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• Woman gives birth to stranger’s baby after IVF bungle in Brisbane

  10-04-2025 12:07
  Mistake at Queensland fertility care clinic results in woman unknowingly giving birth to another patient’s baby after embryos mixed upGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastA woman has given birth to another person’s baby after their fertility care provider mixed up their embryos.Monash IVF, which operates across Australia, has apologised after a patient at one of its Brisbane clinics had an embryo incorrectly transferred to her, meaning she gave birth to a c
  
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• Dutton listens to locals sharing crime stories in NT; heavy rain to hit northern NSW – as it happened

  26-04-2025 08:37
  
  This blog is now closedPeter Dutton urges respect for welcome to country but reaffirms stance on ‘one flag’ onlyAnywhere but Canberra: Australian voters on what matters to themInteractive guide to electorates in the Australian electionListen to the latest episode of our new narrative podcast series: GinaSee all our Australian election 2025 coverageGet ourafternoon election email,free app ordaily news podcastAlbanese says climate change is an “economic issue, not just an environ
  
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• Anzac Day 2025 live updates – as it happened

  25-04-2025 09:14
  This blog is now closed‘Neo-Nazi’ booing of welcome to country at Melbourne Anzac Day dawn service condemnedGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastGood morning,Krishani Dhanji here with you, thanks to Martin Farrer for getting us started this morning. Continue reading...
  
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• Labor and the Coalition brush over ‘scary’ decline in young Australians’ dental visits

  24-04-2025 17:00
  Just like housing, advocates say oral health care is a policy area where younger Australians are seriously disadvantagedElection 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignPolls tracker; election guide; full federal election coverageAnywhere but Canberra; interactive electorates guideListen to the latest episode of our new narrative podcast series: GinaGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastYoung Australians will remain victims of an oral health “blindsp
  
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• Pocock calls Coalition’s planned public service cuts ‘pure Canberra bashing’ – as it happened

  24-04-2025 09:46
  This blog is now closedAlbanese condemns Dutton’s pledge for mass public service cuts ‘only in Canberra’Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAround 50,000 people turned away from food banks each month, as charities struggle to keep up with demand, a new report from OzHarvest has found.The survey of frontline charities reveals 77% have witnessed a surge in people seeking food in the past year, with an estimated 50,000 people unable to be supported every mon
  
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• Mental health experts concerned about Coalition plan to scrap workers’ right to disconnect

  23-04-2025 17:00
  Michaelia Cash reconfirmed on the campaign trail with Peter Dutton the opposition would repeal world-leading lawsElection 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastLeading mental health experts have raised concerns over the Coalition’s plans to repeal “right to disconnect” laws, arguing that backtracking will have various negative consequences for employee stress and burnout.The world-leading legislatio
  
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• Coalition pledges to remove EV tax break two days after Dutton ruled out scrapping it – as it happened

  23-04-2025 10:47
  This blog is now closedPeter Dutton reaffirms support for antisemitism citizenship test question and re-vetting Palestinian visasAnywhere but Canberra: Australian voters on what matters to themInteractive guide to electorates in the Australian electionListen to the latest episode of our new narrative podcast series: GinaSee all our Australian election 2025 coverageGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastO’Neil and Hume in Sunrise spatLabor frontbencher Clare O&rsquo
  
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• This British-Australian doctor has seen the unspeakable in Gaza. He wants to shout from the rooftops

  23-04-2025 07:26
  Mohammed Mustafa, who worked at al-Ahli Arab hospital before it was bombed, says ministers are wrong to say Australia is ‘not a major player’Bearing witness in Gaza: an Australian doctor returns – Full Story podcastElection 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastWhen Israel shattered the ceasefire in Gaza last month and resumed its large-scale bombardment, the British-Australian doctor Mohammed Musta
  
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• The unwritten code of healthcare is that doctors don’t strike. Until now | Ranjana Srivastava

  22-04-2025 17:00
  Would you want to be treated by a hungry, distressed, sleep-deprived doctor? They need to be looked after – for their sake and oursThe night before public hospital doctors in Australia’s priciest state, New South Wales, went on a three-day strike to protest against pay and working conditions, I went to bed thinking what it must be like to be in their shoes.I would be nervous about the reaction from the public who might judge me for being yet another greedy doctor. Continue reading...
  
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• Greens campaign signs defaced with offensive graffiti – as it happened

  22-04-2025 09:38
  This blog is now closedLive updates: third leaders’ election debate between Albanese and DuttonMonsignor Stuart Hall, the dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral in Melbourne, tells mourners that the “beloved” Pope Francis called out to a range of voices including the dispossessed.He says Christians around the world are saddened by the death of Francis, but rejoice in him returning home.We saw a compassionate man, someone who was full of mercy and who always took care of those he
  
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• Australia election 2025 live: Labor pledges financial protections for domestic violence victim-survivors; Katter MP says potential Palm Island alcohol ban breach an ‘honest mistake’

  22-04-2025 07:37
  Follow today’s news liveWhat time is the leaders’ debate tonight? How to watch watch Albanese v DuttonGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastPolls tracker; election guide; full federal election coverageAnywhere but Canberra; interactive electorates guideMonsignor Stuart Hall, the dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral in Melbourne, tells mourners that the “beloved” Pope Francis called out to a range of voices including the dispossessed.He says Christians
  
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• Less than 2% of Labor’s promised $1bn mental health funding would be spent next financial year

  21-04-2025 17:00
  
  Advocates voice concern that package will roll out too slowly and will not be targeted at services patients needElection 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignPolls tracker; election guide; full federal election coverageAnywhere but Canberra; interactive electorates guideListen to the latest episode of our new narrative podcast series: GinaGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastJust $16.5m of Labor’s promised $1bn mental health package – or 1.
  
