As if Anthony Albanese wasn’t already in enough trouble with this ill-conceived Bill.
Political
Paul Murray

Government’s misinformation Bill is woefully misinformed

Broken promises, some foolhardy legislation and dwindling popularity have put Anthony Albanese and his Government in a downward spiral.

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US Politics

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Former President Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, delivered a mixed bag at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner.
World
Jill Colvin

‘Don’t give a s---’: Trump gets testy at Catholic event

Trump delivered a number of one-liners that drew hearty laughs at the Catholic charity dinner. But he also questioned the mental fitness of Harris and President Joe Biden before delivering a profanity.

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) speaks at a rally in Durham, N.C., for the first day of early voting, accompanied by former president Bill Clinton, right. MUST CREDIT: Cornell Watson for The Washington Post
World
The Washington Post

Bill Clinton back in spotlight for Kamala campaign

The former president appeared with Democratic VP nominee Tim Walz as part of a multi-state tour targeted at mobilising rural and Black voters.

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Fox News’ Bret Baier grills Vice President Kamala Harris in the Democrat candidate’s first interview on the conservative network.
World
Zeke Miller

‘Let me finish’: Harris’ heated clash in Fox News interview

Vice President Kamala Harris clashed with host Bret Baier in a tense interview on conservative Fox News as she tried to sway undecided Republicans, while Trump performed a delicate balancing act in his pitch.

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Politics

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Protesters in Collie.
Politics
Oliver Lane, Katina Curtis and Jessica Page

Protesters hijack Peter Dutton’s WA road trip

The Liberal leader was met by a small band of protesters as he visited WA regional town Collie for a meeting to brief the local shire about his nuclear plans.

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Minister for Communications Michelle Rowland says Nine now has to act on the report lifting the lid on its toxic culture.
Politics
Katina Curtis

Minister says Nine review exposes ‘serious cultural issue’

Communications Minister Michelle Rowland says an independent review of the culture at Nine Entertainment has exposed ‘a very serious cultural issue’ within the broadcaster.

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Job advertisements are down in 2024, despite modest recent monthly rises.
Business
Matt Mckenzie

Jobs surprise to keep interest rate cuts on hold for now

Australia’s “remarkable” jobs boom is showing no signs of slowing down, with more than 430,000 workers hired in the past year.

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Australia

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Allan Keith Huggins will most likely die in jail.
NSW
Duncan Murray

‘Hope you rot’: Ex-counsellor who used hypnosis to abuse boys jailed

A former school counsellor who used hypnosis to sexually abuse young boys will most likely die in jail after receiving a minimum two-decade prison sentence.

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Video
The Erebus crew member is pictured walking through the city.
Police
Cameron Noakes

Crew member caught in bizarre footage gets the sack

The motorsport team has issued a statement and police have also made their move.

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Floral tributes left at the scene where David Connolly died after he was stabbed in the chest in Brisbane in January 2023.
Queensland
Rex Martinich

Teen guilty of manslaughter over man's stabbing death

A teenager who claimed he acted in self-defence when he fatally stabbed a man in the chest has been found guilty of manslaughter.

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Business

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The big four bank’s consumer stress index fell 1.3 points to be 57.6 in the September quarter.
Business
Matthew McKenzie

NAB reckons punters less stressed about inflation, jobs

The strong jobs market has helped Australian consumers feel less worried than three months ago, according to a survey by NAB.

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Nine board member Catherine West
analysis
Business
Sean Smith

Blame for Nine failures should go all way to top

A company director’s handsome pay packet comes with serious responsibilities, but the Nine Entertainment board has failed to live up to its side of the bargain.

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Crown Resort’s Melbourne casino.
Business
Sean Smith

Crown Resorts loss falls to $165m

The group’s newly filed accounts for the 2024 financial year also confirm that its private equity owner Blackstone injected more cash into the Australian business in the past 12 months to drive its turnaround.

