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The Age is a major Australian metropolitan newspaper, published in Melbourne, Victoria.
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📢 May’s election was a record-breaking one for former opposition leader Peter Dutton, according to a long-running study from ANU – for all the wrong reasons.
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Peter Dutton was the least popular leader at a federal election in four decades
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November 25, 2025 at 1:04 PM
📢 May’s election was a record-breaking one for former opposition leader Peter Dutton, according to a long-running study from ANU – for all the wrong reasons.
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👉 Report issues, make suggestions
📢 The government is already behind on its target of 1.2 million new homes. A lack of roads and sewer pipes could mean it falls even further behind.
Councils accuse Albanese government of preferencing inner-city housing
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November 25, 2025 at 1:04 PM
📢 New powers will give the NDIS commissioner discretion to block ads that falsely claim participants can use their funding to pay for luxuries such as cruises.
Labor boosts fines by 40 times, adds jail time for ‘shonky’ NDIS providers
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November 25, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Best of cartoons, November 26, 2025
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November 25, 2025 at 11:44 AM
📢 Russia hashas become the fifth-most powerful country in Asia, as its president weathers sanctions introduced since invading Ukraine.
Australia urged to make tough call on Russian oil as Putin’s influence surges
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November 25, 2025 at 11:34 AM
📢 The councillor says he submitted the receipt for reimbursement because he didn’t intentionally seek out the strip club and left promptly.
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WA councillor accused of trying to bill ratepayers for strip club trip
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November 25, 2025 at 10:54 AM
📢 The councillor says he submitted the receipt for reimbursement because he didn’t intentionally seek out the strip club and left promptly.
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👉 Report issues, make suggestions
📢 A woman was handed a $3500 fine for circulating intimate images and videos of a former friend without permission.
Outrage at punishment for revenge porn scandal
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November 25, 2025 at 10:44 AM
📢 A group of allegedly unruly juveniles involved in rooftop unrest at Banksia Hill Detention Centre have been moved.
Detainees sent to unit 18 after 18-hour standoff
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November 25, 2025 at 10:34 AM
📢 The Bears are scrambling for players, as one star revealed what he told Mal Meninga when rejecting their pursuit. It may be time to look beneath the surface.
As two stars turn down the Bears, these men loom as the NRL’s talent pool test
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November 25, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Parents of baby who died at maternity hospital demand answers
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November 25, 2025 at 10:24 AM
📢 The conservative campaign group’s former national director and a 2024 LNP election candidate are among new Crisafulli government board appointments this week.
Former Advance boss appointed to Queensland building regulator board
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November 25, 2025 at 10:14 AM
📢 Over 40 Medicare Mental Health Centres have opened across Australia in the last year, including 12 in Queensland. We visited one on Brisbane’s north side to find out what they’re all about, and who they’re for.
Hundreds of millions has been spent to fix mental health crisis. But will it work?
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November 25, 2025 at 10:04 AM
📢 A Perth family say they have been left devastated after their child was born dead, claiming his birth was “train wreck” at Western Australia’s premier maternity hospital.
Tommy was born dead. His parents say no one called a doctor until the last second
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November 25, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Young dad killed in shooting at Altona North
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November 25, 2025 at 9:54 AM
📢 A key Pentagon official has flown into the United Arab Emirates to meet with Russian counterparts, even as Moscow and Kyiv continued to attack each other overnight.
US and Russia hold secret Ukraine peace talks in Abu Dhabi
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November 25, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Theatrics in search of discord, not solutions
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November 25, 2025 at 9:04 AM
📢 Authorities say men swimming after the flags have been taken down in the evening are of growing concern.
Surfers Paradise drowning prompts safety concerns
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November 25, 2025 at 8:54 AM
📢 The coroner heard from former staff of the joy flight operator on day two of the inquest into the fatal helicopter collision.
Ground worker blamed herself for horror chopper crash
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November 25, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Pauline Hanson pulls a stunt and Muslims pay the price
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November 25, 2025 at 8:34 AM
📢 Why do I feel more hungry if I eat a chocolate snack in the afternoon than if I eat nothing at all? Here’s the reason.
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Is my chocolate snack making me hungrier?
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November 25, 2025 at 8:34 AM
📢 Why do I feel more hungry if I eat a chocolate snack in the afternoon than if I eat nothing at all? Here’s the reason.
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📢 It was Sydney’s first public high-rise school. With others built and more to come, we find out what it’s really like.
Inside the Sydney school where the teachers change classrooms, not the students
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November 25, 2025 at 8:34 AM
📢 Rigid thinking can leave sufferers in their own mind prisons, creating strict rules for themselves and seeing the world in black and white terms. But there is a road to self-compassion.
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Varsha’s rules for herself made her miserable. But she couldn’t stop
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November 25, 2025 at 8:34 AM
📢 Rigid thinking can leave sufferers in their own mind prisons, creating strict rules for themselves and seeing the world in black and white terms. But there is a road to self-compassion.
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📢 Andeau Bowley died 10 months after being diagnosed with a melanoma no one saw. Her daughter has a message for all Australians.
Every day, Ellie sees people risk the cancer that claimed her mother’s life
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November 25, 2025 at 8:34 AM
📢 In a world-first clinical trial, researchers have discovered a way to "dramatically reduce" the amount of insulin needed by type 1 diabetes patients.
Age old drug could help improve life for diabetes patients
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November 25, 2025 at 8:14 AM