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The Australian
3 years
Arrogance, hyper-nationalism and bureaucratic incompetence have combined to create a crisis of epic proportions in India, with its crowd-loving PM basking while citizens suffocate. This is the story of how it all went so terribly wrong #coronavirus
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The Australian
3 years
In her first-ever cover for Vogue Australia, we meet Rosé from BLACKPINK, the Melbourne-raised trailblazing entertainer changing the face of K-pop. Read the full interview here before it hits newsstands.
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"It’s not welcoming, it’s telling non-Indigenous Australians ‘this isn’t your country’ and that’s wrong. We are all Australians and we share this great land.” That is Jacinta Price's view. What's yours?
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A number of MPs have backed Jacinta Price’s calls for and end to welcome to country acknowledgments before every sporting event and public gathering. Do you think the practice has gone too far?
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The Australian
6 years
Happy New Year!
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The Australian
2 years
An emotional Roger Federer has said his final goodbye to tennis. Read all about the game here. Video: Laver Cup
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The Australian
7 months
Opinion: It is almost beyond belief that Jewish residents of Sydney have been told to stay in their homes because the police can’t guarantee their safety. NSW police Minister Yasmin Catley should resign for allowing this to happen. What's your view?
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1 year
In a sensational decision, the Reserve Bank will dump King Charles III from the bill, saying it was time for a “new design that honours the culture and history of First Australians.”
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The Australian
9 months
Australia’s richest woman has laid out a sweeping vision for the nation’s future,, advocating for the country to pursue nuclear energy as part of a net-zero future rather than just wind and solar. What's your view?
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The Australian
9 months
Anthony Fauci deliberately downplayed suspicions from scientists that Covid-19 came from a lab to protect his reputation and deflect from risky research his agency had funded, his boss says.
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The Australian
4 years
Bryce Chapman, a New South Wales farmer, filmed his celebrations as rain fell over his farm, 200 km north of Sydney 🙌 Credit: Bryce Chapman via Storyful
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The Australian
3 years
This heartwarming video captures the exact moment Ash Barty's parents realised their daughter had won the Wimbledon ladies singles. #AshBarty #Wimbledon #BartyParty
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The Australian
5 years
Sir Billy Connolly has admitted he is 'near the end' and his life is 'slipping away', as he spoke about his fight with Parkinson’s disease
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The Australian
7 months
Senator Nampijinpa Price said Australians had said No to division, gaslighting, and bullying, and the idea that Australia was a racist country. “Attempting to bring about change through grievance has evidently got us nowhere,” Nampijinpa Price said.
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The Australian
4 years
Boris Johnson is to claw back Huawei’s involvement in Britain’s 5G network after extraordinary pressure from Tory backbenchers in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
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The Australian
4 years
Australia has directly raised concerns with Beijing about its attempt to tighten control over Hong Kong through a new security law, Scott Morrison has revealed.
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The Australian
9 months
Opinion: Australia has a choice: concede all failures of Indigenous people are due to settlers, or at some point give itself a break. The English did nothing wrong and neither did any of you, writes Douglas Murray. Read his full opinion piece here:
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The Australian
3 years
#BREAKING : The federal Coalition has slumped to its lowest electoral position this term as voters lose confidence in Scott Morrison’s management of the pandemic #Newspoll #auspoI #ausvotes
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The Australian
5 months
Opinion: NZ’s 42nd Prime Minister will introduce a bill to parliament nominating English as the country’s official language. The re-anglification of civic life is high on the agenda of the new woke-busting, swamp-draining conservative coalition. Read on:
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The Australian
2 years
#BREAKING : NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has spectacularly dumped Health Minister Brad Hazzard’s bill seeking to expand the state’s Covid-19 emergency powers until 2023 following a bitter partyroom backlash
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The Australian
8 months
Opinion: A No vote would signify a common and universal vision of humanity in which all Australians enjoy exactly the same civic status, regardless of their race or background. Read on: #voice #auspol
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The Australian
4 years
#BREAKING : Anthony Albanese now leads Scott Morrison as the preferred prime minister — 43 per cent to 39 per cent #Newspoll
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The Australian
1 year
Amid a raging public culture war, thousands of parents across Australia are privately battling with a transgender culture that has their children in its grip. Anguished, lost and angry, they’re ready to speak out.
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The Australian
4 years
EXCLUSIVE: A global coalition of 62 nations has come together to back Australia’s call for an independent inquiry into the coronavirus in a draft resolution to be put to the World Health Assembly.
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The Australian
2 years
A second tsunami event near Tonga has triggering warnings for Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, Vanuatu, Samoa, Lord Howe and Norkfolk Island.
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The Australian
10 months
Having parted ways with her record label to go it alone, Tina Arena’s independent spirit is shining. A fierce critic of Covid restrictions, she is still incandescent about the world’s lengthiest lockdown:
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The Australian
2 years
Anthony Albanese has recorded the highest #Newspoll satisfaction rating for an incoming prime minister #auspol
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The Australian
8 months
Australia has a choice: concede all failures of the Aboriginal peoples are directly due to ‘settlers’, or at some point give itself a break. The English did nothing wrong. Neither did any of you. Read the full commentary:
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The Australian
4 years
The Chinese Communist Party is using its dispute with Australia to pre-emptively intimidate other nations and stop them from criticising Beijing over its handling of the COVID-19 crisis, according to US senator Marco Rubio.
