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Newman’s dinner splurge
Senior public servants repeatedly queried why NSW One Nation leader Mike Newman was charging taxpayers for hotels, trips and restaurant bills, including a $7791 dinner with a Japanese trade delegation which included 71 beers and 23 bottles of...
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Tragic turn for Haines’ family
Independent MP Helen Haines has lost both her legs but is in a stable condition, her husband said, as authorities privately told anxious parliamentarians the four-wheel drive attack on their colleague was probably an opportunistic strike rather than a...
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MPS’ security tops agenda after Wangaratta attack
NEWS who have been subject to increasingly threatening behaviour in recent years. As One Nation leader Pauline Hanson blamed state premiers and the prime minister for enabling division and hatred, other MPS said it was time for reflection, not finger...
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MP Haines critical after ‘attack’ at electorate office
Federal independent MP Helen Haines is in a critical condition after she was struck by a fourwheel drive outside her regional Victorian electorate office in Wangaratta in what Prime Minister Anthony Albanese described as an attack and a ‘‘serious...
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Surge in oil prices the RBA’S worst fear
There are growing concerns within the Reserve Bank that the fallout from the war against Iran means inflation will remain elevated and will force the central bank to raise interest rates, even if it means more people may end up unemployed as the...
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Cultural melting pot hits streets
Looking back, it should have been obvious: in 2018, few people in the established music world would have dared venture into Parramatta to watch local acts. Western Sydney DJS Peter Sabbagh and Tom Elliott, unknown and starry-eyed musicians, performed a...
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Greens’ secret dossier to bury senator claims
A secret Greens dossier catalogued allegations against Senator Jordon Steele-john and set out ways to shut down media coverage and monitor members who raised concerns on social media. The crisis communications strategy obtained by the Herald reveals...
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Senator on leave after letter raises allegations
(inc GST) Greens’ disability spokesman Jordon Steele-john has taken leave from the Greens party room as new party leader David Shoebridge ordered an independent investigation into allegations from party members that the WA senator made multiple...
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Rebates on private health sink in Senate
The Coalition, the Greens and One Nation have teamed up in the Senate to scrap a bill that would have dumped private health insurance rebates for people over 65, infuriating the Albanese government, which had planned to use the $3 billion in savings on...
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Chalmers’ warning on year of more pain
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has forecast a year of economic turmoil and warned progressives not to sneer at supporters of One Nation, drawing the battle lines with Pauline Hanson as the prime minister assures nervous Labor MPS that the government remains on...
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Hospitals ‘not ready’ for ageing population
Australia’s health system is unprepared for the growing number of older patients arriving in emergency departments as elderly and frail patients are left in hospital corridors to deteriorate as they wait for a bed, emergency physicians warn. Emergency...
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Lobbyist crackdown after Rosny inquiry
Third-party lobbyists will be forced to disclose links to local councils for the first time in a significant shake-up of integrity laws after the Operation Rosny anticorruption inquiry uncovered links between senior Liberal Party operatives and...
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Parents facing $800k in private school fees
Snowballing tuition hikes mean the cost of 13 years of an independent education is set to reach $800,000 by the end of the next decade if school fees continue to grow at 5 per cent each year. The King’s School in North Parramatta was the first of the...
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Back to the future
its ability to run elections, saying the election could be vulnerable to cyberattack, external interference and challenges to its validity. In remarkably frank correspondence, Mccallum says the government’s refusal to fund a replacement for the...
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Ruling rocks coal mine cases
Approval for a major coal mine expansion has been declared invalid by the High Court in a decision that will force NSW planning authorities to reckon with emissions from Australian coal burnt overseas. Legal and industry experts warn the ruling will...
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Coalition plans for huge migration cut
Opposition Leader Angus Taylor will aim to halt One Nation’s momentum by revealing he would slash migration to about a third of the current intake – a larger than expected reduction the party claims would not hurt Australia’s ailing budget and...
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GRAND FINAL HORROR
A five-year-old girl was left fighting for her life and nine others were injured when a teenage P-plate driver allegedly lost control of his car and careered into jubilant crowds lining a Newcastle street to wave the Knights off to the NRL grand...
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Judges slam bail laws
Judges and magistrates had repeatedly warned that the Minns government’s youth bail reforms unfairly treated children more harshly than adults accused of the same crimes, before the laws were extended. Experts have also claimed children are being...
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Economy vulnerable to AI bubble risk: RBA
The Australian economy is increasingly vulnerable to a major global financial shock triggered by a loss of confidence in the AI investment boom, the Reserve Bank has warned. The bank’s twice-yearly review of financial stability also says recent first...
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Panel casts votes for Cleary
government before the global summit in November. ‘‘It has to step in if it is going to have any credibility to lead those negotiations,’’ he said. Federal Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen will lead negotiations at the COP climate talks...
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Australian borrowers could face a run of rate hikes after RBA governor Michele Bullock warned an economic downturn may be needed if politicians and businesses failed to shake the nation’s productivity malaise. The bank lifted rates to a 15-year high...
