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Staff front 'kangaroo court' probe after arrest threat

A premier's staff have reluctantly fronted an inquiry into controversial hate speech laws after being threatened with arrest.

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NSW premier was guided by police when he characterised explosive-laden caravan as terrorism, Minns’ team says

Staffers from offices of NSW premier and police minister grilled at parliamentary inquiry into Dural caravan plot

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Morning Mail: Ley leads Coalition reform push, fears over school absenteeism, club’s Savage truth

Liberal leader to hold party room meeting to discuss reform and election defeat; Melbourne club obliged to admit ‘lady guests’

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'They're monsters': teen's murderers get life in prison

The mother of a murdered Indigenous boy says her son's killers are "monsters", after the man who delivered the fatal blows was jailed for at least 22 years.

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Queensland public servants forbidden from including acknowledgments of country in email signatures, Labor says

Government denies it issued directive, but opposition MP Leeanne Enoch says whistleblower has shared document outlining the decision

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A rising proportion of Australian students aren’t going to school – and there’s not just one way to get them back, report says

Exclusive: Report from Independent Schools Australia calls for data collection on student school refusal to better tackle rising absenteeism

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Review of NSW Labor’s controversial $37m election fund urges rapid overhaul of grant guidelines

Auditor general’s report on LSCA scheme calls for new rules to deal with election promises that later lead to government funding

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MP's alleged sex abuse victim quizzed on 'prank'

A man has been grilled on whether he fell, passed out, or was pulling a prank in the moments before he was allegedly indecently assaulted by a state MP.

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Ley pledges 'alternatives Australians can believe in'

Sussan Ley has presided over her first shadow cabinet meeting after the coalition's election loss vowing to rebuild as they hold the government to account.

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Maori Party MP Kemp dies in New Zealand

The Maori Party is mourning one of its MPs, Takutai Tarsh Kemp, who died in Auckland overnight after a July 2024 diagnosis of kidney disease.

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Teen's mum says heinous murder left community in fear

An Indigenous high school student's racist murder has "torn at the fabric of society" and left a community fearing for its children, the victim's mother says.

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Tony Abbott tells Advance supporters bequeathing money to rightwing group will ‘protect’ Australian values

New offshoot named Advance Generations endorsed by former PM as group calls welcome to country ceremonies a ‘tool to indoctrinate’ children

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‘Everyone was completely caught off-guard’: FBi Radio’s future unclear as station launches emergency fundraising campaign

Sydney’s influential community radio station has cut 10 jobs and told volunteers they need ‘$1m to survive and $2m to thrive’

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Jailing is failing: youth prison numbers under scrutiny

Tough on crime approaches are failing to make communities safer, instead undermining the rights of children and increasing incarceration rates, advocates say.

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Lehrmann fight to halt rape trial set for court hearing

A lawyer for Bruce Lehrmann has applied to halt the former Liberal staffer's trial on rape charges and claimed police have illegally recorded conversations.

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NSW political staffers to appear at caravan plot inquiry after being threatened with arrest for failing to attend

Staff for premier Chris Minns and police minister Yasmin Catley to attend voluntarily after upper house president indicated warrants would be sought

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Liberal leader open to quotas after election drubbing

The Liberal Party must endorse more women after a thumping election defeat, its leader Sussan Ley says, declaring herself a "zealot" on gender representation.

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MP accused of plying teen with drinks before sex abuse

A state MP encouraged an emotional and intoxicated teenage boy to keep drinking before indecently assaulting him, a jury has been told.

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Lehrmann seeks to halt rape trial over police conduct

Former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann has asked a court to declare police "illegally" recorded his previous lawyers' phone calls ahead of his rape trial.

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New approach needed to fulfil closing the gap promise

Governments must self-reflect and begin to work in new ways with Indigenous organisations if they want to close the gap in health, a report has found.

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Fresh-faced MPs arrive in parliament for orientation

Newly elected politicians will learn the ropes of the lower house as they prepare for the first sitting day since the federal election.

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‘Unconscious racism’ behind NSW police officer’s decision not to call ambulance for Indigenous prisoner, watchdog finds

Senior officer engaged in ‘serious misconduct’ in regional town when man was self-harming. He thought Aboriginal people tried to ‘manipulate the system’

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Governments are leaving ‘heavy lifting’ on Closing the Gap to underresourced Aboriginal groups, review finds

‘Inaction’ from governments and ‘baked in’ racism are hampering efforts to address entrenched disadvantage, according to first independent review

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‘You must step in’: family of Kumanjayi White demand federal government support after death in custody

Grandfather Ned Hargraves says there is ‘no trust’ between the remote community of Yuendumu and NT police

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'Spectacular fall from grace': elder jailed for abuse

A former Senior Victorian of the Year award-winner has mouthed "I'm alright" to his supporters in court as he was jailed for child sex abuse.

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