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Lime wants its ebikes to take over the streets – but do they pass our safety test?

A survey of 72 bikes in Sydney found missing helmets, broken spokes, junk in baskets and some bald tyres – but most were safe to ride

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Algorithm-based tool for home support funding is cruel and inhumane, Australian aged care workers warn

Mark Aitken, who worked in the sector for 16 years, said eight times out of 10 he disagreed with the integrated assessment tool

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Role of far-right manosphere in homophobic attacks on men to be investigated in Victoria

Exclusive: Parliamentary inquiry to investigate after series of ‘disturbing’ attacks targeting gay and bisexual men lured via dating apps

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How a hardline ‘Trump-style’ Liberal immigration policy to ban migrants from Gaza and Somalia was developed

Another senior member of Sussan Ley’s team has expressed serious reservations about aspects of the plan

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What the Albanese government did on the environment amid the Liberals’ turmoil: threatened species, a new coal project and carbon leakage

Labor chose a day when attention was focused on the opposition to slip out a handful of announcements

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Ley’s shadow immigration minister ‘never agreed’ to unreleased Liberal plan to ban migrants from Gaza and Somalia

Angus Taylor says the hardline policy document designed under Sussan Ley has ‘no validity’ but hints he will toughen policy

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Victoria police may be unequally targeting people of African appearance with warrantless search powers

Analysis also shows Victoria police are failing to collect data on ethnic appearance – to ensure racial profiling is not occurring – in about 20% of searches

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Liberal figure Charlotte Mortlock quits party amid feared backlash over dumping of first female leader

Some female Liberal members ‘incredibly worried’ after Sussan Ley’s ousting, with one saying: ‘The boys are back in charge’

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‘What’s more important, the electricity or food?’: extreme heat is driving up power bills in central Australia

Vanessa Napaltjari Davis puts $70 a week on her prepaid electricity card – but as Alice Springs swelters through ever-hotter summers, that credit lasts less than three days

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An ‘impossible’ situation or ‘unhinged’ police? Inside the chaos at Sydney’s anti-Herzog protest

Police have defended their actions after Monday’s protest. Here’s how the night played out

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Sydney protesters want to sue police over alleged brutality at the anti-Herzog rally, but it will be a struggle

An obscure section of a 2009 piece of legislation states ‘compensation is not payable’ when NSW officers are granted additional powers for ‘major events’

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Riding the rails: does Melbourne’s long-awaited Metro Tunnel deliver?

Guardian Australia jumps on board Victoria’s new line to see if it fulfils the state government’s big promises

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Three Australian millionaires say the nation’s super-rich should face higher taxes

Dick Smith, Graham Marr and Richard Barnes are the only Australians among 400 millionaires and billionaires globally to sign an open letter calling for higher taxes on the super rich

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NSW police commissioner urged to apologise to ‘entire Muslim community’ after officers disrupted prayer at Sydney protest

Mal Lanyon says police were ‘required’ to disperse crowd, while Mehreen Faruqi accused them of ‘assaulting Muslims

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Bitter taste: per-unit pricing of Australian supermarket fruit and veg leaving customers out of pocket

Consumer advocates call for more transparency as Woolworths, Coles and Aldi expand use of the practice without displaying per-kilogram pricing

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Concerns ‘AI slop’ used by University of Sydney-based institute to lobby for $20m gambling education funding

‘Evidence review’ sent by OurFutures Institute to David Pocock and other politicians references studies that do not exist or make opposing findings

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Lenore Taylor resigns as Guardian Australia editor after 10 years of leadership

Australia’s longest-serving editor credited with transforming a fledgling news organisation into the fourth most-read news website

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Woman, 69, in hospital with broken vertebrae after police allegedly pushed her to the ground at Sydney Herzog protest

Jann Alhafny says she feared there could be a stampede or that she might suffocate after she was allegedly pushed to the ground

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Authorities seek to remove from social media image of foetus being circulated by Australian anti-abortion activists

Photograph, first published by anti-abortion campaigner Joanna Howe, purportedly taken at Townsville hospital

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‘Overwhelming sense of doom’: NDIS support cuts leave families in fear – and there are more to come

Many small changes since 2024 have ‘added up to one big cut’, advocates say, and the two biggest changes are due to roll out this year

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Afternoon Update: Gus Lamont’s grandmothers ‘devastated’ after police update; new statins findings; and landscapes seen from the sky

SA police yesterday have said someone in Gus Lamont’s household has been identified as suspect – but stress it is not one of his parents

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Scaling back the capital gains tax discount might not help housing affordability – but there are still good reasons to do it

There is a profound inequity when it comes to tax breaks for investors. Reform could boost the budget bottom line and help renters trying to buy property

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Magic Beach by Alison Lester named Australia’s best children’s picture book

Lester’s 1990 classic about the wonders of nature wins Guardian Australia poll ahead of Possum Magic in second place

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Indonesians wrongly deemed adult people smugglers by Australian police finally cleared to appeal convictions

Errors led to boys aged as young as 13 going to adult maximum-security jails in WA. Now the attorney general has intervened in two cases

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‘I also like that the dad cries’: children on their favourite Australian picture book of all time

From Jetty Jumping to green sheep, children tell us why they love the books they ask for night after night

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