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Sam endured four miserable years in a disability group home. The NDIS was meant to change that – but reports of neglect are surging

Exclusive: The regulator is fielding an increasing number of reports of abuse, injuries and unauthorised restraint, documents released under FoI show

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‘It’s not panic-buying’: farmers defend stockpiling as regional Australia bears brunt of fuel crisis

Independent retailers are struggling to get fuel from the majors and say farmers have only responded to soaring prices and lack of availability

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Australia’s high court orders ankle bracelets be removed and curfews end for 43 former immigration detainees

Labor’s preventative detention regime suffers blow as court finds tough laws for NZYQ group are unconstitutional

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Pauline Hanson fails to properly declare more free flights from Gina Rinehart

Exclusive: One Nation leader updates register after questions from the Guardian to include multiple flights courtesy of Rinehart’s company

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Queensland government backflips on plan to contest all native title claims

The policy reversal came after a federal court judge asked the government to explain why it had stopped negotiating with Cape York traditional owners

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Child abuse material ‘systemic’ on Elon Musk’s X amid Grok scandal, Australian online safety regulator warned

Exclusive: eSafety commission pointed to Musk’s promise that ‘removing child exploitation is priority #1’ in letter obtained by Guardian Australia

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Queensland arts minister ignored recommendation that new theatre be named after poet Oodgeroo Noonuccal

Exclusive: Queensland Performing Arts Centre board nominated Oodgeroo as preferred name in 2024 but it was not one of four options put to public vote by LNP

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Australian children are being arrested under laws to ‘disrupt’ extremism: ‘On balance this is a bad law’

Exclusive: Vulnerable children charged with possessing extremist material may not always understand they had committed a crime, court records show

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Iraqi official urges Australia to take back alleged IS fighters during meeting with ambassador

Iraq’s national security adviser Qassim al-Araji says he told Australian ambassador that countries should repatriate prisoners

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NSW minister ‘not going anywhere’ as calls mount for independent inquiry into children living with convicted killer

Child welfare advocates demand accountability after revelations two children in care of state lived with triple killer Regina Arthurell

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Water inspectors shut out of Alcoa mine sites in Perth drinking water catchment, documents show

Fencing installed around Alcoa’s bauxite mine sites in 2025 blocked rangers conducting inspections, Water Corporation documents say

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Snapchat told an Australian mother it would not delete her son’s account because his listed age was 25

Parents have been told to report accounts missed in Australia’s under-16 social media ban – but eSafety is ‘concerned’ some platforms aren’t complying

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Payman, Thorpe and Faruqi demand Labor change parliamentary rules to counter ‘overt’ racism

Exclusive: Independent and Greens senators ask president to set up inquiry and anti-racism training for politicians to prevent bigotry ‘corroding democracy’

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Football squad member changes mind on asylum as Iran accuses Australia of holding players ‘hostage’

Iran urges players to ‘come home’, saying they would be welcomed ‘with open arms’

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Labor MPs quietly alarmed by Albanese government’s response to US-Israel strikes on Iran

Exclusive: Several MPs question why the party rushed to endorse strikes that were likely in breach of international law

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Cory Bernardi criticised over ‘damaging’ videos appearing to mock traditional Kaurna language

Liberal Aboriginal affairs spokesperson says Bernardi’s comments ‘grossly offensive’ as party announces it will preference One Nation over Labor in all seats

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Moira Deeming, an eight-minute meeting and the latest flashpoint in the battle within the Victorian Liberals

Some Liberals worry the MP may defect to One Nation if she loses preselection but supporters insist she’s not contemplating jumping ship

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Woolworths trumpeted eight consecutive quarters of price declines. Here’s why that claim doesn’t pass the pub test

To truly pay less than two years ago, a family might need to make dinner from washed potatoes, cheese slices, white sugar and long grain rice

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Outsourced call centre sweeps Centrelink customer privacy breaches ‘under the rug’, staff allege

Workers accuse government-contracted Telco Services Australia of fabricating performance statistics, denying adequate breaks and penalising staff for taking leave

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One Nation candidate contesting Sussan Ley’s seat likened Julia Gillard to ‘non-productive old cow’

Pauline Hanson says ‘get over it’ and fully backs David Farley, her party’s candidate in Farrer byelection

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Indigenous Australians share the racist messages they receive online: ‘No one’s feeling safe’

Australia has announced an inquiry into racism and hate directed at First Nations people, as Lidia Thorpe says racism has ‘never been this bad’

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Melbourne mosque closed after suspicious package found – as it happened

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Retailers want ‘delightfully human’ AI to do your shopping, but will the chatbots go rogue?

Plans for agentic shopping assistants are under way at Australia’s major companies. Guardian Australia tested the technology after a string of mishaps

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She helped design Australia’s aged care assessment tool – but now Lynda Henderson is too scared to use it

Exclusive: Member of working group behind questionnaire had no idea it would eventually be underpinned by ‘ridiculously simplistic’ algorithm

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Woolworths shoppers concerned new anti-theft gates may trap them and hit their children

At one store trialling the gates, a customer said ‘if you wanted to enter without hitting your child, you’d have to go in backwards’

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