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Champions Trophy cricket: team-by-team guide to the tournament

Pakistan have a potentially destructive pace attack, Australia have been weakened and Afghanistan will debut

The Guardian - UK · Feb 17, 2025

Peter Andre spooked by ghostly encounter

Pop star Peter Andre has admitted he was left spooked by a ghostly encounter at a family property in Australia revealing he heard a violin playing in an empty recording studio.

BANG Premier · Feb 17, 2025

How to watch the UAE Tour: live stream UCI WorldTour stage race from anywhere

Catch Tadej Pogačar and a multitude of the World's best sprinters hit the desert roads in this UCI World Tour stage race.

Tom’s Guide · Feb 17, 2025

Would Sidney Nolan be cancelled for painting Ned Kelly today? That’s what Creative Australia has done to Khaled Sabsabi

Despite the perceived outrage at Khaled Sabsabi’s depiction of Hassan Nasrallah in his 2007 work You, Australian art has long made subjects of outlaws and questionable figures. And it is all the richer for it.

The Conversation · Feb 17, 2025

Late Nickel Queen's riches to fight anti-Semitism

A charitable trust using millions left by pioneering entrepreneur Millie Phillips will promote Jewish pride and combat anti-Semitism if green-lit by the courts.

AAP · Feb 17, 2025

Australia bans foreigners from buying homes to tackle surging property prices

Housing affordability is a major issue in Australia, especially for young voters

The Independent UK · Feb 17, 2025

Rights Groups Slam Australian Plan To Transfer Criminals To Nauru

Rights groups on Monday denounced an Australian plan to send three violent foreign criminals -- including a murderer -- to live on the tiny Pacific nation of Nauru.

International Business Times · Feb 17, 2025

Lethal second-generation rat poisons are killing endangered quolls and Tasmanian devils

Humans have been poisoning rodents for centuries. But fast-breeding rats and mice have evolved resistance to earlier poisons. In response, manufacturers have produced second generation anticoagulant rodenticides such as bromadiolone, widely used in Australian households.

The Conversation · Feb 17, 2025

Tony Burke says he called Creative Australia chief executive before board meeting when Biennale selection rescinded

Arts minister – who has denied political interference – says chief executive told him the board would meet to discuss Khaled Sabsabi’s selection

The Guardian - AU · Feb 17, 2025

The best of both worlds? How Australia’s unique democracy evolved

We are social beings. So, within every group, decisions must be made about how to live together, preserving wellbeing and relations with others. Historically, those decisions were made by tribal leaders, or monarchs and their courts. Yet the ancient states of Greece, needing collective commitment to the battles in which…

The Conversation · Feb 17, 2025