Politics

Anthony Albanese says a deal with Nauru President David Adeang is a good result for both nations. (Dominic Giannini/AAP PHOTOS)
Australia
Nicola Smith

Landmark Nauru deal provides $140m in geo-political win

Australia has signed a landmark new pact with Nauru to provide security and critical infrastructure amid international concerns about China’s growing footprint in the Pacific. 

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CAMERON MILNER: Anthony Albanese is a latter-day Nero. He’s Emperor, but Australia is engulfed in flames and our nation as we knew it, hoped and loved it to be is under existential threat.
Opinion
Cameron Milner

Aussies don’t deserve to be abandoned by our weakest PM ever

CAMERON MILNER: Anthony Albanese is a latter-day Nero. He’s Emperor, but Australia is engulfed in flames and our nation as we knew it, hoped and loved it to be is under existential threat.

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Images have emerged of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese playing tennis in Cottesloe. Pictured: Anthony Albanese and club member Elizabeth Pell.
Politics
Dylan Caporn

Court out: PM plays tennis in WA as Jewish community reels

Pictures have emerged of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese playing tennis in one of Perth’s ritziest suburbs, as Australia’s Jewish community was dealing with the fallout from the Melbourne synagogue firebombing.

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Internal damage to the Adass Israel Synagogue in Ripponlea after it was firebombed.
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Australia
Ellen Ransley

Anti-Semitism taskforce for ‘evil’ synagogue firebombing

The ‘evil’ firebombing of a Melbourne synagogue is officially being treated as a terrorist attack, as a new special police task force is established to combat the exponential rise in anti-Semitism. 

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Mr Butler on Monday put insurance firms on notice that they risked being named and shamed or faced tougher legislation to stop unfair premium hikes if they did not “do the right thing” by consumers. 
Australia
Nicola Smith

‘Sneaky’ health insurance firms on notice for price-gouging

Health Minister Mark Butler has threatened a crackdown on “sneaky” price-gouging practices by private health insurers that are being used to charge millions of Australians more for coverage.

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President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office to meet with President Joe Biden after Trump's election victory.
US Politics
The Washington Post

Trump draws battle lines in first post-election TV interview

President-elect Donald Trump, in his first post-election TV interview, promised a confrontational return to the White House, saying he would like to see many of those who investigated him jailed.

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Hendra virus, Lyssavirus and Hantavirus samples have disappeared from an Australian lab.
Australia
Max Corstorphan

‘Major breach’: Infectious virus ‘missing’ from Aussie lab

Authorities have launched an urgent investigation after infection virus samples went missing from a high-tech, government run Australian laboratory.

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In Bashar al-Assad’s (C) fall, Tehran hasn’t only lost a client; it has seen its ability to project power, key to its own security, upended. (Former Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad R)
World
The Washington Post

Hezbollah humiliated, Assad fallen: Israel weakens Axis

The rapid fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, coming hard on devastating losses suffered by Hezbollah, has dealt a serious blow to Iran’s Axis of Resistance as Israel stands strong.

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Peter Dutton has vowed to create a dedicated anti-Semitism taskforce and deport anti-Semitic migrants should he win the next election.
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Politics
Ellen Ransley

Bowen’s failure in anti-Semitism speech slammed by Coalition

The Coalition has acused Labor of failing Jewish Australians after Chris Bowen was unable to condemn anti-Semitism without mentioning Islamophobia.

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President Bashar al-Assad.
World
The Washington Post

Who is Assad and why was his Government overthrown?

President Bashar al-Assad ruled his country with an iron fist for 24 years, as his father had done for 30 years before him. His fall was swift and unexpected, but the signs were always there.

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LATIKA M BOURKE: With Iran and Russia tending to their own conflicts, Assad’s tyrannical regime in Syria is suddenly over. While there is worldwide relief, what comes next remains an open question.
analysis
World
Latika M Bourke

Assad’s downfall to have huge repercussions around the globe

LATIKA M BOURKE: With Iran and Russia tending to their own conflicts, Assad’s tyrannical regime in Syria is suddenly over. While there is worldwide relief, what comes next remains an open question.

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Police will have greater powers to randomly search people in a crackdown on knife crime.
Australia
Neve Brissenden

‘Can’t take chances’: Cops get broad knife-search power

Police will be able to randomly search people for weapons as part of a crackdown on knife crime under laws that have now come into effect.

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Energy and Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen.
Australia
Nicola Smith

‘Unrealistic’: Labor slams nuclear plan as cost D-day looms

Energy Minister Chris Bowen has slammed the opposition’s “wildly unrealistic” nuclear energy plans after Australia’s leading science agency revealed nuclear plants would likely cost twice as much as renewables.

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A discussion paper looks at ways to make the superannuation system simpler and more equitable.
Australia
Poppy Johnston

Why these actuaries want to tax your super withdrawals

Actuaries have floated bold tax tweaks to ensure Australia delivers on its newly legislated objective for the super system: delivering income for a dignified retirement.

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The number of homeless employed people has jumped as housing costs have soared across the nation.
Australia
Samantha Lock and Alex Mitchell

The national crisis pushing Aussies to ‘breaking point’

The number of Aussies sleeping rough has surged over the last three years according to a new landmark report into homelessness across the nation.

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