7 h. ago New park locations revealed as Melbourne Cup delays council meeting

The new public precincts were announced at the first council meeting in more than a month following Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner’s Dubai trip.

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7 h. ago Council starts late on Cup Day, with parks and BOM on agenda

Two new public precincts were unveiled at the first council meeting since Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner returned from Dubai.

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8 h. ago Coalition tried to cut its climate losses – the result is predictably gory

Once again, climate change is roiling the Liberal Party and the Nationals; once again, it is pushing away the electorate.

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16 h. ago Trump’s tariffs face judgment day, and there’s a lot at stake

On Wednesday, the US Supreme Court will hear the Trump administration’s appeal against a lower court’s ruling that most of his extensive tariffs are illegal.

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16 h. ago ‘They got gangs here’: How Sydney got caught up in New York’s mayoral race

A candidate for mayor of New York City established a volunteer vigilante force to patrol Sydney’s train network in 1992. Here’s what he thought of Parramatta.

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16 h. ago ‘You must vote for him’: Trump intervenes in New York mayoral election

The US president’s brash push – for a Democrat – comes the night before an election set to be won by a 34-year-old democratic socialist.

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17 h. ago ‘Peace President’ Trump is driving a share bonanza for weapons makers

As the US president brands himself as the world’s peacemaker, defence stocks are absolutely booming.

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22 h. ago Republicans and Democrats are all playing with fire – while people suffer

Donald Trump may not be in nearly as much strife as Sussan Ley, but he is facing a pivotal week in his presidency and, as winter approaches, skating on thin ice with many Americans.

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22 h. ago Trump, Republicans and Democrats are all playing with fire – while people suffer

Donald Trump may not be in nearly as much strife as Sussan Ley, but he is facing a pivotal week in his presidency and, as winter approaches, skating on thin ice with many Americans.

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23 h. ago Trump may have started this global trade war, but Xi’s winning it

The US president’s tariff warfare has done more than generate choppy surf. It has unleashed chaos to the extent that it is rewiring international alliances.

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30 h. ago Three hours of free power for everyone from July – but there’s a catch

Electricity companies will be forced to offer a new type of bill plan that supplies all households – with and without solar panels – with free power during the middle of the day.

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36 h. ago ‘I’m not going to be extorted’: Trump is staring down millions of Americans

Millions of Americans are losing food stamps with the shutdown on the verge of becoming the longest in US history. But Trump, who spent the weekend hosting a Gatsby-themed ball at his Florida club, says he is not for turning.

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37 h. ago As the world’s greatest human crisis takes a hideous turn, Trump turns away

For a White House that loves a quick deal and a photo-op, a US-led answer to this crisis – which has rapidly deteriorated in the past week – seems unlikely.

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40 h. ago Pauline Hanson, Gina Rinehart sighted at Trump’s Halloween party

The One Nation senator and Australia’s richest person were both spotted at the president’s lavish Great Gatsby-themed Halloween bash in Florida.

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40 h. ago ‘We cannot hear the screams’: Sudan’s war takes horrific turn as Trump looks away

The US president insists he is the world’s greatest peacemaker – but ending the world’s greatest humanitarian disaster has not been a priority.

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40 h. ago As world’s greatest human crisis takes hideous turn, Trump turns away

For a White House that loves a quick deal and a photo-op, a US-led answer to this crisis – which has rapidly deteriorated in the past week – seems unlikely.

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42 h. ago After running 42km, a blink of an eye is all that could separate these two Kenyans in the NY Marathon

The ending of the New York Marathon has to be seen to be believed. Of the 50,000 runners who competed, the first two across the finish line were separated by just three hundredths of a second.

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42 h. ago After running 42km, a blink of an eye was all that separated these two Kenyans in the NY Marathon

The ending of the New York Marathon has to be seen to be believed. Of the 50,000 runners who competed, the first two across the finish line were separated by just three hundredths of a second.

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47 h. ago ‘Hot Girls 4 Zohran’, ‘Cool Girls For Capitalism’: Inside the mayoral election of the century

A 34-year-old Muslim socialist is poised to become mayor of America’s biggest city. Can Zohran Mamdani fulfil his ambitious promises, and how will he handle his collision course with Donald Trump?

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47 h. ago Mamdani is days away from becoming mayor – and putting New York in Trump’s crosshairs

Young and progressive, Democrats see their New York mayoral hopeful as key to the party’s future. But the US president thinks he’s a ‘Communist Lunatic’.

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