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Tuesday
26 January 2021
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Group hails ‘science-based, risk-management’ approach as world heads towards net zero emissions
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Trolls and Indigenous-baiters got a gift from the PM this year, but it is real history that matters most -
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Former Liberal prime minister says Australia has ‘imported fads like sports stars taking a knee’ from overseas
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Senate trial will be the first-ever of a former US president, however the chances that Republicans will convict him are slim
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The president said the outcome might have been different if Trump had had six months left in his term -
Resolution suggests attack was ‘designed to discredit’ Trump and supporters, and condemns Republicans who voted to impeach -
New president has overturned Trump’s ban on transgender people serving in military as part of blitz of executive orders
Spotlight
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The AFL great paid tribute to his mother, a member of the stolen generations, at the festival’s annual dusk-til-dawn meditation on Australia’s colonial history -
At two months old, Maria Diemar was flown to Sweden to be adopted. Years later, she tracked down her birth mother, who said her baby had been taken against her will. Now investigations are showing that she was one of thousands stolen from their parents
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Has this Google lawyer written the book of the year? The part-time author talks about the inspiration for her thriller about siblings who flee abusive parents and their ‘house of horror’ -
It is our national shame that 65% of imprisoned 10 to 13-year-olds are Indigenous, when our kids are only 6% of Australia’s youth population
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Childhood in custody
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Fox Sports’ coverage over the weekend sent out an alarming message about how football is now valued by the broadcaster -
NRL supremo to ask government if players can jump the queue as health expert questions the ‘ethical or economic case’ for prioritising players
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The Spanish world No 67 says she feels abandoned by tournament organisers following her positive Covid test -
Chelsea’s latest ex-manager is yet another victim of a hierarchy that will not hesitate to make a change if they feel Champions League qualification is at risk
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The Full Story
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Children ask vital questions of the world which expose accepted ‘truths’ -
Once again we must participate in the national forgetting
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One of Britain’s greatest designers, she has dressed everyone from Princess Diana to Diana Ross. She discusses punk, pink hair and staying creative after serious illness -
The Netflix series about the writer and socialite, made by Martin Scorsese, is a love letter to her sartorial triumphs
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Large UK study found small pollution rise associated with more cases of age-related macular degeneration -
Feel the Bern, not the cold, with your own pair of winter-proof hand warmers – here’s how to stitch them at home -
Recreating the fish tacos he ate for breakfast in Baja California takes our writer back to his hot, dusty 1,000-mile cycle down the peninsula -
About 90% of Australia’s goat meat is exported but fans say it deserves a place on local plates
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The big hair and bombast have long gone and the thoughtful singer-songwriter remains. He talks about politics, pain and meeting his wife of 40 years in history class
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The trailer for the monster match-up promises bad dialogue and convoluted mythology, but also two giant creatures fighting until the death -
1 out of 5 stars.
Synchronic review Tiresome time-travellers going nowhere
1 out of 5 stars.Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan play a pair of New Orleans paramedics dealing with the casualties of a new designer drug in this hopeless sci-fi thriller
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The actor says she feels very uncomfortable trying to portray the male gaze and says she’s ‘too vain’ to shoot intimate scenes -
With the box office closed and only secretive viewing figures to go on, gauging a film’s success is becoming a tricky proposition -
Since 2019, Lucienne Rickard has been drawing detailed sketches of lost species in a Hobart gallery. On Sunday she erased the final one
Australia Weekend
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The sexual assault survivor, who is on remand in the territory’s only prison, says she felt ‘absolute fear and shame’
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An increase in 5% of Australia’s recycling rate would add an estimated $1bn to the country’s GDP, the CSIRO says
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Shadow minister for multicultural affairs says government is ‘missing in action when it comes to ensuring we all belong’ -
Tame’s case was a catalyst for the #LetHerSpeak campaign which changed the state’s Evidence Act so survivors could speak publicly -
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Complaint accuses ex-mayor of having ‘manufactured and disseminated’ conspiracy theory related to voting machines -
Sixty million more girls and women using modern contraceptives due to global campaign, but pandemic recession threatens services
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Bankruptcy judge rejects objections from some of Harvey Weinstein’s accusers seeking to pursue further claims -
Rodney Baker and his wife travelled to remote community of 100 in Yukon territory and claimed to be workers at a local motel
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Amid debates about abolishing the holiday, Australia Day honours and whether protests should go ahead at all, people have rallied in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Canberra to mark the day -
Darumbal and South Sea Islander journalist Amy McQuire talks to Laura Murphy-Oates about her children’s book Day Break, which explores what 26 January means for Indigenous people
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Footage filmed from inside a fire engine shows a raging bushfire in a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia, on 24 January
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Chants of ‘Black Lives Matter’ and ‘always was, always will be Aboriginal land’ have rung out at rallies in major cities
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‘Sharon’ has been addicted to poker machines since they first arrived in Australia in 1992. Through this animated documentary, she reveals the devastating impact gambling has had on her life -
An era of uprisings, nascent democracy and civil war in the Arab world started with protests in a small Tunisian city. The unrest grew to engulf the Middle East, shake authoritarian governments and unleash consequences that still shape the world a decade later
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