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Story nominated for News gong branded ‘national disgrace’ by Indigenous reporters. Plus: SMH all wrapped up in The Everest

At least 2.1 million of the 9.8 million victims of the Optus hack need to replace their ID, and there’s another rate rise on the cards today.

Semiconductor stocks have been crushed. So is now the time to go long? Here's how the charts look.

Vladimir Putin’s man in Australia says we have been ‘brainwashed’ into supporting Ukraine in its war with Russia, and Australians lose an average $1000 a year from gambling.

Seven’s Spotlight won scoop of the year for interview with husband of missing fraudster Melissa Caddick, but didn’t disclose payment. Plus: last drinks at ABC’s parliamentary bureau

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has told world leaders at the UN General Assembly in New York that the world is ‘gridlocked in a colossal global dysfunction’, and Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong plans to meet her Chinese counterpart at the assembly — it would be their second meeting in two…

The Therapeutic Goods Administration will look at limiting the sale of paracetamol over concerns of teenagers overdosing, and there’s a push to ban asylum seekers being handcuffed when being taken to see doctors.

LIV Golf was dealt a huge blow after being rejected by the Royal Sydney Golf Club, but now LIV Golf's plan to make it into the New South Wales area has been given a huge boost.