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Insurance bill for February floods reaches $4.8b, victims could wait years for repairs

New Insurance Council of Australia figures reveal the damage bill from February's flood disaster in Queensland and New South Wales has reached $4.8 billion with builders saying repairs will take up to two years.

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World bull riding titles in sights of three central Queensland teenagers

They are some of Australia's best young rodeo competitors. Now they have the chance to prove themselves on the world stage.

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Census 2021: Australia Now Has A Migrant Majority, Millennials Dominate We Have Forsaken God

The first round of 2021 census key data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is finally here — remember filling it out in August in lockdown? — and it has revealed Australia is growing, changing and is more diverse than ever before.The official population in August 2021 was 25.4…

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Census results: 2021 ABS data reveals millennials are overtaking boomers as country's largest generation group

The 2021 census results reveal the millennial generation has caught up to baby boomers in becoming the largest generation group in Australia. Look back on our blog where we unpacked the data.

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Festival of Voices country music artist Jean Stafford's rise from Tasmania to Nashville

From humble beginnings in rural Tasmania, Jean Stafford is Australia's most decorated female country artist and she is still performing 60 years on.

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Deadly varroa mite has 'potential' to threaten Queensland's bee industry, authorities warn

Authorities are closely monitoring any impact on Queensland's bee populations amid a "worrying" interstate detection of the deadly honey bee parasite, varroa destructor.

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Does Australia need Tasmania to become a multi-billion-dollar 'Battery of the Nation'?

As coal-fired power stations close down, there is a push for the renewables-rich state of Tasmania to become the "Battery of the Nation". The problem is, no one knows who will foot the multi-billion-dollar bill.

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Australia records 75 Covid deaths as data shows fatalities rising since March – as it happened

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The Loop: Ukraine shopping centre attack 'act of terrorism', Australia's millennials overtaking boomers and surprise Capitol riot hearing

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Census 2021 shows India overtakes China in migration, nearly half of all Australians have overseas-born parent

The 2021 census data shows almost half of the population has a parent born overseas, while India has overtaken China and New Zealand to become the third-largest country of birth, behind Australia and England.

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Morning mail: Australia ‘ill-prepared’ for food insecurity, millennials overtaking boomers, Baz Luhrmann’s films ranked

Tuesday: Former defence leaders warn of risks fuelled by war and the climate crisis. Plus: the best and worst of a director whose movies don’t talk – they shout

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Indigenous songwriter Kev Carmody opens up about his secret stolen childhood

An early childhood in hiding, being ripped away from his parents, and a life working the land all helped inspire one of Australia's most beloved and powerful songs, From Little Things Big Things Grow.

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Census findings to reveal the big questions confronting modern Australia

In the early years after European settlement, it wasn’t called a ‘Census’, it was called a ‘muster’ – when settlers gathered together to be counted.

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Former Perth rich-lister Zhenya Tsvetnenko to be sentenced in US court after multi-million-dollar text message scam

He celebrated his 29th birthday party with Snoop Dogg, spent $600,000 on his wedding, invested in nightclubs and had almost weekly appearances in the social pages. Then it all came crashing down.

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Aged just 11 years, Beau Cosgrove is defying the odds as a bull rider and wheelchair rugby coach

Beau Cosgrove, 11, lives with a rare, life-threatening condition but that has not stopped him from living life to the fullest: as a bull riding, rodeo-rocking, wheelchair rugby coach.

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Bee parasite Varroa destructor a potential 'biosecurity crisis' and almond pollination risk

It will be an anxious few weeks for beekeepers and the billion-dollar Australian almond industry after a varroa mite outbreak in New South Wales.

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Australian road cyclist Ben O'Connor hopes to go one better after fourth-place finish in Tour de France

The Australian road cyclist is dreaming big after a third-place finish at the Critérium du Dauphiné, and finishing fourth on debut at last year's Tour de France.

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Penny Wong stresses 'genuine links' with South-East Asia as she visits Vietnam, Malaysia

Penny Wong's visit to South-East Asia this week has a personal element. In addition to talks with ministers and officials, the Foreign Minister will be visiting her hometown of Sabah.

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The Conversation

What does equity in schools look like? And how is it tied to growing teacher shortages?

When Prime Minister Anthony Albanese declared victory on election night, he said he wanted to unite Australians around “our shared values of fairness and opportunity, and hard work and kindness to those in need”.

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We need to brace for a tsunami of long COVID. But we're not quite sure the best way to treat it

Australia’s Omicron wave earlier this year was much larger than we thought, recent research has confirmed. We also heard Health Minister Mark Butler acknowledge Australia can expect a “very big wave” of people with long COVID over the next few years.

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'No religion' is Australia's second-largest religious group – and it's having a profound effect on our laws

The latest census results are out and the number of Australians who selected “no religion” has risen again to 38.9%, up from 30.1% in 2016.

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Australians are more millennial, multilingual and less religious: what the census reveals

Census data to be released Tuesday shows Australia changing rapidly before COVID, gaining an extra one million residents from overseas in the past five years, almost all of them in the three years before borders were closed.

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Dominican Sister, teacher and prioress: Elizabeth Lusby and her life well lived

The last of the extraordinary Lusby siblings has been laid to rest.

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Census 2021 data shows Australians are less religious and more culturally diverse than ever

For the first time, census data shows fewer than half of Australians say they are Christian, while almost as many say they have no religious beliefs.

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How do I know if I've had COVID-19, and what else can antibody blood tests tell us about past infection?

Antibody blood tests can tell you if you've been recently infected by the SARS-CoV-2 virus — but there's plenty they can't tell you.

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