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Remaining Bali Nine members return to Australia after 19 years

Australia and Indonesia struck a deal to return home the final remaining members of the Bali Nine drug trafficking group, and the mid-year fiscal update is showing bad news for Jim Chalmers.

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‘Sounds like it’s pretty damning’: Tourism Australia staff brace for audit report

Australia’s national auditor has been looking into Tourism Australia for months. Its report will be released on Monday.

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Hopes dwindle of rates cut

The opposition leader will announce the costings behind his nuclear plans today after months of stalling, and brief hopes of a February rate cut have already faded.

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Aussie passengers face exorbitant fares, delays and cancellations as Qantas limps through holiday season

‘The Albanese government’s answer is a taxpayer-funded ombudsman, a policy that looks like it was written in the Chairman’s Lounge.’

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News Corp reheats HIV hysteria, the IDF ‘Spotify wraps’ its year, and Jason Clare fly(er) fishes

Looks like our dystopian future has arrived.

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Poor mobile service coverage is leaving regional Australia behind. Labor wants to change that

By law, Australians have the right to reasonable and equal access to broadband internet and landline phones — but not mobile phone connectivity.

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Over a year on, how is Capital Brief going?

Capital Brief was once described as ‘if the AFR was written for people without grey hairs’. Is that a sustainable business model, one year on?

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Qantas and Virgin pilots only want one thing this Christmas

Who’s playing naughty, and who’s playing nice?

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Labor voted against the Libs’ immigration detention phone ban twice. Now it’s pitching a very similar proposal

‘It’s still, in substance, very much the Coalition’s bill from 2017 and 2020,’ the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre’s Jana Favero told Crikey.

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The secret to a million-dollar newsletter in a feeble news market? Admitting when you mess up

Tangle attempts to reestablish a shared reality for its readers, regardless of their political leaning. Crikey talks to founder Isaac Saul about how that is achieved in Trump’s America.

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Anthony Albanese pressing hard for a majority at the next election

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is pushing through as much as he can in the last few sitting days as he strives for another electoral majority, and Jim Chalmers wants everyone to calm down about a Trump economy despite dire predictions.

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Australia’s teen social media ban loophole means kids can still use TikTok and YouTube Shorts

The federal government says it wants to stop kids from using apps like TikTok. But its legislation won’t protect children from the algorithm driving these platforms.

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Gambling advertising reform takes time and expertise. The social media ban? Not so much

The delay on gambling advertising reform is apparently in the service of ‘good policy design’. What does that tell us about the teen social media ban?

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Labor gave the public one day to weigh in on teen social media ban. It got 15,000 responses

Elon Musk helped boost interest in the inquiry by making a viral post on X. Then the submissions started flooding in.

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Which Australian media outlets are leaving X for Bluesky?

Australian media outlets have lagged behind the rest of the world in moving to Bluesky, as news organisations deal with an increasingly hostile environment on the platform formerly known as Twitter.

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Future Fund to focus on housing, climate

Australia’s sovereign wealth fund will have a mandate to consider national priorities under a new statement of expectations made by Labor, and UK-made missiles have been fired by Ukraine into Russia.

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The communications minister cited a study in support of a teen social media ban. Its co-author disagrees

University of Oxford professor Andrew Przybylski says the government has ‘misunderstood the purpose and findings of our research’.

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‘Rights are not handed on a platter’: You can now read 200 history-making speeches by Australian women

Some of the rousing speeches by women in the Madam Speaker archive hit just as hard in 2024 as they did in the 1800s.

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Documents reveal what the ABC spends on legal fees — but Aunty won’t say how much Lattouf fight has cost

One Sydney barrister estimates the national broadcaster has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars fighting journalist Antoinette Lattouf in court.

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Who’s paying for our trillion-dollar climate transition, and why are there so many oil lobbyists at COP29?

In the shadow of Trump’s reelection, this year’s UN climate conference is all about money — and the sums are truly staggering.

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No, cricket is no longer the national sport, its window is getting smaller and smaller

The idea that cricket is the national sport is long gone. For all sorts of reasons, it no longer captivates the country.

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‘Like throwing your child to the lions’: Class action challenges detention of South Sudanese refugees

‘There is a lot of sanitisation of what immigration detention means, but the reality … has a devastating and generational impact on people and their families and communities.’

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Daily Tele sticks by Jamie Oliver, a Greens oopsie, and ‘problem children’ go rogue at tech summit

Plus: what on earth does A1 stand for?

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Matthew, James, Mark: Who are the mystery men funding a news startup targeting ‘disinformation’?

At a time when news media is rapidly contracting, Gazette News is promising a collection of hyperlocal mastheads. The question remains — who is funding it and why?

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Punters vs pollsters: Who should you trust with election predictions?

Billions were spent gambling on the US election, and betting markets appear to have been more accurate than most pollsters.

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