headlines
Thursday
9 March 2017
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‘Robo debt’ recovery system charged 97,300 welfare recipients the fee in the last six months of 2016 alone
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Malcolm Turnbull condemns the treatment of one of his predecessors by CFMEU members rallying in Sydney’s CBD
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Boots on the ground near Raqqa a sign that the White House will give military chiefs more freedom to tackle Islamic State
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spotlight
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In the past two months, Isis levelled most of the Tetrapylon and destroyed the ancient amphitheatre's facade. The Guardian surveys the damage
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Two years ago, 57,000 refugees were stranded when Europe’s southern borders closed. What followed has been called the most expensive humanitarian response in history
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Until the official inquiry into the thousands of lives ruined – at Tuam and elsewhere – widens in scope, people will never heal
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video and pictures
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Rutger Bregman, the author of Utopia for Realists and How Can We Get There, talks to Owen Jones
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New York photographer came back from Iraq and Afghanistan to find his homeland riven with its own social issues
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Women from the UK, France and Spain discuss the taboo of childlessness – and celebrate International Women’s Day by affirming female identity beyond motherhood
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The former prime minister needed to be escorted by police after accidentally running the gauntlet of a CFMEU rally against penalty rate reductions
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Irishman Nick Dwyer and Frenchwoman Barbara Heftman arrive safely in Balmain on Wednesday after being rescued by the NSW police vessel Nemesis
Wisdom of Ages
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Jordan Robert Anderson’s family told he will not recover after he was found hanging in Hakea maximum security prison
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The shadow minister for early childhood education says she needs to walk away to spend more time with her family
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Chancellor criticises comments by Turkish president, who attacked Germany for cancelling rallies for Turkish citizens
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people
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Former Labour and Respect MP says he has signed publishing deal for series of tales about a Robin Hood of the high seas
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Speaking at the launch of her archive at the University of Melbourne, the feminist says women need to achieve more than simply drawing level with men
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The casting of black British actor Daniel Kaluuya in Get Out, a horror film about racism in America, has sparked debate about a trend some find troubling
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Comedian who played Tom the Innkeeper in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban suffers broken neck and punctured lung in collision
the big picture
Australian Music prize AB Original become first Indigenous act to win $30,000 award