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Millions of Australians are set to feel the brunt of a string of major changes from September
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Stephen Johnson

The major September changes that will hit your wallet

Millions of Australians are set to feel the brunt of a string of major changes from September, with Australia Post prices and Centrelink payments among the areas set for a shake-up.

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Vriginia Bell said she recognised frustrations that she did not publicly investigate why two men, identified as Sajid and Naveed Akram, killed 15 mostly Jewish people at Bondi Beach.

Major update as Anti-Semitism royal commission hearings end

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Australian universities have been identified as collaborating with Chinese defence labs.
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Australian universities linked to Chinese warfare research

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A car fire in the Sydney Harbour Tunnel caused chaos for commuters on Wednesday morning. 
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Commuter chaos as car fire closes Sydney Harbour Tunnel

NSW
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A birthday celebration has erupted into a fiery debate after a restaurant owner publicly called out a customer over claims she refused to pay a cakeage charge.

Fiery debate as restaurant patron flamed over unpaid cakeage

NSW
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Victoria

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An autopsy will be carried out to identify human remains found covered in grass.

Body found in grass one week after alleged shooting

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Edge Early Learning Centre Munno Para West has been closed by the Education Standards Board. Edge Early Learning

Major childcare provider with 70 centres collapses

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Victoria Police have arrested a scissor-wielding man after he allegedly assaulted a 10-year-old boy and stabbed a woman in a terrifying attack in Melbourne’s CBD. 

Stabbing horror as 10yo boy attacked by scissor-wielding man

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Officers Vadim De Waart-Hottart and Neal Thompson were gunned down at a property at Porepunkah. (HANDOUT/VICTORIA POLICE)

Dezi Freeman’s slain police victims honoured one year on

Victoria
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Queensland

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A second potential positive case of H5 bird flu has been detected in Queensland.

Fears grow as second bird flu case recorded in QLD

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A man has been charged after he allegedly attempted to drop more than $1 million worth of drugs into an Australian prison using a drone. Photograph of drone is a stock image.

Man charged after $1m drug package flown into jail via drone

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A man has been charged over the alleged assualt of a woman on her morning walk.
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Woman injured after ‘horrific’ assault on morning walk

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Chad Bishop went missing from Beenleigh in early March, 2022. Two people have been charged with his murder. Supplied

‘In a box’: Remains found in four-year search

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South Australia

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South Australian police have provided an update eleven months after Gus Lamont vanished from his family’s remote property.

Mystery deepens as Gus Lamont case reaches grim milestone

South Australia
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The SAC 1 investigation into Hailee Hildebrandt’s death in January has shattered her mother, who claims she’s still without answers.

Red flags that could have saved suicidal Australian teen

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The decision to grant parole to a man who killed four people in the 1980s is set to be reviewed.

'Dreadful crimes': Bid to block hitman's parole win

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

‘Rubbish’: Cop’s plea over online ‘chatter’

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Western Australia

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Richard Marles in Henderson today where he gave a press conference alongside the Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Premier of Western Australia Roger Cook

$25b or $70b? Marles fails to clear up shipyard cost puzzle

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The Prime Minister is facing a grilling from fired up West Aussies when he arrives in Perth on Sunday.
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Anthony Albanese facing $9bn GST firestorm ahead of WA visit

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WorkSafe investigators arrived at the scene and were seen speaking with witnesses.

Woman killed in serious workplace incident

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

Undercover mission behind ex-Bishop’s sex crime conviction

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ACT

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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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A teenager has faced court as federal police say youths are being exposed to extremist propaganda..

Teen accused of planning racist terrorist attack faces court

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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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Bird flu risk for penguins, seals grow in another state

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Ken Hinkley, John Longmire and Nathan Buckley were the three candidates vying for the Devils job.
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History as Tasmania’s inaugural AFL coach revealed

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The 31-year-old was diving at a depth of about eight metres when the attack happened.

Horror as diver attacked by two metre shark

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The future of the smelter has been under a cloud since it stopped production in mid-2025.

‘Incredibly disappointing’: 200 jobs lost as smelter closes

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Northern Territory

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Labor member for Solomon Luke Gosling

Fresh charge for Federal MP Luke Gosling after alleged assault

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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.

Woman dies at iconic Aussie tourist spot

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

‘Catastrophic’: Outback highway crash claims five lives

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

'Substantial' evidence in Little Baby murder case

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