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  • File photo of the Palestinian village al-Mughayyer in the West Bank through a damaged window after Israeli settlers attacked

    The bombshell legal ruling that made it impossible for Australia to delay sanctions against Israeli settlers

  • Nine has paid $100m for the broadcast rights for the Paris Olympic Games.

    Nine newspapers staff vote for five-day strike on eve of Paris Olympics

    Editorial staff from the Age, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian Financial Review, the Brisbane Times and WAtoday reject improved pay offer
  • Aerial view of glacier ice floating in the sea

    Man dies after trying to drive truck on to NSW ferry; global sea ice levels hit record low – as it happened

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  • Afternoon Update: Australia’s sanctions on Israeli settlers; farmers take on daylight saving; and what a Trump presidency means for Australia

  • Ex-coalminer awarded $3.2m for black lung in Australian first

  • Australian judge dismisses class action claiming Roundup causes cancer

  • Former WA justice boss concedes children subject to ‘institutional abuse’ under his watch, Cleveland Dodds inquest hears

  • LNP vows to scrap Labor’s Gold Coast schoolies pill testing plan if it wins power

  • Cathay Pacific flight from Sydney delayed for a day after junior pilot allegedly failed alcohol breath test

  • How Gina Rinehart and her backers pressured the NGA to remove her portrait

Australian politics

  • The minister for skills Brendan O’Connor, prime minister Anthony Albanese and minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney at a press conference in Sydney.

    Albanese to reshuffle ministry as Linda Burney and Brendan O’Connor announce retirement

  • Foreign Minister Penny Wong at a press conference in the blue room of Parliament House in Canberra this afternoon. Monday 5th February 2024. Photograph by Mike Bowers. Guardian Australia.

    Australia imposes sanctions on Israeli settlers and youth group over violent attacks on Palestinians

  • People at Mindil Beach in Darwin watch fighter jets roar past at sunset as part of Exercise Pitch Black.

    NT military exercise suspended after pilot escapes crash – as it happened

  • Signage is seen in the media room at the Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme in December 2022

    AFP dismisses allegation witness gave false evidence to robodebt royal commission

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Opinion & analysis

  • A collage of AI-generated images.

    From politics to porn: will 2024 be the year in which deepfake fears finally become real?

    Samantha Floreani
  • Greg Jericho

    A second Trump presidency would send Australia down a dark economic path. Here’s how it might play out

    Greg Jericho
  • Illustration showing an oil facility and US, Canada, Norway, UK and Australia national flags

    ‘Inexcusable’: should climate hypocrites get the petrostates label?

  • Rebecca Huntley

    For most young Australians, the dream of owning a home has moved into the realm of fantasy

    Rebecca Huntley
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Video

  • Australia Olympic team aware of alleged rape of Australian woman in Paris, team chief says – video

  • Almost one in three cattle on board a truck died, authorities have confirmed

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    At least 22 cattle dead after truck smashes into Melbourne rail bridge in ‘horrific’ crash - video

    Almost one in three cattle on board a truck died, authorities have confirmed
  • Christmas in July has arrived for ski resorts this weekend as the first widespread snowfall of the season blankets parts of Australia’s south-east, bringing more than 50cm falls in popular tourist destinations

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    Massive snowfall brings ‘super thick fresh powder snow’ to Australia’s alpine areas – video

    Christmas in July has arrived for ski resorts this weekend as the first widespread snowfall of the season blankets parts of Australia’s south-east, bringing more than 50cm falls in popular tourist destinations
  • The village will host more than 20,000 athletes and delegates throughout the Olympics and Paralympics

    Australian athletes begin to arrive at the Paris Olympic village – video

  • Police release video showing laser strike after a police helicopter was allegedly targeted in Rockingham

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    Police vision shows alleged helicopter laser strike in WA – video

  • Workplace relations minister Tony Burke has appointed the Fair Work Commission general manager, Murray Furlong, as an independent administrator of the CFMEU

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    Independent administrator of CFMEU announced in response to organised crime allegations – video

  • The lodge’s proprietors said it was the first – albeit brief – time they had seen snow there since 2015

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    Snow falls at Queensland lodge for first time in nearly a decade - video

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