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The Australian
3 years
Arrogance, hyper-nationalism and bureaucratic incompetence have combined to create a crisis of epic proportions in India, with its crowd-loving PM basking while citizens suffocate. This is the story of how it all went so terribly wrong #coronavirus
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The Australian
4 years
In her first-ever cover for Vogue Australia, we meet Rosé from BLACKPINK, the Melbourne-raised trailblazing entertainer changing the face of K-pop. Read the full interview here before it hits newsstands.
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The Australian
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"It’s not welcoming, it’s telling non-Indigenous Australians ‘this isn’t your country’ and that’s wrong. We are all Australians and we share this great land.” That is Jacinta Price's view. What's yours?
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The Australian
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A number of MPs have backed Jacinta Price’s calls for and end to welcome to country acknowledgments before every sporting event and public gathering. Do you think the practice has gone too far?
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The Australian
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Happy New Year!
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The Australian
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BREAKING: A temporary order by the eSafety commissioner blocking Australians from watching the alleged terrorist stabbing attack of a Sydney bishop has been refused in a win for tech giant X:
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The Australian
4 years
#BREAKING : Australia has torn up its extradition agreement with #HongKong and extended length of skilled, student visas. #auspol
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The Australian
2 years
An emotional Roger Federer has said his final goodbye to tennis. Read all about the game here. Video: Laver Cup
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The Australian
1 year
Opinion: It is almost beyond belief that Jewish residents of Sydney have been told to stay in their homes because the police can’t guarantee their safety. NSW police Minister Yasmin Catley should resign for allowing this to happen. What's your view?
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The Australian
2 years
In a sensational decision, the Reserve Bank will dump King Charles III from the bill, saying it was time for a “new design that honours the culture and history of First Australians.”
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The Australian
1 year
Australia’s richest woman has laid out a sweeping vision for the nation’s future,, advocating for the country to pursue nuclear energy as part of a net-zero future rather than just wind and solar. What's your view?
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The Australian
1 year
Anthony Fauci deliberately downplayed suspicions from scientists that Covid-19 came from a lab to protect his reputation and deflect from risky research his agency had funded, his boss says.
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The Australian
5 years
Bryce Chapman, a New South Wales farmer, filmed his celebrations as rain fell over his farm, 200 km north of Sydney 🙌 Credit: Bryce Chapman via Storyful
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The Australian
3 years
This heartwarming video captures the exact moment Ash Barty's parents realised their daughter had won the Wimbledon ladies singles. #AshBarty #Wimbledon #BartyParty
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The Australian
6 years
Sir Billy Connolly has admitted he is 'near the end' and his life is 'slipping away', as he spoke about his fight with Parkinson’s disease
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The Australian
4 months
Peter Dutton says no non-citizen who commits a dangerous crime in Australia should be allowed to stay in the country as a matter of principle, arguing they should be deported ‘immediately’:
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The Australian
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Peter Dutton has pledged to axe the position of ambassador for First Nations people if the Coalition is elected. Details:
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The Australian
4 years
The last British governor of Hong Kong says Britain has a “moral, economic and legal” duty to stand up for nation.
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The Australian
1 year
Senator Nampijinpa Price said Australians had said No to division, gaslighting, and bullying, and the idea that Australia was a racist country. “Attempting to bring about change through grievance has evidently got us nowhere,” Nampijinpa Price said.
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The Australian
4 years
Boris Johnson is to claw back Huawei’s involvement in Britain’s 5G network after extraordinary pressure from Tory backbenchers in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
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The Australian
4 years
Australia has directly raised concerns with Beijing about its attempt to tighten control over Hong Kong through a new security law, Scott Morrison has revealed.
