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    A 20-year tracking project of more than 3800 predictions made by 207 Australian psychics found just 11 per cent were unambiguously correct – an accuracy rate worse than random guesses.

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    The botching of the Novak Djokovic exemption cast a pall. A possible moral for Tennis Australia is that rather than sell your soul, keep it and cherish the best of it. It will reward you in the long run | OPINION by Greg Baum

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    Beer cans, a “grog for sale” sign and a dunny are among the relics in a new exhibition marking half a century since the first Sunbury rock festival.

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    South Korea says this month’s flurry of missile tests is reminiscent of the heightened tensions in 2017, when North Korea conducted multiple nuclear tests.

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    Reports of mistreatment have prompted the meat industry to back RSPCA calls for new national standards. Richard Baker reports. Warning: graphic content

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    The only major world No.1 Ashleigh Barty has yet to win, the US Open, will be beyond her grasp unless organisers change the balls used for women’s singles, her coach says |

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    | We've just opened up our live blog for this evening's tennis action. Follow along for all the major moments as the Australian Open comes to a conclusion with the men’s final between Rafael Nadal and Daniil Medvedev.

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    Schools hope the recently opened border and the abolition of two weeks’ hotel quarantine for fully vaccinated travellers will revive the state’s biggest export sector |

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    Thousands of New Zealanders have missed births, funerals, weddings and other events after being blocked from returning home because there is not enough quarantine space to meet demand |

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    One of the Australian Open men’s doubles finalists says he would not have played in Melbourne had he known WA’s border would remain closed, which may cause him to miss the birth of his son |

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    Victorian hospitals are bracing for a surge in children arriving at emergency departments with coronavirus symptoms, amid a projected rise in infections after the school holidays |

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    Ashleigh Barty has revealed the steps she took to avoid a COVID-19 infection while in Melbourne, living a “hermit life” to ensure her shot at Australian Open glory wasn’t derailed |

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  17. 7 hours ago

    My father got COVID-19 over the summer, like hundreds of thousands of Australians. As soon as I knew he was fine (“just man flu for a few days”), I hate to say that my first emotion was relief that it hadn’t come from us | Opinion by

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  18. 7 hours ago

    Djokovic has left but refugees are still held in detention around Australia. Why? How does the system work today? And how does our hard border stack up internationally? | Explainer by

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    Ash Barty’s drought-breaking Australian Open win smashed television ratings records, with a peak audience of 4.261 million and an average audience of 3.577 million |

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  20. 8 hours ago

    "Everything turned around in my life when my band Jet started doing well. That was a game changer. Rather than me being the quiet guy in the corner, I was suddenly the centre of attention and didn’t need to approach women."

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