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Only the rare few are remembered for their legacy
Queanbeyan CityNews
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August 18, 2025
Anthony Albanese… perhaps at a zenith very few leaders have reached this century. Photo: Mick Tsikas/AAP “The speech the PM gave on recognition of a Palestinian state is one of the best I’ve heard this decade in federal parliament… Will there be...
‘Un-Australian’: Why there’s fury over this illegal Sydney vape store near Albo’s office
Sky News Australia
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August 15, 2025
Illegal vape stores are becoming increasingly “un-Australian”, according to some Sydney locals who are furious over one shop just metres from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s electorate office. The newly opened store, named ‘Labubu Stop & Shop’,...
Australian EV sales up 60 pct to record high
Xinhua News Agency
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CANBERRA, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- Electric vehicle sales in Australia rose by over 60 percent to a record high in the second quarter of 2025, according to official data. In a report published on Thursday, the peak motoring NGO, the Australian...
CA ANZ calls for collaborative economic reforms
The Accountant
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August 18, 2025
Chartered Accountants ANZ (CA ANZ) has called for a focus on collaboration and leadership during the Economic Reform Roundtable held at Parliament House, emphasising the need to capitalise on opportunities that could enhance Australia’s economic...
GREAT KAUSE: Annual Kammy’s Kause event returns to help fund research, this year forming a new nonprofit
Daily Reporter - Indiana
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August 15, 2025
Jared Hiner, center, and his daughter Kammy join other families affected by Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome at the 2021 Kammy's Kause at Fortville's Landmark Park. The annual music event raises funds for families impacted by the chromosomal disorder,...
India Men's National Hockey Suffers 1-4 Loss Against Australia in First Match of Test Series 2025
Latestly
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August 15, 2025
India men's Hockey team started their Australia tour with an unwanted loss in the first match. India are currently preparing for the upcoming Hockey World Cup 2026 and they are touring Australia for a good preparation ahead of the mega...
Australia keeping military exports to Israel flowing during Gaza war
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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August 13, 2025
The federal government has upheld dozens of military export permits to Israel, raising fresh questions about Australia's weapons transfers throughout the war in Gaza. Australia continues to deny that it supplies weapons and ammunition to Israel,...
‘Post and boast’ laws aim to stop young Australians glorifying crimes. Will they drive them deeper into ‘a failing justice system’?
The Guardian
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August 15, 2025
It is 1.30am in the New South Wales town of Moree, and a 16-year-old passenger in a stolen Audi is using his phone to film the speedometer as the needle climbs towards 150km/h. He shares the video with his friends on the social media app Snapchat,...
The economic roundtable is Jim Chalmers’ chance for bold reform. Australians can’t afford anything less | Tom McIlroy
The Guardian
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August 15, 2025
Jim Chalmers had a determined look about him this week, ahead of the government’s much-hyped economic reform roundtable in Canberra. The atmosphere in the treasurer’s office was reminiscent of the days immediately before a federal budget, with...
Can you remember 1975? National Library exhibition explores life in Australia in the seventies
RiotACT
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August 15, 2025
Gough Whitlam speaking on the steps of Parliament House, Canberra, 11 November 1975. Photo: NLA. At the perspective of half a century, how do we remember life in Australia in 1975? In terms of politics, it was a year that dashed the hopes and...
Over 2 600 people intend to vote by mail in the parliamentary elections
IPN
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August 15, 2025
0 More than 2 600 people have expressed their intention to vote in the parliamentary elections by mail. The data is presented by the Central Electoral Commission in the context of the registration process for postal voting being completed, IPN...
Hidden city in NSW that could have been the capital of Australia is re-discovered by urban planner
Sky News Australia
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August 15, 2025
A Canadian urban planner has found the remains of a hidden city in the NSW Hunter Valley that could have once been Australia’s capital city. Sam Austin, who is an urban planner based in Sydney, said he found the place by accident whilst fiddling...
Australia and Vanuatu agree to pact worth $500m atop a volcano
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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August 13, 2025
Senior ministers from Australia and Vanuatu have trooped to the top of an active volcano on the island of Tanna for a ceremony to celebrate a major new pact between the two countries. Foreign Minister Penny Wong, Deputy Prime Minister Richard...
Landmark reforms to make parenthood accessible for more Western Australians
The National Tribune
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August 15, 2025
New laws to improve access to assisted reproductive technology (ART) and surrogacy are a step closer with the Cook Labor Government introducing landmark legislation in Parliament this week – delivering long-awaited changes to support more people...
Federal Government urged to act now on mental health and psychosocial disability reform
Croakey Health Media
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August 18, 2025
Introduction by Croakey: The Federal Government are being urged by a coalition of mental health experts and groups to coordinate a whole-of-government response to the mental health crisis including by developing national mental health targets. In...
Australian Council of Trade Unions Proposes 4-Day Work Week
The Epoch Times
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August 13, 2025
Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) President Michele O'Neil and workers from various sectors at a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia on July 30, 2025. AAP Image/Mick Tsikas A major union is proposing a radical...
Parliamentary Panel Urges Boost for Traditional Leather Products after Kolhapuri Chappal Row
Knowledge & News Network
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August 13, 2025
New Delhi, Aug 13 (KNN) A team of experts from Italian luxury brand Prada visited Maharashtra’s Kolhapur on Wednesday to meet local artisans and review the manufacturing process of the region’s iconic flat sandals, just days after facing...
‘A psychological prison’: Australia-first inquiry to investigate cults in Victoria
Upper Yarra Star Mail
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August 15, 2025
By Oliver Winn Hearings for an Australia-first parliamentary inquiry into cults wrapped up on 31 July after submissions from Victorians all over the state, including one influential case from the Yarra Ranges. The inquiry will investigate the...
We should hang our heads in shame over how Australia treated our diggers today. The few WWII survivors who remain deserved far better
Daily Mail
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August 15, 2025
Today, Friday, August 15, 2025, marks the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Pacific and the end of the Second World War. It should be a day that commands the nation's full attention. Instead, the Labor government is phoning it in. A speech from...
Australia pays premium price for Pacific partnership
The Interpreter
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August 13, 2025
How can you put a price on shared values? If you guessed “around $500 million”, you’d be spot on. That’s how much the new “Nakamal Agreement” between Australia and Vanuatu is reportedly costed at. A high-level Australian delegation has flown into...