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- A damning review finds the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission failed to close a controversial program that put children with disabilities at risk of death despite reports from officials and families that it was using prohibited restraints.
- In Japan, thousands of children are cut off from their mum or dad every year as victims of a system that incentivises parental child abduction. The country will soon introduce laws that will enforce joint custody, but it's only caused more division.
- Analysis by Brett WorthingtonIn floating the possibility of Australia recognising a Palestinian state, Penny Wong said the quiet thing out loud and in doing so tore open one of the most sensitive decades-old debates.
- Thousands of Muslims gather at Sydney's Lakemba Mosque for the morning Eid prayer, with not a single politician in sight — because none were invited.
- The boss of a peak national nursing body is one of three executives who have been stood down pending an independent investigation into "potential financial irregularities" within the organisation.
- Former Seven Network producer Taylor Auerbach's lawyer has made further submissions to the court in Bruce Lehrmann's defamation trial.
- Analysis by Ian VerrenderAustralia may be a competitive nation on the sporting field, but our corporate giants have a habit of taking out smaller rivals before they can challenge their supremacy. New laws are aiming to make that a little bit harder to do.
- Port Adelaide forward Jeremy Finlayson has been found guilty of breaching the AFL's code of conduct and suspended for three matches for using a homophobic slur toward an Essendon player at Adelaide Oval on Friday night.
- A coronial inquest into the death of Cleveland Dodd hears a nurse who was on duty the night the teenager self-harmed in his cell in Unit 18 describe the facility as being like a "war zone". WARNING: This story contains the name and image of an Indigenous person who has died.
- The Australian not-for-profit has bested authors, illustrators and organisations including Neil Gaiman and Quentin Blake to win a global award, in honour of the creator of Pippi Longstocking.
- A complex web of money, Russian politics and English football is unravelling in the United Kingdom.
- Papua New Guinea's government approves a joint military and police operation to crack down on illegal mining and remove "squatters" at Porgera gold mine, just months after the site's grand reopening.
- Penny Wong's decision to weigh into the fraught diplomatic argument over a two-state solution has prompted furious debate.
- Ancient pottery fragments have been discovered on a Great Barrier Reef island that could change our understanding of Aboriginal history.
- Analysis by Matt NealAbout 16 per cent of all women allegedly killed by men in Australia this year have died in the Ballarat region. It may sound like an absurd figure, but data shows the rate of family violence in the Victorian town is higher than state and national averages.
- Community leader Sissy Austin, who publicly shared her own experience of violence in bushland near Ballarat last year, has organised a rally against men's violence for Friday evening.
- Jeff Dimery, the straight-talking boss of major energy firm Alinta, pours cold water on the immediate prospects of nuclear in Australia as he's warned on prices.
- Thompson, who has previously posted about having ulcerative colitis, says the stoma bag "represents life" and she does not want to hide it.
- In 2021,15-year-old Ethan Crumbley entered a Michigan school with a gun and started shooting. Now, his parents are going to jail for his actions. Here's how the events unfolded.
- It's Pay Day! Comedian Annie Louey explains how she spends 0 per cent of her income on rent or a mortgage, and why — despite growing up in a frugal home — she is in the habit of paying the bill instead of splitting it when she eats out.
- Australia relaunches an olive oil monitoring program amid concerns consumers are purchasing inferior or fraudulent products.
- Tasmanian Premier Jeremy Rockliff is one major step closer to continuing the Liberals rule after inking an agreement with the three Jacqui Lambie Network MPs — but the details of the deal have been slammed as making the trio "nothing more than puppets of the Liberal Party".
- The state's corruption watchdog has terminated an investigation into former Labor frontbencher Tim Crakanthorp, finding there are no prospects of finding corrupt conduct in relation to landholdings linked to his wife's family.
- When Neethu Thomas attended hospital with a small amount of bleeding and cramps in her 38th week of pregnancy, she didn't expect to almost die. Questions are now being asked about her treatment.
- Mayors in Sydney's inner west tell an inquiry their early warnings of Rozelle Interchange traffic chaos were ignored and the problems are now likely to remain for years.
- As someone who "always has eight balls in the air", acclaimed author, academic, Indigenous literacy advocate and keen marathon runner Dr Anita Heiss is learning to tell herself it's OK to free up time to be present with herself.
- Goals to Matildas veterans Hayley Raso and Caitlin Foord help the team overcome their injury crisis and notch a 2-0 win over Mexico.
- Andrew Ryder's rainy-day bank account was drained in just one day. It happened via phone porting and SIM-swap fraud, but the veteran has no idea how scammers had his data in the first place.
- The path is cleared for Molly the magpie to return home after Premier Steven Miles announces Gold Coast couple can secure a wildlife licence to keep the bird.
- Australia's competition watchdog, the ACCC, will be given far stronger powers to prevent companies making repeated under-the-radar acquisitions that could harm competition and consumers. The changes are the biggest reforms to merger settings in almost 50 years.
- Police have shot dead a dog at a popular Perth beach after the animal became aggressive towards officers and attacked a number of other dogs.
- With the Alice Springs curfew extended for a further six days, organisations and local advocates say it will do little to address the underlying issues driving youth crime in the Red Centre.
- Analysis by Allyson HornThe IDF is still trying to explain exactly how aid workers, including Australian Zomi Frankcom, were fatally bombed by its forces in Gaza. But we could be about to find out whether Israel's military has learnt anything from its "grave mistake".
- A $6 million renovation of a neglected workers' village in the Victorian Alps will provide much-needed housing for mountain-based staff during this year's ski season.
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analysis:Wong planned to say the quiet thing out loud. Her critics were quick to pounce
In floating the possibility of Australia recognising a Palestinian state, Penny Wong said the quiet thing out loud and in doing so tore open one of the most sensitive decades-old debates.
Analysis
analysis:The Chalmers offensive: Why corporate marriage proposals are under fire
Australia may be a competitive nation on the sporting field, but our corporate giants have a habit of taking out smaller rivals before they can challenge their supremacy. New laws are aiming to make that a little bit harder to do.
Analysis
analysis:What the hell is going on in Ballarat? With three women dead in two tragic months, it's a question worth asking
About 16 per cent of all women allegedly killed by men in Australia this year have died in the Ballarat region. It may sound like an absurd figure, but data shows the rate of family violence in the Victorian town is higher than state and national averages.
Analysis
analysis:How about we try — just try — to report on budgets and tax differently?
I'll still report on the budget's winners and losers next month, but I'll also aim to go deeper — to report on what's winning as well as who.
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analysis:Wong planned to say the quiet thing out loud. Her critics were quick to pounce
In floating the possibility of Australia recognising a Palestinian state, Penny Wong said the quiet thing out loud and in doing so tore open one of the most sensitive decades-old debates.
Analysis
analysis:The Chalmers offensive: Why corporate marriage proposals are under fire
Australia may be a competitive nation on the sporting field, but our corporate giants have a habit of taking out smaller rivals before they can challenge their supremacy. New laws are aiming to make that a little bit harder to do.
Analysis
analysis:What the hell is going on in Ballarat? With three women dead in two tragic months, it's a question worth asking
About 16 per cent of all women allegedly killed by men in Australia this year have died in the Ballarat region. It may sound like an absurd figure, but data shows the rate of family violence in the Victorian town is higher than state and national averages.
Analysis
analysis:How about we try — just try — to report on budgets and tax differently?
I'll still report on the budget's winners and losers next month, but I'll also aim to go deeper — to report on what's winning as well as who.
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