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Concern over greater police powers in violence reforms

As a regional city rolls out a new family violence prevention strategy, there are fears that expanded police powers could negatively impact Indigenous victims.

AAP

MP ire as seat faces axe and growing state eyes new one

A federal electorate in Melbourne is in line to be axed at the next election, while a nursing prisoner of war will be honoured in a new seat in another state.

AAP

Apology a decade after Aboriginal woman died in custody

An apology has been issued by the Western Australian police and the country health service over the death of a young Aboriginal woman in custody in 2014.

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Tingle stated the obvious, and the obvious is based on evidence

Tingle gets the backing of Crikey readers, who say those in the Coalition and the media who are criticising her need to examine Australia’s racist history.

Crikey

New Caledonians are looking to Australia as a safe haven. But for most, migration remains out of reach

In recent weeks, New Caledonia has been wracked by the worst unrest on the island in 40 years, making headlines around the world. Hundreds of Australians were trapped in the French territory, unable to return home until French troops restored order.

The Conversation

PM 'wishes the US well' after Trump's guilty verdict

The Australia-US alliance exists between nations and not just individuals, the PM says after former president Donald Trump was found guilty on felony charges.

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Afternoon Update: drones used to track released detainees; China lifts most Australian beef bans; and a first-timer’s burlesque class

Immigration minister reveals people released from detention are monitored with ‘spot checks, random house checks, as well as the use of drones’

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Federal Human Rights Act could help prevent policy failures like robodebt, parliamentary inquiry says

Proposed act would mean rights must be considered when making laws but opposition rejects ‘excessive restrictions’ it could impose

The Guardian - AU

Archibald season kicks off with Indigenous rapper win

A portrait of an Indigenous musician has taken out the Packing Room Prize as judging for the country's most prestigious art award moves into its final stages.

AAP

Archibald prize 2024: Baker Boy portrait wins packing room prize

Yolŋu rapper says it was ‘an honour’ to be painted by Matt Adnate, who wins category judged by Art Gallery of New South Wales staff

The Guardian - AU

The Laura Tingle fallout shows how the ABC kowtows to News Corp

News Corp’s outrage machinery clunked into gear following Laura Tingle’s ‘racist’ Australia comments. The ABC should know better than to kowtow.

Crikey

Samantha Murphy: police end targeted search as they examine phone found in dam near Ballarat

Forensic assessments being carried out on ‘items of interest’ found in search for missing woman

The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: ‘items of interest’ found in Samantha Murphy search; News Corp restructure revealed; and Pompeii’s gladiator drawings

Detectives scoured areas of Ballarat on Wednesday in search for missing woman’s body

The Guardian - AU

Kumanjayi Walker inquest: NT police commissioner knew about racist awards last year, court told

Michael Murphy denies deliberately misleading public about knowledge of awards but regrets not investigating earlier, inquest hears

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Biographers, resharpen your pencils! The University of Melbourne’s shameful history of racism awaits

Good history is not static. It is intrinsically up for challenge. And this long-overdue truth-telling opens up ripe ground for a reckoning

AAP

Voters 'not convinced' on new Labor opposition leader

The first opinion polling since the Tasmanian election shows support for the new Labor opposition leader is below his predecessor.

AAP

Next governor-general to meet King Charles in London

The next governor-general will visit King Charles in London as discussions about his planned Australia tour continue, amid issues around his health.

Crikey

Is Australia a racist country? We asked five experts

‘If you are talking about a process in which distinctions between people based on colour, ethnicity, nationality, culture or background are used to allocate resources broadly in society, that’s racism.’

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The Conversation

The coverage of Laura Tingle’s comments on racism is a textbook beat-up, but she’s not in the wrong

Striking the balance between journalists’ private free speech rights and the public duty they owe to impartiality and their employer’s reputation is one of the most complex ethical issues confronting the media today.

Crikey

Protester to prime minister: A timeline of Albanese’s public stance on Palestine

Anthony Albanese has criticised student protesters and reprimanded a junior senator for speaking out. But he was once an outspoken advocate too, attending a protest in 2000 where Israeli flags were burned and the US consulate stormed.

Al Jazeera

The art project aiming to keep Australia’s Indigenous people out of jail

Aboriginal people make up a third of all people in Australian prisons, but The Torch is working to change that.

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Bullied Boy With Dwarfism Becomes “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” Actor, Delights Viewers

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New Liberal MP vows to fight for 'ignored' middle class

The Federal MP who has taken the seat of ex-prime minister Scott Morrison has vowed to stand up for middle Australia, saying governments were ignoring them.

The Guardian - AU

ABC denies holding emergency talks after Laura Tingle’s ‘racist country’ comments criticised in Murdoch press

Tingle says Australia is a ‘racist country’ in response to question at Sydney writers’ festival about Peter Dutton’s immigration policy

The Guardian - AU

Peter Dutton tells colleagues Labor’s hate speech crackdown is a ‘trap’

Opposition leader labels proposed hate speech offence a Labor ‘wedge’ as negotiations falter on religious discrimination bill

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