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Civilised but casual, often hilarious, Adelaide writers’ week is everything a festival should be – except this year

Australia’s longest-running literary festival has been reduced to a cratering hole in 2026. Here’s hoping it turns a page next year

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Sass & Bide defined indie sleaze. In trying to grow up, the brand lost its way

When the brand relaunches later this year, its only hope of reclaiming some of the founders’ original magic lies in prioritising artistry over strategy

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Call this social cohesion? The war of words that laid waste to the 2026 Adelaide writers’ festival

How a boardroom flare-up sparked an international boycott – and a looming defamation battle

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Dried flowers and pressed petals: how an artist is turning tributes to Bondi terror attack victims into a lasting memorial

Nina Sanadze and a team of volunteers have started the painstaking process of preserving the sea of flowers left after Australia’s worst terrorist incident

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Penny Wong says Sussan Ley’s leadership ‘unsalvageable’ after Coalition flags opposition to new hate laws

Christian and Islamic leaders publish joint letter criticising the bill as Labor faces uphill battle to pass reforms

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Afternoon Update: Victoria floods as fires still burn; Trump staffer’s ‘leftwing hack’ tirade; and the best live albums of all time

Authorities defend the timing of warnings for holidaymakers along Victoria’s surf coast who were hit by an ‘unprecedented weather event’

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BTS named their new album Arirang. What is so striking about their choice?

The title is loaded with meaning for all Koreans, and will give fans globally an insight into the folksong culture that shaped the world’s biggest K-pop group

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Sydney awaits ‘soggiest weekend of summer’ as Victorian authorities defend flash flood warnings

Floods predicted for NSW south coast after severe storms dumped 180mm in six hours on Victoria’s Lorne and Wye River, washing cars into the sea on the Great Ocean Road

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See how Victoria’s bushfires spread: a visual guide to the scale of devastation

Authorities and firefighters say the Victorian fires of January 2026 were unlike anything seen before in speed, scale and destruction. And they came much earlier than normal

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Ukraine war briefing: Russian attack destroys Kharkiv energy facility as UK pledges emergency support

Response crews at work following strikes in Ukraine’s second city as Britain commits £20m after Zelenskyy declares energy emergency. What we know on day 1,423

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Could Labor’s hate speech laws damage Australia’s free speech? Here’s what you need to know about the contentious bill

Coalition, Greens and free speech advocates have expressed concern about the bill, which looks set to fail in its current form. Here’s why

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Aside from creepy surveillance, what are ‘consumer-ready’ service robots actually for?

For A$30k you could have a remote employee see inside your home via a walking, talking machine with a chilling blank face. Count me out

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Morning Mail: ChatGPT Health launch worrying experts, ‘Black Steve Irwin’ a fake, racket craft at Melbourne Park

The emergence of ChatGPT Health gives rise to fears about lack of regulation; Indigenous ‘star’ revealed as avatar generated in New Zealand

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Christian and Muslim faith leaders express ‘deep concerns’ about Labor bill’s impact on free speech – as it happened

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‘Not regulated’: launch of ChatGPT Health in Australia causes concern among experts

Calls for clear guardrails and consumer education before wider rollout of OpenAI’s health advice platform

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‘It’s AI blackface’: social media account hailed as the Aboriginal Steve Irwin is an AI character created in New Zealand

More than 180,000 people follow the Bush Legend’s accounts across Meta platforms, but its Aboriginal host is a work of digital fiction

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The problem with Australian men? They simply don’t know how to flirt

Call it tall poppy syndrome or the nonchalant olympics, but we’ve grown accustomed to an almost nonexistent form of flirting from the local male species

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My rookie era: peer pressure brought me to bouldering, then I found calm in ‘the way of the wall’

My friends were already experienced climbers, while I was starting at zero. My first day brought many hard lessons

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Tension at the tennis: inside the high-stakes world of racket stringing

There would be no Australian Open were it not for the work undertaken in an unassuming underground room at Melbourne Park

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British indie band Pulp agree to play Adelaide festival after boycott U-turn

The band pulled out over treatment of Randa Abdel-Fattah but delayed revealing their decision before confirming 27 February gig

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More than 4.7m social media accounts blocked after Australia’s under-16 ban came into force, PM says

Accounts removed or restricted on Twitch, Kick, YouTube, Threads, Facebook, Instagram, Snap, X, TikTok and Reddit in world-leading ban

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A ‘ghoulish reminder’ to be knocked down or a memorial to the dead: council debates future of Bondi footbridge

Waverley to consult with NSW government, the families of victims and the Jewish community over whether bridge should be pulled down

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Person taken to hospital after ingesting hand sanitiser supplied by Australia’s largest privately owned hotel chain

The ACCC recalls Dr Schwartz Hand Sanitiser after it was identified as containing a high concentration of methanol

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Jewish American columnist Thomas Friedman says he was uninvited from 2024 Adelaide writers’ week over ‘timing’

Claim comes after former festival board member Tony Berg accused Louise Adler and Randa Abdel-Fattah of ‘hypocrisy’ in their accusations of repressing freedom of speech

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‘We’ve lost everything, you can see caravans floating away’: flash flooding hits Victoria’s Great Ocean Road

Woman camping at flooded Wye River with her daughters says ‘it’s just heartbreaking, strangers are hugging strangers’

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