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New data examining enhanced police search powers brings into question the efficacy and fairness of weapon and firearm prohibition orders

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Claire Keenan

Finance department rejects last minute plea from three senators urging it to maintain block on consultancy firm competing for new government work

Jesse Gregson led massacres of Aboriginal people before joining the Australian Agricultural Company as its longest-serving superintendent

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

Morrison-era program increased costs for subjects such as arts and law, while lowering course fees for degrees in Stem

Ombudsman says staff at workplace relations department were wrong to rely on an automated system to stop money for claimants

Major Logue’s diaries use code to describe the frontier killings of Yamatji people but a local publisher plans to omit the coded sections from publication

Constable Bill McKinnon shot an Aboriginal man at Uluru. Facing up to crimes like this is part of the work Indigenous Australians have been calling on colonial descendants to do for decades – to ‘be brave’ and seek out the truth. It’s why Guardian Australia has launched this project

NSW police estimate 90,000 walked despite force and premier opposing rally, while Palestine Action Group claims up to 300,000 peacefully protested

Dietitian Lyndi Cohen says her likeness is being ‘abused and misrepresented’ as websites posing as Australian businesses claim to offer GLP-1 substances