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Four-year-old Cleo Smith found alive in locked Carnarvon house, man in custody
West Australian police officers broke into a locked house in the town of Carnarvon, 900 kilometres north of Perth, about 4am AEST where they found the young girl in one of the rooms.
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Cleo Smith disappearance
‘My name is Cleo’: Police break into house, find missing girl after 18 days of searching
WA Police have found missing four-year-old Cleo Smith in a locked house in the Western Australian town of Carnarvon.
Watch video: Police announce Cleo found ‘alive and well’
Four-year-old Cleo Smith has been found alive and well inside a home in WA after vanishing from a campsite on October 16.
‘He’s lied to me’: Turnbull joins Macron in rebuking PM on subs deal
Malcolm Turnbull said Scott Morrison had lied to him when they worked together in government, but had committed a graver mistake by being dishonest on an international level.
Opinion
International affairs
How Macron’s ‘I don’t think, I know’ breaks through Morrison’s fog of spin
The French President’ statement is bracing, like someone dunking your head underwater. It got me thinking about how Morrison-speak makes everything hazy.
Julie Szego
Author and freelance journalist
cop26
Biden slams China as Boris Johnson says he is ‘cautiously optimistic’
The host of the climate summit says there is new reason to believe the talks may not fail but has cautioned against embracing a “mood of exaggerated enthusiasm”. And US President Joe Biden said Xi Jinping had “lost the ability to influence people around the world” by not coming to Glasgow.
World leaders struggle to agree on pact as PM spruiks green tech fix
Australia has made its pitch to the world for technology, not taxes to deal with climate change, putting it at odds with other nations.
Opinion
UK
COP26, a grotesque mix of rent seekers, hangers-on and political wannabes
In Glasgow, world leaders are only a small slice of a climate carnival best described as part-trade fair and part-public relations opportunity.
Bevan Shields
Europe correspondent
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City life
Melbourne Cup corporate excess says bye bye Birdcage, hello pink zone
Call it the Melbourne Cup that could. All it took was a first November Tuesday of unseasonably warm weather and a government green light for a crowd of 10,000 to return to Flemington for The Race that Stops a Nation™.
Analysis
Melbourne Cup
‘Substandard? It will go down as one of the great Cups’: Beaten Euro
There was plenty of debate about the quality of this year’s Cup field, but the European raiders say critics don’t know what they are talking about.
CBD
National
On track or off to the peninsula
A lucky 10,000 people may have scored golden tickets to The Race That Stops a Nation, but for most this year’s Melbourne Cup was very much to be celebrated in absentia.
Updated
Victorian Parliament
Tim Smith defies Guy’s call to quit Parliament after crash
Embattled Liberal MP Tim Smith is refusing to quit State Parliament, defying Opposition Leader Matthew Guy who declared the member for Kew should not recontest the next poll.
Analysis
Victorian Parliament
Guy’s tough call calms faithful, leaves Smith nowhere to run
What came as a welcome surprise to supporters shocked the member for Kew, who had naively assumed friendship and factional allegiance would protect him.
Malnourished aged care residents left to fend for themselves during COVID outbreaks
Distressed aged care residents were left to fend for themselves in deadly COVID outbreaks last year, with a report re-igniting calls for a national inquiry.
How having a drink helped us toward art, society and civilisation
Edward Slingerland insists alcohol helped early societies stick together, creating a sense of camaraderie and exchange of ideas.
Idris Elba stars in new western that rinses the whitewash out
This cowboy romp finally brings black men and women to the foreground.
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National security
Secret operation to interview families of Islamic State fighters in Syria camp
Intelligence officials have travelled to Syria as the federal government weighs up the repatriation of Australian women and children who have been held in refugee camps for almost three years.
Budget to improve by $45b but big deficits to continue: Deloitte
Deloitte Access expects stronger commodity prices, the recovery from lockdowns and the high take-up of vaccinations to save the budget $45b. But it predicts deficits of $60b will be the norm.
Opinion
Political leadership
Time is running out for Albanese to step up and lead
Labor Party oppositions don’t just fall into office, which is why the Opposition Leader’s risk-averse strategy is such a huge risk.
Shaun Carney
Regular columnist
GLASGOW CLIMATE SUMMIT
‘None of us will live forever’: Queen urges leaders to act
Queen Elizabeth delivered an emotionally charged and highly political call to arms to world leaders, invoking her own mortality to send a warning about future generations.
‘Significant milestone’: In Glasgow, the world moves to halt deforestation
Leaders representing land which is home to more than 85 per cent of the world’s forests are expected to commit to reversing deforestation by 2030.
