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Revealed: documents detail key players behind vast Australian fossil fuel expansion

Former politicians and executives have propelled the Northern Territory’s Middle Arm hub from dream to likely realisation

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More than 60% of staff at Queensland detention centre quit amid record influx of young people

Use of solitary confinement due to chronic staffing shortages at Cleveland detention centre has detrimental effect on children, advocates say

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$5.9bn and rising: Snowy 2.0 wrestles with delays and budget blowouts

Much is riding on its success – not least the decarbonisation of the electricity grid – but critics say an independent review is desperately needed

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Five great reads: Elliot Page on coming out twice, a recovered Pentecostal, and a pandemic with no vaccine

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

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‘A crime not to go home’: 24-hour curfews forcing Queensland children to live with violent offenders

An increasing number of young people have been made subject to harsh restrictions as part of their bail conditions

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Former senator accuses Van of misconduct

Former Liberal senator Amanda Stoker alleges her then-Liberal colleague Senator David Van ‘inappropriately touched me … it was not accidental’, and a senior barrister says it could be impossible to find an impartial jury to try disgraced soldier Ben Roberts-Smith with war crimes.

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Guardian Australia reporters Fleur Connick and Anna Verney win mid-year Walkley awards

Connick takes the short-form award for her series on rural water quality, while Verney honoured for exposing plagiarism by author John Hughes

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Australians say they hate gambling ads. From now they will no longer see them on Guardian Australia

Australians lose more on gambling per capita than any other country, and the harms of addiction are well documented. From today, the Guardian will reject gambling advertising globally

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Another Thorpedo

Independent Senator Lidia Thorpe accused Liberal Senator David Van of sexual assault, then later withdrew the claim and said she’d elaborate today, and there’s speculation Rupert Murdoch is eyeing off buying The Spectator magazine.

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Morning Mail: Thorpe withdraws assault allegation, human embryo breakthrough, Wilkinson complains to Seven

Independent senator backtracks after accusation in parliament, while the TV star contiues her spat with the network over its Higgins case coverage

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How much can polling really tell us about support for the voice to parliament?

Polls show declining support for referendum but variations in methods make it difficult to pinpoint by how much

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Publishers enjoy a trust bump as more Australians take up digital subscriptions

One in five people are happy to pay for high-quality journalism, a new report finds, but fewer are watching or reading the news.

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Australia to transport last asylum seekers off Nauru within weeks, refugees say

Exclusive: Three asylum seekers and refugee advocates say government has flagged a 30 June goal

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‘Many, many’ Australian doctors advertising as general physicians without required qualifications

Specialist general physicians need advanced training from RACP – but some practitioners appear to be wrongfully using the title

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Yes campaign ‘keeping the faith’ despite declining polling for voice

Key members of the campaign for an Indigenous voice to parliament say they won’t be caught up analysing numbers as some polls show no vote growing

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Angus Campbell in political soup

Defence chief Angus Campbell tried to hand back his Distinguished Service Cross but then-defence minister Linda Reynolds declined to take it, and the bus driver allegedly involved in Australia’s worst bus crash in 34 years faces court this morning.

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‘Sinister’, ‘bonkers’, ‘meta’: the best Australian books out in June

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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Tony Abbott and John Howard join Jordan Peterson-led group looking at ‘meaning of life’

Alliance for Responsible Citizenship includes prominent Brexit voices and Bjørn Lomborg, who has questioned the urgency of the climate crisis

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Melbourne bookstore accuses employee of breaking ‘confidentiality’ by discussing pay rise

Worker launches court action over termination from Hill of Content, after also being accused of upsetting colleague and reducing her shifts

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Guardian Essential poll: voters trust Labor over Coalition to manage cost of living and inflation

Poll also shows support for government initiatives to regulate artificial intelligence

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‘Decades of neglect’: calls for social housing quota on new Victorian developments as homelessness rises

Proposal from the Council to Homeless Persons comes as analysis shows huge increases in homelessness levels in some regions, with one rising 465%

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The ride of a lifetime: the Australian family carnival that’s been touring for six generations

The Bells family spend 52 weeks a year setting up funfairs around the country. A new film runs away with the circus – and reveals the tensions within

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Broken Hill council to stop paying traditional owners for performing welcome to country

Council voted on the decision in National Reconciliation Week, timing that Reconciliation Australia says was ‘unnecessarily provocative’

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US reviewed defence training ties with Australia after Brereton inquiry into alleged war crimes

Exclusive: US embassy says review ended with a decision that no training restrictions needed ‘at this time’

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Shoot to kill

Disgraced former soldier Ben Roberts-Smith is again allegedly ‘directly involved’ in the killing of an elderly man in Afghanistan in 2012, and Queensland children are pleading guilty to crimes they didn’t commit to avoid being held in remand for long periods.

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