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Chalmers cheers OpenAI’s new $7bn Sydney datacentre; emergency bushfire warnings in NSW – as it happened

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Remembering Toni Lamond: the Australian stage legend who made me fall in love with theatre

I discovered her on a VHS tape at my grandmother’s house. She was a revelation – and became my north star as a theatre critic

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Chosen Family by Madeleine Gray review – a vibrant ode to best friends and queer loves

The author of Green Dot returns with a masterful tale of unconventional friendship and family

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La Niña is here for the summer – but it may not bring what Australians expect

Expert says the weather pattern, which typically brings wetter and cooler conditions, may be weakened by global heating

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Teens hoping to get around Australia’s social media ban are rushing to smaller apps. Where are they going?

As Meta begins deleting accounts and the deadline looms, children have already begun to flock to platforms not included in the banned list, like Coverstar, Lemon8, Yope and Rednote

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Kids’ parties are hell on earth, but may be the cure to the world’s ills

As society becomes increasingly weird, birthdays are a chance to build connection. Even if it means 300 attempts at conversation with other tired parents

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Thirsty work: how the rise of massive datacentres strains Australia’s drinking water supply

The demand for use in cooling in Sydney alone is expected to exceed the volume of Canberra’s total drinking water within the next decade

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My son is a voracious reader, but he judges books by their covers. How can I help him see past them?

When you make art proof of virtue, you can make it feel like a drag, advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith writes. Instead, encourage him to develop his own sensibility

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HyperVerse promoter ‘Bitcoin Rodney’ accuses Australian Sam Lee in US court of duping him with ‘elaborate deception’

Rodney Burton says in Maryland district court memorandum he acted in good faith when promoting scheme that allegedly defrauded investors of US$1.89bn, but Lee calls claims ‘baseless’

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‘Day by day I lose weight’: asylum seekers on Nauru get $115 a week, but a bag of grapes costs $20

Forbidden from working, people sent to the island by Australia say they are struggling to survive because food is so expensive

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Hope, heart and home leads at the National Indigenous Art Triennial: ‘We are going through a stage of enlightenment’

Curated by Tony Albert, After the Rain at the National Gallery of Australia explores cultural and familial legacies two years on from the referendum

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Fallout season 2, a new Knives Out and Taylor Swift’s End of an Era: what’s new to streaming in Australia in December

Plus the director’s cut of Picnic at Hanging Rock, Back to the Future turns 40 and Will Forte opens a tanning salon in Sydney

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Most NDIS participants will lose external avenue to appeal funding amounts under new system, Senate estimates told

Administrative review tribunal no longer authorised to alter a person’s plan or reinstate funding, agency confirms

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Man pleads not guilty over allegedly projecting pro-Palestine messages on Sydney Opera House forecourt

Lawyers for Fouad Masri say the case will have important ramifications for freedom of speech in Australia

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Sydney drivers stuck in busy tunnel for up to four hours amid fears of ‘shotcrete’ roof collapse

After an earlier closure on Thursday the M4 tunnel reopened one westbound lane between Haberfield and North Strathfield on Thursday

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Believe, belong, become, boring, bizarre: Brisbane Olympics motto panned as ‘lazy and weirdly evangelical’

Advertising expert questions origins of slogan selected by Games organisers who hail its ‘significant symbolism’

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Afternoon Update: under-16s social media shutdown begins; Starc lights up Ashes again; and Australia’s Spotify Wrapped wrap-up

The Albanese government’s ban is due to take effect from 10 December

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‘I’m rapt!’: meatball chants but no mania as New Zealand assembles for first Ikea store

Overnight camping was banned and motorists were told to plan their journey as New Zealand finally joined the flatpack family

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Heatwave warning for large parts of Australia as temperatures expected to reach low 40s

New South Wales south coast faces highest heatwave category, with extreme temperatures forecast elsewhere, including in Western Australia and the NT

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Australia v England: Ashes second Test, day one – as it happened

Advantage England as Joe Root hits his first hundred on Australian soil in the second Test at Brisbane.

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Ukraine war briefing: Stop wasting the world’s time, Putin told

Ukrainian, British and Estonian officials chastise the Kremlin for apparently fruitless peace talks in Moscow. What we know on day 1,380

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Accused childcare paedophile Joshua Dale Brown charged with 83 new offences

New charges against Joshua Dale Brown come after police allegedly identify four additional victims who attended three Melbourne centres

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Pop, smut and Swift: what Spotify Wrapped 2025 reveals about Australian tastes

Lack of local content is notable this year in the music platform’s analysis of users’ personal music, podcast and audiobook choices

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Hong Kong warns ‘external forces’ working to exploit apartment fire, as death toll rises to 159

Police say number of dead may still be revised as ‘suspected human bones’ found during search require forensic testing

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Rory McIlroy mania hits Melbourne as fans skip school and work on ‘special day’

The Northern Irishman’s appeal was clear at the Australian Open with queues forming at the crack of dawn to catch a glimpse of the golf star

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