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Victoria investigates waste facilities over cheap landscaping soil after asbestos found in NSW

Exclusive: Victorian Environment Protection Authority launches ‘proactive program’ to investigate potential risks from recycled soil fill

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Labor pushing for new powers to ‘clean up’ alleged criminal activity in CFMEU

In further toughening of stance, government considers calls for joint federal and state police taskforce to investigate unions

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NSW waste industry faces crackdown on recycled soil after asbestos found in more than half facilities tested

Exclusive: Watchdog says it ordered disposal of more than 600 tonnes of soil fill, fined three facilities and is considering ‘significant changes’ to rules after Guardian investigation

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Centrepay report that found major failings ‘ignored’ by successive Coalition governments, author says

Anna Buduls says her 2013 report, which found major failings with controversial debit system, was mostly forgotten about

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Anti-gambling advocates refuse to sign ‘ridiculous’ NDAs for Labor briefing on betting ads

The government has invited anti-gambling groups to a briefing on proposed reforms to the sector on Friday – but there’s a special condition if they want to attend

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A father’s quest for answers after police botched investigation into son’s death

‘Are we not human?’ asks Lual Akech. He believes his son’s African background is one of the reasons Victoria police have not solved his alleged murder almost five years on

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Flawed Aguer Akech investigation shows why Victoria’s blanket suppression law is not fit for purpose

Well-meaning law designed to protect children prevents a basic function of investigative journalism – holding people to account

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A botched murder investigation left a family broken and a 15-year-old boy in jail for a year

Police used flawed identification evidence against a suspect in the 2019 stabbing of a Melbourne teenager but deny the investigation was ‘improperly conducted’

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Melbourne surgeon failed to tell patient he invented ‘experimental’ device used to replace jaw joints, court documents claim

Dr George Dimitroulis, who is being sued in a Victorian court by a former patient, denies any injuries were caused by negligence or the prosthesis

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Media exposure has forced the government’s hand on Centrepay. The contrast with robodebt could not be more stark

The Centrepay revelations should shock Australians – but not the government, after years of complaints about financial exploitation

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New Andy Griffiths, Korean slow food and a frontier war epic: the best Australian books out in August

Each month Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have already devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on

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‘Nobody is blind to it’: mass cheating through AI puts integrity of Australian universities at risk, academics claim

Staff and students say failure to challenge wholesale use of genAI threatens to make degrees all but worthless

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Aurora australis may be visible, BoM says – as it happened

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Australian universities accused of awarding degrees to students with no grasp of ‘basic’ English

Academics say universities have turned a blind eye to language shortcomings because of the revenue generated from international student fees

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Labor ignored Bonza’s plea for help, as questions linger over what transport officials knew and when

Exclusive: Documents reveal what transport minister Catherine King was advised to say in public as budget Australian airline headed for collapse

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Labor ministers withdraw from AFR summit due to Nine journalists’ strike

Exclusive: Bill Shorten, when asked if he, Katy Gallagher and Murray Watt were uncomfortable about crossing the picket line, said ‘the AFR cancelled the conference’

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TikTok’s algorithm is highly sensitive – and could send you down a hate-filled rabbit hole before you know it

TikTok’s highly active recommendation system is designed to keep users clicking on videos, even if they contain racist or homophobic content

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Linda Burney hailed for ‘courage’ and ‘dedication’ amid departure as minister for Indigenous Australians

Burney, a Wiradjuri woman and the first Aboriginal woman to be elected to the federal House of Representatives, has ‘a record of profound firsts’, PM says

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The bombshell legal ruling that made it impossible for Australia to delay sanctions against Israeli settlers

Labor is ‘carefully considering’ the ICJ findings on the occupied Palestinian territories – and soon it will have to give its view

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Queensland failed to act on report into ‘devastating’ experiences of people with disability in justice system

Exclusive: Guardian Australia obtained the full, unpublished report, more than a year after it was tabled, via a Right to Information application

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Disabled children kept ‘in cages’ in police watch houses, Australia’s children’s commissioner says

Underlying causes of youth crime are not being addressed, ‘which is what ultimately would keep the community safer’, Anne Hollonds says

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Australia’s major food companies failing nature, report finds

Targets to halt environmental damage ‘severely lacking’, Australian Conservation Foundation says, urging food industry to ‘step up to the plate’

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Two of Trevor’s friends died sleeping rough. He wants Australia’s homelessness deaths investigated

The Victorian government is facing growing calls to refer all rough sleeper deaths to the coroner

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We unleashed Facebook and Instagram’s algorithms on blank accounts. They served up sexism and misogyny

Result of Guardian Australia experiment aligns with research showing social media automatically delivers troubling content to young men, largely without oversight

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Morning Mail: calls to remove kids from police watch houses, arts degrees to hit $50,000, speculation grows around Biden

‘Harrowing’ footage of children in cells sparks demands for action; some students will never pay off their education debt, experts warn

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