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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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Pauline Hanson charged taxpayers almost $9,000 for private plane to event honouring Gina Rinehart donation

Details of flight come as One Nation leader faces scrutiny over her use of taxpayer-funded entitlements

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Tim Wilson claims he has sold out of his bet against the share market for ‘modest profit’

Shadow treasurer tells MPs he has cashed in the investment and donated the gains to an advocacy group for gay rights in Iran

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Ralph Babet refuses to accept sanction over ‘offensive’ and ‘disrespectful’ comments on social media

United Australia party senator says commission findings are ‘dumb’ and he will not undergo ‘ridiculous’ sensitivity training after posting slurs online

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Tabled document reveals Liberal party’s secret election review of its ‘worst campaign’: from ‘grim’ Dutton to ‘weird’ nuclear policy

PM tables copy of secret review, which describes former leader Peter Dutton as ‘unattractive to women’

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‘Degrading’ prison strip-searches rarely find anything and should be banned, advocates say

Human Rights Law Centre analysis finds more than 15,000 strip-searches are conducted on average each month, but just 0.58% result in contraband being found

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Pauline Hanson claimed taxpayer-funded trips around Australia that coincided with One Nation fundraisers

Exclusive: Queensland senator also billed taxpayers for flights to campaign alongside her daughter, Lee Hanson, in Tasmania at last election

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Iranian Australian community criticises mosques who mourned Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s death

A small number of Shia mosques and Islamic centres hosted vigils for Iran’s supreme leader who was killed in US missile strikes on Sunday

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‘Less lethal’ deaths: courts examine role of controversial police weapons before three Australians died

Exclusive: Police forces argue bean-bag and foam baton rounds are less harmful than firearms but the projectiles have been linked to deaths around the world

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It’s 978 days since Peta Murphy called for a ban on betting ads. What happened to Labor’s pledge to respect parliament?

From gambling to ‘jobs for mates’ and reports left to gather dust, the teals have a shopping list of thorny topics to talk about

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How did I believe that? A cult survivor looks back at his lost years

In a new podcast former sect members reflect on end times, warnings of ‘astral larvae’ lurking in nightclubs and being in thrall to charismatic leaders – and the embarrassment and shame they feel now

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‘The negligence is staggering’: elderly and dying Australians left waiting for urgent aged care

Alan Nicolle was already approved for urgent aged care supports, but delays and confusion under a ‘Kafkaesque’ system made his final days exhausting and painful

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Two staff stabbed after US contractor used Kia Carnival to transfer Australian immigration detainee: ‘You might as well hire an Uber’

Exclusive: Home affairs department intervened about the use of non-modified people movers after 500 detention centre staff flagged safety concerns

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Riding the rightwing algorithm to success: is Karl Stefanovic Australia’s Joe Rogan?

Pauline Hanson, Barnaby Joyce and Anthony Albanese have appeared on news host’s breakaway podcast, which has climbed to No 2 in Australian charts

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