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Australia's migration intake has almost halved while the political fight over it keeps growing
The intake has dropped by more than 250,000 people since its 2023 peak, and Treasury expects it to fall further to 225,000 by 2027/28.
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Petrol tipped to pass $2 a litre when the fuel excise cut ends on Sunday
Anthony Albanese has ruled out another extension and announced a $4 million study into building Australia's first new oil refinery since the 1960s.
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Meta told a racism inquiry it doesn't know whether any of its content moderators are Indigenous
None of Meta's moderators are based in Australia, and the advisory group it offered instead meets once or twice a year.
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Albanese won't commit to scrapping the telehealth ban on assisted dying Labor just voted to remove
A Melbourne GP took the ban to the Federal Court and lost in 2023; the one-line fix has sat undebated since February 2024.
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Australia's new emergency alert will find every phone on Monday, including the hidden ones
AusAlert fires at 2pm Monday with a 10-second siren that overrides silent mode. Family violence advocates say concealed phones should be switched off.
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A domestic dispute call-out ended with a constable shot and a man dead in a shed
A first-year constable was shot in the leg at a Yengarie property on Friday night, and the 45-year-old gunman was later found dead in a shed.
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Hanson called domestic violence a two-way street. It was the least of One Nation's problems this week.
Pauline Hanson told abused women to just leave, Malcolm Roberts called COVID deaths staged, and Barnaby Joyce yelled at his dog on live TV — and One Nation's vote climbed anyway.
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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.