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Patients warned many doctors won’t change approach to bulk billing despite new incentives

Boosted rebate for concession card holders and children under 16 is in effect but GPs’ peak body says other patients won’t benefit

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Dozens of Centrelink fraud prosecutions dropped due to unlawful welfare debt calculations

Services Australia and prosecutors are unable to say exactly how many past convictions may be affected

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Victorians lodge record 5,400 challenges to rent increases over past 12 months

Consumer Affairs Victoria says it redirected extra staff to manage 120% rise in requests for rent increase reviews

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‘Terrifying’: Victorian prison officers put spit hood on a child held at an adult facility

Commission for Children and Young People says hood used despite no prior spitting incidents

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Australia must lobby US for ‘no first use’ of nuclear weapons, says ex-minister Gareth Evans

Exclusive: Former foreign minister says it is ‘sheer dumb luck’ that arms have not been used in the past 78 years and urges leadership on control measures

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Afternoon Update: Hamas militants clash with Israeli forces in Gaza; extreme fire conditions threaten Queensland towns; and Australia’s best political cartoons

North-western and southern Gaza Strip rocked by fighting as Israeli troops and tanks advance

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How to avoid a Halloween sugar overload: Australian parents share tips

From teaching healthy eating habits to letting children ‘go wild’, here are trick-or-treat tactics to keep in mind

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Services Australia forced to pause Centrelink debt repayments for 86,000 people amid legality concerns

Debt pause comes after watchdog found historical ‘income apportionment’ method breached social security law

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Warren Mundine launched expletive-riddled spray after KPMG rejected his $10,000 speaker’s fee

Exclusive: Prominent no campaigner told senior staffer that ‘I’m going to treat you cunts like you treated me’

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Family of Sydney man shot dead during psychotic episode demand police retract claim he was ‘known’ to them

Call by family of Steve Pampalian comes as Greens accuse police of curating the narrative around other people fatally Tasered or shot

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Thousands of men in private Facebook groups that are ‘cesspits’ of racism and misogyny

While women’s groups on the platform support and warn others, men’s groups feature mostly derogatory comments

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‘A tiny, geometric shoebox’: housing crisis prompts debate on minimum apartment sizes in Australian cities

Housing groups and urban planners have raised concerns about sacrificing living standards and creating new urban slums

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Pink, plastic and terrifyingly popular: Barbie is Australia’s preferred Halloween costume this year

The doll has topped Google Trends most searched costumes for October in NSW, Victoria and NT - but other parts of the country have different ideas

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Australian politician’s speech at tobacco conference in September allegedly in breach of WHO treaty

Exclusive: Discussion on panel came as federal government was developing reforms to address high rates of youth nicotine addiction

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Majority of Centrelink payments facing significant delays since Labor took office

New documents reveal 27 of 32 claim types including jobseeker experiencing blowout in wait times after return to pre-pandemic staffing levels

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Annastacia Palaszczuk reached out to Jacinta Allan over ‘demeaning’ Herald Sun cartoon

In interview with Guardian Australia, Queensland premier recalls similar cartoon of her when elected in 2015 and says ‘it’s not acceptable’

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‘Low sugar’ labels on alcohol are misleading and should be axed, Australian peak health bodies say

Exclusive: ‘All alcohol products increase the risk of cancer, regardless of their sugar or carbohydrate content,’ Cancer Council says

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Afternoon Update: Australia calls for humanitarian pauses in Gaza; Polish bishop resigns after gay orgy scandal; and Vegemite turns 100

Australia’s foreign minister, Penny Wong, says essential supplies must ‘reach people in desperate need’

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NSW police must speak with mental health experts rather than shoot our loved ones, stepfather says

Exclusive: New figures show on average 10 people in mental health distress die each year during interactions with state police

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Afternoon Update: US rejects calls for ceasefire; Céline Dion on loudspeaker causes anger in NZ; and Yotam Ottolenghi’s 10 spring recipes

Biden administration insists all hostages held by Hamas must be freed before negotiations

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Australian rugby league chief Peter V’landys invited to White House state dinner

Head of ARLC expected to discuss sports diplomacy in Pacific as Anthony Albanese in US for talks with Joe Biden

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Australian federal police tested controversial facial recognition search engine, FOI documents reveal

Exclusive: AFP tells Senate estimates it is now aware the PimEyes and FaceCheck.ID platforms may have been tested for operational purposes on around 10 occasions

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Firefighters battle blazes in Queensland and NSW – as it happened

Five homes lost in Millmerran and Tara with several communities under evacuation orders on Tuesday evening

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‘Petrified’ children, dwindling water and a destroyed home: Australian family pleads for help to escape Gaza

Terrified Adelaide family of four who were visiting relatives have been forced to flee south to Rafah where they remain stuck

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Whistleblower claims Australian funds for asylum seeker welfare in PNG ‘gone missing’

Exclusive: PNG’s chief migration officer denies there’s any evidence of financial wrongdoing in his department

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