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Perhaps the most profane opening paragraph in the history of Australian journalism can be found in one of Black Inc.’s avowedly highbrow Quarterly Essays. “Those Chinese fuckers are trying to rat-fuck us,” Kevin Rudd is quoted as saying, in David Marr’s June 2010 edition of the essay series. Profane, yes,…

Pauline Hanson's decades of remarks about race, including a sci-fi prediction about Australia's future, have been used to prove she vilified a Muslim senator.

Tennis great Mark Edmondson still vividly recalls his 1976 Australian Open triumph some 50 years on from one of the biggest shocks in sports history.

Matthew Gruter has lived in Australia with his wellness influencer wife for the past three years and works as a civil engineer.

A leader of one of Australia's biggest aged-care services has issued a dire warning about under-capacity in the sector as the nation's population grows older.

The embattled telco industry remains in the spotlight after a customer died when their phone could not make triple-zero calls.

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Outdated laws mean Indigenous children in Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia can currently be denied citizenship on the lands of their ancestors.

First Nations people please be advised this article speaks of racially discriminating moments in history, including the distress and death of First Nations people.