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The Australian
1 year
Opinion: Australia has a choice: concede all failures of Indigenous people are due to settlers, or at some point give itself a break. The English did nothing wrong and neither did any of you, writes Douglas Murray. Read his full opinion piece here:
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The Australian
3 years
#BREAKING : The federal Coalition has slumped to its lowest electoral position this term as voters lose confidence in Scott Morrison’s management of the pandemic #Newspoll #auspoI #ausvotes
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The Australian
10 months
Opinion: NZ’s 42nd Prime Minister will introduce a bill to parliament nominating English as the country’s official language. The re-anglification of civic life is high on the agenda of the new woke-busting, swamp-draining conservative coalition. Read on:
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The Australian
3 years
#BREAKING : NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has spectacularly dumped Health Minister Brad Hazzard’s bill seeking to expand the state’s Covid-19 emergency powers until 2023 following a bitter partyroom backlash
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The Australian
1 year
Opinion: A No vote would signify a common and universal vision of humanity in which all Australians enjoy exactly the same civic status, regardless of their race or background. Read on: #voice #auspol
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The Australian
5 years
#BREAKING : Anthony Albanese now leads Scott Morrison as the preferred prime minister — 43 per cent to 39 per cent #Newspoll
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The Australian
1 year
Amid a raging public culture war, thousands of parents across Australia are privately battling with a transgender culture that has their children in its grip. Anguished, lost and angry, they’re ready to speak out.
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The Australian
4 years
EXCLUSIVE: A global coalition of 62 nations has come together to back Australia’s call for an independent inquiry into the coronavirus in a draft resolution to be put to the World Health Assembly.
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The Australian
3 years
A second tsunami event near Tonga has triggering warnings for Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, Vanuatu, Samoa, Lord Howe and Norkfolk Island.
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The Australian
1 year
Having parted ways with her record label to go it alone, Tina Arena’s independent spirit is shining. A fierce critic of Covid restrictions, she is still incandescent about the world’s lengthiest lockdown:
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The Australian
2 years
Anthony Albanese has recorded the highest #Newspoll satisfaction rating for an incoming prime minister #auspol
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The Australian
5 years
Beijing replaced its top representative in protest-racked Hong Kong, marking a toughened approach to resolving tensions.
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The Australian
1 year
Australia has a choice: concede all failures of the Aboriginal peoples are directly due to ‘settlers’, or at some point give itself a break. The English did nothing wrong. Neither did any of you. Read the full commentary:
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The Australian
4 years
The Chinese Communist Party is using its dispute with Australia to pre-emptively intimidate other nations and stop them from criticising Beijing over its handling of the COVID-19 crisis, according to US senator Marco Rubio.
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The Australian
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A grassroots Queensland Jewish group has joined with Hindu and Iranian groups to launch a campaign against the Greens, declaring the party ‘no longer stands for all minorities’:
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The Australian
4 years
There is now strong evidence Covid leaked from a Chinese biological weapons research laboratory rather than developing in a wet market, says a senior US official.
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The Australian
4 years
#BREAKING A senior Catholic cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu has been accused of using $1.14m of Vatican funds to bribe witnesses to secure a sex abuse conviction against rival Cardinal George Pell.
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The Australian
2 years
Every light you see in this photo is a galaxy. This is the clearest image of our cosmos, taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. ⁠In comparison, the second picture was taken by the Hubble telescope. This new telescope is infinitely more powerful. ⁠
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The Australian
1 year
Former prime minister John Howard is urging sporting organ­isations to keep politics out of sport and not publicly declare a position on the referendum campaign for the Indigenous voice:
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The Australian
1 year
Jacinta Price has called for an end to welcome to country acknowledgments before every sporting event and public gathering because the practice is dividing the nation:
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The Australian
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Senator James Paterson says Anthony Albanese and Tony Burke should instruct the AFP to “enforce the law” following protests on Sunday where some waved Hezbollah flags or portraits Hassan Nasrallah. Latest:
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The Australian
1 year
Peter Dutton has proposed converting old coal-fired power sites into locations for small-scale nuclear plants as part of the Coalition’s future energy plan.
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The Australian
2 years
After she has undertaken diplomatic visits to 24 countries since Labor’s election victory in May, no one could question Penny Wong’s work ethic, talent and commitment.
