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Chop chop: Labor gains Greens support to 'guillotine' its way through the Senate

Politics

A man in a suit speaks in the Senate chamber.

Liberal senator Simon Birmingham retires from politics

Politics

A split image. On the left is Senator Pauline Hanson. On the right is Senator Lidia Thorpe.

'Highly irresponsible': Pauline Hanson's defamation warning to Lidia Thorpe, Nine

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'Line in the sand': Senator Lidia Thorpe suspended from parliament

Politics

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Independent Senator Fatima Payman and One Nation leader Pauline Hanson in the Senate chamber (AAP)

Payman to Hanson: "You bring disgrace to the human race"

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Middle East

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Race Discrimination Commissioner, Giridharan Sivaraman

INTERVIEW: Race Discrimination Commissioner Giridharan Sivaraman on the roadmap to eliminating racism

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Asylum Seeker Resource Centre chief executive Kon Karapanagiotidis

Asylum seeker advocates say the government is abandoning multicultural communities

Immigration

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South Australia’s Indigenous Voice has spoken in parliament for the first time today.

Inaugural address of South Australia's Indigenous Voice to Parliament

Australia

01:51
The bodies of Melbourne teenagers Bianca Jones and Holly Bowles have been returned home.

Australian teens' bodies returned from Laos, as arrests made

Australia

02:14
The parliament is set to endorse sweeping powers for the government to deport non-citizens to third countries and to ban foreigners from some nations.

Labor secures Coalition's support for controversial migration bills

Australia

02:09
The major parties have joined together to eject crossbench Senator Lidia Thorpe from the Senate in a highly unusual move.

Major parties suspend Lidia Thorpe after Senate clash

Australia

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Immigration & Visas

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'Families are going to be ripped apart': Labor's 'brutal' migration law trio, explained

Politics

Rival protests over refugees in Melbourne

A plan for Australia to end racism has been delivered, but some refugees 'wish they never came'

Australia

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Why international students like Huzaifa say they feel 'like a scapegoat'

Politics

People are seen walking along the Yarra Riverbank during the Moomba festival in Melbourne

Why Australian attitudes on immigration and religion have hardened but social cohesion is stable

Politics

World Politics

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Refugees in Bangladesh welcome potential prosecution of Myanmar's military leader

Asia

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Donald Trump appoints Keith Kellogg as special envoy for Ukraine and Russia

World

Two people on a motorbike ride past rubble.

As the ceasefire in Lebanon appears to hold, residents start returning home

World

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President Joe Biden Gives Remarks on Isreal-Lebanon Ceasefire Deal

Israel, Hezbollah announce ceasefire - but will it hold?

Middle East

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Gunfire heard across Beirut as Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire takes effect

World

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Special counsel Jack Smith has abandoned his cases against Donald Trump (AAP)

Cases against Donald Trump are dropped, but he is not exonerated

US Politics

A huge plume of smoke rises from an apartment building following an airstrike

Israeli security cabinet set to meet for vote on proposed ceasefire with Hezbollah

World

A man wearing a suit

US prosecutors drop 2020 election interference case against Donald Trump

World

COVID-19

An elderly woman in a light blue blouse rests her head against that of an elderly man lying in a hospital bed with tubes running into his nose.

Australia's life expectancy has fallen again and dropped in global rankings. Here's why

Life

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'Little difference' or alliance 'eroded': What the US election result could mean for Australia

World

A man wearing a suit

Australia to open permanent centre for disease control, health minister says

Politics

A woman wearing a face mask is vaccinated by someone also wearing a surgical face mask and white latex gloves.

A COVID vaccine mandate could be dumped. That doesn't mean it was a bad idea

COVID-19

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