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Focus on youth crime may be influencing bail decisions for children, Victorian judge says

Exclusive: supreme court judge says ‘it is a cause for concern’ if public policy is considered over individual merits of a case

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Artist behind Mona’s ladies-only lounge ‘absolutely delighted’ man is suing for gender discrimination

NSW man Jason Lau claims denying men entry is discriminatory, but artist Kirsha Kaechele says men’s ‘experience of rejection is the artwork’

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Crossbenchers in the crosshairs: Labor wants to restrict millionaire donors

Labor says crossbenchers are defending their bottom line by not supporting stricter political donations caps, 2023 was the hottest year on record in every metric, and political expenses are becoming less detailed to cut back on paperwork.

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Victoria under pressure to mandate reporting of homelessness deaths

Former housing minister and judge join push for reform in wake of Guardian Australia investigation

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Kristy has waited for ‘urgent’ surgery since 2022, a painful symbol of Tasmania’s dire health crisis

Endless waitlists, rising ambulance ramping and almost no bulk billing: health has dominated the state election campaign but has any party got the answers?

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More than 170 immigration detainees could be freed if Australian government loses high court challenge

Exclusive: Number of detainees who refuse to cooperate with deportation is larger than thought, leaked internal estimate reveals

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Tech giants on notice to remove extreme content

Australia is seeking to slap big fines on tech giants that don’t curtail extreme content from their platforms, the RBA is expected to leave our cash rate steady, and energy retailers say nuclear is a very long way off.

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Australia’s big electricity generators say nuclear not viable for at least a decade

AGL Energy, Alinta, EnergyAustralia and Origin Energy say they will remain focused on renewables despite Coalition support for nuclear reactors

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Morning Mail: MPs’ sporting perks, Putin’s huge win, ‘profound tragedy’ of koala habitat logging

Transparency International calls for tightening of rules but MPs claim events help them connect with stakeholders

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By-election loss an ominous sign for QLD Labor

Queensland Labor is in trouble after a huge by-election loss, Australian politicians are coinciding their parliamentary duties with major sporting events, and nearly all Gazans who had their visas cancelled will come to Australia.

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Quill awards 2024: Guardian journalists win a Melbourne Press Club award for pedestrian deaths investigation

Nino Bucci and Blake Sharp-Wiggins revealed ‘stark details’ of the overrepresentation of Aboriginal people in roadside accidents

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Australia to investigate how Palestinians crossed Gaza border after government suspends visas

Home affairs investigating how some Palestinians crossed from Gaza into Egypt ‘without explanation’

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Media bosses clash over AI, News Corp set for pale and stale Olympics, and TikTok’s US ban

This week in Media Briefs: News Corp’s Olympics coverage looks awfully one-note, and executives go head to head over artificial intelligence.

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Dutton wants US-style TikTok ban

The opposition leader has TikTok in his sights, new NSW youth bail laws, and Tabcorp’s boss resigns after calling someone a ‘useless c**t’.

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Secret Serco rating system for immigration detainees must be scrapped, say Greens

Senator Nick McKim says company’s ‘opaque’ SRAT security assessment tool ‘has severe implications for fundamental human rights’

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More pharmacies open across Australia despite guild’s dire forecasts on 60-day prescriptions

Lobby group, which is meeting on the Gold Coast with Peter Dutton giving the keynote address, warned in 2023 that hundreds of pharmacies would close

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Concerns raised over solitary confinement in Queensland youth detention after deaths of two First Nations boys

Government report says placing children in prison isolation can affect their health and wellbeing in ‘severe, long-term and irreversible ways’

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Queensland electoral commission warns council candidates to behave amid ‘highly acrimonious’ election campaign

Concerns raised over election’s integrity as Redland City Council campaign draws state’s largest number of complaints

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Australian visas for Gazans cancelled mid-air

Some Gazans are having their previously approved visas cancelled while already en route to Australia, Labor wants to outlaw election lying, and Jim Chalmers says the surplus will be lower than predicted.

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Australian government knew obscure retailer had no PPE experience before paying $100m for unusable Covid masks

Exclusive: Internal documents show health department was aware of company’s lack of experience importing PPE

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Greens take Labor hostage over offshore gas protections

Adam Bandt wants the government to scrap offshore gas protections in exchange for passing emission standards, more than a quarter of houses in the eastern states were paid for with cash last year, and Bronwyn Bishop apologises (again).

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Australian immigration detainees’ lives controlled by secret rating system developed by Serco

Security Risk Assessment Tool – or SRAT – and similar algorithmic tools condemned as ‘abusive’ and ‘unscientific’

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Revealed: the secret algorithm that controls the lives of Serco’s immigration detainees

The opaque risk rating system, used in Australian detention centres, is riddled with errors and effectively makes the company ‘judge, jury and executioner’, says one former detainee

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Clive Palmer says Labor’s plan to cap political donations would silence ‘diversity of ideas’

Mining billionaire warns government against pursuing laws that would prevent him from continuing to spend millions in support of his electoral ambitions

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Labor wants to ban big political donations

The Labor Party wants to limit the political influence of large donors, Adam Bandt’s huge expenses report (including private jets), and the call for more aid in ‘life and death’ Gaza.

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