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The Australian
5 years
The Matildas will share the same pay with the Socceroos for the first time under a groundbreaking deal to treat the two national teams equally
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The Australian
1 year
Indigenous academic Marcia Langton doesn’t mince words and now she’s really had enough. When Australians vote on the voice, she wants them to think hard about what’s at stake. Read the full story:
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The Australian
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Rogue senator Fatima Payman’s inability to renounce her Afghan citizenship is “unprecedented” and leaves uncertainty about her eligibility to serve:
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The Australian
1 year
Sky News host and columnist Peta Credlin has condemned ABC management for stifling debate on the contents of the Uluru statement and allowing activist journalism to run riot. Is she right? Have your say:
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The Australian
5 years
#BREAKING : Australians have rallied behind Scott Morrison in a surge of support for his leadership and management of the COVID-19 pandemic, #Newspoll reveals
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The Australian
5 months
Opinion: Chris Bowen should spend a few days in Finland. He might realise almost everything he says about nuclear is nonsense. What's your view?
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The Australian
3 months
Considering the absolute nonsense in Canberra – take Fatima Payman’s self-indulgent petulance – switching off makes sense. But now is the time to be heard. Is this your tipping point?
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The Australian
4 years
The University of NSW pulled an article critical of China’s human rights record in Hong Kong after a backlash from Chinese ­students.
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The Australian
1 year
Former prime minister John Howard reckons the voice goes against the spirit of what makes people Australian, and he cites his old foe Bob Hawke to make his point. Do you agree? Have your say:
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The Australian
1 year
Qantas throwing its weight behind the Yes campaign has led to angry questions about who chooses the national carrier’s social policies. Should a publicly listed company be promoting a divisive and increasingly political policy. What's your view?
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The Australian
6 years
Defending Julian Assange brings her death threats and political pressure. But Jennifer Robinson relishes the fight
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The Australian
11 months
The Muslim cleric who gave a “kill Jews” sermon in Sydney under the name Abu Ousayd has been unmasked as jihadi preacher Wissam Haddad, an extremist who has ­expressed support for terrorist groups including Islamic State and al-Qa’ida. Read more:
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The Australian
4 years
Once you understand the pattern of behaviour by the People’s Republic of China, you will see it in operation everywhere. This is fertile ground for war.
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The Australian
4 years
Tanya Plibersek, considered a possible replacement for Anthony Albanese as Labor leader, has launched a personal attack on Scott Morrison, saying she neither likes nor respects him #auspol
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The Australian
6 years
EXCLUSIVE: High-profile human rights lawyer @JulianBurnside has revealed he will run against Treasurer Josh Frydenberg in the Melbourne seat of Kooyong as a candidate for the Greens
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The Australian
1 year
As emails previously unseen come to light, Anthony Fauci deliberately downplayed suspicions from scientists that Covid-19 came from a lab to protect his reputation and deflect from risky research his agency had funded, his boss says:
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The Australian
1 year
Anthony Albanese is facing claims his government wants to “silence their opponents” during election campaigns through proposed laws to combat misinformation. Read on:
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The Australian
4 years
#EXCLUSIVE : The Chinese Communist Party’s surveillance of ethnic minority groups via facial-recognition software has been exposed in a major security leak.
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The Australian
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Former Liberal prime minister John Howard says Anthony ­Albanese bears much of the blame for rising levels of anti-Semitism, ­saying a failure to denounce in unequivocal terms the horror of the Hamas attack on October 7 had set the wrong tone. Read more:
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The Australian
5 years
Donald Fraser, former chair of the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, is “very very happy to see [the climb] closed once and for all.” #UluruClimb #Uluru
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The Australian
4 years
Australia must stare down Chinese bullying and accept a wave of new migrants from Hong Kong, media magnate says.
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The Australian
1 year
In rejecting the voice, Senator Jacinta Price says Australians have said No to division, gaslighting and the idea that this is a racist country:
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The Australian
4 years
Josh Frydenberg says he is uncomfortable with Twitter’s ban on outgoing US President Donald Trump, joining Acting Prime Minister Michael McCormack in slamming the social media giant.
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The Australian
4 years
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson wants his country to get more tubs of Vegemite and packets of Tim Tams, as he and Scott Morrison start negotiations on an Australia-UK free trade deal
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The Australian
1 year
The Queensland Children’s Hospital has been thrown into turmoil as the suspension of a senior staff psychiatrist throws a spotlight on widespread concerns among doctors at the treatment of children with gender dysphoria:
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The Australian
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Opinion: If the 1967 referendum had happened three years later, I wouldn’t have been able to leave Australia without permission; maybe I wouldn’t have won Wimbledon. But it did happen. We did it then, let’s do it again. The ball's in your court, Australia.
