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The biggest atomic blast in Australia happened 70 years ago – mysteries about its impact linger

One winter’s day in June 1956, Britain detonated the largest weapon ever exploded in Australia. The test, code-named Mosaic G2, was conducted at Western Australia’s remote Montebello Islands, site of the first British atomic test in 1952, over 100 kilometres off the Pilbara coast.

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Difficult question still facing anti-Semitism inquiry

The royal commission on anti-Semitism stands to do more harm than good for social cohesion unless it gets a key, highly divisive, definition right.

AAP

FED:Counter-terror records hidden from anti-Semitism probe

Federal cabinet documents on funding for the nation's counter-terrorism agency will not be used in the royal commission on anti-Semitism.

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‘Terrifying’: political candidate violently abused and schoolboy thrown into bin, antisemitism royal commission hears

The third day of hearings of the royal commission on antisemitism and social cohesion heard further evidence from Jewish Australians

The Guardian - AU

I was afraid to make a submission to the antisemitism royal commission. But silence has consequences too

I work in a sector that speaks out on racism and human rights, yet on this issue I have felt the boundaries of acceptable speech narrow around me

The Guardian - AU

The royal commission into antisemitism’s interim report should improve safety. But what’s revelatory is what it does not recommend

Virginia Bell has not recommended urgent restrictions on protests or marches, the banning of phrases or the restriction of immigration

The Guardian - AU

Grattan on Friday: Antisemitism royal commission’s interim report leaves key questions dangling

The interim report from the royal commission on antisemitism, set up after the Bondi massacre, leaves hanging more questions than it answers.

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Royal commission report doesn’t help us start making sense of Bondi terror attack

Justice Virginia Bell has handed the governor-general her interim findings from the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese responded immediately by promising to implement all its recommendations.

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NACC investigation into Robodebt reveals public service corruption, but it will take much more to fix the system

The National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) has released its much-anticipated investigation into the six people referred by the Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme.

The Conversation

Former PM cleared, two robodebt officials found corrupt

Two bureaucrats won't face criminal charges despite a watchdog finding they carried out corrupt conduct through the unlawful robodebt scheme.

AAP

Second COVID inquiry: why being politically prepared for the next pandemic is crucial

COVID-19 changed the course of New Zealand’s political history.

The Conversation

The antisemitism debate is already a political minefield. The royal commission must rise above it

What we currently know about antisemitism in Australia is pieced together from a fragmented body of information produced by community organisations, researchers and law enforcement. And it is largely interpreted and translated to the public through news reporting.

The Conversation

These are the 6 key questions the antisemitism royal commission needs to answer

After weeks of mounting pressure, the government has called a royal commission to look into antisemitism and social cohesion in Australia.

The Conversation

What will the royal commission after the Bondi attack look at and how will it work?

Anthony Albanese has called a federal inquiry after weeks of pressure – including from his own caucus. Here’s what you need to know

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Half a century ago, the Great Barrier Reef was to be drilled for oil. It was saved – for a time

At the end of the 1960s, there was every expectation the Great Barrier Reef would be drilled for oil.

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Decades on from the Royal Commission, why are Indigenous people still dying in custody?

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this article contains the name of an Indigenous person who has died.

The Guardian - AU

Crossbenchers call for federal intervention after ‘deeply shocking’ revelations about prison deaths

Independents and Greens say national leadership needed after Guardian investigation reveals death toll from hanging points known to authorities

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Disaster happens when soldiers don’t act ethically. We can provide better training to support them

Recently, the government responded to the Royal Commission into Veteran Suicide. It adopted most of the recommendations designed to better support defence personnel.

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‘The social engineering of shame’: Rick Morton’s Mean Streak exposes the populism behind the unlawful robodebt scheme

At nearly 500 pages, Rick Morton’s Mean Streak provides a detailed account of the development and collapse of the robodebt scheme, which started in 2014 and is, in some ways, not yet finished.

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Survivors of abuse in care know how redress should work – will the government finally listen?

When Prime Minister Christopher Luxon stood in Parliament last week to apologise to survivors of abuse in care, his words were among many fine speeches by government officials and survivors that day.

Al Jazeera

Why New Zealand’s PM has apologised to 200,000 abused in state care

The indigenous Maori population, who make up a majority of the survivors of state care, are unhappy with PM’s apology.

The Canberra Times

'I'm David's mum': Julie-Ann Finney's one-woman protest inside Parliament House

She's attended every Senate estimates since her son David died in 2019.

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How did public service leaders talk to staff about Robodebt? What they said – or didn’t – is revealing

In July 2023, after the release of the damning Robodebt Royal Commission report, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese declared:

The Guardian - AU

‘I served my country, but I never felt so discarded in my life’: how the ADF pushed its own witness to the brink of suicide

Exclusive: The ‘key witness’ in the royal commission into defence and veteran suicide tells how the process retraumatised them

The Canberra Times

Victims of robodebt appeal to reopen legal case for government payouts

New evidence could provide grounds for further compensation.

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