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‘Nightmare scenario for disabled people’: NDIS overhaul risks lives, advocates say

Sweeping changes to the way National Disability Insurance Scheme support plans are generated criticised amid fears they amount to ‘robo-planning’

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Reform Australia: who is behind the new rightwing group recruiting at an anti-immigration rally?

Digital footprint offers clues about who may be involved in the political venture being promoted on pamphlets at the Put Australia First event in Sydney

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Victorian Labor to introduce stand-alone coercive control offence in backflip to match opposition policy

Exclusive: Allan government acknowledges ‘more must be done’ and will introduce new offence despite insisting laws already protect against it

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ATO’s revamped ‘robotax’ scheme targets $5.3bn in on-hold debts – some that have been invisible for years

Exclusive: New program is designed to raise $5.3bn from 325,000 taxpayers, with some debts dating back to 2017, documents show

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Australia’s eSafety commissioner rejects US Republican’s assertion she is a ‘zealot for global takedowns’

Julie Inman Grant says Australia’s Online Safety Act ‘does not impinge upon Americans’ freedom of speech’

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Gallagher says public service ‘roughly the right size’ – as it happened

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NDIS plans will be computer-generated, with human involvement dramatically cut under sweeping overhaul

Exclusive: Staff were told of major changes to the way NDIS funding and support plans will be made during a recent internal briefing

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Hundreds potentially affected by Victoria police weapons searches that breached law

Exclusive: Wide-ranging police powers used to conduct non-compliant searches that resulted in 33 people being charged or fined

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I’m a Guardian journalist who has covered Victoria police’s new search powers. On Sunday, police searched me

I was covering Sunday’s Put Australia First Rally in Melbourne’s CBD when two officers approached, explaining the process as though reciting a script

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Who are the Australians trying to shut down the world’s biggest coal port?

Climate activists from the Rising Tide organisation have stopped coal ships from reaching Newcastle port – for a day or two. What’s their real objective?

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Morning Mail: botched media strategy after Hannah Clarke murders revealed, NSW sets new pokies curfew, Piastri frustrated in Qatar

‘Victim blaming’ comments part of deliberate police strategy; NSW pokies venues face tighter restrictions

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Gen Z Australians are attempting suicide and self-harming more than previous generations, study finds

Exclusive: Separate research shows number of young children having suicidal thoughts has risen at ‘alarming’ rate

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‘Victim blaming’ comments after Hannah Clarke murders were part of botched police media strategy

Exclusive: Documents reveal comments by Det Insp Mark Thompson were attempt to flush out killer’s supporters

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Australian taxpayers subsidise rising specialist fees as spending on Abbott-era Medicare safety net ‘explodes’

Exclusive: Health department data shows spending on the 2004 extended safety net has nearly tripled, from $324.9m in 2010 to $850.4m in 2024

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‘We’ve got to listen to dead women’: critical part of Queensland’s DV response stops reviewing all recent deaths

Exclusive: Experts raise concern as Queensland’s Domestic and Family Violence Death Review and Advisory Board turns focus to historical, rather than new, data

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Stranded passengers and drivers at breaking point: readers weigh in on short cab trips from Sydney airport

As well as disgruntled travellers, several former and current taxi drivers wrote in to tell their side of the story

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Exclusive gun club linked to Andrew Hastie awarded almost $20,000 in government grants

Liberal MP has declared conflict of interest with Port Bouvard Pistol and Small Bore Rifle Club, of which he is a patron

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Kerry O’Brien sounds the alarm for Australian media in thunderous Walkleys address

Former 7.30 host takes Labor government to task for record on press freedom and pays tribute to Palestinian journalists. Plus: a roo in the news

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Anti-abortion activist Joanna Howe claims University of Adelaide gave her immunity from complaints by pro-choice campaigners

The university, which employs Howe as a law professor, states that it ‘considers each matter on its merits’

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State Library of Victoria faces job cuts as staff accuse management of pursuing ‘digital vanity projects’

Under the plan, 39 jobs would be lost and the public-facing workforce of reference librarians would be cut from 25 staff to 10

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Guardian Australia wins Walkley award for Indigenous affairs for The Descendants series

Christopher Hopkins also named the Nikon-Walkley press photographer of the year for work published in Al Jazeera, the Age and the Guardian

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Labor’s nature law overhaul contains wins – but we should watch for gremlins in the details

The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act changes are an improvement, but the rush to pass them was purely political

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Albanese defends $2.5bn Nauru deal as transparency advocates warn taxpayer dollars could fuel ‘kleptocracy’

PM dismisses concerns over corruption allegations against senior Nauruan politicians aired in parliament, saying secret offshore processing deal ‘entirely appropriate’

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Online ‘ghost stores’ capitalising on Christmas and Black Friday sales to lure shoppers, ACCC warns

Consumers advised to be sceptical about sales season discounts as AI makes it even harder to detect scams

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Labor’s nature laws risk collapse with deal yet to be struck on eve of parliament’s final sitting day

If Labor cannot reach deal on Thursday, it will mark second time in 12 months that it has failed to secure planned EPBC Act reforms

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