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The Australian
3 years
There is now strong evidence Covid leaked from a Chinese biological weapons research laboratory rather than developing in a wet market, says a senior US official.
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The Australian
2 years
Every light you see in this photo is a galaxy. This is the clearest image of our cosmos, taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. ⁠In comparison, the second picture was taken by the Hubble telescope. This new telescope is infinitely more powerful. ⁠
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The Australian
4 years
#BREAKING A senior Catholic cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu has been accused of using $1.14m of Vatican funds to bribe witnesses to secure a sex abuse conviction against rival Cardinal George Pell.
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The Australian
1 year
Former prime minister John Howard is urging sporting organ­isations to keep politics out of sport and not publicly declare a position on the referendum campaign for the Indigenous voice:
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The Australian
9 months
Jacinta Price has called for an end to welcome to country acknowledgments before every sporting event and public gathering because the practice is dividing the nation:
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The Australian
10 months
Peter Dutton has proposed converting old coal-fired power sites into locations for small-scale nuclear plants as part of the Coalition’s future energy plan.
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The Australian
1 year
After she has undertaken diplomatic visits to 24 countries since Labor’s election victory in May, no one could question Penny Wong’s work ethic, talent and commitment.
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The Australian
5 years
The Matildas will share the same pay with the Socceroos for the first time under a groundbreaking deal to treat the two national teams equally
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The Australian
9 months
Indigenous academic Marcia Langton doesn’t mince words and now she’s really had enough. When Australians vote on the voice, she wants them to think hard about what’s at stake. Read the full story:
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The Australian
8 months
Sky News host and columnist Peta Credlin has condemned ABC management for stifling debate on the contents of the Uluru statement and allowing activist journalism to run riot. Is she right? Have your say:
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The Australian
4 years
#BREAKING : Australians have rallied behind Scott Morrison in a surge of support for his leadership and management of the COVID-19 pandemic, #Newspoll reveals
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The Australian
8 months
Former prime minister John Howard reckons the voice goes against the spirit of what makes people Australian, and he cites his old foe Bob Hawke to make his point. Do you agree? Have your say:
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The Australian
4 years
The University of NSW pulled an article critical of China’s human rights record in Hong Kong after a backlash from Chinese ­students.
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The Australian
9 months
Qantas throwing its weight behind the Yes campaign has led to angry questions about who chooses the national carrier’s social policies. Should a publicly listed company be promoting a divisive and increasingly political policy. What's your view?
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The Australian
6 years
Defending Julian Assange brings her death threats and political pressure. But Jennifer Robinson relishes the fight
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The Australian
6 months
The Muslim cleric who gave a “kill Jews” sermon in Sydney under the name Abu Ousayd has been unmasked as jihadi preacher Wissam Haddad, an extremist who has ­expressed support for terrorist groups including Islamic State and al-Qa’ida. Read more:
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The Australian
4 years
Once you understand the pattern of behaviour by the People’s Republic of China, you will see it in operation everywhere. This is fertile ground for war.
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The Australian
3 years
Tanya Plibersek, considered a possible replacement for Anthony Albanese as Labor leader, has launched a personal attack on Scott Morrison, saying she neither likes nor respects him #auspol
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The Australian
5 years
EXCLUSIVE: High-profile human rights lawyer @JulianBurnside has revealed he will run against Treasurer Josh Frydenberg in the Melbourne seat of Kooyong as a candidate for the Greens
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The Australian
9 months
As emails previously unseen come to light, Anthony Fauci deliberately downplayed suspicions from scientists that Covid-19 came from a lab to protect his reputation and deflect from risky research his agency had funded, his boss says:
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The Australian
7 months
Anthony Albanese is facing claims his government wants to “silence their opponents” during election campaigns through proposed laws to combat misinformation. Read on:
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The Australian
4 years
#EXCLUSIVE : The Chinese Communist Party’s surveillance of ethnic minority groups via facial-recognition software has been exposed in a major security leak.
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The Australian
5 years
Donald Fraser, former chair of the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, is “very very happy to see [the climb] closed once and for all.” #UluruClimb #Uluru
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The Australian
7 months
In rejecting the voice, Senator Jacinta Price says Australians have said No to division, gaslighting and the idea that this is a racist country:
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The Australian
3 years
Josh Frydenberg says he is uncomfortable with Twitter’s ban on outgoing US President Donald Trump, joining Acting Prime Minister Michael McCormack in slamming the social media giant.