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The Australian
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OPINION: Instead of wasting time at the School Strike for Palestine, students should be in class, where a few good lessons on World War II would equip them to better understand the war in Gaza:
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#BREAKING Malcolm Turnbull is facing a lifetime ban from the Liberal Party #auspol
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The Australian
3 years
#BREAKING : Labor has preserved its commanding electoral lead over the Coalition with fewer than 90 days before the federal election #Newspoll #auspol #ausvotes
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BREAKING: The Coalition has lost significant electoral ground across its traditionally strongest states of Western Australia and Queensland and is facing collapse in South Australia, a #Newspoll analysis has found. #auspol
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The Australian
1 year
The former PM said 'an absolutely resounding no' must be the 'main focus', in his address attacking the Indigenous voice to parliament referendum at a conference in Sydney today.
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The Australian
2 months
By accusing Peter Dutton of dog-whistling, xenophobia and, implicitly, racism, Labor is declaring war on mainstream Australians who share the Coalition’s reasonable concerns about the Gaza influx and lax security checks:
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COMMENT: Hongkongers are caught between the demands of an impatient authoritarian regime and a West that doesn’t quite have the guts to stand up for bludgeoned democrats on the other side of the world.
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The Australian
6 years
#BREAKING : Popular support for the Coalition has crashed to the lowest levels in a decade #Newspoll
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The Australian
5 years
Australia’s major political parties have demanded transparency from China on the origins of the coronavirus and how it was allowed to spread.
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The Australian
4 years
#BREAKING : US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has threatened the United States will “simply disconnect” from Australia if Victoria’s Belt and Road agreement with China affects US telecommunications.
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With Labor caught out again for weakness on immigration and borders, the Albanese government, the Greens and teals are hurling abuse at anyone who calls them out:
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The Australian
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Chinese telco Huawei reveals shock decision, saying its role as major sponsor of the Canberra Raiders NRL team will end this season due to “the continued negative business environment” it faces in Australia.
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The Australian
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Christian and Muslim leaders have dismissed Channel 10’s apology for a “disgusting” joke mocking their faith and have revealed plans to protest at Sydney’s Hyde Park.
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The Australian
1 year
Opinion: Australia must say no to racial division in all forms. Those voting No are not voting against Aboriginal people; they are voting in favour of unity and equality, and voting Yes to keeping our Constitution colour-blind. What's your view?
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The Australian
4 years
Beijing’s influence across the globe stretches deeper than imagined, warns the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
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The Australian
4 years
Increasing concern about China’s new security laws for Hong Kong and ongoing demonstrations in the city are seeing more Australians considering leaving the city, according to migration agent Paul Bernadou.
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The Australian
1 year
It's all over for Anthony Albanese's Indigenous voice to parliament referendum, as key battleground states swing hard:
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The Australian
4 years
As many as 50 Hong Kong opposition figures were arrested in the largest operation yet against Beijing’s critics.
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The Australian
4 years
Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt has said the government supports a European Union motion calling for an independent investigation into the origins of coronavirus in China.
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The Australian
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Foreign Minister Marise Payne says her concerns over China’s coronavirus transparency are at a high point, as Australia pushes for a independent global review into the origins of the coronavirus and how it was allowed to spread.
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The Australian
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#BREAKING : The Morrison government faces its worst electoral position since the Black Summer fires amid growing frustration over the vaccine rollout and lockdowns #Newspoll
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The Australian
1 year
A Sydney property developer secretly filmed councillors with sex workers on a “boys’ weekend” trip to China so he could blackmail them into voting for his projects. Full details:
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The Australian
4 years
Golfing legend Greg Norman believes Donald Trump has a ‘good chance’ of winning the election because millions of ‘quiet Americans’ will back the President.
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The Australian
2 years
Australian netball is reeling after Hancock Prospecting walked away from a $15m sponsorship because of a row with the Diamonds team.
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The Australian
4 years
Trade Minister Simon Birmingham rejected China’s assertions of increasing racial discrimination and violence against Chinese and Asians in Australia in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic, saying it “has no basis in fact”.
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