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US news site Politico to launch in Australia, aiming to bring policy focus and ‘new angles’ to Canberra

Australian journalist Ryan Heath, who will lead expansion, says focus will be on journalism that ‘connects the dots globally’

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‘Stuff of nightmares’: calls for help surge by 50% after Australia launches aged-assistance tool

Exclusive: Assessors unable to override algorithm-based tool, leaving people at risk of being pushed into aged care homes before they are ready

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Afternoon Update: clean-up order to tackle Sydney fatberg; Mexico violence after cartel boss killed; and a bear at the Baftas

NSW Environment Protection Authority on Monday said it had issued a pollution reduction program to Sydney Water

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Grindr tests AI match-making in Australia amid dating app fatigue and safety concerns

New subscription features on app for gay and bisexual men come with a price tag – from $109.99 a month in Australia to $349 in the US

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Sydney Water ordered to clean Malabar treatment plant where fatberg is birthing poo balls

Environment watchdog says water corporation is ‘responsible for ensuring it doesn’t pollute our beautiful beaches’

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‘I did this to help and now I’m the one who’s going to need help’: NDIS call handlers describe pressure cooker workplace

Serco-run operation regularly fails because staff are not properly trained and pushed to meet call volume targets, a senior NDIA employee says

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Sky goes dark but a new dawn awaits at News Corp’s Holt Street studios

Lachlan Murdoch and Anthony Albanese on hand to unveil the station’s new name. Plus: the Bondi takes keep coming

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‘It feels like a worse version of Lotto’: what Australians told us about the great intergenerational wealth transfer

From deciding not to have more babies to making plans for how to give hundreds of thousands to adult children, Guardian Australia readers share their experiences of planning for life with or without inheritance

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Cutting the creative state: funding changes threaten the cultural future of Melbourne, arts workers warn

Creative Victoria funding has dropped by more than $20m since 2022 and organisations including Writers Victoria now face closure

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At the algorithm’s mercy: Jean may have to leave her SA home as ‘outrageous’ tool cuts aged care support

Exclusive: Jean Mathew, who has cerebral palsy, might have to leave her beloved home and rose garden after her funding was reduced

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Is Tim Wilson an ‘inflation nutter’? Why the new shadow treasurer’s RBA comments are making waves

Liberal MP claims the Reserve Bank has been soft on inflation. Labor says questioning the RBA’s dual mandate amounts to a ‘plan for higher unemployment’

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Gaza cemetery bulldozed by Israel must be ‘restored to the way it was’, families of Australian war dead say

Daniel Cotterill, whose uncle’s grave has been destroyed, wants Australian officials allowed into Gaza to assess the ‘industrial damage’

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Police seize art posters depicting Trump, Putin and Netanyahu in Nazi uniforms from Canberra bar

Owner calls it ‘ludicrous’ Dissent Cafe and Bar was shut down after complaint, the first in Australia’s capital since new federal hate symbol laws

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Australian health insurance premiums just had their biggest hike in a decade. Is it time to scrap private health cover?

Government incentives continue to drive people to take out cover merely to avoid tax penalties

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‘I will do you and him in’: Julian Ingram threatened former de facto partner a decade before Lake Cargelligo murders, court documents say

Exclusive: Man accused of triple murders last month previously sentenced to prison after intimidating another partner

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Lime wants its ebikes to take over the streets – but do they pass our safety test?

A survey of 72 bikes in Sydney found missing helmets, broken spokes, junk in baskets and some bald tyres – but most were safe to ride

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Algorithm-based tool for home support funding is cruel and inhumane, Australian aged care workers warn

Mark Aitken, who worked in the sector for 16 years, said eight times out of 10 he disagreed with the integrated assessment tool

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Role of far-right manosphere in homophobic attacks on men to be investigated in Victoria

Exclusive: Parliamentary inquiry to investigate after series of ‘disturbing’ attacks targeting gay and bisexual men lured via dating apps

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How a hardline ‘Trump-style’ Liberal immigration policy to ban migrants from Gaza and Somalia was developed

Another senior member of Sussan Ley’s team has expressed serious reservations about aspects of the plan

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What the Albanese government did on the environment amid the Liberals’ turmoil: threatened species, a new coal project and carbon leakage

Labor chose a day when attention was focused on the opposition to slip out a handful of announcements

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Ley’s shadow immigration minister ‘never agreed’ to unreleased Liberal plan to ban migrants from Gaza and Somalia

Angus Taylor says the hardline policy document designed under Sussan Ley has ‘no validity’ but hints he will toughen policy

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Victoria police may be unequally targeting people of African appearance with warrantless search powers

Analysis also shows Victoria police are failing to collect data on ethnic appearance – to ensure racial profiling is not occurring – in about 20% of searches

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Liberal figure Charlotte Mortlock quits party amid feared backlash over dumping of first female leader

Some female Liberal members ‘incredibly worried’ after Sussan Ley’s ousting, with one saying: ‘The boys are back in charge’

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‘What’s more important, the electricity or food?’: extreme heat is driving up power bills in central Australia

Vanessa Napaltjari Davis puts $70 a week on her prepaid electricity card – but as Alice Springs swelters through ever-hotter summers, that credit lasts less than three days

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An ‘impossible’ situation or ‘unhinged’ police? Inside the chaos at Sydney’s anti-Herzog protest

Police have defended their actions after Monday’s protest. Here’s how the night played out

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