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A protester waving a French national flag walks past a fire during clashes prior to the start of a demonstration in Marseille, southern France.
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Battle under way for future of liberal democracy

EDITORIAL: What started in France, ostensibly as protests for more investment in education, has become something much deeper.

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Reserve Bank Governor Michele Bullock.

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A decade ago Anthony Albanese style himself as DJ Albo. These days his cover version may as well be titled Let’s Talk About Tax.
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NSW Premier Chris Minns and his Treasurer Daniel Mookhey.

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A firefighter at a compound hit by a strike in Kharkiv, northern Ukraine, on October 12, 2026.

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US President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn of the White House after arriving on Marine One in Washington, DC, US, on Saturday, Oct. 10, 2026. Trump spoke at a campaign event in Tennessee after a three-judge panel dismissed another challenge to Tennessee’s new congressional district map that carves up what was the Republican-controlled state’s sole left-leaning minority district. Photographer: Ron Sachs/CNP/Bloomberg
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Starlink terminal camouflaged with a net near the eastern frontline in the Donetsk region of Ukraine in the summer of 2023.

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The White House says it asked Kimberly Guilfoyle to resign as US ambassador to Greece. (EPA PHOTO)

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A protester waving a French national flag walks past a fire during clashes prior to the start of a demonstration in Marseille, southern France.
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Former federal minister Andrew Robb backs the EU deal if it doesn’t lock Australia in to net zero.
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A Russian air strike has killed one person and injured two in Ukraine's capital of Kyiv . (AP PHOTO)

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