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The 2023 Australian bird of the year is …

… to be announced at 12.30pm AEDT. Follow our live blog from 11.30am for the red carpet, emotional speeches and all the reaction

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Safe bet: the media relationships that give horse racing a good run in NSW

Sydney’s main news providers have many interests in common with the pugnacious leadership of Racing NSW. Have they become too close?

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Queensland promises child remand centre in Brisbane amid ‘Band-Aid solution’ criticism

Annastacia Palaszczuk says the 50-bed youth remand centre in Wacol is expected to open in 2024

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Australia will pay $27m compensation to Indonesians held in adult jails when they were children

Commonwealth agrees to settle with more than 120 Indonesians wrongly detained as adult people smugglers, some when they were as young as 12

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Clare O’Neil puts the boot into Dutton

‘Tough guy’ Peter Dutton was soft on immigration compliance, starving it of resources and funding, says Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil, and WA Police refused to attend an inquiry into missing and murdered First Nations women and children.

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‘I don’t know what it’s about’: not enough done to explain the voice referendum, people in western Sydney say

Many still don’t understand what the Indigenous voice to parliament is and others are unaware the vote is being held in just over a week

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Asylum seekers sent to Nauru by Australian government only months after last detainees were removed

Exclusive: Guardian Australia understands the group – believed to be 11 people – was intercepted in September and taken to the Pacific nation

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‘Staggering’ rise of gambling among school-age children leads to calls for urgent inquiry

Exclusive: Without action, a ‘generation of young people’ could be addicted to gambling, says independent MP pushing for government to urgently intervene

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Morning Mail: ‘perverse’ rewards for coalmines, US Congress in turmoil, kids’ gambling affecting schooling

Some coalmines could be financially rewarded by safeguard mechanism, analysis shows, and Republican infighting has come out in the open in Congress

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Yes23 camp’s purple fades to black

The Yes23 campaign appears to have scrubbed purple from its signs and merchandise after the AEC said it looked very similar to its signature purple branding, and the Andrews government hired lawyers to can the Commonwealth Games weeks before the public was told.

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Queensland police: no disciplinary sanctions in vast majority of excessive force complaints

Annual report shows most allegations that warranted further action last year were dealt with by ‘local management resolution’

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‘We’ve got nothing to lose’: Peter Malinauskas says the voice campaign is still winnable

Premier of the crucial battleground state of South Australia says many voters are yet to engage with the voice to parliament referendum debate

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‘Before, after and in class’: teachers say they are grappling with a growing gambling problem in Australian schools

The ability of students to concentrate and learn is being affected by ‘harmful’ products, the Association of Heads of Independent schools CEO says

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‘Ballsy’, ‘very funny’, ‘read in one sitting’: the best Australian books out in October

Each month, Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have already devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on

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Can the swift parrot knock the tawny frogmouth off its perch? What the numbers say about Australia’s bird of the year poll

We’re nearing the end of the eliminations and getting to the business end of the voting now. Who will get their beak in front when it counts?

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2 Men Died After Attending Festivals Over The W/E But NSW Govt Still Won’t Budge On Pill Testing

"Heavy police presence, with drug dogs, makes people engage in riskier behaviour such as ingesting all of their drugs at once."

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Morning Mail: youth gambling crisis revealed, yes vote starts to rise, Trump trial begins

Guardian Australia investigation exposes extent of addiction among young people, as Essential survey has bad news for voice along with some better news

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King of the fossil-fuel industry

Resources Minister Madeleine King says cutting Australia’s gas supply would ‘worsen poverty and inequality’ and lead to ‘shortages … and high prices’, and independent Senator Lidia Thorpe says Dan Andrews quitting six days after announcing his plan to raze and redevelop 44 public housing towers was a ‘dog act’.

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‘A massive public health problem’: Australian children as young as 10 are hooked on gambling

Exclusive: A Guardian Australia investigation has found an increase in the number of young people seeking help for problem gambling, with calls for urgent action

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Morning Mail: Mundine’s daughter speaks out, Russian oligarch attacks sanctions, Penrith’s magical three-peat

Garigarra Riley-Mundine says yes vote will empower the country and ‘be healing’; plus conservationists fear for swift parrot

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Five Great Reads: Joan Collins, William the Conqueror and one of the world’s most fascinating cities

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Imogen Dewey

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Warm water and $8 hot chips: after six years of waiting does western Sydney’s new pool live up to the hype?

The new Parramatta Aquatic Centre features pleasing curved architecture, but is it worth the $88.6m cost?

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Aussie Authors Are ‘Outraged’ After Discovering Their Books On A Dataset Used To Train A US AI

“This is a massive legal and ethical challenge for the publishing industry and for authors globally.”

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Administrative Appeals Tribunal members will be forced to reapply for jobs after Labor stacking claims

Mark Dreyfus promises ‘transparent’ process to recruit for new federal merits review body, which will review decisions on migration, the NDIS and Centrelink

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Polls show support for the voice is falling. How do they work, and will they be more accurate than in 2019?

Better demographic targeting and the ability to reach participants online among reasons pollsters are more confident in their predictions than previously

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