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Medical industry braces for vape addiction as first stage of ban begins
From New Year’s Day, all imported disposable vapes – with or without nicotine – will be banned as the first stage of the government’s crackdown to eventually limit vaping to people with a prescription.
- by Olivia Ireland
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New Year
The stories that shone some light in the darkness of 2023
This was, in so many ways, a horrific year. Thank God for the Tillies.
- by Neil McMahon
It is one of the worst years for road fatalities. Governments are yet to release data on why
Australia’s two most populous states have recorded a more than 20 per cent spike in roads deaths for 2023.
- by Olivia Ireland and Andrew Taylor
The political challenges and players who shaped 2023
From the Voice to parliament referendum, stabilising relations with China, war in Gaza, the High Court’s curveball on indefinite detention, and a cost of living crisis, it has been a bumper political year.
- by Lisa Visentin
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Byelection
Late Labor MP’s husband urged to run in key byelection for Albanese and Dutton
The nation’s focus will turn to Dunkley for a contest that will test the political temperature in a potential federal election year.
- by Paul Sakkal
Hezbollah claims rocket attack retribution for ‘martyred’ Australians
The designated terror group Hezbollah has claimed it launched rocket attacks on an Israeli village, after an airstrike killed two Australian brothers.
- by Perry Duffin and Rachel Clun
Turnbull, Thatcher and Packer: Declassified files reveal tycoon’s brush with notorious Spycatcher case
Previously secret documents show how Australian media giant Kerry Packer was almost brought in to end a simmering legal stoush over a former spy’s revealing book.
- by Shane Wright
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The Dust of Death
Delay on deadly stone import ban until states sort out own deadlines
Australia’s states and territories agreed earlier this month to roll out the world’s first ban on engineered stone, which causes silicosis.
- by Angus Thompson
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Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Send navy to the Red Sea for sake of local economy: Dutton
The federal opposition leader says the Albanese government’s decision to focus on the Indo-Pacific is a “weak and incompetent” abandonment of our allies.
- by Paul Sakkal and Sumeyya Ilanbey
Best of cartoons, December 29, 2023
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