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A wildlife keeper holds a kookaburra while a colleague draws a vaccine dose

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Australia has bought its first bird flu vaccine. It cost $2 million and it cannot stop the spread.

The 1500 vials will go to zoos, sanctuaries and captive breeding programs, with states given days to name the threatened species that get them first.

Three housemates in a share house at night, each filling in a form on a different device

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Australia counts its LGBTQ population for the first time tonight. Intersex people are still not on the form.

The 2026 census asks 66 questions, two of them new, after the government dropped the gender and sexuality questions in 2024 and reversed within a week.

Anthony Albanese in front of illuminated TAB, Ladbrokes and sportsbet logos

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A parliamentary inquiry made 31 recommendations on gambling. The bill Labor and the coalition are about to pass does a handful of them.

Anthony Albanese and Angus Taylor met on Monday to settle amendments on inducements, three years after the inquiry said they should be banned without delay.

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The cookers have found their first pandemic since Covid, and they are treating a dead seabird like a cover-up

Australia's bird flu detections went from 28 to 175 in eight days, and the comment sections filled with people who have been waiting for this day.

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One Nation wants the ABC stripped of $1.2 billion over a skit about Gina Rinehart. Her money bought the party its plane, and about 20 flights before that.

Senator Sean Bell says the segment proves the ABC should go subscription-only, ten days after Hanson's register showed Rinehart paid her European flights.

Chris Bowen and Jane Hume facing each other in front of rows of server racks in a dark data centre

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Albanese said he would seek the states' agreement on data centre rules — Bowen says Canberra will legislate over them

National Cabinet has not met, and Queensland and the Northern Territory had already broken ranks at the energy ministers' meeting before it.

Pauline Hanson at a lectern in an airport terminal in front of a split-flap board reading 570,000 and 55,000

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Hanson's 130,000 migration cap only applies to permanent visas — a cut of 55,000, not 570,000

One Nation's own website still advertises the policy as a cut of 570,000, and Hanson says backpackers, short-term workers and tourists are all exempt.

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The test crashed on writing day. Now ministers want to bring back pen and paper.

Reading fell in Years 5, 7 and 9 while Year 3 numeracy hit its lowest average since the test was reset in 2023.

An Ambulance Victoria paramedic restocking ice packs at the back of an ambulance at night

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Overdose deaths are climbing again and the drugs driving it have no treatment

More than 2000 Australians died of a drug overdose in 2024, with cocaine deaths up 40 per cent and amphetamine deaths up 29 per cent.

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Jetstar will scrap the free 7kg carry-on and charge up to $52 for an overhead bag

From 2 February 2027 only a bag that fits under the seat travels free, with overhead lockers costing between $25 and $52 a flight.

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A GP on trial for manslaughter arrived at a home birth without her medical bag and was talked through CPR by a triple zero operator, a court has heard

Robyn Mary James has pleaded not guilty over the death of Vicki Butler, who died hours after giving birth at her Ipswich home in December 2017.

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In the first three months of the under-16 social media ban, the number of kids using it fell from 85.9 per cent to 81.5

The eSafety data was collected in March and April and published today, more than seven months after the restrictions took effect.