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Illegal New Year’s Eve fireworks injure two children and several others across Australia as paramedics cite jump in callouts

Ambulance services in Victoria saw emergency incidents more than triple in some parts of the state

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Irish man found dead at famous Whitehaven beach among four deaths on Australia’s east coast

A woman has also died after being swept into the ocean in Sydney on New Year’s Day, while the body of a man was found near Palm beach

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Australian beef industry ‘extremely disappointed’ after China hits imports with 55% tariff

Levy on beef exceeding quotas to begin immediately as Beijing seeks to protect domestic industry

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Sticky inflation, metal prices and the AI bubble risk: key trends to watch in the Australian economy in 2026

Can inflation be tamed without further rate hikes? And will the hot streak for gold and silver continue in 2026?

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From Matildas magic to Winter Olympic wonders: Australia’s sporting highlights for 2026

Football captures the imagination, Formula One and tennis hopes rise – our writers pick the Australian sport moments to watch this year

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Dear Life review – Brooke Satchwell hauntingly good in an otherwise clunky drama

Playing a grief-stricken woman who traces the organ recipients of her late fiance, the actor outshines the rest of this cloying Stan series

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The one trick to nailing parenting this summer? Delete Instagram

Every time I open the app I’m bombarded with reels from accounts I don’t follow, promising they’ve cracked the code

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The place that stayed with me: Victoria’s far east coast was our endless summer home, until the night the campground burned

For decades Kate Mildenhall’s big life events pivoted around a treasured campsite. One day she’ll return …

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Don’t stress, do less: 52 ways to make your life easier in 2026

We asked experts in fields from homes to health to horticulture for advice on tasks we can simply stop doing and problems to take off our worry plates

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Australia says ‘deeply concerning, destabilising’ Chinese exercises near Taiwan risk inflaming regional tension

Foreign affairs department statement says Australia opposes any actions that ‘increase the risk of accident, miscalculation or escalation’

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Man dead and teenage boy missing after boat capsizes off northern Sydney beach

One man rescued by helicopter after accident in heavy swell near Barrenjoey Headland at Palm beach

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Trump administration freezes childcare funding to Minnesota in wake of fraud scheme allegations

Officials claim to find ‘rampant fraud’ in childcare funding, but prosecutions began in Biden era and Tim Walz says ‘we’ve spent years cracking down on it’

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Burkina Faso and Mali ban US nationals in retaliation to Trump’s visa decision

Announcements mark latest twist in the frosty relationship between west African military governments and the US

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Coral Adventurer passengers return with diverging accounts of cruise ship drama

One passenger tells the ABC it was ‘chaos’ and she felt her life was in danger, but others shrug off the incident

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Key viewing spots for Sydney fireworks reach capacity as city urged to celebrate first New Year’s Eve since Bondi attack

NSW premier Chris Minns encourages Sydneysiders to ‘puff out your chest’, stating police on ‘high alert’ as more than 1 million people expected to celebrate in the city

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Ukraine war briefing: ‘Attack on global food security’ as Russia hits wheat ships and ports

US has verified as fake the claimed attack on Putin residence, says Zelenskyy; leaders of Ukraine’s allies to meet in France next week. What we know on day 1,407

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‘Tonga is not a threat’: anger as small Pacific nation falls under Trump visa restrictions

Community leaders raise alarm over study links and Polynesian ties, with Tonga to face restrictions from January as US says too many overstay

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Sam Kerr and Kristie Mewis to marry in New Year’s Eve wedding ceremony in Perth

Footballers who welcomed son Jagger earlier this year can’t fit a honeymoon around Matildas captain’s match fixtures but may go to men’s World Cup

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Damien Martyn, former Australian Test cricketer, in induced coma with meningitis

Fifty-four-year-old admitted to hospital on Boxing Day with meningitis, according to reports

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Travball emerges, athletics surges, Brisbane basks in success: Australia’s biggest sporting moments of 2025

An Ashes-defining intervention, an NRL showstopper, and new hope forced on the AFL are among our writers’ great moments in Australian sports this year

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For most families, New Year’s Eve is a time to come together. For mine, it’s time for a water-bomb war

For close to 50 years we’ve waged an ever-escalating battle against one other – and our home town

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Tasmanian zombies, Russell Crowe and Crowded House: 10 Australian films to watch out for in 2026

Rusty plays a vengeful strip club owner, Rebel Wilson’s makes her directorial debut, plus new films starring Olivia Colman, Willem Dafoe and Tom Hiddleston

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‘Jews can’t do it alone’: one rabbi’s daily vigils at Bondi beach reveal the support that ‘will cure antisemitism’

Bondi Pavilion is a ‘beautiful, holy space, a quiet area of reflection and connection’, Rabbi Yossi Friedman says

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Flaming sambuca and vodka Redbull: Australian writers and comics on the awful drinks of their youth

Kathy Lette, Trent Dalton, Rhys Nicholson and more look back on their most memorable – and regrettable – summer libations

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A terminally online book nerd, I tried asking IRL what I should read. This is what happened

Rafqa Touma found herself in a binge-slump reading cycle from following recommendations on social media. Could booksellers in actual bookshops help?

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