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Opinion

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Having Adam Bandt and company niggle about environmental issues is one thing; having them dictate economic policy is another.
Opinion
Ben Harvey

Stick to knitting: Greens should stay out of housing policy

BEN HARVEY: Having Adam Bandt and company niggle about environmental issues is one thing; having them dictate economic policy is another.

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Copacabana’s new resident is just a poor boy, from a poor family
Political
Cameron Milner

Albo-hemian Rhapsody: Just a poor boy from a poor family

CAMERON MILNER: The PM’s $4.3 million clifftop mansion saga is an Albo-hemian Rhapsody of sorts — he’s just a poor boy, from a poor family!

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One Direction’s Liam Payne suffered from depression and struggled with “social anxiety” and “stress”.
Opinion
Clara Gaspar

Liam was dying in real time — and we fans didn’t spot it

CLARA GASPAR: In the aftermath of this tragedy, it feels as if we were watching the slow demise of Liam in real time — we just didn’t know it.

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The New York Times

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Fighting continues in Gaza even as a parallel conflict intensifies on the Israel-Lebanon border. (AP PHOTO)
opinion
The New York Times
The New York Times

How US can stop a Mideast missile war everyone will lose

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN: We really need some creative, coercive U.S. diplomacy right now to finally put an end to both Israel’s and Iran’s colonial projects, which feed each other.

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Former President Donald Trump called his opponents ”evil” at an event.
analysis
The New York Times
The New York Times

Trump escalates threats to opponents he deems the ‘enemy’

With three weeks left before Election Day, former President Donald Trump has a menacing political threat: that he would use the power of the presidency to crush those who disagree with him.

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The Arizona delegation area is empty at the end of day three of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee on July 17, 2024.
Opinion
The New York Times

America is on the brink of a great political realignment

MICHELLE GOLDBERG: We still don’t know how Donald Trump’s reshuffling of our political coalitions is going to shake out. Right now, though, Kamala Harris sees an opportunity, and she’s trying to seize it.

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Culture

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The full view of the video installation Once Again ... (Statues Never Die).
review
Culture
John McDonald

‘Poetic restitution’: The artist reframing race & art issues

JOHN McDONALD: Isaac Julien’s five-channel video installation is a fresh take on the contemporary debate about the way museums should display and contextualise items made by tribal people.

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Heath Ledger and Julia Louis-Dreyfus in 10 Things I Hate About You.
Film
Wenlei Ma

The 90s were the best time for teen movies. Here’s the proof

Maybe you grew up with the Brat Pack and John Hughes of the 1980s, or you swooned over the streaming teen flicks for now, but the 1990s still reign supreme as the queens of the genre.

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Dragon musician Alan Mansfield has died, aged 72.
Music
Bryce Luff

Legendary Australian rock band member dies after health battle

‘He was brave and fearless.’

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Society

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Mpox is at its highest in Victoria since the first case was reported in 2022, Ben Cowie says. (James Ross/AAP PHOTOS)
Health
Caitlin Powell

Mpox cases in Australia surge to new record

As the number of mpox cases in Australia climbs to the highest numbers yet, Victoria's chief health officer has warned that anyone can be affected.

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Video
Ancient DNA might be the reason for your love of carbohydrates such as bread and pasta
Science
Nina Massey

Ancient DNA could be a reason for your love of carbs

A study has found the duplication of a gene — known as the salivary amylase gene (AMY1) — may have helped shape human adaptation to starchy foods.

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Doctors get it wrong when predicting how long terminally ill patients have left to live approximately 50 per cent of the time, according to new analysis.
Health
Sam Merriman

Doctors wrong when predicting how long patients have left

Doctors wrongly predict how long terminally ill patients will survive in half of cases, new analysis claims.

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Lifestyle

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5 Taylor Street, Balmoral, QLD
Property
January Jones

Six jaw-dropping suburban properties from around Australia

A modern oasis and a glamorous old-world apartment are just two of the top real estate picks this week.

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How to tell if your partner is cheating.
Lifestyle
Madeline Smith

Worried women pay me to ‘trap’ their husbands

I’ve caught thousands of unfaithful men, it’s depressing how quickly most give in to temptation. Here are the signs your partner is cheating.

