63 m. ago Australia news LIVE: Wells under fire for fresh travel expense revelation; Victorian premier formally apologises to First Peoples

Follow along as we bring you the latest live news updates from Australia and beyond.

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2 h. ago ‘People want me to fail’: The woman in charge of enforcing Australia’s social media ban feels the heat

Julie Inman Grant is battling tech giants and High Court challenges while navigating her 13-year-old daughter’s conviction that the ban will “ruin her life”.

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9 h. ago Top cop’s plea for alleged Sydney victims of notorious daycare paedophile

Ashley Paul Griffith allegedly abused two dozen children in NSW, the eldest aged only four. Detective Chief Inspector Peter Yeomans wants him brought to justice.

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19 h. ago My suburb makes some people panic, but it’s a case of mistaken identity

After a wrong turn off the Tulla freeway on the way to the airport, you’re lost. You think you might be in a suburb whose reputation has you nervously looking for knives.

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19 h. ago My village suburb makes some people nervous, but the hoons brought me here

You’ve probably never heard of this place. And what’s with locals calling it a village? But you have to admit it has charm.

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26 h. ago When the party’s over: why you ‘break’ emotionally and physically at year’s end

As the music fades and the bubbles go flat, Australia’s most relied-on people are quietly unravelling. Behind the festive cheer lies an emotional reckoning and the fleeting illusion of rest before it all begins again.

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32 h. ago ‘May the force be with you’: A relentless night in a Ukrainian bomb shelter

The air raid alarm goes off and the iPhone starts talking in an American accent, urging listeners to seek shelter. It’s 1.23am and our correspondent is about to witness what is a routine night for millions of people across this war-ravaged country.

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32 h. ago A relentless night hunkered down in a missile shelter as Russia attacks

The air raid alarms go off all through the night, urging people to seek shelter. Our correspondent experiences what is a routine night for millions of Ukrainians.

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32 h. ago First, the alarm goes off. Then my iPhone starts talking in an American accent

It’s 1.23am and our correspondent is about to witness what is a routine night for millions of people here.

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32 h. ago That familiar stranger you see every day on the bus is disappearing. Here’s why

You might never speak to them, or even make eye contact, but there are probably a few people you recognise on your regular commute. But researchers say they’re becoming less common.

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41 h. ago How $2b could be redirected from the NDIS and help 230,000 more people

As health ministers prepare to meet, this blueprint says they don’t need to spend more to fix a gaping hole in support for 230,000 people with debilitating mental illnesses.

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44 h. ago Health Minister still reviewing report on child gender services, as more than 400 sign petition

A review into Queensland’s gender services for young people was finalised a week ago, but the health minister said he is yet to finish reading it.

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57 h. ago ‘People will always want what we sell’: Inside the world of Sydney’s Arab jewellers

Western Sydney’s Iraqi artisans are a growing micro-economy built around a very specific product.

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57 h. ago Education needed to keep everyone safe at state’s swim spots

Royal Life Saving Australia continues to raise the alarm about the public’s water safety knowledge, particularly among people born overseas. 

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3 d. ago Lady Gaga returns to Melbourne – and her pop glory – with gothic, melodramatic opera

After emerging atop a giant birdcage, the megastar writhes in a sandpit filled with skeletons, is brought back to life by demonic nurses and plunges the stage into smoke and emerald green.

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3 d. ago ‘Out of the station and into a paddock’: Arden station is open, so where’s the suburb?

Arden is meant to be the latest attempt to turn a patch of gritty industrial land into a thriving suburb. But the precinct faces flood risks and a 30-year build-out.

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3 d. ago ‘I’ve had people in my office crying’: The three ways underquoting stings sellers

The new revelations came at a critical point in the debate about how to tackle underquoting in Australia’s two largest cities.

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3 d. ago Diabetic driver in bid to dodge Daylesford pub crash inquest

A driver with diabetes who ploughed into and killed five people outside a pub in regional Victoria will object to giving evidence at an inquest.

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3 d. ago ‘The Tasmanian people have spoken’: Devils on track for AFL entry, but $1.13b stadium a year behind

After years of public debate, controversial plans for Macquarie Point stadium in Hobart have passed Tasmania’s upper house.

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4 d. ago Fears sewage leak from cracked pipe could flow into Sydney Harbour

Emergency works are under way to fix a cracked sewerage pipe nine metres beneath an inner-city Sydney suburb.

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