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• How Cummins beat the odds to set up Ashes return

  16-12-2025 05:11 via abc.net.au
  
  It normally takes four months to come back from the injury that has sidelined Pat Cummins thus far during the Ashes, but the Australian skipper is set to return after just seven weeks.
  
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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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• Humbled Albanese shifts gear as Jewish community's anger builds

  18-12-2025 04:46 via abc.net.au
  
  This was a humbled prime minister. Showing contrition, some regret, and an acknowledgement more could have been done.
  
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• A humbled PM shifts gear as Jewish community's anger builds

  18-12-2025 04:46 via abc.net.au
  
  This was a humbled prime minister. Showing contrition, some regret, and an acknowledgement more could have been done.
  
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• 'Massively out of sync' tech questioned after DRS 'error' bails out Carey

  18-12-2025 02:56 via abc.net.au
  
  The use of "Snicko" in the Ashes is questioned after yet another DRS controversy in the third Ashes Test frustrates England and helps Alex Carey to a Test century.
  
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• The best new movies of 2025 from Sinners to KPop Demon Hunters

  18-12-2025 02:07 via abc.net.au
  
  From Australian-made gore to sugar-rush animation, here are the films that had our critics seated and watching this year.
  
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• Netwealth strikes $100m ASIC deal to compensate First Guardian investors

  18-12-2025 02:02 via abc.net.au
  
  Financial services company Netwealth has agreed to pay more than $100 million to 1,300 clients who invested in the failed First Guardian super fund through its platform.
  
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• Review into Optus Triple Zero failures released

  18-12-2025 01:54 via abc.net.au
  
  Optus has released a long-awaited review into September's network outage which left hundreds of people unable to reach Triple Zero and was linked to two deaths.
  
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• Breaking: Review into Optus Triple Zero failures released

  18-12-2025 01:54 via abc.net.au
  
  Optus has released a long-awaited review into September's network outage which left hundreds of people unable to reach Triple Zero and was linked to two deaths.
  
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• Coalition 'flabbergasted' by Labor's response to royal commission calls

  18-12-2025 00:18 via abc.net.au
  
  The opposition has criticised the government for brushing aside calls for a royal commission into antisemitism, as pressure mounts on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to act in the wake of the deadly terror attack on Sydney's Jewish community. 
  
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• Coalition 'flabbergasted' by Labor's response to calls for Bondi royal commission

  18-12-2025 00:18 via abc.net.au
  
  The opposition has criticised the government for brushing aside calls for a royal commission into antisemitism, as pressure mounts on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to act in the wake of the deadly terror attack on Sydney's Jewish community. 
  
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• Live: England gets DRS review back after snicko controversy

  17-12-2025 23:54 via abc.net.au
  
  England gets a review reinstated after it is suggested a DRS error handed Alex Carey a life during day one of the third Ashes Test at the Adelaide Oval. Follow live.
  
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• Live: Australia's tail swings hard after DRS controversy grants England fresh review

  17-12-2025 23:54 via abc.net.au
  
  England gets a review reinstated after it is suggested a DRS error handed Alex Carey a life during day one of the third Ashes Test at the Adelaide Oval. Follow live.
  
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• Live: Australia in search of lower-order runs after DRS controversy

  17-12-2025 23:54 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia begins day two of the Adelaide Ashes Test on 8-326 after it is suggested a DRS error handed day one centurion Alex Carey a life on 72. Follow live.
  
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• Live: Australia bowled out after lower order hitting on day two in Adelaide

  17-12-2025 23:54 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia is bowled out for 371 but not before its tail adds 45 runs as DRS controversy rages on day two of the third Ashes Test. Follow live.
  
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• Live: More than $100m compensation to be paid to First Guardian investors

  17-12-2025 21:48 via abc.net.au
  
  Netwealth will pay out more than $100 million to First Guardian investors after it struck a deal with the corporate watchdog. Follow the day's events and insights as they happen with our business reporters on the ABC News live markets blog. 
  
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• Live: AI worries drive Wall Street tech down, ASX to open flat

  17-12-2025 21:48 via abc.net.au
  
  Bellwether AI stocks trade significantly lower on Wall Street, sending the tech-heavy Nasdaq down 1.4 per cent. Follow the day's events and insights as they happen with our business reporters on the ABC News live markets blog. 
  
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• Live: AI fears drive Wall Street tech index down, ASX to open flat

  17-12-2025 21:48 via abc.net.au
  
  Bellwether AI stocks trade significantly lower on Wall Street, sending the tech-heavy Nasdaq down 1.4 per cent. Follow the day's events and insights as they happen with our business reporters on the ABC News live markets blog. 
  
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