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The Queensland government promised to put victims first. But it has buried a report from domestic violence survivors

Exclusive: Leaked document from LNP-convened panel heavily criticises police responses to family violence and calls for civilian oversight

The Guardian - AU · Jul 21

Organised crime, cost and the CFMEU: why Victoria’s construction scandal is threatening to derail a government

The $100bn ‘Big Build’ promised to transform the state’s transport infrastructure. Now it’s become marred by corruption allegations

The Guardian - AU · Jul 21

Historic $350m NSW funding boost helps launch new Aboriginal family program to help children ‘tell their own stories’

Holistic approach to care which preserves children’s identities part of Minns government reforms to broader child protection system

The Guardian - AU · Jul 21

Nine to axe 30 jobs at the Age and SMH due to ‘extreme’ AI disruption

Staff told positions will be cut via voluntary and targeted redundancies as part of ‘evolution’

The Guardian - AU · Jul 21

Hegseth estimates rising cost of Iran war now at $37.5bn – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU · Jul 21

Holocaust survivors president says exclusion of Jews from public life has ‘disturbing parallels’ to Nazi Germany

George Foster tells royal commission Australia’s democratic institutions fundamentally different, ‘but I can’t ignore certain disturbing parallels in the social atmosphere’

The Guardian - AU · Jul 21

Kumanjayi Little Baby’s mother was not supported to protect her children while escaping domestic violence, review finds

Interim report not able to draw ‘nexus’ between matters referred to child protection and circumstances leading to five-year-old’s alleged murder

The Guardian - AU · Jul 21

Climate and rock art advocates take on Woodside’s ‘carbon bomb’ WA gas project in federal court

Albanese government’s approval of North West Shelf gas extension being challenged by the Australian Conservation Foundation and Friends of Australian Rock Art

The Guardian - AU · Jul 21

Almost 100 troops injured in recent weeks, Pentagon admits, as Iran launches reprisals on US allies

Iran has attacked a tanker in the strait of Hormuz, forcing its crew to abandon the ship, after the US launched a tenth consecutive night of strikes

The Guardian - AU · Jul 21

Almost 90 football fields of woody habitat were bulldozed every day in NSW – despite pledges to rein it in

Decline in clearing of trees and shrubs offset by sharp jump in clearing of non-woody vegetation

The Guardian - AU · Jul 21