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September 29, 2025

Turkey argues both countries can win from drawn-out contest with Australia over Cop31 hosting rights

Exclusive: Turkey’s climate minister says country is working on ‘innovative solutions’ as Labor privately downplays expectations impasse can be broken

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September 29, 2025

News live: Albanese urges UAE supermarket chain to challenge Australia’s duopoly

Prime minister wraps up overseas visit with meetings in United Arab Emirates. Follow today’s news liveGet our bre...

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September 29, 2025

Anika Wells to meet Singtel’s boss as Optus experiences second triple-zero outage in less than two weeks

Optus says it confirmed the welfare of all callers who called triple zero after an issue affected Illawarra region in NSW

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September 28, 2025

Albanese rallies behind Starmer, saying Labour can fight back the rise of populist right

Australian PM gives speech to UK Labour conference saying their parties must restore trust in government by solving big problemsGet our

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September 28, 2025

US private prisons operator to be paid $790m to hold 100 people on Nauru in quiet expansion of contract

A sixteenfold increase in the original contract without public notification raises allegations of ‘gross mismanagement’ and a process ‘run out of...

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September 28, 2025

Albanese rules out holding Australian republic referendum while he is prime minister

PM previously advocated for republic but has gradually backed away from pushing for constitutional change

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September 28, 2025

Lions coach hails AFL grand final win as ‘better than last year’ – as it happened

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September 28, 2025

Labor’s proposed FoI clampdown ‘ripe’ for high court challenge, legal expert says

Move to further restrict access to documents prepared for government ministers may go against the right to political free speechGet our

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September 27, 2025

Clive Palmer ordered to pay $13m after claim of being ‘foreign investor’ in Australian mining project thrown out

Attorney general says mining magnate is ‘not a foreign investor’ and is ‘not entitled to any benefits under Australia’s free trade and investment...

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September 27, 2025

Gay Malaysian man rejected for Australian protection visa could face persecution over sexuality, tribunal says

Home affairs to reconsider application after review finds man could be subject to physical harm, conversion practices and prosecution under sharia...

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September 26, 2025

Native forest logging must end in order to reach Labor’s emissions reduction target, expert says

Murray Watt says ‘it’s not the government’s intention to stop old growth logging’ as Greens and academics press for total halt

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September 25, 2025

Nobody wanted to say ‘mission accomplished’ on inflation – certainly not Jim Chalmers. But he was surely thinking it

Economists are revising their rate cut predictions after the latest ABS figures revealed inflation is trending back up. But there are reasons to...

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