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• Breaking: Peter Dutton to lose own seat of Dickson, ABC projects

  03-05-2025 12:50 via abc.net.au
  
  The leader of the Liberal Party, Peter Dutton, is in trouble in his own seat of Dickson in Queensland. His loss would leave the Coalition without its leader in a defeat that would represent a disaster for the party.
  
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• How 'half-brained' thieves snatched a $50m Picasso in under four minutes

  19-12-2025 19:30 via abc.net.au
  
  The 2007 Brazilian heist was not the last time a nimble thief made off with a Picasso. And as many Melburnians know, it certainly wasn't the first.
  
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• Albanese has become the nation's lightning rod for Bondi accountability

  19-12-2025 19:00 via abc.net.au
  
  While Albanese will forever struggle to shed the perception that he was too slow to recognise the threat to Australia's Jewish community — he is taking action. 
  
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• Five quick hits: Brook hands Head a hundred and Stokes blows his stack

  19-12-2025 08:16 via abc.net.au
  
  Harry Brook drops Travis Head on 99, which would have only soured the mood of his captain, who started the day already pretty ticked off. Here are the quick hits from day three of the third Ashes Test in Adelaide.
  
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• Five quick hits: Ben bins Bazball and blows his stack

  19-12-2025 08:16 via abc.net.au
  
  Harry Brook drops Travis Head on 99, which would have only soured the mood of his captain, who started the day already pretty ticked off. Here are the quick hits from day three of the third Ashes Test in Adelaide.
  
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• Here's what we know about the new gun buyback scheme

  19-12-2025 04:14 via abc.net.au
  
  Days after the Bondi terror attack, the federal government has announced a new national buyback scheme. 
  
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• 'Careers are at risk': Cricketers union demands Snicko overhaul

  19-12-2025 02:10 via abc.net.au
  
  Australian Cricketers Association boss Paul Marsh has called for an investigation into Snicko, saying careers are being affected by the technology's lack of precision.
  
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• PM announces 'largest' gun buyback scheme since Howard era

  19-12-2025 01:26 via abc.net.au
  
  Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced a national gun buyback scheme, days after a deadly terror attack on a Hanukkah celebration. 
  
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• Breaking: PM announces 'largest' gun buyback scheme since Howard era

  19-12-2025 01:26 via abc.net.au
  
  Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced a national gun buyback scheme, days after a deadly terror attack on a Hanukkah celebration. 
  
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• 'People are numb': How to show support after the Bondi attack

  19-12-2025 01:10 via abc.net.au
  
  While you might be feeling a sense of helplessness after the attack at Bondi Beach, there are ways to convert those feelings into small acts of support and kindness.
  
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• Live: Stokes creeps past 50 as England battles on in Adelaide

  19-12-2025 00:02 via abc.net.au
  
  England captain Ben Stokes notches the slowest half century of his Test match career as Australia hunts a big first-innings lead on day three in Adelaide. Follow live.
  
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• Live: Stokes battles on as Australia eyes big first-innings lead

  19-12-2025 00:02 via abc.net.au
  
  England captain Ben Stokes stands between Australia and an imposing first-innings lead on day three of the third Ashes Test at the Adelaide Oval. Follow live.
  
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• Live: Ben Stokes finally falls as Australia takes healthy lead into second innings

  19-12-2025 00:02 via abc.net.au
  
  England captain Ben Stokes is bowled by Mitchell Starc after notching the slowest half-century of his Test match career as the tourists are bowled out 85 runs short of Australia on day three in Adelaide. Follow live.
  
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• Live: Australia takes the new ball as Stokes and Archer dig in on day three

  19-12-2025 00:02 via abc.net.au
  
  England captain Ben Stokes notches the slowest half century of his Test match career as Australia hunts a big first-innings lead on day three in Adelaide. Follow live.
  
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• Live: Wall St gains on renewed Fed rate cut hopes, ASX to rise

  18-12-2025 21:47 via abc.net.au
  
  A rally on Wall Street is likely to send Australian stocks higher, as a soft inflation report feeds expectations for interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve. Follow the latest updates in our live blog.
  
