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No reason to raise rates like others: Lowe

Reserve Bank of Australia governor Philip Lowe says there is no reason for Australia to move in lock step with other countries on interest rates.

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Tsunami-hit Tonga goes into lockdown after workers helping deliver aid catch Covid

Stay at home orders come into force on Wednesday, as Pacific nation deals with aftermath of last month’s huge volcanic eruption

The Guardian - AU

Tudhope headlines Winter Paralympics team

Australia's 10-person team for the Beijing Winter Paralympics has been named with para-snowboarding young gun Ben Tudhope shaping as a medal hope.

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Langer's on-field CV makes his best case

Justin Langer's coaching future, despite the recent T20 World Cup and Ashes successes, could come to a head on Friday at a Cricket Australia board meeting.

AAP

Raising Warragamba Dam wall flouts Australia’s world heritage obligations, scientists warn

International Union for the Conservation of Nature says NSW government’s plan would inundate Indigenous sites and could create an in-danger listing for Blue Mountains

The Guardian - AU

The extraordinary life of an illegal copy of Portnoy’s Complaint: ‘It’s a terrific Australian story’

In 1970, when Philip Roth’s novel was banned in Australia, a small group of people secretly printed hundreds of copies. Half a century later, only three have been found

The Guardian - AU

World Cup doomsday scenario looms after Socceroos slip up in Oman

Australia’s 2-2 draw has brought the potential ramifications of missing the tournament in Qatar into sharp focus

The Guardian - AU

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ICC U-19 World Cup | It’s India vs Australia in blockbuster match

While India is now back to full strength, Australia will be on a high after its convincing win over Pakistan

The Hindu

Five Great Reads: a disappearing highway, a psychic conman and enemy neighbours

Guardian Australia’s weekday wrap of sensational stories selected by lifestyle editor Alyx Gorman

The Guardian - AU

Cabinet documents reveal Australia pushed interests of oil and gas corporates before Timor-Leste bugging

Senator Rex Patrick fighting ongoing battle for further release of cabinet documents from 2000

The Guardian - AU

Researchers pitch pee-based fertiliser trial to make Brisbane parks a wee bit better

Researchers are looking to trial methods for harvesting the "treasure trove" of nutrients in our urine, but historically the Australian public hasn't been keen on the idea.

ABC News

Road trains to ease supply chain woes after WA supermarket shortages worsened by SA flooding

Western Australia will allow trucks to haul three semi-trailers in order to bring more freight into the state and fill supermarket shelves left empty after extreme flooding in South Australia.

ABC News

NT scrambles to find 55 teachers in first week of school year amid a national shortage

The government is in talks with the registration board about the possibility of incentivising retired teachers back into the profession as students start the year amid a national shortage.

ABC News

Australia will not be intimidated by the anti-vaxxer "argument"

Public health is not just about personal freedom. It is a collective matter.

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The Guardian - AU

Nation records 69 Covid deaths as hospital numbers fall – as it happened

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Boosters 'critical' as high aged care COVID-19 death rates tipped to continue into March

Residents in up to 30 aged care homes across Australia remain without their booster shot, amid concerns high death rates of the elderly from Omicron will continue as late as March, a national advocacy group says.

The Guardian - AU

Morning mail: $1m in fossil fuel donations, Russia poses ‘clear and present danger’, why is MAFS a hit

Wednesday: Liberals, Labor and Nationals received $959,115 from oil and gas fossil fuel companies or their lobby groups. Plus: how Married at First Sight got Australia hooked

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Australian music industry icon Glenn Wheatley, who managed John Farnham, Little River Band and Delta Goodrem, dies aged 74

Glenn Wheatley played bass for The Masters Apprentices and later managed John Farnham, Little River Band and Delta Goodrem.

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The Conversation

Queensland has an important network of private conservation areas, but they're dangerously exposed to mining

Australia has the world’s largest network of privately owned conservation areas that protect a range of rare wildlife, from bilbies to endangered fish.

The Conversation

Why we resigned from the ARC College of Experts after minister vetoed research grants

On Christmas Eve 2021, the pub-test folly struck again. The two of us found ourselves, angry and heartsore, resigning from the Australian Research Council’s (ARC) highly respected College of Experts in protest at the minister’s rejection of grant funding recommendations.

The Guardian - UK

‘Wizard of Oz’: Tory MPs cheered by hopes of Lynton Crosby’s return

Analysis: Boris Johnson’s latest moves ‘bore the hallmarks’ of the Australian campaign strategist

ABC News

Australian curling team set to start Beijing Winter Olympics competition before opening ceremony

Tahli Gill and Dean Hewitt will take to the ice later today to kick off Australia's Winter Olympics campaign, before the Games' showy opening number.

ABC News

COVID pills, a holy grail vaccine and 'immune fitness': Why there's a virus 'recalibration' coming

Experts predict 2022 will be the year COVID stops defining our lives. The virus isn't going away but new treatments and ways of thinking could mark the beginning of the end.

ABC News

NSW's Blue Mountains could lose World Heritage status if Warragamba dam plan goes ahead: experts

Scientific advisers to UNESCO have delivered a scathing assessment of the NSW government's plans to raise Warragamba dam, prompting fears that the Blue Mountains could lose its World Heritage status if the project proceeds.

Daily Mirror

Why Rafael Nadal is primed for more 2022 grand slam success following monumental Australian Open win

Rafael Nadal became the most successful male tennis player in grand slam history after winning the Australian Open. After winning the title for the first time in 13 years, he's set up perfectly to extend his grand slam record this year

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