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The Prime Minister made the blunder while attempting to claim fewer than 1 per cent of Australians could locate the vital waterway during a speech in which he launched his bid for Australia to sit on the United Nations Security Council in 2029 and 2030. 
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Latika M Bourke in New York 

Albanese’s Hormuz UN blunder scrapped from official record

Anthony Albanese has erased from his official transcript an embarrassing gaffe in which he wrongly called the Strait of Hormuz the Gulf of Hormuz.

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A child has been found shot in the face and neck in a Sydney home.
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Boy, 11, seriously injured after shooting in Sydney home

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Rebel Wilson arriving at the NSW Supreme Court.

Rebel Wilson back in court over alleged movie sabotage

NSW
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NSW Police Deputy Commissioner Peter McKenna revealed grim details from a suspected murder suicide attempt after a horrific weekend of alleged domestic and family violence.

Twist after child dies of stab wounds and two left in critical condition

NSW
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Nirmeen Noufl wept as Justice Hamill outlined her life of extreme violence and abuse. (Rocco Fazzari/AAP PHOTOS)

Family split on victim's abuse before violent killing

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Victoria

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Sydney mother-of-two and founder of Arthur & Co Pet Detectives, Anne-Marie Curry.

Sherlock Bones: Inside Australia’s pet detective boom

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Margaret Febey and her mother Alison Batt, whose Traralgon home was burgled in August, and her antique brooch and car stolen.
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The state revealed as Australia’s home burglary capital

Victoria
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Jess Wilson
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Jess Wilson’s political revenge story 24 years in the making

Renewal
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A three-year-old boy’s day spent proudly choosing and planting flowers with his mum has ended in heartbreak after a brazen thief walked into the family’s front yard and stole his favourite pot just hours later.

WATCH: Brazen thief captured stealing from 3yo boy

Australia
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Queensland

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BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos SEPTEMBER 4, 2025: Queensland Police Generics. #Queensland Police Generics# NewsWire / John Gass

Cops charge driver who took ‘1150 demerit points for cash’

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Vision of a humpback whale and her stillborn calf has scientists pondering the mammals' inner lives. (HANDOUT/Griffith University)

WATCH: Mother whale's heartbreaking moment with stillborn calf

Queensland
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Brianna Cronin’s family is pleading for help bringing her home to Australia after her tragic fall from the cliffs at Kelingking Beach in Bali.

Family launches urgent appeal after Aussie dies in Bali fall

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Anthropic’s Claude AI ‌model could help the company achieve a market capitalisation of $2.8 trillion.

Anthropic-Queensland data centre plan slammed by Greens

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South Australia

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South Australian Police have arrested a 68-year-old Adelaide man over historic child sex allegations.

Man charged over child sex allegations against 7 victims

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Workers have been told the Whyalla steelworks' blast furnace won't be restarted. (Isabella Ward/AAP PHOTOS)

SA Premier says Whyalla job losses are a matter of 'timing'

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The cause of the whale’s death is unknown. Facebook/Anthony Rowland

Dead whale fuels bird flu panic on popular Aussie beach

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A 73-year-old man will face court accused of alleged child sex offences at a youth detention centre.

Man facing youth centre child abuse charges over 25yr period

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Western Australia

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Emergency services have dispatched helicopters and water police to the beach.

Traumatic scenes as swimmer killed in Perth shark attack

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Nickolas Wayne Peake leaves the Midland Magistrates Court Justin Benson-Cooper

Cop admits assaulting his five-week-old little girl

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A crocodile in the Perth Zoo enclsoure.

Boys arrested over shock croc attack at popular Aussie zoo

Western Australia
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A quiet change has been made involving Sydney Swans star Isaac Heeney as fallout surrounding the AFL superstar grows.

Fresh update in Swans hotel scandal as Heeney item pulled

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ACT

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A guest at the Ibis Budget Canberra was charged $1800 when shower steam set off the smoke detector.

Budget hotel ‘blindsides’ guest with $1800 charge after hot shower

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Liu Jinsong, right, China’s new ambassador in Canberra, with Masaaki Kanai head of the Japanese Foreign Ministry’s Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau.

‘Asia enforcer’: China’s new ambassador lands in Canberra

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

‘Wanna swap’: Libs leader responds to sex worker text claim

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A Canberra man has become $40m richer after finding the winning Powerball ticket in his wallet.

Man’s shock find makes him $40 million richer

Australia
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Tasmania

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Three families grieving after devastating deadly head-on crash on Bass Highway, Tasmania

Three families grieving after devastating deadly head-on crash

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Three dead, two critically injured after horror crash at Elizabeth Town, Tasmania 

Three dead, two critically injured after horror crash

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Australia is in for a tough bushfire season, as a combination of below-average winter rainfall and above-average fuel loads mark the first day of spring on Tuesday.

The big spring weather warning for Aussies

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Belgian tourist Celine Cremer went missing during a hike in north-west Tasmania.

Probe finds ‘overlapping errors’ lead to death of backpacker

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Northern Territory

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Firefighters are battling a blaze burning in extreme weather conditions on the outskirts of Darwin. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS)
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Emergency warning as bushfire threatens homes and lives

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Outback Wrangler star Matt Wright, wife Kaia and Top End Safari Camp are now facing litigation over a 2023 airboat crash in three jurisdictions.
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‘Beyond me’: Judge questions Matt Wright boat crash lawsuits

Australia
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A teenager has been speared during a disturbance between family groups in a remote township

Teenage boy flown to hospital after being speared in back

Northern Territory
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The body of 61-year-old Dominic O'Connell has been found in plunge pool in the NT.
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Devastating update on man missing in national park

Northern Territory
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