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• Live: Macquarie to pay $35m penalty for misreporting short sales

  18-12-2025 21:47 via abc.net.au
  
  A rally on Wall Street sends Australian stocks higher, as a soft inflation report feeds expectations for interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve. Follow the latest updates in our live blog.
  
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• Live: ASX rises as Wall St gains on renewed Fed rate cut hopes

  18-12-2025 21:47 via abc.net.au
  
  A rally on Wall Street has sent Australian stocks higher, as a soft inflation report feeds expectations for interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve. Follow the latest updates in our live blog.
  
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• Albanese forced into policy catch-up after Bondi atrocity

  18-12-2025 21:00 via abc.net.au
  
  In an extraordinary personal censure, Australia's Jewish community effectively denied Anthony Albanese the role of being the nation's chief public mourner in this week of national tragedy.
  
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• Live: Thousands at Bondi Beach for memorial service

  18-12-2025 20:43 via abc.net.au
  
  Thousands of people gather at Bondi Beach to paddle out into the water to hold a minute's silence for the victims killed on Sunday. 
  
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• Live: Hundreds expected at Bondi Beach for memorial service

  18-12-2025 20:43 via abc.net.au
  Thousands of people gather at Bondi Beach to paddle out into the water to hold a minute's silence for the victims killed on Sunday. 
  
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• 'A billion rupiah in a year': Indonesian influencers glamorise Australia

  18-12-2025 20:10 via abc.net.au
  
  Influencers push a false promise of easy money and a better life in Australia with a Work and Holiday Visa, inspiring young Indonesians to take extreme measures to chase an almost unrealisable dream.
  
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• Inside the classified mission to deliver Australian tanks to Ukraine

  18-12-2025 20:03 via abc.net.au
  
  The ABC is granted exclusive access to the ADF operation to transport M1A1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, via Poland, which included an ocean voyage of more than 50 days.
  
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• ASIO's 'grim reality' as it picks over Bondi intelligence gaps

  18-12-2025 19:54 via abc.net.au
  
  As Australia's intelligence agencies look back over how the Bondi attackers were missed, a "grim reality" of their jobs confronts the country.
  
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• Tougher hate speech laws used four times before vow to rework them

  18-12-2025 19:49 via abc.net.au
  
  Tough federal hate speech laws that the government held up as evidence it acted on antisemitism have been used four times, with it now conceding they do not go far enough.
  
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• Humanoid robots are coming, but can they win our hearts and minds?

  18-12-2025 19:30 via abc.net.au
  
  Humanoid robots may be part of our future, but human psychology and the uncanny valley may stand between them and world domination.
  
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• Five quick hits: Snicko chaos, catching controversy and a Bazball bust-up

  18-12-2025 08:10 via abc.net.au
  
  Ben Stokes and Jofra Archer share a robust conversation, Snicko is decried as "the worst ever" and another catching controversy. Here are the quick hits from day two of the third Ashes Test.
  
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• Adelaide Test reduced to 'absolute shambles' as DRS debacle hits day two

  18-12-2025 07:36 via abc.net.au
  
  A series of strange decisions by umpires further erodes any trust in the DRS process as day two at the Adelaide Oval devolves into "shambles" and "chaos".
  
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• No school should need armed security, but that's the backdrop to antisemitism review

  18-12-2025 07:15 via abc.net.au
  
  The focus will turn from the threats outside the gate to those some critics say are embedded within education from a lack of Holocaust education to the harassment of Jewish students at universities. 
  
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• Corruption charges laid against Qld public officers after 'extensive' probe

  18-12-2025 05:22 via abc.net.au
  
  Crime and Corruption Commission (CCC) Queensland alleges five public officers accepted secret payments from sales representatives from a medical device company to place its equipment in the state's public hospitals.
  
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• Optus in race against time after damning Triple Zero outage review

  18-12-2025 05:11 via abc.net.au
  
  Kerry Schott's report into the Triple Zero outage debacle increases pressure on Optus to implement 21 recommendations, some of them "urgent", and highlights numerous errors.
  
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