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Better than ’97: Knights old boys
The middle-aged bloke with the wide-awake ears sitting in the corner of the Wickham Park Hotel in Newcastle with his son on Sunday watching the Knights v Penrith? It’s not just another bloke. This is Stephen Crowe, a member of the famous...
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Hospital boss urges court to stop sending patients
Johansson, 18, was earlier this month sentenced to a decade in prison for a raft of offences, including two counts of attempted murder of a victim in Germany, and six counts of raping the Australian girl, who was aged 15 at the time of the...
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Ponga’s Knights ready to rise again
tightrope between muscling up to tech giants – with the teen social media ban, a digital duty of care and now the Openai hack – and racing to shore up data centre investment worth billions of dollars to the Australian economy. Yesterday, he rejected...
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Broken wing won’t ground Roosters
Josie Bolel has a confession. As a Roosters fan, she has committed the greatest sin of all: once supporting the South Sydney Rabbitohs. It was the honest mistake of a six-year-old who, when she looked at Rabbitohs mascot Reggie the Rabbit, saw a soft...
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World order not fit for purpose: PM
New York: Anthony Albanese has declared the post-1945 international order ‘‘no longer fit for purpose’’ and warned that Australia must help shape what replaces it as growing strategic competition between the United States and China transforms the...
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Alarm as war sends petrol cost surging
Australian petrol and diesel prices have returned to their highest levels in nearly six months and risk climbing further after drone attacks damaged a second major Middle East oil route. The spikes at fuel pumps – pushing the average price of unleaded...
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How to be a student of note
The report says Australia is relatively well-placed to face 21stcentury global turmoil because the renewables rollout will make power cheaper; Australia is an attractive base for the AI data centre boom; and demographic problems are not as stark as...
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STABBING HORROR
The stabbing death of a preschoolaged child in the Blue Mountains capped a brutal spate of domestic violence-related deaths over the weekend, with four people killed in separate incidents and two small children fighting for their lives. Cyclists...
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Unanimous support for V’landys’ new position from clubs, states
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One shot in the barrel
country of their birth. Nobody wants you to do that,’’ he said. ‘‘If your parents were born in Italy, or if they were born in Lebanon, if they were born in China, why should you ask of them that they give up affection for the country of their...
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Putting the boot in
system was at risk as the number of temporary visa holders, including skilled workers, international students and working holidaymakers, grows past 3 million. ‘‘A migration program that cannot explain who comes, why they come and under what rules will...
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Visa supply poses risk to economy, says Burke
Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke fears Australia could become a guest worker economy, as the number of temporary visas issued each year passes 1 million and the government prepares to announce changes to the immigration system. Speaking before the...
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Labor MPS voice fears over weak economy
Albanese government MPS are voicing unease over the prospect of interest rate hikes and stalling living standards as Treasurer Jim Chalmers works to prepare backbenchers for a report next week that will lay bare Australia’s longterm economic...
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‘Godfather’ dials in
Fugitive developer Jean Nassif has attacked enemies, including nemesis former MP David Elliott, denied making unlawful political donations, and insisted that his collapsed construction company Toplace routinely fixed defects, in an appearance before a...
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PM is wrong on economy for workers, says Kelty
Bill Kelty, a mastermind of reforms that set up Australia’s modern economy, says Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers are fuelling One Nation and ‘‘insulting’’ voters by welcoming lower house prices as they preside over a fall in real wages that is making...
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‘I was traumatised giving birth’
party has neo-nazi groups. The High Court in Canberra has been packed this week as the National Socialist Network, an openly neo-nazi group, has fought to overturn laws passed after the Bondi massacre that outlawed neo-nazi and Islamist...
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Recession fear amid worldwide downturn
The federal Treasury is wargaming the financial fallout from a surge in global interest rates on government debt, oil prices and inflation amid fears it could drive the Australian and global economies into a recession and force some countries into...
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Test scores plummet
High school students have recorded their worst maths and reading results in international tests and 15-year-olds are now two and a half years behind teenagers who went to school at the turn of the century. Programme for International Assessment (PISA)...
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Bank of Pauline
One Nation publicly reported racking up $400,000 in debts to its leader and financial backer Pauline Hanson over the past decade without corresponding records to show she had lent the money in the first place. A tally of known payments by Hanson plus...
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‘I am not the same person’
Elouise Massa has achieved sweeping policy changes that few seasoned politicians could manage. Deep in the fog of unimaginable grief after losing her two-year-old son Joe to catastrophic medical errors at the privately run Northern Beaches Hospital,...
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Hopes for a miracle pinned to the wall in Nepal
Six more Australians have been identified as missing in the Nepalese floods, as the overall number rises to 41, in what could be the worst loss of Australian life overseas since the Bali bombings. Bharat Mangwani, Karan Bhardwaj, Arpan Kothari, Bhavin...
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Support surges to Nepal
artificial intelligence, another ‘‘biggie’’, would become a larger part of his agenda next year. Risking a backlash from the Trump administration and voters concerned about government overreach, a cabinet source suggested Albanese was shifting his key...
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WAVE OF DEVASTATION
Relatives and friends of 35 Australians reported missing after a deluge of ice and rock destroyed parts of Nepal and China are desperately searching for news of their loved ones and hoping they are alive. At least 14 of those missing are believed to...
