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Snow forecast for three states as cold weather front descends on Australia’s south-east
A cold front and chasing highpressure system should cause the mercury to plunge across most of southern Australia in coming days. The Bureau of Meteorology is forecasting a first taste of wintry conditions across much of the country, with the first...
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RBA interest rates: Michele Bullock says Australians poorer with ‘no way out’ as she warns of more rate hikes
The Reserve Bank governor has said surging oil prices in the wake of the US-Israel war on Iran have made Australians poorer with “no way out”, after handing down an interest rate rise and warning more hikes could be needed. A week out from the federal...
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Wikipedia founder brands Australia’s social media ban an ‘unmitigated disaster’ and ‘embarrassment’
Wikipedia’s founder, Jimmy Wales, has branded the Australian social media ban an “unmitigated disaster” and an “embarrassment” that is teaching kids to accept surveillance from tech companies when they go online. The online encyclopaedia that anyone...
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Barnaby Joyce blames campaign ‘pressure’ after One Nation Farrer candidate contradicts party on immigration
Barnaby Joyce has blamed “the pressure of a campaign” for One Nation’s Farrer candidate contradicting party policy on immigration and appearing to endorse Labor’s current intake. The One Nation MP also claimed voters won’t worry about Gina Rinehart’s...
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Gucci, Coldplay and wooden bowls: what billionaire’s secretary allegedly bought in $1.6m credit card fraud spree
The private secretary of billionaire philanthropist Judith Neilson allegedly used multiple credit cards owned by her employer to make luxury purchases including goods from Hermes, Louis Vuitton and Gucci and a box at a Coldplay concert, and arranged a...
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Pauline Hanson boasts about ‘sexy’ new private plane gifted by Gina Rinehart and $2m in donations
Gina Rinehart has gifted Pauline Hanson a “sexy” new private plane, worth more than $1.5m, to use in the lead-up to the next federal election, as a group of her close associates donate another $2m to the reascendant One Nation party. The One Nation...
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Press dinner shooting conspiracy theories spread in era of fractured politics
After an armed man attempted to breach the ballroom where Donald Trump was set to speak to White House journalists on Saturday, conspiracies immediately spread about whether the event was staged. The rhetoric has become a common refrain from both...
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Men accused of raping cellmates mistakenly allowed to stay in shared cells by Queensland prison staff
Men charged with alleged prison rapes were allowed to stay in shared cells - against strict protocols - by Queensland corrections staff who mistakenly believed their cases were “closed” and that they posed no risk, a report by the state’s ombudsman has...
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‘The birds are a global citizen’: Indigenous groups in Australia and Alaska team up to track a feathered adventurer’s epic journey
Short-tailed shearwaters used to blacken the skies on the southwest coast of Australia, so abundant were they in their coastal homes each Djilba season - the time in the calendar of the Noongar peoples between August and September, when days shift from...
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David Malouf, Australian author of Remembering Babylon and Ransom, dies aged 92
David Malouf, the acclaimed Australian author of books including Ransom, An Imaginary Life and the Booker prizenominated Remembering Babylon, has died aged 92. Malouf died on Wednesday, his publisher, Penguin Random House Australia, said in a...
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At least 160,000 to be cut from NDIS amid concerns vulnerable people will be left without care
At least 160,000 people are expected to be removed from the national disability insurance scheme by 2030, as the Albanese government looks to claw back savings by changing who can access the scheme. The health minister, Mark Butler, unveiled a massive...
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Labor under internal pressure on gas tax as influencer says government ‘stopped working for the punters’
The Albanese government is facing internal pressure to raise taxes on gas companies as a prominent social media influencer warns Labor not to underestimate the scale of public outrage about the existing regime. Labor’s environment action network...
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Adelaide University considers dropping Santos name from building
The newly formed Adelaide University is considering removing gas company Santos’s name from one of its buildings. On Saturday, students and conservationists rallied outside the Santos Petroleum Engineering building, calling on the university to dump...
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Learner driver charged over Supanova expo death at Melbourne showgrounds
A learner driver has been charged with killing a pedestrian after a car ploughed into a group outside a popular comic convention. A 20-year-old man died and another man the same age was seriously injured when a Toyota sedan mounted the kerb outside...
