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‘Remarkable’ Mithaka cultural landscape featuring Australia’s oldest houses placed on national heritage list

Aboriginal site featuring ancient quarry sits on transcontinental trading route connecting Gulf of Carpentaria to Flinders Ranges

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What caused Sydney’s M4 tunnel closure – and what on earth is shotcrete?

The M4 shut for ‘emergency roadworks’ early Thursday and was still closed hours later. Repairs had made the tunnel safe to reopen in the afternoon – but not before drivers experienced considerable delays

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Skydivers go on strike in three Australian states and claim pay has plummeted

Union asks ‘would you want your mum strapped to an underpaid instructor?’

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HyperVerse promoter ‘Bitcoin Rodney’ accuses Australian Sam Lee in US court of duping him with ‘elaborate deception’

Rodney Burton says in Maryland district court memorandum he acted in good faith when promoting scheme that allegedly defrauded investors of US$1.89bn, but Lee calls claims ‘baseless’

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‘Day by day I lose weight’: asylum seekers on Nauru get $115 a week, but a bag of grapes costs $20

Forbidden from working, people sent to the island by Australia say they are struggling to survive because food is so expensive

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Man pleads not guilty over allegedly projecting pro-Palestine messages on Sydney Opera House forecourt

Lawyers for Fouad Masri say the case will have important ramifications for freedom of speech in Australia

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Helen Garner says State Library of Victoria turned into ‘party central’, with planned job cuts to ‘bring disgrace’ on Melbourne

Acclaimed author ‘sick’ about 171-year-old institution’s proposed restructure as hundreds of writers sign open letter in protest

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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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‘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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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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