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Worst trading day in five months wipes $53b off ASX

Aussie shares have fallen for a fourth-straight session as banks, IT stocks and real estate stocks weighed, wiping more than $53 billion from the top-500.

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Labor is poised to make a big call on our nation’s carbon emissions target. But who is Albanese going to listen to?

Australia’s 2035 target for cutting emissions will reveal how serious we are about addressing the climate crisis

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Huge Australian team for world athletics championships

The Australian team for the upcoming world athletics championships in Tokyo will be even bigger than the one at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

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Gout Gout headlines record Australian athletics squad for world championships

Teenager will make his senior national team debut in Tokyo as part of Australia’s biggest ever worlds team

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Qantas Faces Debate Over Clean-Shaven Rule Amid Safety Concerns and Criticisms

In a significant move today, Qantas, Australia's national airline, is extending its clean-shaven requirement for pilots, sparking a debate on passenger safety and operational standards. The decision follows a detailed report from QinetiQ, a consultancy with expertise in aeromedical issues, which suggests that facial hair may reduce the effectiveness of…

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'We stand with you': Russia campaigner meets leaders

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's widow has met with Anthony Albanese, as the government promises to hold Vladimir Putin to account.

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Scotland coach Gregor Townsend signs new deal until end of 2027 Rugby World Cup

Townsend will have been in the role more than a decade by the time he leads the Scots to his third World Cup in Australia in just over two years.

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Australia could pay up to $2.5bn to Nauru over 30 years to take noncitizens, home affairs department says – as it happened

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Half a century ago, the Great Barrier Reef was to be drilled for oil. It was saved – for a time

At the end of the 1960s, there was every expectation the Great Barrier Reef would be drilled for oil.

The Conversation

Underuse of migrants’ skills is costing us billions. Discrimination often starts at the job interview

Pathways to resolving Australia’s skills shortage were a key discussion point at the government’s recent economic reform roundtable. One of those discussions specifically focused on the need to streamline skills recognition for qualified migrants.

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Here’s what we know – and don’t know – about using IVF sperm donors from overseas

Australia’s fertility sector has been rocked by yet more reports of serious errors, this time involving sperm donors from overseas.

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Nature delivers $510b bounty but needs more resources

Australia's environment is delivering much more than the government invests in it and contributes 20 per cent of the nation's economic output, a report finds.

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Super fund giant open to performance test tweaks

A superannuation giant with millions of Australian members is calling for law changes to enable people to move more easily between work and retirement.

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Australia eyes chance to strike deal on Trump's tariffs

Australia will push for exemptions from US trade tariffs when world leaders meet at a global summit.

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Workers call for more involvement in AI adoption

Employers will need to invest in AI training and education, Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock says, as workers replaced by the tech call for more support.

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Ruthless Red Roses ready to send World Cup message as Australia consider pool permutations

Australia need only a point to join a dominant England in the last eight of the tournament

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Consumer boom drives surprise jump in economic growth

Australia's economy surpassed expectations in the last financial year, taking some urgency out of the Reserve Bank's plans to cut interest rates.

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'Divisive' coalition blamed for scapegoating migrants

The major political parties are pointing the finger at each other for fuelling anti-immigration sentiment that drove violent rallies in Australia's capitals.

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The Guardian - AU

Mining magnate Andrew Forrest’s Minderoo charity makes undisclosed donation to the Australia Institute

Exclusive: The progressive thinktank, which has championed a ‘real zero’ emissions policy, says it protects privacy of donors to avoid them being targeted

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Australian politicians reveal their housing portfolios, with some owning as many as six homes

Dozens of politicians are landlords, having also declared rental income from their investment properties

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Musicians v the climate crisis: ‘We’re trying to put on the greenest show in Australia’

A two-week tour produces the equivalent of an average household’s yearly carbon emissions. So some bands, including Lime Cordiale and Cloud Control, are trying small changes – like ditching confetti – and big ones, like building solar farms

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‘I could get a gun within an hour of leaving jail’: how Australia’s licensed firearms end up in criminal hands

With as many as 600,000 illicit weapons in circulation, gun control experts say the long-planned national firearms register is needed urgently

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Up to 80,000 people in Australia may be affected by ‘sledgehammer’ powers to deport noncitizens to Nauru, lawyers warn

Greens senator David Shoebridge accuses Tony Burke of ‘doing his Peter Dutton impression, dog-whistling and punching down on migrants’

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“We’ve Moved”: Bindi Irwin Announces Surprising Decision As She Leaves Australia

The famous wildlife conservationist left Australia for a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

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Banned Crows star 'deeply sorry' for homophobic slur

Adelaide's Izak Rankine has returned to Australia and issued a public apology for a homophobic slur that led to his four-game ban in the AFL.

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