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Lambie labels Trump a ‘bloody sociopath’ – as it happened

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‘Friends stared at me dumbfounded’: Guardian Australia staff share their most traumatic haircuts. What was yours?

A viral video of a barbershop blow-up prompts tales of shear panic. Tell us about your worst haircut experience in the comments

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Victoria’s Liberals saved John Pesutto from bankruptcy. But can they save themselves from all-out war?

Since Moira Deeming won a defamation case against the former leader, internal strife has intensified. Now a loan to Pesutto by the party threatens to rip it apart

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Malarndirri McCarthy urges states to remove hanging points from Australia’s prisons

‘We do not want to see further deaths in custody,’ federal minister for Indigenous Australians says

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NSW budget unlikely to allocate extra funding for long-promised great koala national park

‘People will see that we’re making progress on it,’ treasurer Daniel Mookhey tells Guardian Australia

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Guardian Australia’s In the box investigation wins award at Walkley Foundation’s midyear media prizes

Ben Smee and Melissa Davey’s investigation uncovered stories of incarcerated children who were born with severe intellectual disabilities

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Hanging points death toll ‘unacceptable’, attorney general Michelle Rowland says, urging states to review practices

A Guardian Australia investigation revealed 57 inmates have died in 19 separate prisons using hanging points that authorities knew about

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Murray Watt ‘personally lobbied’ Unesco over barring of WA rock art from world heritage list

Speaking to Guardian Australia, the environment minister said the report had been ‘clearly influenced’ by environment campaigners

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Sydney tram drivers fear more pedestrian deaths without urgent safety fixes

Exclusive: Drivers say they have been silenced after leaked memo from operator Transdev warned staff not to discuss pedestrian deaths with colleagues

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A two-bedroom Bondi Junction unit for $1,100 a week. Is ‘affordable housing’ really affordable?

Government programs designed to offer rent below market rate for low-to-moderate income households are failing those who most need it, advocates say

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Bobbi was denied access to an Aboriginal midwifery program in her last pregnancy – and nearly lost her life

Indigenous women report experiencing racism, inadequate care and lack of consent in maternity wards – and are three times more likely to die during childbirth

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Patrick Dodson condemns decades of inaction on suicide hanging points in Australian prisons

Exclusive: Aboriginal deaths in custody royal commissioner says ‘people need to be empowered and take action against those agencies’

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Labor has promised 1.2m new homes in its second term. Is it possible?

Experts weigh in on what Australia needs to change to get more houses, more quickly – from fixing a 2,000-page code, to backing modular builds

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A perfect storm of errors meant Darren was placed in an unsafe cell. He died two days later

Experts say failure to remove known ligature points from the cells of high risk inmates is just one part of the ‘perverse situation’ in Australian jails

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Proposed Macquarie University restructure will ‘hollow out’ humanities, academics say

Macquarie blames prospect of international student caps and ‘uncertainty’ about domestic student numbers for proposed academic job cuts, fewer arts courses

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Victorian Liberal party could reap $1m in interest from loan that would see John Pesutto repay $10,000 a month

Exclusive: Party to consider bailing out former leader with loan charged at commercial interest rate to cover balance of costs he owes Moira Deeming

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Monash staff say Woodside-backed climate conference highlights concerns about energy giant partnership

Senior lecturer says staff and students have struggled to get answers from university leadership about arrangement

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Several leading Australian sunscreens don’t provide the protection they say, Choice finds

Consumer group tested 20 popular SPF 50 and 50+ brands and found 16 didn’t meet the claims on the bottles

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Tane’s son still asks his grandmother: ‘How did my dad die?’ She doesn’t know what to say

More than 100 Indigenous Australians have died in custody by hanging since the 1991 royal commission. Experts say the numbers are a ‘blight on Australia’

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After Chelsea’s mother died in an unsafe cell the coroner delivered a scathing message

Coroners say they are being ‘fobbed off’ by governments and have no power to ensure that dangerous ligature points are removed from prison cells

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Crossbenchers call for federal intervention after ‘deeply shocking’ revelations about prison deaths

Independents and Greens say national leadership needed after Guardian investigation reveals death toll from hanging points known to authorities

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‘Rambling rubbish’: inside the battle for the soul of the Liberal party in NSW

Increasingly, members want the federal intervention to end, with a return to the status quo or a streamlined committee of NSW figures put in charge

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Morning Mail: staggering prison death toll revealed, LA braces for more unrest, Albanese to deliver key speech

Guardian Australia investigation shows how authorities failed to act on ligature points in jails; US veterans warn about Trump ‘escalation’

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Jason and Luke died in the same way as dozens of others. Why did authorities fail to act?

Coroners across Australia say they have issued the same warnings to prisons for years. Families say governments have put a price on their loved ones’ lives

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‘Astounding’ negligence revealed: governments turn blind eye to staggering prison death toll

Exclusive: Guardian investigation finds 57 inmates across Australia killed themselves using ligature points that authorities knew about but failed to remove

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