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I took up the ukulele after a chance encounter. It’s made me as happy as falling in love

Singing with a group of women brought back the nourishment that only making music with a group of people you’re in step with can provide

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Behind this door is the huge fatberg that can’t stop depositing poo balls on Sydney’s beaches

Guardian Australia tours problematic Malabar wastewater plant where some accumulated fats, oils and grease can’t be accessed – let alone cleared

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Gout and Kennedy renew rivalry, Hull eyes history as Australian athletics puts its best on show

Australia’s top sprinters lock horns again while the track queen is out to complete the set of middle-distance crowns at the national championships in Sydney

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Traffic falls on major Sydney and Melbourne roads as fuel crisis sees Australians cut back on driving

Exclusive: Trips on Sydney’s key thoroughfares have fallen by thousands per day, according to government data

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Why is Anthony Albanese visiting Singapore amid Australia’s fuel crisis – and what could come from it?

The Middle East conflict has shaken both nations: Australia is facing shortfalls of oil, while Singapore’s gas supply is under threat

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Oil prices could take a year to return to pre-Iran levels even if ceasefire holds, Australian experts warn

Analysts say uncertain stability of truce and major damage to infrastructure among many issues that will keep prices high for foreseeable future

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‘Inherently dangerous and unnecessary’: NT buses will soon be patrolled by armed officers

First Nations lawyers and politicians warn the change will disproportionately affect Indigenous people, making them feel ‘less safe, rather than more safe’

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My father-in-law lives with my young family but I don’t want to ‘sandwich parent’. What should I do?

You don’t have to compromise your or your child’s wellbeing, advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith writes. Whatever happens, you need better information going forward

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UK man jailed for sexually abusing nine-year-old step granddaughter has Australian visa reinstated by tribunal

The man successfully appealed the automatic revocation of his permanent resident visa after being sentenced to 14 months in prison

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Afternoon Update: Albanese says Middle East ceasefire must include Lebanon; Clooney calls out Trump; and the rise of Korean fried chicken

Joint statement calling for aid worker protections also signed by Brazil, Colombia, Indonesia, Jordan, Sierra Leone and the UK

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Kyle Sandilands claims he ‘suffered humiliation’ after he was sacked by Kiis FM over on-air spat with Jackie O

In court documents, shock jock also says the purported conduct was not persistent, lasting for 20 minutes on a single day

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Australia eyes new fuel supply from US, Mexico and Asia as diesel prices spike to record high

Shipments of fuel into Australia secure until at least the middle of May, energy minister says

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Bruce Lehrmann loses last-ditch legal effort to appeal defamation case against Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson

The high court has dismissed his bid to clear his name of findings that, on the balance of probabilities, he raped Brittany Higgins in Parliament House in 2019

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Police said nothing to First Nations man immediately before opening fire, court hears

Police say they told the 27-year-old man to ‘drop the knife’ before he was fatally shot. But the only non-police witness says they said nothing, a court heard

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George Clooney calls Donald Trump’s ‘a whole civilization will die tonight’ threat to Iran a war crime

White House says only person committing war crimes is actor ‘for his awful movies and terrible acting ability’

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Middle East crisis live: Netanyahu says ‘no ceasefire in Lebanon’ as Israel attacks ‘Hezbollah launch sites’

Israeli prime minister’s remarks come shortly after Trump told US media he had asked Netanyahu to be more ‘low-key’; IF says it is attacking Hezbollah targets

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Ukraine war briefing: Kremlin threat to countries over Ukrainian drone transit

Warning after strikes on Russia’s Baltic oil ports – but Russia has repeatedly sent its own drones through Nato and European airspace. What we know on day 1,506

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Dan Rath: Help Me Please review – you won’t find another standup with more jokes a minute

Melbourne international comedy festivalBuckle up: the comedian doesn’t give his audience a moment to relax as he delivers a relentless string of one-liners in a show that never hits everyone all at once

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Sydney light rail trialled sensors after death but scrapped project due to cost before second fatality, whistleblower claims

Exclusive: Transdev undertook ‘coupling project’ after teen trapped between carriages in 2023. Trial restarted after second fatality, ex-employee claims, while operator denies ‘assessment’ ever shelved

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‘They poo all over the yard’: little corellas are terrorising Kangaroo Island – and nothing can stop them

The birds – not native to the South Australian island – have covered a school in faeces, torn up infrastructure and damaged crops

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Beyond the hype: why AI investors are looking below the surface

The next wave of AI innovation is likely to be in the infrastructure that supports it

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How KFC, AKA Korean fried chicken, took over the world

The dish, adapted from one brought by US soldiers after the Korean war, has sparked thousands of variations and sits at the forefront of the K-food wave

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Australia urges Lebanon’s inclusion in Middle East ceasefire amid escalating Israeli strikes on Beirut

PM calls pause in hostilities a ‘fragile peace’ as Australia issues joint call with Brazil, Colombia, Indonesia, Jordan, Sierra Leone and UK for aid worker protections

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Morning Mail: Israeli strikes on Lebanon put Middle East ceasefire in doubt, razor gang targets NDIS, outback town for sale

Iran says the agreement has been breached by Israel’s renewed assault on Hezbollah; Labor trying to drive cuts in disability scheme

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Diesel surges 20 cents a litre in two days to record high – as it happened

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