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Former Western Australian premier says he is considering legal action as court ruling throws convictions by state’s anti-corruption body into doubt
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Deputy prime minister says comparing all Muslims to terrorists is like equating all Catholics with the ‘crazy criminals’ of the IRA
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Mother who allegedly went overseas while leaving her five and six-year-old at home is yet to enter a plea
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Poverty has fallen but there’s a rapidly growing wealth divide between young and old, raising concerns about the effect of deficit-reduction policies to come
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The most troubling thing about Pauline Hanson's view of Muslims? The facts no longer matter
Susan CarlandIt is horrifying to realise that nothing we do – short of denouncing our religion entirely - can change the unfair beliefs people have about Islam -
There will always be disagreements about health policy. But both sides of politics must be more willing to find common ground
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The 100th anniversary of the darkest day in Australia’s military history gives us pause to ponder the utter pointlessness of what happened, as well as what, if anything, we’ve learned from it
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On ABC’s Q&A, audience member Khaled Elomar asks the One Nation senator ‘what is the basis of your Islamophobic feelings – hate, fear, or ignorance?’
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One Nation leader defends her views on Islam as Labor senator, whose family migrated from Iran when he was five, asks if she would have banned him.
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The Australian media personality says she believes ‘there is a correlation between the number of people who are Muslim in a country and the number of terrorist attacks’
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The US vice-president, Joe Biden opens the $1bn Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre in Melbourne on the first official day of a four-day visit to Australia, sharing memories of his son Beau, who died of cancer in 2015.
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Labor frontbencher says the Liberal party’s campaign was in disarray and it ‘doesn’t augur well’ for Malcolm Turnbull’s government
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Guardian Australia columnist Van Badham talks about the response to the ABC’s Q&A program, where she clashed with fellow panellist Steve Price over the Eddie McGuire saga and domestic violence issues.
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Mangar Makur Chout spent eight years in a refugee camp after fleeing from the civil war in Sudan that killed his father. He found a new life in Australia and is now set to race in the 200m for South Sudan at the Olympic Games in Rio. ‘I know I’ve done a lot when I was young and I’ve suffered on the way,’ he says. ‘It builds you as a person’
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