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Toto Albanese steals the post-election show as News Corp front pages do an about-face

Seven’s Mark Riley catches Covid just in time to miss plane to Quad summit. Plus: the West Australian prints Noongar edition for Reconciliation Week

The Guardian - AU

China FM visits Kiribati where fishing ground is at stake

China’s foreign minister is visiting the remote Pacific nation of Kiribati, where the future of a vast fishing ground is at stake

The Independent UK

Amplifying narratives about the 'China threat' in the Pacific may help China achieve its broader aims

Yet more proposed Chinese “security agreements” in the Pacific Islands have been leaked.

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Greens back developer tax for housing

The Greens in South Australia have called on the state government to tax developers to fund a big increase in public housing.

AAP

Every Hill Got A Story: collected First Nations oral histories are a profound gift to national memory

Bequeathed from memory to memory, these records remind us how recently central Australian Indigenous people felt the upheaval of colonialism

The Guardian - AU

Lincoln Crowley appointed Australia’s first Indigenous supreme court justice

Highly regarded Queensland barrister was told as a boy he would probably end up in jail because his family is Aboriginal

The Guardian - AU

AI could help us spot viruses like monkeypox before they cross over – and help conserve nature

When a new coronavirus emerged from nature in 2019, it changed the world. But COVID-19 won’t be the last disease to jump across from the shrinking wild. Just this weekend, it was announced that Australia, is no longer an onlooker, as Canada, the US and European countries scramble to contain…

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Australia’s Jai Hindley on brink of proving he deserves place at cycling’s top table

A second place finish in 2020 appears to have been no fluke with the 26-year-old again within touching distance of victory in this year’s race

The Guardian - AU

Planning a holiday? What's the COVID situation in Bali, Fiji, NZ and the UK?

Many of us are considering a long-delayed overseas trip. However, despite what our politicians are telling us, the pandemic is not over yet, and there is always the risk you could catch COVID on holiday or just before you depart.

The Conversation

Tamil asylum seeker family cleared to return home to Biloela on bridging visas, Acting Home Affairs Minister says

Acting Home Affairs Minister Jim Chalmers announces a Tamil asylum seeker family will be allowed to return to their central Queensland home in Biloela on bridging visas.

ABC News

Alvey Reels set to close Australian-owned company due to cost pressures

The owner of an Australian reel manufacturer says he will close his 102-year-old company rather than have his products made offshore after supply chain issues and "drastic cost increases" forced his hand.

ABC News

Probe into strip club where British dancer, 29, died in private manager's lounge

Fitness instructor Stacey Tierney, then 29, was working at Dreams Gentlemen's Club in Melbourne, Australia, in 2016 when she died after consuming a cocktail of drugs in a private manager's lounge

Daily Mirror

NSW paramedics take industrial action; interest rate rises predicted – as it happened

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Australian-based Opals hoping to impress selectors in the lead-up to the Women's Basketball World Cup

As they prepare to face Japan in a three-match series, the Opals local players have a golden opportunity to push for selection for September's Women's Basketball World Cup in Sydney.

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The Guardian - AU

Morning mail: Chalmers on cost of living crisis, Texas shooting response questioned, Ray Liotta dies

Friday: New treasurer Jim Chalmers outlines how he plans to tackle a ‘cost of living crisis’. Plus: what is Sydney without sunshine?

Al Jazeera

Texas school shooting prompts look at responses of other nations

Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom and New Zealand tightened their gun laws following mass shootings in recent years.

Bangkok Post

TAT banks on short-haul markets for off-peak season

The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) is gearing up for a plan to bring back tourists from short-haul markets, particularly India, Malaysia, Singapore and Australia, to build momentum for the off-peak season.

The Conversation

Expect more power price hikes – a 1970s-style energy shock is on the cards

Yesterday the Australian Energy Regulator increased the “default market offers” that apply to electricity retailers in New South Wales, South Australia, Queensland by 8% to 18%, depending on type of tariffs and location.

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Albanese will bring a different style of leadership to the PM's office –– can Australia make the adjustment?

One of the fundamental questions that emerges from the election of Anthony Albanese’s Labor government is whether Australia will put behind it a decade and a half of instability in the prime ministership.

The Conversation

Dumbed-down curriculum means primary students will learn less about the world and nothing about climate

Revisions to the Australian primary school curriculum for geography mean children will learn much less about the world and its diversity than they do at present. They will learn nothing about some significant concepts such as climate.

The Conversation

Laggard to leader? Labor could repair Australia’s tattered reputation on climate change, if it gets these things right

For much of the past three decades, Australia has been viewed internationally as a laggard on climate change – and with good reason.

The Conversation

Friday essay: grey-haired and radiant – reimagining ageing for women

Ageist thought patterns and reactions are so embedded in Australian culture that even educated people, people who otherwise insist on political correctness, will open their mouths and deliver a hurtful, hateful judgement.

Daily Mirror

Mouse-sized marsupial could hold key to bringing Tasmanian tiger back from extinction

Scientists at the University of Melbourne, Australia, hope a tiny marsupial could be the key to bringing back the thylacine or Tasmanian Tiger back from the dead

The Independent UK

How was Johnny Depp’s finger severed in Australia fight and why is it central to his case against Amber Heard?

Depp and Heard each shared their own accounts of the events that led to Depp losing the tip of his finger during their defamation trial

Reuters

Australia wins U.S. approval to buy rocket launchers

The U.S. State Department has approved the sale of mobile rocket launchers to Australia, as the country seeks to boost its military presence in the Indo-Pacific region.

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