#theguardian.com. #Nov.18.2025 × Liberals to target international students and skilled migrants in proposed cuts to immigration. The Coalition is preparing to thrash out the design of a policy to significantly reduce immigration places
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#theguardian.com. #Nov.18.2025 × Sand play products now ‘high risk’ and need to be tested before coming into Australia, border force says. Suppliers would not have previously been obliged to test the products at any point in the supply chain, ABF confirmed
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#theguardian.com. #Nov.18.2025 × ‘Sad day for publicly funded science’: up to 350 more jobs to go at CSIRO. Australia’s national scientific agency announces more research job losses as it looks for budgetary savings
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#theguardian.com. #Nov.18.2025 × Hannah McGuire’s ex-partner jailed for 28 years for murder after burning her body near Ballarat. Lachlan Young, 23, sentenced after court heard he later impersonated McGuire in text messages to her mother
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#theguardian.com. #Nov.18.2025 × Authors dumped from New Zealand’s top book prize after AI used in cover designs. Ockham Book Awards dropped two titles from contention after new guidelines introduced on artificial intelligence use
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#theguardian.com. #Nov.18.2025 × Is bird-dogging your Roman empire? Macquarie Dictionary reveals word of the year finalists. ‘AI slop’, ‘Australian sushi’ and ‘ate (left no crumbs)’ are also among the shortlist, which is open for voting until Sunday night
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#theguardian.com. #Nov.18.2025 × Sydney resident died after triple-zero call didn’t work on Samsung phone, TPG says. Early investigations suggest device was using software incompatible with emergency calls on TPG network
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#theguardian.com. #Nov.17.2025 × News Corp apologises to Victorian Liberal MP Sam Groth and wife over relationship claims. Groth had sued the Herald Sun for defamation, while his wife Brittany had launched the first test of a new statutory tort for serious invasions of privacy
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#theguardian.com. #Nov.17.2025 × Sydney’s $60 road toll cap to be made permanent with plan for two-way fee on Harbour Bridge to fund it. ‘It’s a massive cost-of-living relief measure for hundreds of thousands of people who live in western Sydney,’ premier Chris Minns says
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#theguardian.com. #Nov.17.2025 × Victorian Liberal party ousts Brad Battin to install Jess Wilson as first female leader. First-term Kew MP elected leader after Battin lasted less than a year in role
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#theguardian.com. #Nov.17.2025 × South Korean decision to close all coal-fired power plants by 2040 sounds alarm for Australian exports. Decision announced at Cop30 climate conference signposts risks for Australia’s reliance on fossil fuel exports, analysts say
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#theguardian.com. #Nov.17.2025 × Owner of scandal-plagued Panthera Finance tells court it was not technically operating illegally in Victoria. Francom claims that because Panthera had ‘acquired’ the debts, it was not technically engaged in collecting debt owed to a third party
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#theguardian.com. #Nov.17.2025 × Business and energy leaders warn Coalition dumping net zero won’t cut power bills and demand more detail. CEO of Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry calls Sussan Ley’s new policy ‘a bit of a plan not to have a plan’, echoing business scepticism
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#bbc.com. #Nov.17.2025 × Matthew Gruter: South African man seen at neo-Nazi rally has Australian visa revoked. The civil engineer was seen in the front row of a protest organised by the National Socialist Network.
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#bbc.com. #Nov.17.2025 × Ariana Grande: Singapore jails Australian man who grabbed Wicked star. "Serial intruder" Johnson Wen was given nine days in jail for being a public nuisance.
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#theguardian.com. #Nov.17.2025 × Moderates rally around Sussan Ley as Liberal leader says she has been underestimated for much of her life. Factional powerbrokers issue statement contradicting media reports that moderates could swing behind conservative Andrew Hastie
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#theguardian.com. #Nov.17.2025 × Brad Battin faces spill after group of Victorian Liberal MPs say they have lost confidence in his leadership. Sources say shadow treasurer Jess Wilson has received enough support to test leadership of the party a year out from state poll
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#theguardian.com. #Nov.17.2025 × South African man’s visa cancelled after neo-Nazi rally outside NSW parliament. Home affairs minister says ‘if you are on a visa you are a guest’ as Matthew Gruter has visa cancelled
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#theguardian.com. #Nov.17.2025 × Former police officer’s destruction of body-worn video and use of excessive force was serious misconduct, report finds. Four NSW officers who failed to report former constable’s confessions also found to have engaged in serious misconduct, independent commission says
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#bbc.com. #Nov.17.2025 × Jurors in Toyah Cordingley murder trial visit beach where body found. Rajwinder Singh denies stabbing the 24-year-old to death in October 2019.
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#bbc.com. #Nov.17.2025 × Watch: Three 'Nestflix' peregrine falcons each take flight for the first time. Three peregrine falcon chicks, stars of the "Nestflix" livestream, have finally taken their first flights above the Melbourne city skyline.
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#theguardian.com. #Nov.17.2025 × Dugald Saunders steps down as NSW Nationals leader with speculation the Liberals’ Mark Speakman could follow. Saunders says ‘it is the right time for me to take a step back and focus on my family and myself’, week after state Nationals dump net zero commitment
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