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Bold and innovative planning is delivering Australia’s newest city. But it will be hot – and can we ditch the colonial name?

A massive project is unfolding in Sydney’s Western Parkland region. The building of a new city from the ground up is central to an infrastructure-led restructuring of metropolitan Sydney. The catalysts are the Western Sydney City Deal and the Western Sydney Airport being built alongside the new Bradfield City.

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Victorian chief commissioner apologises for treatment of Indigenous people by police at Yoorrook inquiry

Victoria's police chief Shane Patton apologises for actions that have traumatised Indigenous people at the state's truth-telling inquiry. WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this article contains images and names of people who have died.

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ACT top prosecutor Shane Drumgold takes the stand on first day of Board of Inquiry into handling of Bruce Lehrmann's trial

Questioned about an Australian Federal Police report that described Brittany Higgins as "manipulative", ACT Director of Public Prosecutions Shane Drumgold tells a Board of Inquiry into the case that it contained "basic, misguided analysis".

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Victoria’s police chief apologises for systemic racism and discrimination against Indigenous Australians

Shane Patton acknowledges at Yoorrook commission the police uniform is a symbol of fear for some First Nations people

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Top cop apologises for police force’s racist actions

Victoria's top cop has formally apologised for the state police force's racist treatment of Aboriginal families over generations. Chief Commissioner Shane

The New Daily

Residents of NT community say they’re waiting hours for police after reporting serious crimes

Peppimenarti community reports long delays and a lack of medical services due to ongoing violence and antisocial behaviour

The Guardian - AU

Mob surrounding Rockhampton home blocked by police amid tensions over youth crime

About 30 people descended on Queensland house following Facebook post that suggested two young residents were responsible for criminal activity

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ACT set to become the first Australian jurisdiction to raise the age of criminal responsibility to 14

The ACT government will introduce a bill tomorrow proposing the minimum age of criminal responsibility be lifted to 12 years of age as soon as the legislation is passed, and then to 14 by July 2025.

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Sex scandal rocks Whanganui (1920)

The mayor who shot his blackmailer

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Lib Dems’ Ed Davey calls for national debate over UK’s slavery role

Davey says King Charles is ‘moving towards trying to look at this issue with greater subtlety’ than government

The Guardian - UK

Indigenous elder Leslie Schultz finds voice at United Nations, while pushing for Voice to Parliament at home

The winds of change brought Leslie Schultz to New York to attend a UN forum on Indigenous issues. Now the First Nations leader is turning his attention to securing a Voice to Parliament in Australia.

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Police seize $1.5m in cocaine after man observed allegedly trying to bury drugs near Darwin CBD

Two men are arrested following an alleged drug operation involving a drum buried in bushland, where cash and cocaine were allegedly deposited.

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Gija language dictionary reflects rich culture, Warmun art and East Kimberley landscape

Gija people are known across Australia and globally for their striking artwork. Now, after decades of painstaking work, the beauty of their language is there for all to read.

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Esperance Shire spends more than $20k on legal fees as resident digs in on flagpole location

A years-long dispute about the location of a flagpole involving a state politician, her neighbour and the local shire has cost Esperance ratepayers more than $20,000.

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Inside the Australian Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Recovery and Healing Conference

A landmark conference is building a case for greater recovery and healing support for victim-survivors of domestic, family and sexual violence.

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Vigil held for slain university student as Darwin student community calls for greater safety

Darwin's Bangladeshi community continues to band together after the death of 23-year-old university student Md Isfaqur Rahman, who was killed during an alleged violent home invasion during the week.

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Generations ago, families were ripped apart in the Pacific — now, these women are working to reunite them

After thousands of people were taken from islands in the Pacific in the 19th century and brought to Australia to work, their only link home was storytelling and song — now, with the rise of social media and affordable travel, their descendants are working to reunite families that were torn…

The Guardian - AU

‘Our voice is the spirit of this country’: connecting Yolngu parliament in Arnhem Land to Canberra

Djambawa’s message in English, one of his nine languages, is the essential link between Yolngu law and culture and the Australian parliament

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Government to allocate more than $45 million in budget for heritage sites around Sydney Harbour

The federal budget will allocate more than $45 million for repairs to sites managed by the Sydney Harbour Federation Trust, with about half for Cockatoo Island/Wareamah.

The New Daily

Australia Olympic Committee urges a ‘yes’ vote for Voice

The Australian Olympic Committee executive has thrown its support behind the 'yes' vote ahead of the Indigenous Voice referendum.

The New Daily

Stan Grant tells festival crowd the coronation leaves him underwhelmed at best

Grant explained that as a child he had to recite an oath of allegiance to God and the Queen, an act that was loveless and never felt right.

The Guardian - AU

Moira Deeming facing new expulsion push as she denies threatening to sue Liberal party

Five MPs have given John Pesutto a notice of motion seeking her expulsion, which will go to the party room on Friday

The National (Scotland)

'Pay what you owe': Global voices tell King to face up to past ahead of coronation

“THE British crown … cannot be worn by the moral or the brave. It would break them both. It is a coward’s crown. No single piece of jewellery…

The Guardian - AU

Stuart Robert: former minister and ally of Scott Morrison to retire, sparking byelection

Robert’s retirement means a second byelection test for Peter Dutton’s opposition, this time in the Queensland seat of Fadden

The Guardian - AU

Blockade Australia protesters charged under Perrottet government crackdown receive only minor penalties

Lawyer says result shows ‘the trouble with over-criminalising very simple activities’

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