australia news
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Man questioned over William Tyrrell's disappearance faces child sex chargesWilliam Spedding is charged with a number of unrelated child sex offences in Victoria dating back to the 8os -
George Pell exposed himself to young boys at surf club, says Victorian manLes Tyack, who reported to police the alleged 1980s incident involving the cardinal, has gone public in the hope it will support child sex abuse survivors -
Former chief justice named as head of Northern Territory juvenile detention inquiryCommission to report by 31 March on treatment of children in the youth detention system and whether its oversight was adequate
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Australia's juvenile detention centres are more secretive than Guantánamo BayPolicies on solitary confinement, and many more documents from inside the Northern Territory facility, are key to unlocking what happened inside Don Dale
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I love my graphs and get carried away by data, but if the world keeps warming like this, talking about GDP and housing affordability will all be rather quaintI spend my time writing about the economy, but the climate data hits me right in the gut
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The footage shown by Four Corners should not allow anyone in the media to give themselves a free pass on the failure to bring this story to wider attention earlierThe juvenile detention scandal, news fatigue, and the power of an image
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Roundabout arguments can't disguise Sydney's cycling laws are taking the public for a rideMassive increases in fines for riding without a helmet or running a red light are just the latest in the city’s ignoble history of deciding cyclists are a problem
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Margot Robbie: Vanity Fair article was ‘really weird’ – videoAustralian actor Margot Robbie describes a Vanity Fair profile of her as a ‘really odd interview’
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Four Corners shows boy being stripped by Northern Territory detention staff – videoCCTV footage aired by the ABC’s Four Corners program on Monday night shows a teenage boy being seized by staff, stripped naked and left alone
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'Absolute horror': Gillian Triggs responds to child abuse at NT detention centre on Q&A; – videoThe Human Rights Commission president responds to shocking footage from a Darwin detention centre showing the abuse of children on Q&A.
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Teenager hooded and restrained in Northern Territory detention – videoABC’s Four Corners program reveals teenagers being hooded, teargassed and left in solitary confinement for days, sparking a royal commission
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Dear Australia: the surgeon who defied Saddam's death threat – videoOrdered to amputate the limbs of deserters from the Iraqi army or be shot, Dr Munjed Al Muderis hid and fled. In the latest film in the Guardian’s series on refugees in Australia, he tells his astonishing story: how he went on to Christmas Island, spent 10 months in a detention centre and now carries out pioneering reconstructive surgery in Sydney, inspired by Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Terminator. ‘I was born very comfortably, I had a silver spoon in my mouth … I never expected that I would end up in a boat coming to Australia’
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Turnbull to make captain's pick on whether to nominate Rudd for UN secretary general