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One in three Australian children failed literacy and numeracy exams in this year’s NAPLAN testing, and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will announce the date for the Indigenous Voice to Parliament referendum in Adelaide next week.

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Julian Batchelor, who campaigns against Māori co-governance, says he ‘can’t control what other people do with what I say’

Fire-fuelled venue Agnes wins top spot at the annual awards while a Byron Bay head chef is recognised as Australia’s best new talent

Anthony Albanese defends organising an internship with PwC for his son Nathan when he was opposition leader, and Queensland Treasurer Cameron Dick tells BHP it will lose its mining leases if it follows through with its threat to no longer invest ‘in any further growth’ in the state.

Teenager remains in custody and faces seven charges, including hindering or resisting a police officer

Australia has tracked hundreds of Chinese satellites monitoring the Talisman Sabre and Malabar war games over northern Australia and Sydney Harbour, and vapers used templates provided by the tobacco and vaping industry in submissions to the government’s vaping reforms consultations.

Exclusive: study finds 26% of individual responses to TGA vaping reforms contained text from template provided as part of ‘astroturfing’ campaign

In this week’s Media Briefs, Matildas fever overcomes us all.

Matildas captain Sam Kerr says the one thing that will keep her smiling after their loss to England last night is the hope it’s the start of something bigger for women’s football in Australia, and Immigration Minister Andrew Giles is reviewing hundreds of appeals from Afghans denied visas after assessors…

Exclusive: Influential leftwing unions to tell Labor’s national conference party it must seize ‘most significant economic opportunity since the Industrial Revolution’