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Good morning, early birds. The federal and Northern Territory government’s decision not to extend alcohol bans has been met with a united front of anger from two Indigenous MPs, and the marathon defamation trial of former SAS corporal Ben Roberts-Smith has ended. It’s the news you need to know, with…

While costs of about $25m and possibly millions in damages are at stake, the trial also has existential implications for Australian journalism

Ex-soldier’s barrister tells court that reporters ‘jumped on rumours’, while newspapers’ counsel alleges Roberts-Smith ‘prepared to lie under oath’

Good morning, early birds. Seven Manly Sea Eagles footballers will be watching from the sidelines tomorrow when their team play the Roosters after they refused to wear Pride jerseys, and Stuart Ayres adds to the confusion about the New York trade commissioners job offered to John Barilaro. It’s the news…

Good morning, early birds. A NSW trade commissioner in California says he had to work from home after the state government closed its office there to open the new office in New York, and an expert has predicted that half a million Australians will get long COVID in the next…

In an interview with Australia's two big newspapers, the Melbourne Age and Sydney Morning Herald, Seth Curry talked about how his Aussie teammate Ben Simmons is doing and what he expects when Simmons returns to play in October. While noting that ...

The NT police minister says if Sunday’s shooting death of an Indigenous woman and a baby had happened to a white woman on the east coast, it would’ve been front page news, and the Victorian opposition is calling for the Andrews government to give back at least $1.3 million after…

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews says he’s sorry for the rotten culture in the state Labor Party, and Anthony Albanese reckons banning new coal and gas projects could potentially increase global emissions.

Jennifer Down’s Bodies of Light is a shattering novel, one that breaks and then rebuilds its readers. It has won the 2022 Miles Franklin Literary Award, the judges commending it as “a novel of affirmation, resilience and survival, told through an astonishing voice that reinvents itself from six to 60”.

Victoria’s corruption watchdog will release its findings into allegations of branch stacking and misused taxpayer funds in the Andrews government, with the state opposition claiming the public should see the evidence filed by Andrews before the November state election. It’s the news you need to know with Emma Elsworthy.

In closing submissions, newspapers’ lawyer accuses several of Roberts-Smith’s witnesses of ‘outright dishonesty’