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Analysis-Rising power bills complicate Australia's election climate war

In Australia's election fight, politicians are tiptoeing around the climate wars that have marked the past decade and a half, even as an activist billionaire put the issue front and centre this week, buying a key stake in Australia's top power producer.

Reuters

US set to boost civil society and media in Asia Pacific to counter China's influence

The United States' foreign aid agency flags it will pump more resources into civil society and free media throughout Asia and the Pacific as it intensifies efforts to push back against China's influence across the globe.

ABC News

Montpellier's Pollard Expects 'Chess Game' in Champions Cup against La Rochelle

Montpellier's South Africa fly-half Handre Pollard said he expects Saturday's European Champions Cup quarter-final at La Rochelle to be like "a chess game". Montpellier have qualified for the last eight for just the second time in their history, AFP said. They head to last season's losing finalists who have the…

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Ten 'too young' to be charged, prominent Hunter lawyers say

Two prominent Hunter lawyers agree Australia should raise the age of criminal responsibility, as The St Vincent de Paul Society this week renewed its call for change.

Newcastle Herald

'Sincerity' needed to patch Solomon's bond

Deputy Labor Leader Richard Marles says Australia needs to repair the relationship with the Solomon Islands after it signed a security pact with China.

AAP

Search for missing Australian Tahnee Shanks continues in Mexico after daughter found alone in Cancun

Members of the Shanks family are en route to Mexico after two-year-old Adelynn was found alone in Cancun. Meanwhile, her uncle Daniel is waiting at home in North Queensland, sick with worry as the search for his sister, Tahnee, continues.

ABC News

Scott Morrison denies Solomon Islands ‘red lines’ rhetoric puts Australia more at risk

Making a defence funding announcement in WA, prime minister continues to face questions about his handling of national security issues

The Guardian - AU

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$Beetaloo Basin's 'absolutely immense' potential spruiked at oil and gas conference, but big fracking tests loom$

Beetaloo Basin's 'absolutely immense' potential spruiked at oil and gas conference, but big fracking tests loom

Buried deep in the Beetaloo Basin, it's estimated there is enough shale gas to power Australia for 300 years if the industry can work out how to frack it safely. Now, the industry is considering re-injecting wastewater into deep saline aquifers.

ABC News

Tim Tszyu recovering from hand surgery

Australian boxing star Tim Tszyu has undergone successful clean-out surgery to repair his injured fighting hands.

AAP

Real wages to fall by 3% this year as inflation surges, says RBA

Australians’ wages are tipped to grow over the next two years, but are not predicted to catch up with rising prices until 2024

The Guardian - AU

India, Australia discuss ways to combat terrorism

The two sides discussed ways to combat terrorism at the 13th meeting of the India-Australia joint working group on counter-terrorism

The Hindu

A bit rich? Billionaires’ climate efforts draw scepticism, praise

Mega-rich figures such as Andrew Forrest spend billions on climate change solutions while adding to carbon emissions.

Al Jazeera

How Vogue's first Indigenous cover model Elaine George paved the way for a new era

Elaine George was 17 when she was plucked from obscurity and became the first Indigenous Australian to appear on the cover of Vogue. Nearly three decades on, she reflects on how far the fashion industry has come.

ABC News

Reconciliation action plans can bring meaningful accountability to corporate Australia

Reconciliation Australia’s program is not the sole solution to 230 years of colonisation but a starting point for a more equitable and reconciled country

The Guardian - AU

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Gardens of Stone gazetted but projects like zip-line have some questioning conservation benefits

"Theme park" ecotourism will be developed and mining goes on in a new state conservation area where the NSW government is attempting to protect almost 100 endangered species.

The Guardian - AU

Whistleblowers allege Meta deliberately took down Australia's government, emergency services to negotiate news ban

Meta, formerly Facebook, denies claims the blocking of non-news pages like hospitals and charities was an intentional negotiating tactic, and says it was the result of a ‘technical error’

ABC News

Caroline Kennedy confirmed by US Senate as next ambassador to Australia

The daughter of former US president John F Kennedy and a former US ambassador to Japan succeeds Arthur Culvahouse as US ambassador to Australia.

Sports Illustrated

Djokovic Discusses Mental Toll Following Australian Open Incident

The World No. 1 tennis player said he’s moved on from what happened at this year’s first Grand Slam tournament.

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Amber Heard gives evidence at defamation trial, accusing Johnny Depp of sexual assault and threatening to kill her during Australia visit

Actor Amber Heard says her ex-husband Johnny Depp sexually assaulted her with a liquor bottle and threatened her life shortly after the pair were married.

ABC News

South Australia's corrections department facing legal action after refusal to supply prisoners with voting materials

Lawyers will file proceedings against the South Australian corrections department in the Supreme Court on Friday morning.

AAP

PM refuses to comment on leadership future

Scott Morrison has declined suggestions the coalition has lost its way, following remarks by former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull.

ABC News

Song composed for 2000 Sydney Olympics finally brought to life by Forster man, in honour of late wife

When 81-year-old Erich Raab discovered an Australian ballad composed by his late wife more than 20 years earlier — sitting in an untouched drawer — he knew it needed to be shared.

ABC News

Malcolm Turnbull says voters will consider independent candidates in blue-ribbon Liberal seats because party has lost its way

Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull denies he is encouraging voters in traditional Liberal strongholds to consider backing so-called 'teal independents', but argues his party could be about to get a wake-up call at the upcoming election.

The Guardian - AU

Malcolm Turnbull says Australians are ‘voting with their feet’ to support teal independents in election

Former PM tells Washington Harvard Club the rise of the independents could mean the ‘capture’ of the Liberal party is thwarted by ‘direct democratic action’ in the 2022 federal election

ABC News

'This is not a death tax': Coalition claims on Labor housing scheme fall flat with experts

Aspects of Labor's newly unveiled affordable housing scheme have been likened to a "death tax", but tax specialists have shot down those suggestions.

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