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Australian Federal Police have declined to explain a seemingly digitally altered mugshot of illicit tobacco kingpin Kazem Hamad, which was supplied by Iraqi authorities.
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Telstra has announced plans to axe another 650 jobs just eight months after cutting 550 roles, with work being outsourced to India.
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Tony Abbott has blasted Grace Tame, saying she is an unworthy recipient" of Australian of the Year.
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A Liberal frontbencher has just resigned kicking off an expected round of mass resignations in support of Angus Taylor.
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The first Liberal frontbencher has followed Angus Taylor in quitting from Sussan Ley's frontbench as a leadership challenge looms.
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As the number and value of new mortgages rockets upward, new data highlights the fiercely competitive" truth behind the housing market.
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Police are searching bushland outside Launceston for a man who reportedly went collecting firewood with a friend on Sunday.
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The government has been forced to defend plans to sell off Defence sites across Australia, despite the sale expected to net only a fraction of a frigate's cost.
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It was an online faux pas that became a viral sensation. And Aussies aren't about to let Angus Taylor forget it.
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Amid the former political staffer's last-ditch bid to overturn a damaging legal loss, Bruce Lehrmann has made another huge move.
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Labor's rank and file are hitting out at the state leader after he backed the controversial actions of police during pro-Palestine demonstrations.
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Telstra has announced plans to axe another 650 jobs just eight months after cutting 550 roles, with work being outsourced to India.
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The Albanese government is taking another shot at shaking up superannuation after abandoning its last bid.
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Two Chinese nationals who allegedly spied on a Buddhist association are the latest individuals to be caught in a foreign interference crackdown.
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A French tourist accused of raping a woman during New Year's celebrations was allegedly arrested at the airport with his bags packed, a court has been told.
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The former Australian of the Year has responded to politicians' call for her to be stripped of the honour for using violent rhetoric".
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The threat to Sussan Ley's leadership is coming to a head, with sources saying her long-rumoured challenger needs to take his shot now or not at all.
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A find inside a shed in Lismore in northern NSW has led police to charge five men over an alleged $14m trafficking syndicate.
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Taxpayers face a bill of thousands of dollars if Angus Taylor challenges Sussan Ley for the Liberal leadership. Follow live.
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South Australia's top cop says a court's decision to spare a woman from jail after she glassed an officer during a violent football brawl sends the wrong message".
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A forensic team is closer to learning what happened to a Belgian tourist who disappeared in Tasmania's wilderness almost three years ago.
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A guide to leadership spills cited by a now dead MP is being touted by backers of Angus Taylor - but Sussan Ley supporters say he will need to blast her out
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Security has been increased in Canberra as the Israeli President's travels to the capital for the third day of his official state visit to Australia.
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A new discovery has been made in the search for a missing Belgian tourist, after human remains were found near where she vanished.
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A demonstration against alleged police brutality" in Sydney turned ugly as protesters clashed with officers.
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Jann Alhafny is recovering in hospital with four broken vertebrae after being pushed onto the ground by police at an anti-Israel protest in Sydney.
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A paedophile has been jailed after his sick plot to kidnap and sexually abuse a young girl in a home-made dungeon was unearthed by cops.
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Labor MPs are getting out ahead of a potential leadership spill by slamming challenger Angus Taylor's born to rule entitlement". Follow live.
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Hate preachers are getting legal advice to pursue radical recruitment", the AFP chief has warned.
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While an alleged kingpin of Australia's illicit tobacco trade sits in a secret Iraqi prison, Australian police say a vulnerable power vacuum has opened in his syndicate.
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A trainee masseuse at a popular wellness chain has been jailed for four years after the opportunistic" sexual assault of a massage client.
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ABC boss Hugh Marks has been grilled over a documentary acquired by the national broadcaster, which a Liberal senator claims peddles a false" Brittany Higgins' claim.
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The effects of an Optus software outage on Monday have lingered well into Tuesday for some 35,000 customers, the telco says.
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A 69-year-old masseuse who sexually assaulted a young woman during a massage in 2023 has learnt his fate.
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The Albanese government has not changed its position on so-called ISIS brides in the wake of the Bondi Beach terror attack, officials have revealed.
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Australian insurance giants have suffered their worst day in months as AI disruption fears triggered by a US app launch wiped sparked sharp sell offs.
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There was no shortage of drama in the NBA as not one but two brawls played out across the same night.
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A man caught importing a child sex doll has been jailed for seven years after police discovered he had planned an abduction.
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At least 100 armed police officers have formed ahead of a snap demonstration against alleged police brutality".
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Sussan Ley has left her colleagues stunned with a one-line response to her critics in the party room.
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A magistrate has slammed the behaviour of a man who made death threats to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during a social media tirade.
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A little girl will grow up without her mother and grandfather after they were killed in a triple-fatal car accident.
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Protesters eyeing a second night of rallying in Sydney have been told there will be no difference' in the police response, after violent scenes in the CBD on Monday.
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Essendon has a new boss and he has a vision to reinstate the club's status as one of a competition giant.
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Pressure is mounting on Angus Taylor to act on his leadership aspirations, with a source putting a limit on his drawn-out undeclared bid.
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One of the most famed Australians of the Year is facing severe criticism for leading a chant widely condemned as anti-Semitic at a violent protest on Monday.
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A Sydney barrister has been found dead inside his Sydney inner west home just weeks after being charged with child abuse material offences.
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The former Australian of the Year is under fire after leading a controversial chant moments before Sydney's CBD erupted into chaos.
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A former phone executive is among six Australians branded illegal aliens" arrested for removal in Trump's mass deportation campaign.
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Sussan Ley has left her colleagues stunned with a one-line reponse to her critics in the party room.