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Secret Serco rating system for immigration detainees must be scrapped, say Greens

Senator Nick McKim says company’s ‘opaque’ SRAT security assessment tool ‘has severe implications for fundamental human rights’

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More pharmacies open across Australia despite guild’s dire forecasts on 60-day prescriptions

Lobby group, which is meeting on the Gold Coast with Peter Dutton giving the keynote address, warned in 2023 that hundreds of pharmacies would close

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Concerns raised over solitary confinement in Queensland youth detention after deaths of two First Nations boys

Government report says placing children in prison isolation can affect their health and wellbeing in ‘severe, long-term and irreversible ways’

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Queensland electoral commission warns council candidates to behave amid ‘highly acrimonious’ election campaign

Concerns raised over election’s integrity as Redland City Council campaign draws state’s largest number of complaints

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Australian visas for Gazans cancelled mid-air

Some Gazans are having their previously approved visas cancelled while already en route to Australia, Labor wants to outlaw election lying, and Jim Chalmers says the surplus will be lower than predicted.

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Australian government knew obscure retailer had no PPE experience before paying $100m for unusable Covid masks

Exclusive: Internal documents show health department was aware of company’s lack of experience importing PPE

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Greens take Labor hostage over offshore gas protections

Adam Bandt wants the government to scrap offshore gas protections in exchange for passing emission standards, more than a quarter of houses in the eastern states were paid for with cash last year, and Bronwyn Bishop apologises (again).

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Australian immigration detainees’ lives controlled by secret rating system developed by Serco

Security Risk Assessment Tool – or SRAT – and similar algorithmic tools condemned as ‘abusive’ and ‘unscientific’

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Revealed: the secret algorithm that controls the lives of Serco’s immigration detainees

The opaque risk rating system, used in Australian detention centres, is riddled with errors and effectively makes the company ‘judge, jury and executioner’, says one former detainee

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Clive Palmer says Labor’s plan to cap political donations would silence ‘diversity of ideas’

Mining billionaire warns government against pursuing laws that would prevent him from continuing to spend millions in support of his electoral ambitions

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Labor wants to ban big political donations

The Labor Party wants to limit the political influence of large donors, Adam Bandt’s huge expenses report (including private jets), and the call for more aid in ‘life and death’ Gaza.

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TGA investigating telehealth websites prescribing nicotine vaping products for exclusive pharmacies

GPs say patients should be able to fill scripts at any pharmacy and that a health professional should be consulted first

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Gareth Evans tells Labor to ‘get off the fence’ and restart UNRWA funding to help ease Gaza crisis

Former Labor foreign minister says $6m in emergency funding should be released immediately as Canada and Sweden have done

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More than 550 issues raised on behalf of children in police lockups this year, Queensland public guardian says

Exclusive: Influx of reports comes amid concerns about welfare of young people detained in overcrowded adult watch houses

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‘A big boys’ club’: senior Liberal women fight to solve the party’s gender problem

The preselection of Simon Kennedy in Cook has fanned fears about lack of balance – with more men set to replace retiring female MPs

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Sam Kerr’s slur stirs ‘reverse racism’ row

The media has a myriad of hot takes on Sam Kerr’s ‘stupid white bastard’ comment, Australian news companies might get compensation when AI is trained on their content, and a man has been charged with Samantha Murphy’s murder.

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Australia’s high court to hear two appeals over legality of re-detaining more than 100 non-citizens

Greens senator Nick McKim says decision to hear both cases is welcome as legislation passed in February 2023 is ‘clearly punitive’

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Australian news media could seek payment from Meta for content used to train AI

News media bargaining code could apply to tech companies using massive amounts of online information for generative AI, researchers say

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The extraordinary case of the Queensland councillor seeking re-election while fighting a murder charge

Ryan Bayldon-Lumsden maintains his innocence and says his focus is on ‘delivering’ for his Gold Coast community

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Tesla quits major Australian auto lobby over its ‘false claims’ about government’s clean car policy

Tesla accused Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries of favouring car companies wanting to delay action on climate crisis, Guardian Australia revealed on Wednesday

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British American Tobacco makes first donation to Nationals in over a decade amid vaping crackdown

The $55,000 donation grants access to National party politicians via a policy forum membership scheme

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Asio conduct in Daniel Duggan case transcended ‘the bounds of propriety’ in one aspect, watchdog finds

Duggan’s family and spy agency both confirm one negative finding but Asio says despite this IGIS found Asio acted ‘both ethically and within the law at all times in matters regarding Daniel Duggan’

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Writers puzzled after State Library Victoria cancels workshops for teens citing ‘child and cultural safety’

Omar Sakr, Jinghua Qian and Alison Evans have been left to speculate on whether cancellations relate to their pro-Palestinian stances

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Tesla slams Australian auto lobby

Tesla has accused Australia’s main auto lobby group of making false emissions policy claims, houses in some capitals are overvalued by more than a third, and some West Australians are waiting more than 200 days for disability support.

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TikTok, Apple News and Instagram should be included in news media bargaining code, Greens say

Sarah Hanson-Young says scope of deals should be widened beyond Meta and Google

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