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NSW’s highest court strikes down anti-protest law introduced in wake of Bondi beach terror attack
New South Wales’ highest court has struck down an anti-protest law brought in after the Bondi beach terror attack which gave police the power to restrict marches, including at the anti-Herzog rally earlier this year. The court of appeal handed down...
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Gina Rinehart’s son says he wants to be a ‘united family’ in olive branch to mother after court ruling
Gina Rinehart’s son has said he wants to reunite his family after a landmark court case left a longrunning feud over ownership of mines and companies unresolved. The Western Australian supreme court on Wednesday found Rinehart’s children were at one...
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‘I don’t just ditch my mates’: new Victorian Labor minister defends John Setka ties amid criticism
Luba Grigorovitch, one of four Victorian Labor MPs promoted to cabinet, says she has “no regrets” about her past friendship with disgraced construction union leader John Setka, despite the opposition labelling her appointment “appalling”. The...
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Tourists to Australia would have social media accounts vetted under Trumpian Coalition plan
A Coalition government would end Australia’s nondiscriminatory immigration program and introduce Trumpstyle social media vetting for visa applicants, as Angus Taylor accuses Labor of allowing migrants of “subversive intent” into the country. As the...
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Jackie O told Kiis FM bosses she was subjected to ‘degrading’ comments from Kyle Sandilands, court documents show
Jackie “O” Henderson sent a text message to the head of the KiiS FM Network five months before she walked off air, saying listeners were complaining that she was in an “abusive relationship” with former co-host Kyle Sandilands. Court documents show...
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Trump tells Artemis II crew he saved Nasa despite trying to slash agency’s budget
The crew of Artemis II phoned home from the moon on Monday night after their record-breaking day, to find Donald Trump musing about how he had saved the US space agency Nasa from closing down and telling the astronauts how much they deserved the honor...
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Diesel remains volatile as prices rise again despite Labor’s fuel tax relief
Diesel users in Australia are not enjoying the same relief as unleaded customers, with one in 30 service stations still entirely out of diesel and prices rising again after an initial slump last week. But while the energy minister, Chris Bowen, urged...
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Moira Deeming to secure top spot on Victorian Liberal ticket
Moira Deeming will secure a top spot on the Victorian Liberal party’s upper house ticket unopposed - less than a week after members voted to dump her - after the withdrawal of candidates from a re-run ballot. Deeming was on Sunday ousted from the...
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‘Harrowing’: Cyclone Narelle leaves graveyard of turtles, dolphins and seabirds in Western Australia
As the flooding from Tropical Cyclone Narelle’s violent visit to Exmouth subsided and the winds dropped, Brinkley Davies headed to Graveyards beach. The beach, at least according to some Exmouth locals, got its name because of the tendency for turtles...
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‘Our little savior’: partly blind New Mexico dog hailed for warding off bear
A half-blind, 12-year-old Mexico dog is being called “bear slayer” after she fended off an ursine intruder at her family’s home, protecting dozens of chickens and other animals but only narrowly surviving the violent encounter. As told by her...
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An isolated property, a morning standoff and an armed fugitive: Dezi Freeman’s final hours
The final hours and minutes of Dezi Freeman’s life will be analysed in painstaking, forensic detail. But for the moment, there are few independently known facts, after months of rumour and wild speculation. How did Freeman come to be holed up on an...
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One Nation renews defection offer to ‘courageous’ Moira Deeming after Victorian Liberal MP dumped from election ticket
Moira Deeming has lost her spot on the ballot for the Victorian Liberal party at the November state election, after a successful challenge by a moderatebacked candidate. Liberal members gathered at party headquarters in Melbourne’s CBD on Sunday for...
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Tropical Cyclone Narelle forecast to pummel remote WA towns with wind gusts of up to 275km/h
Tropical Cyclone Narelle - a severe storm that has pummelled communities across thousands of kilometres in Australia’s north - was again intensifying on Thursday with several remote towns directly in its destructive path. The cyclone, which was a...
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Tropical Cyclone Narelle intensifies off WA as it continues rare path across Australia
Tropical Cyclone Narelle was again intensifying into a severe storm off Western Australia’s Kimberley coast on Wednesday with communities in the state’s world heritage-listed Shark Bay preparing for a potential direct hit on Friday night. Narelle had...