Local
Thousands still without power as state braces for more wild winds
Thousands of Victorians are still without power, while mobile and internet services remain down for many as the clean-up from Friday’s strong winds continues.
Wild horse culls to go ahead in Alpine National Park
Court approves long-delayed plan to tackle increasing damage to unique alpine ecosystems.
Fracking in NT would increase gas emissions at no economic benefit, trial told
While world leaders gather for climate talks in Glasgow, a Sydney trial has heard a plan to frack in the Northern Territory would drive Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions up.
Cleo Smith abduction probably ‘opportunistic’, taskforce boss says
Superintendent Rod Wilde said police were trying to understand how Cleo could have been taken from the family’s tent without anyone realising until the morning.
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AFL off-field behaviour
‘Forcible touching’ dropped but De Goey still facing assault charge
Troubled Collingwood star Jordan De Goey no longer faces a charge of “forcible touching”, but New York prosecutors have maintained a charge of assault.
MELBOURNE CUP
‘The adrenalin got the better of me’: Cup-winning owner apologises for breaching COVID protocols
Verry Elleegant stamped herself as a champion of the turf, but one of her exuberant owners turned to the hurdles as he leapt into the mounting yard in a breach of COVID protocols.
Analysis
Does whipping hurt race horses?
Does whipping cause pain to a horse? And does it improve their performance?
Politics
Malnourished aged care residents left to fend for themselves during COVID outbreaks
Distressed aged care residents were left to fend for themselves in deadly COVID outbreaks last year, with a report re-igniting calls for a national inquiry.
Business
Australia’s next mining boom could be ‘green’ as race to net zero intensifies
Investors are betting the push away from fossil fuels to clean energy will drive a boom in demand for Australia’s supplies of copper, nickel, lithium and cobalt.
World
Dozens killed and wounded as blasts, gunfire hit Kabul hospital
At least 25 people were killed and more than 50 wounded when gunmen attacked Afghanistan’s biggest military hospital after two heavy explosions at the site, officials said.
Opinion
Modern-day Robin Hoods at the RBA still loosing monetary policy arrows
Shane Wright
Senior economics correspondent
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Property bydomain
'Beginning of the end': How rate rises could kill the property boom
A strong economic recovery may mean earlier than expected rate hikes, which will see home loan repayments increase by hundreds of dollars a month.
What Sydney unit prices can buy you in other cities
Buying a unit in Sydney is now more expensive than purchasing a house in most other capital cities. So what can you buy elsewhere?
Lifestyle
Actor Sam Frost says she will get COVID-19 vaccine weeks after video backlash
The Home and Away star’s announcement comes after Channel Seven said it would require cast to be double vaccinated by January 10.
Culture
‘I felt like something was missing’: Emily Ratajkowski is a work in progress
The supermodel’s first book, titled My Body and out on November 9, is a collection of essays that “were written to try to figure out what I believed,” she says.
Sport
In 160 years, no horse had won from gate 18. Then McDonald showed up
The best jockey in the country came up with a Melbourne Cup ride for the ages from a barrier that had long been cursed. How did he do it?
‘The adrenalin got the better of me’: Cup-winning owner apologises for breaching COVID protocols
Verry Elleegant stamped herself as a champion of the turf, but one of her exuberant owners turned to the hurdles as he leapt into the mounting yard in a breach of COVID protocols.
‘I didn’t want to run her’: Waller’s startling admission over Verry Elleegant’s Cup triumph
While other Sydney-based trainers and even Ireland’s Joseph O’Brien made last-minute dashes to Melbourne, the champion conditioner watched his first Cup victory from home.
Updated
AFL off-field behaviour
‘Forcible touching’ dropped but De Goey still facing assault charge
Troubled Collingwood star Jordan De Goey no longer faces a charge of “forcible touching”, but New York prosecutors have maintained a charge of assault.
As it happened Melbourne Cup 2021: Verry Elleegant defeats Incentivise to take out the race that stops the nation
Follow along for all the major moments and reaction from the race that stops the nation - the 2021 Melbourne Cup.
Analysis
Melbourne Cup
‘Substandard? It will go down as one of the great Cups’: Beaten Euro
There was plenty of debate about the quality of this year’s Cup field, but the European raiders say critics don’t know what they are talking about.
Analysis
Melbourne Cup
Melbourne Cup finishing order: Assessing each runner and what the jockeys said
The finishing order is in for the 161st running of the Melbourne Cup at Flemington. It’s the race that stops a nation and this year was no different. Future Score was scratched on Tuesday morning.
Have Your Say
The Melbourne Cup everyone needed and no one saw coming
Verry Elleegant, the winner of this year’s Cup, bolted down the Flemington straight like a teenager released from lockdown.