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People who play video games performed cognitively like those 13.7 years younger, a scientist said.
Technology
Nilima Marshall

Shock research proves video games are good for your brain

Revealed: New research proves that playing video games can make you smarter.

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Sport

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Australian athletes could be prevented from competing under the nation’s flag.
Olympics
Jake Santa Maria

Aus swimmers facing Russian treatment over governance crisis

Australian swimmers are facing the humiliating prospect of competing under a neutral flag as a dispute between World Aquatics and Swimming Australia could see the nation expelled from the world championships.

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Video
Kevin Sheedy has opened up on his mystery illness for the first time.
AFL
Harrison Reid

Kevin Sheedy lucky to be alive after his ‘lights went out’

The AFL icon ‘dropped out of existence for a few hours’ in a frightening and mysterious incident.

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Video
Alyssa Healy regrets having not played and South Africa celebrating their win.
Cricket
Ben McClellan

Why Aussies’ dream run became a nightmare T20 World Cup exit

The women’s cricket team looked set to sail into the final but this is why it all went wrong, according to a former great of the team.

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World

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Deborah Galili, 43, holds a sign she made about the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar during a protest in Tel Aviv calling for an immediate cease-fire deal release of hostages held by Hamas on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024.
Middle East
The Washington Post

Israel responds with joy and hope to Hamas leader's death

News of the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar spread at the end of the first day of Sukkot — the Jewish holiday interrupted by the Hamas rampage a year ago — leading to celebrations across Israel.

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A 16-year-old attendee of the inaugural 1998 Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs ‘White Party’ is the latest to accuse the music mogul of sexual assault
USA
The Washington Post

New lawsuits cast Diddy’s White Parties in a darker light 

A 16-year-old attendee of the inaugural 1998 Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs ‘White Party’ is the latest to accuse the music mogul of sexual assault

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Colt Gray, the teenager accused of shooting dead four people at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia.
World
Rich McKay

Accused teen school shooter and dad indicted over rampage

The 14-year-old suspect was indicted on a total of 55 counts, including four counts of malice murder and four counts of felony murder.

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The Best Australian Yarn

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Best Australian Yarn judge author Holden Sheppard.
The Best Australian Yarn
Alison Wakeham

Short story competition attracts record 6000 entries

Authors across Australia have submitted a staggering 6020 entries to the world’s biggest short story competition, the Best Australian Yarn — up nearly 10 per cent on last year.

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Best Australian Yarn competition event at WA Museum. Simon Baronowitz, Miles Hitchcock, Basim Shamaon & Julia Lambo.
The Best Australian Yarn
Alison Wakeham

Competition celebrates the stories of migrants

Refugee Week and The Best Australian Yarn share the same ambitions - to promote a greater understanding and celebrate the lives of migrants

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Jacqueline MacDonald.
The Best Australian Yarn
Alison Wakeham

$50,000 gives winner confidence to write on

Top prize gives Tasmanian author the boost and the time she needs to reinvigorate her love of writing.

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King Charles III and Queen Camilla will embark on a nine-day tour of Australia and Samoa.
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Royals
Georgina Noack

Big sign King Charles is barely holding on

King Charles III and Queen Camilla are days away from touching down in Australia, but royal watchers say the tour Down Under may be papering over a darker truth.

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Ellie Waters, a medical student at Keele University, was diagnosed with alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma aged 14. @tyacancerorg

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Depraved zoologist Adam Britton is unlikely to ever be cured, even with intensive sex offender treatment, a psychiatrist has warned.

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Australia
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ELLEN RANSLEY: Terrorism no longer fits a clear-cut mould. Islamist fundamentalism is still a threat, but a new era of politically motivated violence is upon us, and it’s becoming increasingly hard to detect. 
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Business as usual won’t cut it to stop youth radicalisation

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Kamala Harris, the daughter of immigrants from India and Jamaica, would be the first Black woman and individual of South Asian descent to secure the nomination of a major party.

Next steps for Kamala Harris now Biden is out of the race

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