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• NACC chief updates official declaration of interests to disclose Defence link

  10-12-2025 21:08 via abc.net.au
  
  National Anti-Corruption Commission chief Paul Brereton has formally disclosed his consulting work for the Defence watchdog after the ABC revealed the links. 
  
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• Live: Mid-year budget update to show $12b spending blowout

  11-12-2025 20:59 via abc.net.au
  
  The treasurer and finance minister will need to find room for more than $12 billion in extra costs for "unavoidable" spending in the mid-year budget update. Follow live.
  
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• How Chinese 'snakeheads' turn illegal migration toward Australia

  11-12-2025 20:40 via abc.net.au
  
  Recent boat arrivals in Western Australia offer a glimpse into how routes through South-East Asia, particularly Indonesia, are being used to reach Australia.
  
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• Albanese's social media ban is bold, but it will take years to judge its success

  11-12-2025 19:53 via abc.net.au
  
  Parents will thank the government for giving them more agency in dealing with the social media issue but kids aren't voters and it is hard to see the issue deciding votes either way.
  
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• Fears around NDIS 'robo-plans' creating sense of deja vu

  11-12-2025 19:49 via abc.net.au
  
  The finer details of a new NDIS planning system are yet to be finalised, but it's already drawing comparisons to failed Coalition-era reforms, write Nas Campanella and Evan Young. 
  
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• Fears around NDIS 'robo-plans' creating sense of déjà vu

  11-12-2025 19:49 via abc.net.au
  
  The finer details of a new NDIS planning system are yet to be finalised, but it's already drawing comparisons to failed Coalition-era reforms, write Nas Campanella and Evan Young. 
  
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• Weekly news quiz: A furious bidding war, hilarious animals and the Ashes

  11-12-2025 19:30 via abc.net.au
  A lot happened in news this week. Did you take it all in?
  
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• On a Friday afternoon in December, the buck really did stop here

  11-12-2025 19:30 via abc.net.au
  
  It was a pivotal moment in the nation's history, forever changing the way we were governed and the way in which we interacted with the rest of the world.
  
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• How to see Australia's best meteor shower this weekend

  11-12-2025 19:30 via abc.net.au
  
  You'll need to get up early, but the views could be worth it to catch the best glimpse of the Geminids meteor shower this weekend.
  
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• Anti-corruption boss in open dispute with deputies over defence recusal

  11-12-2025 09:01 via abc.net.au
  
  The anti-corruption watchdog chief personally drafted lines in a media release saying his recusal from defence cases was "unnecessary". His deputies have publicly disagreed.
  
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• O'Farrell set to return in latest Tigers twist

  11-12-2025 07:45 via abc.net.au
  
  The boardroom dramas at Wests Tigers take another turn with Barry O'Farrell and multiple other ousted independent directors expected to return to the club at the NRL's demand. 
  
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• AOC offers cash incentives to keep Olympian mums in sport

  11-12-2025 07:34 via abc.net.au
  
  The Australian Olympic Committee hopes to keep more athletes in sport by offering cash incentives for women who return after having children, and tens of thousands of dollars for retiring Olympians.
  
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• 'Dirty secret' of higher education revealed as senate inquiry calls on universities to change

  11-12-2025 06:40 via abc.net.au
  
  The final report into governance has called for state and Commonwealth legislation to refocus universities on teaching and research. 
  
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• 'Betrayed, undermined and let down': Universities told to do better

  11-12-2025 06:40 via abc.net.au
  
  The final report into governance has called for state and Commonwealth legislation to refocus universities on teaching and research. 
  
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• China's impressive trade surplus is making things hard for trading partners

  11-12-2025 06:03 via abc.net.au
  
  China's record breaking one trillion-dollar trade surplus shows Trump's tariffs have done little to tame Beijing's export juggernaut. In fact, they might have turbocharged it instead.
  
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• MasterChef for porridge: Inside the world of The Golden Spurtle

  11-12-2025 04:05 via abc.net.au
  
  Every year, the Scottish town of Carrbridge hosts a porridge competition. Its contestants and chieftain are larger than life and celebrated in the new Aussie documentary The Golden Spurtle.
  
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• An Aussie doco about a Scottish porridge competition is winning hearts

  11-12-2025 04:05 via abc.net.au
  
  Every year, the Scottish town of Carrbridge hosts a porridge competition. Its contestants and chieftain are larger than life and celebrated in the new Aussie documentary The Golden Spurtle.
  
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• 'Christmas Grinch': States lash PM’s latest public hospital offer

  11-12-2025 03:51 via abc.net.au
  
  The prime minister wrote to states and territories this week, upping the Commonwealth's offer for public hospital funding.
  
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• PM accused of shirking responsibility on Wells controversy

  11-12-2025 03:36 via abc.net.au
  
  Pressed on whether his government should review the rules that allow politicians to fly their families around the country in business class, the prime minister says his focus is on the social media ban.
  
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• 'Not my focus': PM distances himself from politician spending rules

  11-12-2025 03:36 via abc.net.au
  
  Pressed on whether his government should review the rules that allow politicians to fly their families around the country in business class, the prime minister says his focus is on the social media ban.
  
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• 'Politically active' travellers most at risk over US proposal to reveal social media history

  11-12-2025 02:04 via abc.net.au
  
  Australians travelling to the United States could soon face an unprecedented invasion of privacy, an international law expert has warned. 
  
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• Breaking: Australia's unemployment rate remains at 4.3 per cent, but underemployment surges

  11-12-2025 01:51 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia's unemployment rate holds steady at 4.3 per cent in November, but the underemployment rate jumps to 12-month high.
  
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• Breaking: Australia's unemployment rate holds steady at 4.3 per cent in November

  11-12-2025 01:51 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia's unemployment rate holds steady at 4.3 per cent in November, but the underemployment rate jumps.
  
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• Australia's unemployment rate remains at 4.3 per cent, but underemployment surges

  11-12-2025 01:51 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia's unemployment rate holds steady at 4.3 per cent in November, but the underemployment rate jumps to 12-month high.
  
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• Collingwood staffer quits after alcohol-fuelled training camp incident

  11-12-2025 01:29 via abc.net.au
  
  A Collingwood employee hands in his resignation following an incident on an interstate trip that required an investigation by the club.
  
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• Regulator acts against super fund HESTA after 'severe, prolonged disruption'

  11-12-2025 01:25 via abc.net.au
  
  APRA says the fallout of HESTA's planned outage led to a "severe, prolonged disruption" that caused direct harm to some of its 1.1 million members, in a damning assessment of the fund.
  
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• 'Inappropriate relationship' with staffer sees $5.5m-a-year coach sacked

  11-12-2025 00:21 via abc.net.au
  
  Sherrone Moore's rollercoaster tenure with Michigan comes to an end midway through its second season as the college shows zero tolerance for his actions.
  
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• Hegseth praises Australia for 'stepping up' as Marles insists AUKUS is on track

  10-12-2025 23:51 via abc.net.au
  
  The defence minister insists the AUKUS program is on track to provide Australia with nuclear-powered submarines in the next decade — despite the delays plaguing shipbuilding programs in both the US and the UK.
  
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• 'The gays are here': How WNBA stars are revolutionising sports media

  10-12-2025 23:25 via abc.net.au
  
  The WNBA's 'StudBudz' are using live streaming to build a brand and community, while providing lessons in marketing women's sports. 
  
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• 'The gays are here': How these WNBA stars are revolutionising sports media

  10-12-2025 23:25 via abc.net.au
  
  The WNBA's 'StudBudz' are using live streaming to build a brand and community, while providing lessons in marketing women's sports. 
  
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