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We will always love you
Nashville: Ernie Samora left home in Denver just a month ago and moved to the capital of country music. Little did he know that Tennessee was about to lose its undisputed queen. ‘‘Dolly was a bright light of kindness, generosity, empathy and...
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How one school asked students to help solve the consent crisis
One glance up from her desk reminds principal Julie Mcgonigle of the utter destruction caused by unchecked gendered stereotypes and violence. On her wall hangs a circle of eucalyptus leaves painted blue, an artwork created on the day sports coach...
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The mother of all transformations
over the past few years, inflation has been the top issue. The research shows One Nation voters are slightly less well off than the average voter ($101,000 versus the average $109,000 income); more likely to live outside major cities; and 12...
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Swans scandal deepens
At least one fresh allegation of sexual assault and multiple claims of sexual conduct without consent have been made by the three women at the centre of an investigation involving Sydney Swans players in Melbourne. They come as police were alerted to...
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After a week of trauma, the game goes on
A desire to support the players not caught up in the Sydney Swans scandal looks set to ensure a large number of fans attend Sunday’s double-header at the SCG. While disappointment remains among fans at what captain Callum Mills said was the ‘‘actions...
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Catholic Schools ousts CEO Mcinerney
Catholic Schools NSW has sacked its chief executive officer Dallas Mcinerney after his damaging appearance in the witness box at the Independent Commission Against Corruption, as the Catholic Church seeks to insulate itself from a growing donations...
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Police sorry for miscommunication in midst of bushwalk tragedy
NSW Police will investigate a series of failures that resulted in officers mistakenly informing the family of missing bushwalker Lily Hooper that the 18-year-old had been found alive after an eight-day search in the state’s Southern...
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‘Deeply ashamed’: Swans in crisis
Five Sydney players were handed season-ending bans by the Swans yesterday for breaching the club’s behavioural standards and barred from All-australian honours as doubts emerged over their playing futures. Hours after club officials described the...
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Swans players quizzed by club as suspensions loom
Key Sydney Swans AFL players were quizzed individually by Swans officials yesterday as they face club-imposed suspensions of multiple matches over their conduct in Melbourne. AFL chief executive Andrew Dillon suggested the players could also face AFL...
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SWANS SCANDAL
Key Sydney Swans players are at the centre of a Victoria Police sexual assault investigation putting their immediate playing futures under a cloud and plunging the club’s finals campaign into turmoil. The investigation relates to an allegation of...
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Sparks twinkle in the eyes amid AI jobs fight
Early starts on frigid days, crawling in roof cavities, and badtempered dogs – according to the hundreds of Day in My Life videos that populate the internet, these are common realities in the workplace for Australia’s electricians. Despite the hazards...
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Karvan’s secret life of Logies fashion
Thirty-five years ago, a 19-year-old Claudia Karvan was wandering through Sydney’s Paddington Markets when she stumbled upon the stall for a fledgling Australian label, started by two sisters only a few years older than she was. ‘‘They were just cool...
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Holiday horror at chateau
The Sydney entrepreneur who was allegedly beaten over the head with a saucepan and burnt with boiling water by his Australian banker partner said he expected to die in the violent late-night attack at a luxury French hotel during a weeks-long European...
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Putting the bite on malaria
After decades of research and a stroke of luck, Australian researchers have developed a new vaccination method for a disease that has dogged humanity for millennia and continues to take at least 610,000 – and counting – lives each year. The scientists...
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Sydney housing chases the sun
Sydney’s east will take on most of the city’s new housing over the next 20 years, arresting the outward sprawl of development and locking in the west as an economic powerhouse, under a NSW government plan to accommodate an extra 1.3 million people by...
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Trouble in Tiger Town
The developer of Rozelle Village and the owners of Wests Tigers leagues club are on a collision course as doubts over the new club surface.
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‘I cannot pretend it’s not happening’
Survivors of Redeemer Baptist School have told a NSW parliamentary inquiry they were sexually, physically, emotionally and spiritually abused, urging the government to classify the school and its associated church as a system of group-based coercive...
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Still scarred by school’s secrets
There’s gravel from Redeemer Baptist School’s property burrowed deep inside Elizabeth Bradbury’s knee. The 62-year-old only has to touch the gnarled skin to be taken back to the 1970s and ’80s, when at 15, screaming for her mum during a planned visit,...
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‘I have two beautiful little miracles’
One child in 16 is now conceived via IVF in Australia as success rates creep up, but would-be parents face a high-stakes numbers game in which age, and the clinic they choose, can determine success. More than 50,000 women in Australia had IVF...
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‘Very shy’ to shining star
interim report into the 2018 arrangement next week in time for a joint meeting of state, territory and federal treasurers. All but West Australian Treasurer Rita Saffioti favour either dumping or dramatically changing the deal, which was only expected...
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‘All talk and no action’: Minns under fire over Bondi response
The Minns government has been accused of ‘‘all talk and no action’’ for failing to fully support a key recommendation from the coronial inquest into the Bondi Junction Westfield stabbing attack that would deliver crisis accommodation to those at most...
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