Festival dumping ‘calculated’, says Palestinian author
Writer Randa Abdel-Fattah says attempts to police speech "will be met with a strong response", as dozens of writers withdrew from a festival after she was axed.
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Australia has been invited to a meeting in the US where major economies will discuss the next steps for a $1.2 billion critical minerals stockpile.
Radical preachers using unlicensed premises to brainwash and radicalise mostly young men are on notice with councils enlisted to shut them down.
People affected by devastating bushfires ravaging a state will have access to financial support under an assistance package worth millions of dollars.
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Federal ministers urged to testify at Bondi inquiry
Josh Frydenberg says the Jewish community will support Bondi attacks royal commission chair Virginia Bell as the anti-Semitism probe "needed to be successful".
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Secret weapon in climate fight hiding in tree bark
Australian researchers have been barking up the right tree with a revolutionary discovery of resident microbes that guzzle climate-active gases.
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Bogans, burnouts and bad mullets: must be Summernats
Bragging rights for Australia's best mullet and a $50,000 burnout prize are up for grabs as car enthusiasts gather for a premier petrol-fuelled festival.
Australia's worst mass shooting in decades will be subject to a royal commission after a concerted campaign from Jewish groups and the federal opposition.
A looming overhaul of federal hate speech laws must stick to anti-Semitism, not broader issues like gender and sexuality, the opposition leader says.
Australian forests are thinning in a worrying finding for a world relying on plants to help soak up excess atmospheric carbon.
A finding Bruce Lehrmann raped Brittany Higgins in Parliament House was infected by a judge doing his own research, the nation's highest court has been told.
Australian motorists are increasingly choosing fuel-efficient vehicles but that does not mean a move away from SUVs or utes.
Australia's largest steelmaker is the target of a takeover bid by a consortium that includes an entity controlled by West Australian billionaire Kerry Stokes.
Naveed Akram, accused of the worst terror attack on Australian soil where 15 people were killed, has been transferred to a supermax jail.
Protesters have called on the federal government to sanction the US after it captured Venezuela's leader and took over the nation, while others are celebrating.
Home prices around the nation increased slightly in December to a new record high of $880,000 as Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth led the charge.
A 34-year-old man has become the latest person to drown at an Australian beach as difficult conditions up and down the coast hamper rescue efforts.
Emergency crews have found the body of a worker a day after a roof collapsed at an underground coalmine, in one of two separate deadly mining incidents.
Israeli is extensively qualified to train Australian police in fighting terrorism and antisemitism, according to one of its senior government ministers.