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US quadruple amputee cornhole champion arrested on suspicion of murder
A Maryland man who made history as the first quadruple amputee to compete in the professional televised American Cornhole League has been arrested on suspicion of shooting and killing a passenger in his car during an argument. Dayton Webber - who...
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Ex-Tropical Cyclone Narelle to intensify with Perth a possible target as storm makes rare crossing across continent
Communities in Australia’s far north were again on flood alert as ex-Tropical Cyclone Narelle continued its destructive westward journey on Monday, with forecasts suggesting the system could re-intensify and potentially threaten the Perth region this...
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Saturated NT braces for Tropical Cyclone Narelle to dump another 300mm of rain
The air was dry for the first time in months on Saturday, a perverse trick as moisture is drawn into another storm system bearing down on the Northern Territory. Tropical Cyclone Narrelle is the seventh high-risk weather event to hit Australia’s north...
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‘Eerily silent’: Cape York residents batten down the hatches ahead of Tropical Cyclone Narelle’s arrival
In some ways, it seemed a pleasant, wet season morning in the remote Aboriginal community of Coen in tropical far north Queensland on Thursday - and Sara Watkins was preparing for a sausage sizzle. “It’s a day that you’d spend going fishing,” she...
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Australia’s high court orders ankle bracelets be removed and curfews end for 43 former immigration detainees
Dozens of former immigration detainees who have already served prison sentences will have ankle bracelets removed and curfews scrapped, with the high court again striking down laws targeting the group. On Wednesday, the Albanese government’s...
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Labor appears set to reform capital gains tax discount after parliamentary inquiry findings
Labor has given one of its strongest signals yet the capital gains tax discount will be reworked in the May budget, with a parliamentary inquiry finding the Howard-era settings are helping fuel intergenerational inequality in Australia’s housing...
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Dozens of petrol stations around Australia run out of fuel as panic-buying continues
Dozens of service stations across Australia have run out of petrol as distributors struggle to keep up with customers panicbuying as the conflict in the Middle East continues to disrupt prices. The NRMA has warned regulators “missed” the chance to...
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‘War leader’ Trump fixates on trivial matters as Iran death toll mounts
More than two weeks into the USIsrael war on Iran, and the conflict appears at risk of spiraling out of control. Back home, Donald Trump’s behavior also appears chaotic. A foreign conflict typically brings somber reflection from leaders: in Trump’s...
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SA Liberals dump candidate who said homosexuality ‘opens up demonic realms’ after initially standing by him
A Liberal candidate in South Australia’s upcoming state election has been dumped after his “shocking and extreme” views on abortion, same-sex marriage, gender transitioning and feminism were aired by his Labor rival. The leader of the SA Liberals,...
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Football squad member changes mind on asylum as Iran accuses Australia of holding players ‘hostage’
One of the Iranian football squad members who had sought asylum has changed her mind, home affairs minister Tony Burke has confirmed. The turnaround comes as Iran’s foreign affairs ministry accused the Australian government of holding the players...
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Iran women’s football team leave on bus after landing in Sydney as emotional supporters watch on
The Iranian women’s football team have been whisked away on a bus at Sydney airport after dozens of supporters gathered at an airport gate to see them amid continued speculation about when or if they would be heading back to their home country. The...
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Australia would be signed up to Iran war ‘by deception and stealth’ if military support sent, Shoebridge says
The Greens say sending military support to Gulf countries would only serve Donald Trump’s interests in the growing Iran war, as international law experts warn assistance would mean Australia was legally part of the conflict. Cabinet’s national...
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Matildas score late in see-sawing draw with South Korea as top spot slips away at Women’s Asian Cup
A stoppage-time equaliser to Alanna Kennedy has given Australia a messy 3-3 draw against South Korea that means the Matildas have finished second in their Asian Cup group. An early strike by Mun Eun-ju and two quick second-half goals gave Korea a 3-2...
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Penny Wong refuses to say if any Australian crew onboard US submarine that sank Iranian warship
The Australian government has refused to disclose whether Australian sailors or officers were onboard the US attack submarine which torpedoed and sank an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean, killing at least 87 people. More than 50 Australian sailors...
