording of the Israel-palestine section of Labor’s new policy platform was flawed, ahead of throwing his factional weight behind a deal that saw national conference endorse a two-state...
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‘This is your (ex-)captain speaking: I’d like to apologise’ … but for what?
Alan Joyce has written a book. No, wait, stop! Don’t run away. He has written it precisely because there is something he wants to say to you, the Qantas customer. First up, he’s sorry. For what, exactly? Maybe for the time he blamed the customer for...
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ALP’S world away from Bondi
Labor’s division over Israel is threatening to overshadow its 50th national conference just months after the Bondi terror attack, with a push to restore demands on Hamas disarming in the party’s policy platform competing with calls for stronger...
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Labor declares a new enemy number One
Outgoing ALP president Wayne Swan will declare One Nation has usurped the Coalition as Labor’s biggest electoral threat and warn against predicting Pauline Hanson will fade out ahead of the next election, as Anthony Albanese expands taxpayer-funded...
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Aussie ISIS bro shock: ‘Dr Jihad’s not dead’
One of the nation’s most infamous Islamic State fighters, the Perthborn pediatrician dubbed “Dr Jihad” widely presumed to have been killed in Syria nearly a decade ago, is alive, imprisoned in an Iraqi jail and one of 13 Australian men linked to the...
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Enter the dragon, but Aussies not so spooked
A major split has emerged in the electorate over whether President Xi Jinping’s China poses a significant threat to national security, with a growing number of left-leaning and universityeducated voters rejecting threats posed by Beijing despite the...
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Miners face smash and grab
Mining royalties and company tax payments have plunged by almost $25bn in two years, with falling coal and commodity prices alongside rising operating costs hammering federal and state government resources cash cows. New industry modelling obtained by...
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On a fast track to stardom without fame
If you asked the average sports fan who is the fastest ever woman to run for Australia, it’s likely sprinting legends Marjorie Jackson and Raelene Boyle would get a few votes. Maybe Cathy Freeman, even though the 100 metres wasn’t her best distance....
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Ministry of youth tax hits
Labor’s capital gains tax overhaul, combined with one of the most punitive income tax rates in the world, threatens to punish younger Australians significantly more than other generations, new analysis reveals. The Australian’s modelling shows a young...
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Agent of change: PM’S about-turn on AI laws
Anthony Albanese has delivered a U-turn on artificial intelligence regulation by vowing to develop a world-leading framework of laws specifically targeting the technology, prompting business to warn against designing standards that are out of line with...
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‘We train Ukrainians to be better at killing Russians’: ADF troops warn of key shortages
More than 40 Australian soldiers have been deployed to Camp Jomsborg in Poland to train Ukrainian squad and platoon leaders, but they have discovered the same problem befalling troops on the frontline: equipment shortages. Members of the Australian...
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‘Immeasurable loss’: Star who found a special place in our hearts
Beloved actor, writer and celebrated winemaker Sam Neill has died in Sydney at 78, leaving behind an exceptional artistic legacy and lasting reputation for his talent, kindness and wit. The death of the Jurassic Park star – who had a lengthy battle...
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Strait back to the beginning
The Middle East is spiralling back into an open-ended conflict as Washington and Tehran traded fire amid a collapsing ceasefire, with the US warning Iran would “pay” after it tried to close the Strait of Hormuz and resumed its attacks on Gulf...
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From hotbox to hope: a new way of living
Warumungu elder Norman Frank Jupurrurla and partner Serena Morton Nabanunga see their beautiful Tennant Creek house as more than mud bricks and steel. “She feed you, she give you a clean home, she give you somewhere to stay, sleep, live. It’s like...
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Modi comes bearing gifts on trade, defence
Anthony Albanese and Narendra Modi have pledged a major expansion of the nations’ defence ties, cleared the way for billions of dollars worth of uranium sales to India, and vowed to fast-track a new free-trade agreement and bilateral investment...
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Point made: Cleary conquers The Cauldron
Nathan Cleary has a point to prove. He goes out and proves it. Leads NSW to a thunderous victory. No longer can his legacy be questioned. Suncorp Stadium was humming for the State of Origin decider. Few fortresses in world sport are defended so...
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‘Provocative’: PM strikes back at Beijing
Anthony Albanese has blasted China’s “provocative” launch of a nuclear-capable missile in the Pacific and backed Trump administration warnings over its “rapid and opaque” weapons build-up in his strongest rebuke of Beijing’s actions since taking...
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Fiji deal: China goes ballistic
China has sparked furious condemnation after firing a longrange missile into the South Pacific just hours after Australia signed a far-reaching military alliance with Fiji that could be joined by other island nations. The missile with a dummy warhead...
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AI sway: unions steer ALP
Labor’s draft policy platform has been significantly amended to insert a raft of union priorities for regulating artificial intelligence, tying Anthony Albanese to a more heavy-handed oversight over the technology’s rollout after this month’s national...
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‘A different planet’: rare visit to Painted Hills’ secret landscape
You wouldn’t think that the Painted Hills of Anna Creek were made of humble mudstone. The multihued outcrops glow like amber in the late-afternoon light. If you’re among the lucky few to have experienced the otherworldly quality of this landscape deep...
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The Socceroos are bigger than Texas – and a mirror to a multicultural nation
The Socceroos are a team for the people. All the people. In all our differences and divergences. All our ethnicities and backgrounds. All our races and religions. Multiculturalism is at the heart of their message and identity. Amid charged...
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Secret documents reveal how Biennale paid out its Israel-hating ‘ambassador’
Secret emails between the Biennale of Sydney and Creative Australia reveal how the nation’s premier arts event managed a rolling series of controversies over anti-israel fervour among invited artists, including one Biennale ambassador accused of...
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Bowen’s world COP goals
Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen says he is not expecting this year’s COP summit to provide “massive breakthroughs” on global climate action but declares Australia will benefit economically from his role as its president of negotiations,...
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The Lowy manifesto to crush antisemitism
Prominent business leader Steven Lowy has called for dedicated police to protect Jewish Australians and national service for young people to counter an unrelenting torrent of antisemitism, in searing testimony to the Bondi massacre royal...
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