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Finance department rejects last minute plea from three senators urging it to maintain block on consultancy firm competing for new government work

Jesse Gregson led massacres of Aboriginal people before joining the Australian Agricultural Company as its longest-serving superintendent

Each month Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on

Morrison-era program increased costs for subjects such as arts and law, while lowering course fees for degrees in Stem

Ombudsman says staff at workplace relations department were wrong to rely on an automated system to stop money for claimants

Major Logue’s diaries use code to describe the frontier killings of Yamatji people but a local publisher plans to omit the coded sections from publication

Constable Bill McKinnon shot an Aboriginal man at Uluru. Facing up to crimes like this is part of the work Indigenous Australians have been calling on colonial descendants to do for decades – to ‘be brave’ and seek out the truth. It’s why Guardian Australia has launched this project

NSW police estimate 90,000 walked despite force and premier opposing rally, while Palestine Action Group claims up to 300,000 peacefully protested

Dietitian Lyndi Cohen says her likeness is being ‘abused and misrepresented’ as websites posing as Australian businesses claim to offer GLP-1 substances

Australian goods imported into the US will continue to attract the baseline 10% tariff, with Australia dodging any tariff increase in the latest round of Donald Trump’s global trade war

Earl’s portrait of young drovers in central Queensland praised by judges for ‘beautiful insight into reality of life in rural Australia’