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Australia’s Recognition of Palestine Challenges Netanyahu’s Brutality but Risks Falling Short Without Real Action
Global Village Space
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August 12, 2025
Australia will formally recognise a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly in September, joining a growing bloc of nations including the UK, France, and Canada. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese framed the decision as a step toward a two-state...
Robodebt whistleblower speaks out: Services Australia ostracised and targeted me after the royal commission
The Mandarin
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August 13, 2025
Jeannie-Marie Blake, a witness in the robodebt royal commission, has told a parliamentary committee that she feels “bastardised” by the government agency she worked for when she chose to sound the alarm on the welfare debt-collecting scheme known...
British and Irish Lions tour highlights Australia’s rugby revenue advantage over NZ – Gregor Paul
The New Zealand Herald
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August 13, 2025
The past six weeks or so have been one giant commercial flex by Australia, illustrating, through projection, the enormous difficulties New Zealand Rugby (NZR) faces commercialising the full potential of the All Blacks – the world’s best-known...
Virus 'previously exotic to Australia' found in Tasmanian potatoes
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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August 13, 2025
Potato mop-top virus has been found in crops on Tasmania's north-west coast, sparking the launch of an incident response team. The virus, which has never been detected in Australia before, distorts and rots the skin and flesh of potatoes. There...
How transparent is Australian aid?
The National
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Aid, by its very nature, is harder to monitor than domestic spending. This makes transparency integral to good aid practice. Transparency makes it easier for donor publics to track how their taxes are being spent. Transparency also makes it easier...
Australia's Airports Have Just Been Ranked for Convenience — and Melbourne's Tullamarine Has Been Voted the Worst
Concrete Playground
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August 12, 2025
For what seems like forever, locals and visitors alike have asked themselves: why doesn't Melbourne Airport have a rail link? Having been promised and walked back over, and over, and over again since the 1960s, this lack of convenience hasn't gone...
Use of AI could worsen racism and sexism in Australia, human rights commissioner warns
The Guardian
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August 13, 2025
AI risks entrenching racism and sexism in Australia, the human rights commissioner has warned, amid internal Labor debate about how to respond to the emerging technology. Lorraine Finlay says the pursuit of productivity gains from AI should not...
Can Australia rally the Indo-Pacific allies?
The Interpreter
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August 13, 2025
The selection of Japan’s Mogami class frigate for the Royal Australian Navy is a perfect springboard from which Australian diplomatic leadership could help rally America’s shaken Indo-Pacific allies in support of a favourable regional balance of...
Australia welcomes Armenia-Azerbaijan peace agreement, commends Trump’s role
Public Radio of Armenia
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August 12, 2025
Home | All news | Politics | Australia welcomes Armenia-Azerbaijan peace agreement, commends Trump’s role PoliticsTop Australia has welcomed the announcement of a peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan in Washington on 8 August 2025. “This...
Infectious syphilis cases on the rise across Australia
QNews
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August 13, 2025
Australia’s Chief Medical Officer has declared syphilis a ‘communicable disease incident of national significance’ as cases rise around the country. Over the past few years, syphilis has been making a comeback, and not in a good way. As a way to...
As South Australia’s toxic bloom lingers, politicians ramp up response
The Age
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August 13, 2025
Swaths of South Australia’s waters have been turned into “dead zones”, starved of oxygen by blooms of the microalgae Karenia mikimotoi, caused by a combination of an intense marine heatwave and agricultural runoff. Loading “It acts like a toxic...
Australia joins two-state call
The Daily Tribune - News Of Bahrain
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TDT | agencies Email : editor@newsofbahrain.com The global movement to recognise a Palestinian state received yesterday a big push with Australia declaring it will recognise it at the UN General Assembly in September. International concern is...
Australia’s interest rate obsession is stopping us having an important discussion about our economic future
The Guardian
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August 12, 2025
Australia has one of the highest levels of household debt among developed economies. Indeed, our collective household debt is greater than the size of our entire economy – at an eye-watering 112%, or more than double the European average. Most of...
Australia cuts interest rates to more than 2-year lows, downgrades economic growth forecast
CNBC
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August 12, 2025
Australia's central bank said on Wednesday that monetary policy was restrictive with the current cash rate causing financial pain for many households, but it could not rule out further tightening if necessary to tame inflation. Pavlo Gonchar |...
$500m naval base expansion Australia's 'biggest infrastructure project' in the Pacific
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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August 12, 2025
Australian taxpayers have spent around half a billion dollars to fund the expansion of Papua New Guinea's Lombrum naval base — well over double the $175 million price tag originally flagged by the federal government. The Defence Minister Richard...
Australia cuts interest rates by 25 bps to a two-year low of 3.6%
Cryptopolitan
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August 12, 2025
Australia’s central bank cut its interest rates by 25 basis points on Tuesday. The benchmark lending rates are now at 3.6%, the lowest since April 2023, which aligned with analysts’ expectations. The Reserve Bank of Australia acknowledged that the...
Australia: Independent review raises serious compliance concerns at SkyCity Adelaide
Gambling Insider
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Report highlights governance failures and risk management shortcomings. By Gambling Insider Key points: - Review finds inadequate controls over high-risk patrons and suspicious transactions - South Australian Government considering stronger casino...
Home affairs wrongfully detained Australian citizen for four days because of paperwork bungle, ombudsman reveals
The Guardian
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August 13, 2025
Home affairs wrongfully detained an Australian citizen because of an administration error, the Commonwealth Ombudsman has revealed, while another person with a valid visa was incorrectly held for 18 months in immigration detention. The Australian...
Australia's AUKUS boost as politicians on both sides send message to Trump
9News
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August 12, 2025
Politicians from both major parties in the United States are urging the Trump administration to maintain the three-way AUKUS security partnership designed to supply Australia with nuclear-powered submarines. It is a promising sign for Australia,...
Australian journalists’ union condemns targeted killing of Gaza journalists
Middle East Eye
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August 12, 2025
The Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) has released a statement condemning the targeted killing of the five Palestinian media workers and the killing of nearly 200 others "as a war crime." The organisation called Israel's accusation of...