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‘Expect the unexpected’: Parliament to reveal ghostly stories in expanded tours
RiotACT
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July 5, 2025
A former prime minister and a ‘Minister for Murder’ are among Canberra’s ghosts, according to rumour, anyway. Photo: Museum of Australian Democracy. Canberra’s dark nights are shining a light on spooky stories of the famous – and infamous – kind....
Australia: Midwives protest staffing cuts at Sydney’s RPA Hospital
World Socialist Web Site
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July 5, 2025
Part of the rally against staffing cuts at RPA Hospital on July 1, 2025Around 50 midwives and nurses held a demonstration outside Sydney’s Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (RPA) on Tuesday, to protest cuts to staffing in the hospital’s birthing...
Artist Khaled Sabsabi and curator reinstated to represent Australia at Venice Biennale
World Socialist Web Site
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July 5, 2025
In an extraordinary backflip, Creative Australia, the country’s principal arts funding body suddenly announced on Wednesday that it was reinstating artist Khaled Sabsabi and his curator Michael Dagostino as Australia’s representatives at the 2026...
Gallagher seizes control of Services Australia, Centrelink in massive welfare shake-up
The Mandarin
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July 4, 2025
The Albanese government has quietly extinguished the last structural remnants of the Howard government’s policy of separating frontline delivery of welfare services from over-arching policy development, with Katy Gallagher’s Department of Finance...
RBA rate cut pressure mounts as Australian dollar surges on US debt woes
PerthNow
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July 4, 2025
A “couple of storm fronts coming out of the US” has seen the Australian dollar soar in recent weeks, adding further pressure on the RBA to cut interest rates. Australia’s dollar hit an eight month high against the US dollar on the back of...
Wild kangaroo harvests are labelled ‘needlessly cruel’ by US lawmakers – but backed by Australian conservationists
The Guardian
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July 5, 2025
The bill, introduced into the US Senate last month, came with plenty of emotive and uncompromising language. “The mass killing of millions of kangaroos to make commercial products is needless and inhumane,” said the Democratic senator Tammy...
Australian Dollar Weakens As Stronger US Jobs Data Ease Pressure On Fed To Cut Rates
myMotherLode - California
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Friday, July 4, 2025 1:00 AM EDT Image Source: Unsplash The Australian Dollar declines against the US Dollar as solid US labor market data weaken hopes of Fed rate cuts. The House of Representatives passed President Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill...
‘A ticking time bomb’: How Australia’s reading slump is making us stupid
The Sydney Morning Herald
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July 4, 2025
Save Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Got it Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size Books no longer get the respect they deserve. There, I’ve said it. We’re living through the...
Australian PM identifies stimulating growth, productivity as economic priorities
Xinhua News Agency
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CANBERRA, July 4 (Xinhua) -- Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has identified stimulating growth and productivity as key economic priorities of his government's second term in power. In a major speech delivered on Friday in Sydney...
Michelle Grattan: Free speech fight reignites as sparks fly in Australian politics
The West Australian
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July 4, 2025
Political and news cycles often work in a certain and predictable way. Issues flare like bushfires, then rage for weeks or even months, until they are finally extinguished by action or fade by being overtaken by the next big thing. On two very...
Australia Eyes Surprise Inspections, CCTV in Childcare Centres After Abuse Case
The Epoch Times
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July 4, 2025
Australian Education Minister Jason Clare speaks during the Universities Australia Conference dinner at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, on Feb. 22, 2023. AAP Image/Mick Tsikas Spot checks, surveillance cameras, and funding cuts are on the...
Australian PM Backs ‘Australian Way’ at Economic Forum, Declines Tax Reform Commitments
The Epoch Times
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July 4, 2025
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks to media during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, on June 23, 2025. AAP Image/Lukas Coch Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says his government is focused on clearing red...
Australia Invests in $2B Green Hydrogen Push to Power Industry Without Fossil Fuels
The Epoch Times
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July 4, 2025
Federal Energy Minister Chris Bowen speaks to the media during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia on June 30, 2025. AAP Image/Lukas Coch The Albanese government has announced federal support for Orica’s Hunter Valley...
The ABC and Creative Australia panicked in the face of controversy. These vital institutions must not be so timid
The Guardian
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July 4, 2025
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” So wrote the poet William Butler Yeats, reflecting on “the blood-dimmed tide” of European politics after the first world war and the beginning of the Irish war of...
Abuse allegations have prompted distress and outrage - but will Australia’s childcare system be fixed?
The Guardian
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July 4, 2025
On Tuesday, Victoria police announced that a 26-year-old childcare worker, Joshua Dale Brown, had been charged with sexually abusing eight children, aged between five months and two years old, in his care. He has been charged with more than 70...
Australian envoy calls on Mirza Fakhrul
The Financial Express Bangladesh
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Australian High Commissioner in Bangladesh Susan Ryle on Thursday called on BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir at the party chairperson’s Gulshan political office. BNP Standing Committee members Dr. Abdul Moyeen Khan and Amir Khasru...
Aussies up in arms over huge change to sex offender laws in South Australia
Daily Mail
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July 4, 2025
A new ban on sex offenders working alongside children in the workplace has horrified Australians, who questioned why the 'common sense' law was not already in place. South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas proudly shared a short TikTok video to...
Bush Highlights Close Ties Between Americans, Australians
DVIDS - Georgia
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July 4, 2025
WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES 10.23.2003 Courtesy Story President Bush today reminded the world of the close ties between America and Australia during a speech to the Australian Parliament in which he praised the "Land Down Under" for its support in...
Australia-Tuvalu mobility pathway: does it address the climate crisis?
The Pacific Island Times
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July 2, 2025
Tuvalu/Photo courtesy of Jess Marinaccio On June 11, the Tuvaluan and Australian governments issued press releases announcing that the inaugural ballot for the Falepili Mobility Pathway would open on June 16. Part of the Australia-Tuvalu Falepili...
Scientists Call on Australian Government to Develop National Bioeconomy Strategy
Green Queen
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July 4, 2025
4 Mins Read Australia must develop a national bioeconomy strategy and invest in new infrastructure to unlock key economic growth opportunities, scientists say in a new report. Home to some of the world’s leading food tech companies, Australia has...