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July 31, 2025

On issues from Aukus to recognising Palestine, Victorian Labor’s base is determined to be heard

At the party’s state conference this weekend, members and unions will have their say. The question then becomes whether governments - federal and...

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July 31, 2025

Guardian Australia’s Carly Earl wins top award in 2025 Australian Life photography competition

Earl’s portrait of young drovers in central Queensland praised by judges for ‘beautiful insight into reality of life in rural Australia’

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July 31, 2025

Foreign spies are targeting defence employees working on Aukus, Asio boss reveals

Public servants and private contractors with access to sensitive national security information are making it easy for spies, including by posting on...

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July 31, 2025

Homeless people at Sydney’s Central station have belongings removed with advocates condemning ‘heavy-handed’ tactics

Majority of rough sleepers using site near light rail stop are women, who find it safer due to CCTV cameras and public location

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July 31, 2025

Queensland police union chief calls state government pay offer ‘grossly inadequate’ days after approving it

Shane Prior says Crisafulli government was ‘completely inflexible’ amid widespread member backlash over 8% pay deal he had previously described as...

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July 31, 2025

Snow predicted to fall in seven Australian states and territories this week

After heavy snowfall in alpine regions of NSW, Victoria, Tasmania and the ACT as well as in Western Australia, SA and Queensland could be next

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July 31, 2025

After-school carer charged with producing child abuse material at six facilities across northern Sydney

David James, 26, was arrested in late 2024 and charged with 13 offences but details not revealed until now due to court non-publication order

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July 31, 2025

Bruce Lehrmann claims police destroyed exonerating evidence and pending rape trial should be abandoned, court hears

Hard drive of audio recordings of witnesses and Lehrmann, copies of statements and videos destroyed by police, defence solicitor says

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July 31, 2025

Wiradjuri man Paul Coe, a ‘legend of the land rights movement’, dies age 76

The lawyer and activist who helped lead the Australian civil rights movement ‘changed the lives of Aboriginal people across the nation’Warning: This...

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July 31, 2025

Sam Groth’s wife Brittany publicly defends couple’s relationship as they threaten legal action against minister

Victorian Liberal deputy leader’s wife says timeline suggested in Herald Sun report relating to when she first began relationship with husband is...

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July 31, 2025

Supersized stick insect discovered in high-altitude trees in Australia

The 40cm-long insect, named Acrophylla alta, weighs slightly less than a golf ball and may be the heaviest insect in Australia

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July 31, 2025

Queensland Productivity Commission argues construction industry ‘reset’ needed to fix housing crisis and deliver Olympics

Commission’s interim report calls on LNP government to remove so-called ‘Best Practice Industry Conditions’ from procurement policy

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