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We’ve come a long way on gender diversity but what about class? How networks of private school privilege dominate Australian society

In 2021, the coach of the Perth-based West Coast Eagles Australian rules football team said recruits who attended public schools and came from single-parent families are too costly to manage off-field and the club might be better off concentrating on private school boys from stable families.

The Conversation

Peter Dutton wants to cut migration for the sake of housing. Here’s why that’s not a good idea

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has suggested the level of Australia’s permanent migration program be reduced from 185,000 – as proposed by the government in the budget – to 145,000. This is a significant reduction.

The Conversation

'Quite beautiful': Alone Australia star reads to kids at Dickson library

Dr Kate Grarock joined in the fun of National Simultaneous Storytime.

The Canberra Times

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Broken on Brocon: Ben O'Connor Giro podium hopes crack

Ben O''Connor's hopes of becoming just the fifth Australian cyclist to finish on the podium at a Grand Tour may have taken a killer blow at the Giro d'Italia.

AAP

Social media: parents can't pass the buck

Letters and Short Takes: May 23

Newcastle Herald

Aussie men's tennis battalion out to end Paris drought

The biggest Australian men's contingent at the French Open this century can end their first-week hoodoo at Roland Garros, believes rising star Rinky Hijikata.

AAP

Dutton doubles down on gas, rejects support for mining

Domestic gas production will expand, approvals will be fast-tracked and nuclear reactors rolled out to keep the lights on under a coalition government.

AAP

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Auto industry prepares for a charge of electric fleets

Fleet firms and charging networks are preparing for a surge in electric car investments after Australia's fuel-efficiency standard begins.

AAP

Australia urged to work with China in clean energy push

Australia's $22.7 billion manufacturing push towards net-zero emissions must involve China and will eventually need to tax fossil fuels, an ex-ACCC chair says.

AAP

How to watch 'A Small Light' online and from anywhere

Inspired by the deeds of Miep and Jan Gies, who hid the Frank family from the Nazis during WWII, here's where to watch "A Small Light" online and for free.

Tom’s Guide

The claim of a $600bn carbon capture windfall for Australia is based on heroic assumptions and selective analysis

Projections of the size and scale of a future CCS industry should come with heavy doses of scepticism

The Guardian - AU

‘When things dry up, we can’t just call daddy’: Elefant Traks, the DIY label that changed Australian music

On the eve of its final shows, the label’s key members reflect on their ‘activist roots’, their global success and the acts they broke – including Hermitude, Horrorshow and the Herd

The Guardian - AU

Raising jobseeker is not ‘fiscally sustainable’? Sorry, but that is flat out wrong

Never fall for the line that lifting people out of poverty and reducing inequality is a task too complex or costly to undertake

The Guardian - AU

‘Insidious and unsavoury’: how private debt collectors push vulnerable Australians to breaking point

Victims say they have been subjected to constant phone calls, harassment of friends and family members – and even misleading and false threats

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Labor’s international student cap an ‘unprecedented’ overreach and ‘recipe for chaos’, experts warn

Immigration and higher education experts say caps risk closure of universities if managed poorly and radically limit ‘student choice and university autonomy’

The Guardian - AU

The ICC will consider arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas leaders. How has Australia responded?

An arrest warrant for Putin over war crimes in Ukraine was welcomed, but the government’s response this time has been more muted

The Guardian - AU

Australia’s SUV obsession could wipe out emissions gains from EV sales and efficiency standards

Government roadmap says Australians ‘increasingly prefer heavy passenger vehicles’, potentially ‘cancelling out’ savings from more electric vehicles

The Guardian - AU

‘No country in the world has solved this problem’: can Australia make age verification work for social media?

Previously unreported documents suggest age assurance technology has not been successfully implemented anywhere in the world

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Al Jazeera

ICC T20 World Cup 2024: Teams, India vs Pakistan and full match schedule

All you need to know about the groups, format, fixtures, match start times and venues for the tournament.

The Independent UK

How the Streisand Effect came to haunt Australia’s richest woman

Mining magnate Gina Rinehart’s attempt to have portrait by Vincent Namatjira removed from National Gallery exhibition backfires

The Guardian - AU

News Corp’s Rebekah Brooks joins Lachlan Murdoch in Sydney ahead of major Australian newspaper restructure

Staff brace for significant cuts as media company prepares to make moves to counter decline of print and slow advertising market

France 24

Coober Pedy, the Australian town built underground to withstand extreme heat

As spring temperatures begin to rise in Europe, we see how one town in Australia has been learning to live with extreme heat for the past century. Situated in the middle of the desert, where summer temperatures reach up to 50°C, is Coober Pedy, a town built underground and originally…

The Times of India

With class and experience like that, you can't replace Virat Kohli: Ricky Ponting

NEW DELHI: Ricky Ponting, the legendary cricketer from Australia, expressed his confusion about Indians trying to "find reasons" not to select Virat Kohli for the national team, saying that the charismatic former captain would be his "first pick" for the T20 World Cup in the Americas.

AAP

North Queensland state is 'gonna happen': Katter vows

Katter's Australian Party has moved a motion in parliament to split Queensland and form a new jurisdiction in the north, reigniting a long running debate.

The Guardian - AU

First human H5N1 case reported in Australia as another highly pathogenic strain of bird flu detected on Victorian farm

Authorities say strain of avian influenza detected at Meredith farm is H7N3, which has been detected in Australia before

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