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Afternoon Update: climate protest charges dropped; Hanson’s media attack; and not looking back in anger

Police have dropped charges against more than 100 protesters two years after they blockaded the port of Newcastle

The Guardian - AU · Aug 7

AFL’s tepid response to Geelong’s secret waiver neglects the true cost of concussion

The Cats’ deal with a player raised uncomfortable, existential questions. The answers are a price the game must pay to save footballers from themselves

The Guardian - AU · Aug 7

Police drop charges against 125 Rising Tide protesters two years after Newcastle port blockade

Climate change activists faced up to two years in prison if convicted over blockade of world’s largest coal port

The Guardian - AU · Aug 7

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Complainant wants to ‘humiliate’ Alan Jones by revealing intimate details of alleged assaults, defence tells court

Barrister alleges ‘account of penis wiggling is an attempt to humiliate’ broadcaster who has pleaded not guilty to 22 charges of indecent assault and sexual touching

The Guardian - AU · Aug 7

Journalists at Alan Jones’s trial off to ‘inauspicious’ start as spelling error and rogue mobile phone antagonise judge

Awkward moments in court as media companies dedicate significant resources to the coverage. Plus: a new boycott campaign targets the Tele

The Guardian - AU · Aug 7

Ukraine war briefing: We will build missiles the way we built drones – Zelenskyy

‘Concrete results’ needed by end of the year in developing alternative to Patriot, says Ukrainian president. What we know on day 1,626

The Guardian - AU · Aug 7

After decades of decline, New Zealand’s wool industry is making a comeback

Forty years ago there were more than 22 sheep to every New Zealander, but wool prices and production declined with the uptake of synthetic alternatives

The Guardian - AU · Aug 7

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Typhoon Dim-sum: how Hong Kong put a tasty snack on the storm map

A new name has been added to the list of future tropical cyclones for the Asia-Pacific region, including one with a culinary twist

The Guardian - AU · Aug 7

Now, Autonomy by Max Easton review – a sardonic yet compassionate take on millennial apathy

The author’s third novel to chronicle life in Sydney’s west follows a group of flawed friends trying to sustain meaning amid an ‘erosion in the world’

The Guardian - AU · Aug 7

Attorney general warns women and children at risk of ‘harmful conduct’ from smartglasses users – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU · Aug 6

Morning Mail: Women speak out against Ralph Carr; parent visa ‘horror stories’; trauma on the bird flu frontline

Ralph Carr accused of ‘terrifying’ behaviour; decades-long wait for parent visas; locals traumatised over bird flu outbreak

The Guardian - AU · Aug 6

‘We expected it, but now it’s here’: on the frontline of Australia’s bird flu outbreak, people are distressed

As Australia prepares for the H5 bird flu to potentially rip through hundreds of species, residents of the Limestone Coast are already seeing the impacts

The Guardian - AU · Aug 6

Tech barons dream of human colonies on Mars – but I can’t think of a worse place to die

Humans love to do stupid things to reach far-off places – but even the wildest frontiers on Earth have at least the possibility of a return home

The Guardian - AU · Aug 6

The social media algorithm has left me behind. I’m unc and I’m chopped – and that’s OK

If you have to Google an internet or gen Z/alpha slang term, you absolutely shouldn’t be using it. I’m accepting this milestone with quiet dignity

The Guardian - AU · Aug 6

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Minns said he wouldn’t ‘gloat’ about Icac hearings into the Liberals. Instead, he’s quietly taking out the trash

Amid revelations that could damage the opposition’s state election hopes, the NSW government dropped key documents on three contentious issues

The Guardian - AU · Aug 6

Australia’s $50,000 parent visa takes so long to process that applicants die waiting

Approvals can take decades – and more than 1,500 people died in a 21-month period as they waited, data shows

The Guardian - AU · Aug 6

I am sometimes overwhelmed by feelings of nostalgia. Is this a bad thing?

There’s a difference between longing for the past and assuming it was better, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. The trick is knowing which you’re feeling

The Guardian - AU · Aug 6

Can Australia make housing affordable while avoiding a major market crash? We may soon find out

Politicians’ fever dreams of ‘sustainable price increases’ – where values keep rising, but by less than wages – could happen

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The Guardian - AU · Aug 6

‘Terrifying’, ‘creepy’, ‘abusive’: dozens of women who worked for convicted rapist Ralph Carr speak out

Exclusive: They came to him young, dreaming of a career in the music industry. Now former employees have come forward, accusing the Melbourne talent manager of intimidating behaviour and sexual harassment going back decades

The Guardian - AU · Aug 6

‘Performative reductions’: Labor MPs and business groups urge Burke against sweeping immigration changes

MPs say they are anxious for the government to avoid cuts to family and humanitarian visa categories

The Guardian - AU · Aug 6

Iran says a deal with Oman to reopen the strait of Hormuz is close to being finalised – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU · Aug 6

Labor faces fierce backlash from gambling giants as Coalition and Greens push for new controls on inducements

Despite reports the PM wants Labor’s bill to be passed in full or withdrawn, Anika Wells insists she is prepared to negotiate

The Guardian - AU · Aug 6

‘Orange elephant in the room’: Pauline Hanson’s political rise is inspiring racism, inquiry hears

Former AFL inclusion manager tells inquiry One Nation leader’s conduct is encouraging people to use ‘similar behaviour and words’

The Guardian - AU · Aug 6

Australian politician admits to sending text saying ‘my job is boring’ during a hearing

Mark Parton defends sending text message but denies he sent it to a sex worker, saying he is a ‘multi-tasker from hell’

The Guardian - AU · Aug 6

Afternoon Update: Gina Rinehart gets apology from ABC; Angus Taylor mentioned again at Icac; and a forbidden novel

Broadcaster’s managing director Hugh Marks says film has been edited on the ABC’s platforms to remove the material in question

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