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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 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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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.
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Four women dead in seven days, and the news cycle had room for everything but them
Two women and two girls were allegedly killed by men they knew this week. The country found time for the Reserve Bank, Modi and the oil price, and barely a moment for them.
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The seven-day rule that could pull the plug on live music
Payday super’s seven-day clock lands hardest on the volunteers who run festivals and gigs, chasing fund details from casual workers who don’t have them.
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Oil roars to a five-year high as Trump taxes the Strait of Hormuz
A 9.5 per cent oil spike is set to squeeze fuel prices and rattle markets after Donald Trump declared a toll on the strait the US had called Iran illegal for threatening.
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Queensland fined 420 e-scooter riders in a fortnight. One lasted seven minutes.
Queensland's new e-mobility laws have seized more than 100 devices and issued 420 fines in twelve days while Melbourne, which embraced share scooters then binned them, threw most of them in the river.
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YouTuber charged after filming inside Dezi Freeman’s hideout
A Yea man walked into a police station and turned himself in — then told his followers he’d probably just cop a fine.
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Victoria’s public transport payments finally make sense
Tap and go reaches every regional train station this year — 16 years after a myki rollout so botched it became shorthand for public transport failure.
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Telstra to face Senate inquiry over nationwide outage as $30 million fine looms
Hundreds of Triple Zero calls failed and regional trains stopped dead during the nationwide blackout that also stalled bank payments across the country.