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Plibersek accuses Mafs of platforming ‘coercive control’ after contestant wanted a woman ‘obedient’ like a dog
The social services minister, Tanya Plibersek, has accused Australia’s biggest media company, Nine Entertainment, of “normalising” coercive control by airing an exchange in which a Married at First Sight contestant says he wants a woman to be obedient...
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Jacinda Ardern living and working in Australia after move from US
The former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern is living in Australia with her family, a spokesperson has confirmed. “The family has been travelling for a few years now,” her office told the Guardian. “For the moment they’re basing themselves...
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Trump claims host of successes and attacks old foes in longest State of the Union
proclaimed his first year in office a success at the State of the Union address on Tuesday evening, even as his presidency is dogged by low public approval ratings before November’s midterm elections in which voters could hand control of Congress back...
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Trump to deliver State of the Union address in deeply polarized country
The last time Donald Trump delivered a State of the Union address, it produced the memorable optics of Nancy Pelosi ripping up his speech after he finished talking. Pelosi’s theatrical gesture at the end of the February 2020 address (his 2025 speech...
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High-speed rail link between Sydney and Newcastle could be ‘shovel-ready’ in two years, Albanese government says
Long-mooted plans for highspeed rail could be “shovelready” within two years, according to the federal government, which will on Tuesday announce another $230m for further planning work for fast trains between Sydney and Newcastle, as part of the first...
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How an Australian farmer is planning to get US consumers hooked on camel milk
Caroline’s sultry and soulful eyes are hooded and heavy-lashed. “She’s straight out of central,” Paul Martin whispers, gazing at his star performer with admiration. Martin is not speaking of central casting - the camel farmer is referring to the...
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KPMG asks Sydney writers’ festival to delete its name from website after Randa Abdel-Fattah confirmed as speaker
Global accounting giant KPMG has distanced itself from the Sydney writers’ festival, requesting its name be removed from the event’s website where it was listed as a corporate partner. The move follows the festival scheduling Palestinian Australian...
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Lakemba mosque facing most alarming situation since Cronulla riots as Ramadan begins, Muslim leader says
One of Australia’s largest mosques is facing what it says is the most “alarming situation” since the Cronulla race riots, with security bolstered for Ramadan celebrations. New South Wales police are investigating after Sydney’s Lakemba mosque on...
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Taunts, harassment and assaults: landmark report finds racism at Australian universities is ‘systemic’
Racism is “systemic” at Australia’s universities, according to a landmark report found students have mocked their Palestinian peers with shouts of “terrorism”, some students have been followed by campus security and First Nations students have been...
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Angus Taylor moves to promote conservatives and sideline Sussan Ley allies as Liberal party veers right
Sussan Ley’s closest supporters are poised to be demoted as the new Liberal leader, Angus Taylor, prepares to install conservatives to deliver his rightwing agenda. Liberal MPs expect Alex Hawke, Anne Ruston, Andrew Wallace and Paul Scarr will be...
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‘What’s more important, the electricity or food?’: extreme heat is driving up power bills in central Australia
Since the start of summer, Vanessa Napaltjari Davis and her grandchildren have sweltered in their two-bedroom home. Temperatures in the southern half of the Northern Territory have been well above average and the electricity running their single...
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Three Australian millionaires say the nation’s superrich should face higher taxes
Dick Smith, Graham Marr and Richard Barnes were the only three Australians among the nearly 400 millionaires and billionaires who signed an open letter last month calling on all governments to increase taxes on the super rich. The open letter, timed...
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‘We need a helicopter to go find them’: 13-year-old’s emergency call to save family stranded off WA coast revealed
“We got lost out there,” 13-year-old Austin Appelbee tells the triplezero operator, after swimming 4km (2.5 miles) in the rough, open ocean and running 2km (1.25 miles) to save his family. The operator asks how long it is since he set off. “[It] was...
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Telstra joint venture to axe more than 200 jobs amid AI rollout
More than 200 Telstra jobs are expected to be cut, as the telco rolls out AI capabilities and sends some jobs to India. Telstra and the technology consultancy Accenture announced a $700m joint venture (JV) in 2025 to drive efficiency, modernisation...
