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Hanson didn't back down — she said it louder, then refused to apologise for the trip

Hanson used a London conference and a primetime interview to repeat her migration and transgender comments, and insists no taxpayer money funded her European trip.

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A son, a staged crash, and a mother moved into the driver's seat — an inquest asks what the system missed

An Adelaide inquest is examining whether Ethan Grosvenor deliberately crashed and moved his dead mother into the driver's seat, and whether the system failed both.

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The government agrees Islamophobia is close to being normalised but won't check whether its own laws are part of the reason

The government accepted 35 of 54 recommendations from its own Islamophobia envoy, but not the independent review of counterterrorism laws he has pushed from the start.

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The cost of six lives in Laos: a food charge and a maximum of four years

The distillery owner faces a minimum of three months, nearly two years after six tourists died in Vang Vieng, including two teenagers from Melbourne.

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Pauline Hanson wants to run the country. She spent her holiday with a convicted criminal and a billionaire.

The One Nation leader spent her European summer with a billionaire donor and a man Australia has refused a visa, while claiming to speak for battlers.

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Smoking is down, vaping is down, and Australia is consuming more nicotine than ever

Nicotine pouches enter the national drug survey for the first time, used by 8.4 per cent of 18 to 24-year-olds, while overall nicotine consumption climbs.

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The eviction notice says the protests are the reason. That's the whole trick.

The breach notice that closed Divine Playhouse cites the protests against it as grounds, and warns more protests are almost certain to come.

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The state that leads on opioids has no rule against turning up high

Amphetamine-type stimulants now make up 60 per cent of positive workplace drug tests, and Victoria has told WorkSafe it won't write an enforceable rule about it.

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Two boys stabbed in two days. The minister's answer is a law that stops at the school gate.

Queensland's wanding powers have never been shown to reduce violence, and the review that would have tested them was scrapped when the law went permanent.

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Albanese says training AI on Australian art without permission is theft. He didn't announce a law against it.

The Prime Minister promised to legislate data centre rules his government already published in March, while copyright reform got one line and no timeline.

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What to expect from Albo’s national AI speech today

The Prime Minister is expected to announce a new Office of AI inside his own department today, as Labor stays deadlocked over whether to trade copyright for data centres.

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An “ISIS bride” allegedly taught her toddler to mimic a killer. Australia still has no plan for people like her.

Rayann El Houli is fighting for bail over videos that allegedly show her coaching her children to act like IS fighters. Her case is what a decade without a policy looks like.