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A major payments outage has blindsided Australians, with most of the country’s major banks and digital payment providers suffering an unexplained failure on Saturday afternoon. 
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Tegwen Bescoby

‘Global’ Mastercard outage sparks payment issues across Aus

A major payments outage has blindsided Australians, with most of the country’s major banks and digital payment providers suffering an unexplained failure on Saturday afternoon. 

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NSW

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Anthony Albanese is being urged by the Productivity Commission to unwind his Liberal predecessor’s GST deal hated by east coast states.

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Australia
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Three teenage boys have been charged after a 14-year-old girl was allegedly sexually assaulted in an alley way in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs

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Premier Chris Minns visits Tomago Aluminium Smelter with Anthony Albanese on Thursday.

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Victoria

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Alleged gangland crime boss Fadi Haddara is fighting for life after being shot in Melbourne’s inner west on Sunday night. 

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Australia
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A farmer in northwest Victoria has invoiced the state government $40,000 over sheep killed by dingoes or wild dogs on his property.

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Lachlan Young, who has been charged with the rape of a 16-year-old.

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Australia
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Real estate agent’s cheeky social media stunt raises consumer concerns

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Queensland

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Brisbane man Oliver Conroy identified after alleged dating app set-up in Kelvin Grove ends with deadly attack by seven teens

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Australia
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Elderly woman accused of keying Tesla in Queensland train car park

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South Australia

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The bodies of Helena and Hazel Wright were pulled from the ocean in South Australia on July 27.

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Premier Peter Malinauskas says SA's government will lead AI opportunities with ‘ambition and care’.

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Two previously unknown Australian soldiers who were both killed on August 8 in different wars and on opposite sides of the world have been formally identified. Pictured: Lieutenant Hercules William Crawford (left), Archibald Hanley (middle) and brother John Hanley.

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Western Australia

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Former Bishop of Broom Christopher Saunders was found guilty of 13 sex crime charges in WA.

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Anthony Albanese is being urged by the Productivity Commission to unwind his Liberal predecessor’s GST deal hated by east coast states.

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Australia
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Defence experts warn the suspicious severing of two vital undersea cables off the West Australian coast over the weekend highlights the country’s high vulnerability to being cut off from global internet communication. 

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Western Australia
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Roger Cook has launched another blistering attack on One Nation, blasting it as a party that celebrates and promotes convicted criminals when pressed on his Secret Harbour candidate’s historic claims Labor had a culture of workplace sexual harassment.

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ACT

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ACT Liberal Party leader Mark Parton and, inset, the photo he took in the committee room.

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ACT Greens leader Shane Rattenbury has announced his resignation.

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Tasmania

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Among bird species confirmed with a deadly virus are a giant northern petrel and a brown skua.
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The future of the smelter has been under a cloud since it stopped production in mid-2025.

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Northern Territory

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A day trip to one of Kakadu’s most celebrated lookouts has ended in tragedy, with a woman in her 30s dying at Ubirr as police work to determine what happened.

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Northern Territory
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A fifth person has died as the result of a crash on the Northern Territory’s Stuart Highway.

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Evidence has been served against Jefferson Lewis, who is accused of murdering Kumanjayi Little Baby. (HANDOUT/NORTHERN TERRITORY POLICE / AAP)

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Australia
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Luke Gosling at Darwin’s Thai festival where he is accused of assaulting the Northern Territory’s Administrator.

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