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Police use pepper spray at Sydney rally against Isaac Herzog visit, with MP alleging officers threw punches
New South Wales police have pepper sprayed protesters at a Sydney rally opposing Israeli president Isaac Herzog’s visit, with a state Labor MP claiming their actions were “totally overthe-top” and a Greens MP alleging she was assaulted. The brutal and...
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‘Take them away, crush them’: Australia faces an ebike surge that some say poses a health emergency
After the Sydney Harbour Bridge was swarmed by 40 or so ebikes and e-motorcycles on Wednesday, the Australian government said the country faced a “real emergency”. “[Illegal ebikes] are a total menace on the road,” the health minister, Mark Butler,...
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WA work safety watchdog makes ‘initial enquiries’ after family who hired kayak and paddleboards washed out to sea
WorkSafe WA is making ‘initial enquiries’ into the hotel that hired out a kayak and inflatable paddleboards to a family who was washed out to sea and later rescued. The Appelbee family was on holiday in Quindalup, 200km (125 miles) south of Perth,...
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Clive Palmer suggests Steven Bannon hoped to ‘increase influence’ by claiming credit for 2019 election ads
Clive Palmer has denied Steve Bannon helped direct his advertising blitz in the 2019 federal election, suggesting texts published in the Jeffrey Epstein files about the strategy were an attempt by the former Trump strategist to “increase his own...
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RBA interest rates decision: Reserve Bank increases cash rate to 3.85% in blow to mortgage holders
The Reserve Bank has hiked rates for the first time in more than two years, and signalled there could be more to come, with mortgage holders to bear the brunt of dealing with a sharp and unexpected jump in inflation. The RBA monetary policy board...
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Former Liberal turned Sky News commentator Cory Bernardi to run for One Nation in South Australian election
Former Liberal senator Cory Bernardi is the latest conservative politician to join One Nation as Pauline Hanson attempts to translate surging support in the polls into seats in parliament. Hanson said Bernardi would lead One Nation’s ticket for the...
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Police ‘confident’ Lake Cargelligo triple murder suspect Julian Ingram is still alive and may be receiving help
Police are “confident” triple murder suspect Julian Ingram is still alive and believe he has been receiving help from people he knows in the area, a week after three people were shot dead in a small New South Wales town. The NSW police assistant...
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‘Not radical, it’s fair’: Australian households would receive compensation in proposed ‘polluter pays levy’ scheme
The Albanese government could make deep emissions cuts and restructure an ailing federal budget by taxing polluting companies more than $35bn a year for the damage they cause to the planet, according to a report backed by senior economists and...
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Ouyen may have hit the highest recorded temperature in Victoria’s history - and some fear it could get even hotter
In the slanting, late-afternoon summer sun, the fields around the small Australian town of Ouyen - almost 450km north-west of Melbourne - turn the colour of honey. The edges shimmer with silver, that old cruel trick of feigning water where it hasn’t...
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Invasion Day: police investigate ‘device’ thrown into Perth crowd as huge marches held across Australia
Police in Western Australia are investigating a “device” thrown into the crowd at the city’s Invasion Day rally, sparking a security scare that ended the protest. Speaking to the media on Monday afternoon, the WA police commissioner, Col Blanch, said...
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Alex Honnold free solos Taipei 101 skyscraper in live Netflix climb
The US rock climber Alex Honnold climbed one of Asia’s tallest skyscrapers without ropes or a harness on Sunday, fulfilling an ambition that began more than a decade ago and which he hoped would inspire people to pursue their own challenges because...
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Three people dead and gunman on the run after shooting in NSW town
Three people have been fatally shot and a gunman is on the run after a shooting in a country town in central western New South Wales. NSW police said on Thursday that a police operation was under way at Lake Cargelligo, 240km south-west of Dubbo,...
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Teenage girl wearing jersey with Palestinian flag refused entry to Sydney A-League game
A teenager wearing a football jersey containing the Palestinian flag was refused entry to an ALeague match at Sydney’s Allianz Stadium, with a video showing security asking her to remove it if she wanted to go inside. The 15-year-old girl was wearing...
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Australia’s strongest gun reform since the Port Arthur massacre has become law. Here’s what you need to know
Parliament has passed some of the most significant changes to Australia’s guns laws since the 1996 Port Arthur massacre. Spurred by last month’s Bondi beach terror attack, the new laws will toughen background checks and fund a national gun buy-back...
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