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According to a recommendation from an independent review of universities that was released last week, students who complete placements as part of their degree shouldn’t suffer financially. It comes a…

Tanning represents your skin cells in trauma. That's the message this year’s joint Australian of the Year, Professor Georgina Long, wants you to know. She’s a cancer doctor and was part of a medical …

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Today, the Butterfly Foundation released a new report on the prevalence of eating disorders in Australia. It found that eating disord…

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Yesterday, Australia’s biggest employers’ were forced to publicly reveal their gender pay gap. Some of the companies with the biggest gaps may surprise you. …

Last Friday, a NSW Police officer was charged with the murder of Sydney couple Jesse Baird and Luke Davies. Although they have charged police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon, who was the former partner o…

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Question Time - there’s huge interest in this hour of debate that happens every day at 2pm during parliamentary sitting weeks. According to the Parliamentary…

This week, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is back in the news because his final appeal to avoid extradition from the UK to the U.S. is currently underway. Assange is facing 18 charges in the U.S. r…

According to the latest HILDA (Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia) report, young Australians are more likely to experience loneliness and psychological distress than any other age gro…

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There is a push to curb alcohol consumption in Parliament House after two recent incidents involving parliamentarians and alcohol. Earlier this mo…

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Over the weekend, Alexei Navalny, the most vocal critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, died in prison. Navalny was in jail serving multiple sentences f…

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It would have been hard to miss it over the weekend - the Australian leg of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tours kicked off in Melbourne on Friday night. But we have on…

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has released a joint statement with the leaders of Canada and New Zealand that warns Israel against invading Rafah, …

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This month we've heard two updates on the 'Closing the Gap' initiative, aimed at improving the lives of First Nations people to be more in line with other Au…

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Housing affordability is something that we talk about a lot at The Daily Aus, and the ins and outs of it can get confusing. Today on the deep dive, we're bre…

Sophie Delezio spent much of her childhood recovering from two horrific accidents, but chances are you already knew that. That's because as Sophie recovered and grew up, the media attention that surr…

The Super Bowl is one of the biggest nights in entertainment in America, and more recently in Australia as well. Every year, millions of people tune in to watch not only the game, but also some of th…

Bitcoin has dominated the cryptocurrency conversation for years, but do you know who invented it? Did you know it was an Aussie? The truth is, we actually don’t know that for sure.A group of tech fir…

A Federal Senate Committee has recommended legal protection of a person’s ‘right to disconnect’ from work during their personal time. The committee examined draft laws addressing concerns about emplo…

Last week, a group of demonstrators gathered outside Sydney's Newington College to protest against the school's plans to open enrolments to girls. The decision by the prestigious boy's school follows…

Social media CEOs headed to Washington, D.C. last week for a grilling from the U.S. Senate over online child abuse. In today’s deep dive, we find out what the government expects from social media gia…