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Last fall, all seven city council seats were up for grabs and all were won by female candidates below the age of 40

As broadcaster prepares to defend a wrongful dismissal case, managing editor ‘rejects’ it was influenced by pro-Israel groups lobbying for presenter to be removed

Customers lose access to accounts and cards after system update failure; conservative lobby groups fund trips by frontbenchers to Cop28

Minister to tell MPs that global heating poses existential threat to Pacific region

Fallout continues over Nine papers’ decision to restrict journalists who signed an open letter calling on improved Israel-Gaza coverage.

Recently freed Australian journalist Cheng Lei says Australians who’d like to travel to China should not be naive about the risks, and an Indigenous land council responsible for cultural heritage plans in a wide area of Victoria has gone into administration after reported allegations of fraud totalling more than $150,000.

Advocates for media censorship will be delighted Nine newspapers have decided to gag journalists who want balanced coverage of the Hamas-Israel conflict.

‘They’ve taken a conversation we were hoping to start in good faith with the industry as a whole and turned Nine (and their own hypocrisy over Israel trips) into part of the story,’ said one journalist.

Alarm at ATO warnings of ‘on hold’ arrears; Israelis and foreign nationals in new group freed from Gaza