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After a breakthrough meeting at the G20 summit in Bali, is Australia’s China problem solved? Only superficially, and only for now.
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Exclusive | More than 19,000 refugees who have been separated from their families for a decade will be allowed to travel overseas to see them, ending “great and enduring uncertainty”, Immigration Minister Andrew Giles will announce on Saturday.
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These apps have a way of making you feel you’ve earned their convenience even when you resolutely did not - you’re just lazy. | OPINION by
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A Victorian Liberal candidate is a senior member of an ultra-conservative church which has been secretly directed to infiltrate Coalition politics. | and Clair Weaver
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Many renters are staying in homes that are unsafe, paying for repairs landlords should arrange, being unfairly evicted or landing in a nightmare rental market. April and her son have been ricocheting around emergency accommodation since October 14.
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Longtime customers have helped Creative Wigs founder Abe Lourie, 93, celebrate more than six decades in business. |
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It’s time to start thinking about how people want to use city spaces rather than travel through them. |OPINION Marco Amati and Alexia Yacoubian
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Weeks after flood waters invaded their homes, renters are still ricocheting between emergency accommodation and unable to find a new property in a nightmare rental market. |
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How important is an accurate description? Once a bored 10-year-old sitting in a stranded family car in South Yarra provided a perfect likeness of a terrorist. | NAKED CITY analysis by John Silvester
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The major parties have not been shy in spruiking their spending pledges, but when it comes to repairing the state’s balance sheet, it’s a different matter. |EDITORIAL
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Brisbane have booked their spot in a fourth grand final after out muscling the reigning premiers Adelaide.
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In a last-minute about-face, Qatar will ban the sale of alcohol within its World Cup stadiums despite earlier agreeing to allow the sale of Budweiser’s beer.
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Anthony Albanese said North Korea violated multiple UN resolutions and must stop, while the Japanese PM said the provocation cannot be condoned.
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The Coalition’s biggest challenge in Victoria is to appear to be a credible party of government. Some of its latest claims undermine that effort. |ANALYSIS
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Glenn Druery claims he directed preferences to Animal Justice Party MP Andy Meddick, a CFMEU member and former construction worker, at the 2018 election. |
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The varied ways to cast your vote
Illustrator: Andrew Dyson
Read the letters to the editor here bit.ly/3EjPblJ
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Geelong premiership captain Joel Selwood has taken up a role in the leadership program at Melbourne Storm.
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The understandably frustrated Victorian Liberals need to watch their language.
As with its overblown allegations earlier in the week of “vote rigging”, the party is entering dangerous terrain as it accuses the VEC of political bias. theage.com.au/politics/victo #springst
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The hysteria about soccer crowds ignores the truth about what happens in other codes, writes Sydney Morning Herald chief sports writer Andrew Webster | OPINION
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This week, the fascinating areas of polyamory and bitcoin came together in glorious synchronicity, writes | OPINION
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The federal government will have to deliver an extra $60 billion in tax relief, focused on low and middle income earners, if it is to fully offset the impact of bracket creep over the next decade |
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The chief of upscale Melbourne hospitality group Lucas Restaurants has pulled its restaurants off Uber Eats and DoorDash in the wake of Deliveroo’s sudden exit from the Australia market |
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‘Forever 15’: Loved ones gather for Cassius Turvey’s funeral
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For the past year, Matt Formston has been chasing the biggest waves on the planet. On Friday, he flies out to ride the biggest
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Just months after a star-studded farewell, Neighbours is back from the dead. But a return to Ramsay Street may not be such a great idea, writes culture reporter | OPINION
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The Victorian Liberal Party has accused the Victorian Electoral Commission of “interfering” in the state election and compromising its independence. |
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Behind the fun of this weekend’s national jigsaw puzzle competition in Melbourne, there lies a fiercely competitive event.
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Australians love to watch reality TV, so how do you become a star on it? And is it worth all the pain?
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The editor-in-chief of independent publication Crikey has apologised for heckling the winners of the top gong at Australia’s most coveted journalism awards.
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#BREAKING The Victorian Liberal Party has accused the Victorian Electoral Commission of “interfering” in the state election and compromising its independence.
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Tasmania’s bid for a licence for a 19th AFL team has taken another step forward, with the league accepting the Tasmanian government’s $204 million financial offer that will underpin the new team. That story and more in today's AFL briefing.
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A premiership medal has eluded Melbourne’s captain Daisy Pearce, but the Dees star says her football journey has been “so much more than that” as she’s found fulfilment outside the flag dream. |
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These days, Australians have impossibly high standards when it comes to coffee. Let’s put it bluntly: we’re absolute snobs.
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The leap second is a consequence of two factors; the earth’s daily rotation varies from 24 exact hours, and huge advances in the accuracy with which we measure time.
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The history of television is replete with eleventh-hour rescues and reboots which came to nothing, writes Michael Idato | ANALYSIS
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Emergency Management Minister Murray Watt has warned planning laws are not fit for purpose in the face of escalating natural disasters driven by climate change. | and
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Girl Like You, winner of the major award at the 2022 AWGIE Awards, is a love story that follows a couple who start as one thing and become another. |
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