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Cheaper mortgages, tamed inflation and even higher home prices: how 29 forecasters see Australia’s economic recovery in 2024-25

Australia’s top economic forecasters expect the Reserve Bank to start cutting interest rates by March next year, taking 0.35 points of its cash rate by June.

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‘You don’t have to clean up after it’: young Australians are getting on their hobby horses

In a modern version of the centuries-old tradition of mock beasts, riders and their steeds will gather at the Queensland championships next week for ‘fun, fantasy and fitness’

The Guardian - AU

Fatima Payman indefinitely suspended from Labor caucus – as it happened

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Exploring a mysterious art forest by a sewage plant

Intrepid explorers will be able to wander through a mysterious piece of world-renowned land art at a sewage plant as part of a major Australian design program.

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No living under a mushroom for farmer tackling waste

Up to 30 per cent of what's produced on Australian farms ends up wasted but one mushroom grower is finding an innovative way to try to make every stem count.

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Is corporate Australia leaving Asian-Aussies behind?

Just three per cent of senior management positions in Australian businesses are held by Asian-Australians, prompting calls for a greater focus on diversity.

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Quebec's electric avenue lures Australian mining talent

Aussies can bring expertise to Canada's critical minerals industry as it forges an electric avenue to battery manufacturers and car makers, the government says.

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Are Australia’s public transport discounts for seniors too generous? Are they fair?

School and tertiary students receive concessions, but their fares are still more than three times those offered to seniors in some states

The Guardian - AU

‘We don’t know what’s going on any more’: how Australia lost its rural newspapers

The Country Press Association says up to 50 regional newspapers could close when Facebook funding agreements begin to lapse later this year

The Guardian - AU

Great science, uncomfortable history: Sir Gustav Nossal and the long tail of eugenics

Book says one of Australia’s most eminent scientists promoted discussion of eugenics in the 1960s and 70s, but not that he supported racist ideas – and researchers praise his thorough commitment to reconciliation and racial justice

The Guardian - AU

If you’re cold and miserable this winter in your freezing Australian home, try this fun game

Cold or Wet? You think, squishing a sock betwixt red, swollen fingers. Cold or Wet? You wonder as you slide into icy bedsheets

The Guardian - AU

Cheap AI voice clones may wipe out jobs of 5,000 Australian actors

Industry group says rise of vocal technology could upend many creative fields, including audiobooks – the canary in the coalmine for voice actors

The Guardian - AU

‘Sex work is decriminalised – and my time with Samuel is subsidised by the government’: This is how we do it in Australia

Susan is paraplegic and Samuel is her support worker. His support comes in the shape of four-hour sessions in a motel room

The Guardian - UK

Olympic, Paralympic flagbearers feted by prime minister

A group of Australian Olympic and Paralympic flagbearers have been feted by the prime minister after a funding boost from the federal government.

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I spent months interviewing people about their sex lives. This is what I learned

Flirting in China, sex work in Australia, dangerous liaisons in Nigeria – intimate relations vary wildly around the world, as I discovered while compiling a global special of the Guardian’s This is how we do it column

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End to China's Australian rock lobster ban 'very near'

South Australia is preparing for China's lucrative rock lobster market to reopen, with the federal trade minister confident an export ban will soon be lifted.

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Eastern Australia to shiver through cold week as snow predicted for ski fields in Victoria and NSW

Weather bureau says the cold front sweeping from SA to Tasmania will move up into alpine areas to bring much-needed snowfalls

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Respect fuels Tomljanovic-Ostapenko Wimbledon rematch

Ajla Tomljanovic and Jelena Ostapenko had one of the great Wimbledon bust-ups, but the Australian is adamant it's all sweetness and light for the SW19 rematch.

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Australian track team head into unknown at Olympics

Grace Brown on the road and the men's team sprint on the track are the key medal prospects among the first Australian cyclists confirmed for the Paris Olympics.

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Bolt dreams of pulling off a Ruud shock after epic week

Alex Bolt, Australia's story of the week at Wimbledon after his qualifying heroics, now has Norway's star Casper Ruud in his sights in the main draw.

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Gull numbers on the rise but it's not all good news

An increase in gull numbers along the Tasmanian coastline is cause for cheer but habitat destruction has left other bird species on the brink of extinction.

Newcastle Herald

Newcastle councillor calls for city to drop its 'nuclear-free' status

'There is an opportunity here to preserve our industrial roots'.

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Father, farmer, inventor: politics giant's humble roots

The family of former South Australian premier, senator and federal MP Steele Hall have remembered him as an adored father and hardworking farmer.

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Farmers dig in on renewables as transition accelerates

The push is on for Australian farmers to play their part in the transition to renewable energy but some remain apprehensive about climate targets.

The Canberra Times

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