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The shadow treasurer, Tim Wilson, has described the federal budget as an “earthquake” that would require a “substantial clean-up job”.
Speaking at the National Press Club in Canberra, Wilson said Australians “need courage to fight for a new dawn – a dawn that restores living standards and protects our way of life.
“A dawn that fills young Australians with hope, aspiration and confidence … to build an economy that favours the Australian people, rather than Labor, big union and big super fund oligarchs. And not a government that is empowered to kick the lemonade stands of the next generation.”
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“Twenty-two years,” said the father to his son, shaking his head reflectively. “Twenty-two effing years.” Arsenal have just won their first league title in a generation and thousands of fans have come from far and wide for joyous celebrations at Emirates Stadium.
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“It may be that the judges have now awarded a prize to an instance of AI plagiarism – we don’t yet know, and perhaps we never will know.” – Sigrid Rausing, the publisher of Granta.
A few syntactical tics – and the verdict of an AI detection platform – have sparked a furore over the possibility that a short story given a prestigious literary award was written by AI.
The foundation that awarded the prize and Granta, the magazine that published the winning story, said they had considered the allegations but had not reached a conclusion as to whether they were true.
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Ebola, hantavirus: can the world avert another pandemic? – Full Story podcast
First a rare hantavirus spread through a cruise ship, killing three people and infecting others. Now, the World Health Organization has declared an Ebola outbreak in Africa a “public health emergency of international concern”.
While these events remain low risk for Australia, questions are being asked about how prepared authorities are for another global outbreak.
Before bed read
New health guidelines have recommended a big increase in the amount of protein we should be eating.
From beans, lentils and tofu to chicken, pork, beef and fish, what are the health benefits and potential drawbacks for each source of protein?
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Today’s starter word is: NAME. You have five goes to get the longest word including the starter word. Play Wordiply.
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