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The Australian
8 months
The Queensland Children’s Hospital has been thrown into turmoil as the suspension of a senior staff psychiatrist throws a spotlight on widespread concerns among doctors at the treatment of children with gender dysphoria:
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The Australian
4 years
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson wants his country to get more tubs of Vegemite and packets of Tim Tams, as he and Scott Morrison start negotiations on an Australia-UK free trade deal
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The Australian
7 months
Opinion: If the 1967 referendum had happened three years later, I wouldn’t have been able to leave Australia without permission; maybe I wouldn’t have won Wimbledon. But it did happen. We did it then, let’s do it again. The ball's in your court, Australia.
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The Australian
6 months
OPINION: Instead of wasting time at the School Strike for Palestine, students should be in class, where a few good lessons on World War II would equip them to better understand the war in Gaza:
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2 years
#BREAKING : Labor has preserved its commanding electoral lead over the Coalition with fewer than 90 days before the federal election #Newspoll #auspol #ausvotes
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3 years
BREAKING: The Coalition has lost significant electoral ground across its traditionally strongest states of Western Australia and Queensland and is facing collapse in South Australia, a #Newspoll analysis has found. #auspol
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The Australian
9 months
The former PM said 'an absolutely resounding no' must be the 'main focus', in his address attacking the Indigenous voice to parliament referendum at a conference in Sydney today.
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The Australian
6 years
#BREAKING : Popular support for the Coalition has crashed to the lowest levels in a decade #Newspoll
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The Australian
4 years
COMMENT: Hongkongers are caught between the demands of an impatient authoritarian regime and a West that doesn’t quite have the guts to stand up for bludgeoned democrats on the other side of the world.
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The Australian
4 years
#BREAKING : US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has threatened the United States will “simply disconnect” from Australia if Victoria’s Belt and Road agreement with China affects US telecommunications.
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The Australian
7 months
Opinion: Australia must say no to racial division in all forms. Those voting No are not voting against Aboriginal people; they are voting in favour of unity and equality, and voting Yes to keeping our Constitution colour-blind. What's your view?
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1 year
Christian and Muslim leaders have dismissed Channel 10’s apology for a “disgusting” joke mocking their faith and have revealed plans to protest at Sydney’s Hyde Park.
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The Australian
7 months
It's all over for Anthony Albanese's Indigenous voice to parliament referendum, as key battleground states swing hard:
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4 years
Chinese telco Huawei reveals shock decision, saying its role as major sponsor of the Canberra Raiders NRL team will end this season due to “the continued negative business environment” it faces in Australia.
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The Australian
4 years
Increasing concern about China’s new security laws for Hong Kong and ongoing demonstrations in the city are seeing more Australians considering leaving the city, according to migration agent Paul Bernadou.
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The Australian
4 years
Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt has said the government supports a European Union motion calling for an independent investigation into the origins of coronavirus in China.
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The Australian
3 years
#BREAKING : The Morrison government faces its worst electoral position since the Black Summer fires amid growing frustration over the vaccine rollout and lockdowns #Newspoll
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4 years
Foreign Minister Marise Payne says her concerns over China’s coronavirus transparency are at a high point, as Australia pushes for a independent global review into the origins of the coronavirus and how it was allowed to spread.
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7 months
John Howard and Tony Abbott have declared the NT a failed state because of its inability to provide basic services to remote communities, and they say a voice to parliament will not improve practical outcomes:
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The Australian
2 years
Australian netball is reeling after Hancock Prospecting walked away from a $15m sponsorship because of a row with the Diamonds team.
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The Australian
4 years
Golfing legend Greg Norman believes Donald Trump has a ‘good chance’ of winning the election because millions of ‘quiet Americans’ will back the President.
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The Australian
8 months
A Sydney property developer secretly filmed councillors with sex workers on a “boys’ weekend” trip to China so he could blackmail them into voting for his projects. Full details:
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4 years
Trade Minister Simon Birmingham rejected China’s assertions of increasing racial discrimination and violence against Chinese and Asians in Australia in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic, saying it “has no basis in fact”.
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The Australian
9 months
"The Uluru statement is militant. It offers no sentence of respect or gratitude to the Australian people. Yet it is hailed by the PM as warm hearted and generous." Read the full commentary by Geoffrey Blainey:
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The new chair of the public broadcaster has put staff on notice that they are not to take part in activism, and to reconsider their roles if they cannot be objective. What's your view:
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The Australian
9 months
His family have farmed their land for three generations. Under WA's Cultural Heritage Act, Shane Keliher faces a $100k bill for an assessment just to dig up some sand because it is near a possible historic Indigenous campsite. Is it fair? Who should pay?
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The Australian
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Labor, teals and Greens are in the sights of a 300,000 strong army of volunteers prepared to campaign against a woke Australia:
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The Australian
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Former Shark Tank investor Steve Baxter says the development of a nuclear energy sector in Australia will give us decades of safe and reliable baseload power:
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The Australian
5 years
An imam who conducted a marriage ceremony between a 14-year-old girl and 34-year-old man has faced court over the matter
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The Australian
4 years
Australia’s declaration that territorial claims in the South China Sea are illegal branded a reckless ‘provocation’ as the Chinese hit back with new threat to beef and wine #auspol
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The Australian
4 years
A secret deal between the Pope and the Communist Party called bizarre by former Hong Kong governor Chris Patten.
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