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The personal details of millions of Qantas customers may have been leaked following a mass cyber attack.
The Victorian Government has announced an urgent review into chil…
It's the start of a new financial year in Australia this week, which means a raft of changes affecting millions of Australians came into effect yesterday. From wage increases to new laws, cost-of-liv…
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Australia’s first Illicit Tobacco and E-cigarette Commissioner has been named by the Federal Government.
Large parts of NSW are being told to brace for damaging winds, he…
Over the weekend, Britain’s biggest music festival Glastonbury was held on a farm in south-west England. This year’s edition made more headlines than usual due to a pair of acts: Irish rap group Knee…
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Australia’s corruption watchdog has found a senior Home Affairs official engaged in “serious” corrupt conduct when she helped her sister’s fiancé secure a job in the depar…
A group of parents in the U.S. state of Texas have launched a lawsuit to stop the state government from forcing all public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments — a list of moral orders c…
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Two men have been sentenced to life behind bars over the 2022 Perth murder of teenager Cassius Turvey.
The media regulator has rejected a proposal to play more alcohol ads…
The ABC unlawfully dismissed journalist Antoinette Lattouf by cutting short her week-long radio hosting role, the federal court has ruled. Lattouf was sacked after sharing a Human Rights Watch post o…
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Jailed whistleblower David McBride has lodged an appeal application to Australia’s highest court, seeking to overturn charges for leaking secret defence documents.
A forme…
It’s been a particularly tense time around the world, as we've covered on the podcast this week. But we want to bring you something different for today's deep dive — an exclusively good news episode.…
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Prices rose by 2.1% in the year to May, according to monthly inflation figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
Opposition Leader Sussan Ley has described la…
For nearly two weeks now, Iran and Israel have been engaged in a war that has kept the world anxiously waiting to see what happens next.As we have covered this week, the U.S. effectively entered the …
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Israel and Iran have now both agreed to a ceasefire deal announced by U.S. President Donald Trump early this morning.
Meanwhile, increased tensions in the region have promp…
Over the weekend, the U.S. struck Iran. It’s the largest attack America has ever carried out on Iran, and comes amid a war between Iran and Israel, which counts the U.S. as its closest ally. In today…
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The Australian Government has confirmed its support for the U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites, while repeating calls for a “diplomatic” solution to the Middle East confl…
Several months ago, a U.S. woman named Adriana Smith had a medical emergency and ended up in hospital. Doctors found blood clots on her brain, and she was declared brain dead. Her story didn’t end th…
Did you know the amount of superannuation you get paid is about to change? As of 1 July, the minimum amount of super you receive is about to increase. So what does this actually mean for you? We’ll e…
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The Federal Government will send defence assets to the Middle East to assist in the evacuation of Australians.
Australia is a step closer to rolling out age verification t…
This week, Meta made its second-largest acquisition ever, buying a major stake in AI company Scale AI for $21 billion. But that's just the beginning of Silicon Valley's most extreme talent war, where…
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The jury in the trial of accused mushroom murderer Erin Patterson is a step closer to deliberations, with the defence making their closing arguments today.
The unemploymen…