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• ‘Practices like ours are dying’: why GPs aren’t celebrating Medicare’s record investment

  20-04-2025 17:00
  Labor has spruiked its $8.5bn investment as the solution to decreasing bulk-billing rates, but some GPs believe it is ‘designed to fail’Election 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignPolls tracker; election guide; full federal election coverageAnywhere but Canberra; interactive electorates guideListen to the latest episode of our new narrative podcast series: GinaGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastOn a Thursday morning in April, the patien
  
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• McKenzie accuses Watt of ‘lying’ over Medicare claims – as it happened

  20-04-2025 06:31
  
  This blog is now closed.Anywhere but Canberra: Australian voters on what matters to themInteractive guide to electorates in the Australian electionListen to the latest episode of our new narrative podcast series: GinaSee all our Australian election 2025 coverageGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastBandt asked about housing and gasStaying with the ABC where Adam Bandt was asked whether the Greens would be prepared to phase out the concessions over a longer period of tim
  
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• Turnbull says negative gearing ‘examined by every government’ – as it happened

  17-04-2025 09:27
  This blog is now closedPeter Dutton insists he ‘believes in climate change’ after refusing to say if impacts of global heating worseningAnywhere but Canberra: Australian voters on what matters to themInteractive guide to electorates in the Australian electionListen to the latest episode of our new narrative podcast series: GinaSee all our Australian election 2025 coverageGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastBoth parties claim victory in last night’s d
  
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• Sydney hospital where two children died recently is at risk of failure, scathing report finds

  17-04-2025 05:22
  Report accusing Northern Beaches hospital of not taking sufficient actions to stop risks comes as parents of baby who died after waiting for caesarean speak outElection 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastA controversial hospital where two children have recently died is accused of failing to meet healthcare standards and is at risk of failure.In a scathing report from the New South Wales auditor general, the operat
  
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• Lambie says Russia-Indonesia matter ‘overblown’ by Dutton – as it happened

  16-04-2025 10:06
  This blog is now closed‘Let Rome burn’: Coalition MP says allowing blackouts the only way to turn voters off renewable energyAnywhere but Canberra: Australian voters on what matters to themInteractive guide to electorates in the Australian electionListen to the latest episode of our new narrative podcast series: GinaSee all our Australian election 2025 coverageGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastAlbanese confronted by hecklers overnightAnthony Albanese and
  
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• My sister died 10 years ago. Here’s what I wish I had known about dementia when she was alive | Jackie Bailey

  16-04-2025 06:16
  I think back to my 20-year-old self and my sister, lost in her imagined worlds, and I feel compassion for us bothWhen my sister was 21, she was diagnosed with dementia. She had survived a malignant brain tumour diagnosis when she was 10, but her cancer was inoperable and sat directly on her hippocampus, the part of the brain responsible for memory formation.My sister moved in and out of what I would call “reality”. She spent days talking to people I couldn’t see, laughing at jo
  
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• More bulk billing will ease the cost of living. But what Australia’s health system really needs is genuine reform | Stephen Duckett

  16-04-2025 02:56
  Medicare remains the right infrastructure for funding primary care, but it is now more than 40 years old and needs to be updatedWorrying signs are emerging about aspects of Australia’s health system, which will require the attention of whoever wins the May election.Despite big money pledged for Medicare and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS), only limited attention has been paid by the major parties to key reform priorities.financial barriers to care;managing chronic conditions;menta
  
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• Brisbane Greens MP joins OnlyFans to ‘make people pay attention’ to HIV prevention drug policy

  15-04-2025 17:00
  Exclusive: Stephen Bates spruiks free PrEP and PEP proposal on subscription platform best known for adult content, as well as on dating app GrindrElection 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignPolls tracker; election guide; full federal election coverageAnywhere but Canberra; interactive electorates guideListen to the first episode of our new narrative podcast series: GinaGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastThe Greens MP Stephen Bates has joined OnlyFa
  
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• Labor receives assurances from Indonesian defence minister – as it happened

  15-04-2025 10:20
  This blog is now closedIndonesia dismisses report Russia seeking to base aircraft in country as ‘simply not true’, Marles saysGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastBattle of housing supply: who’s building more?Both parties have said they’re the ones doing more on housing supply, while experts and economists have said neither is doing enough to address the supply versus demand issue.What we’re doing is dealing with supply as well as demand. The C
  
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• Victoria’s Liberal leader is counting the days to the election. But will ‘brand Brad’ pass the pub test?

  14-04-2025 17:00
  Brad Battin’s ascension to the leadership was described as a ‘hostile rightwing takeover’ but the former police officer says his only ideology is ‘common sense’Victorian Liberal leader distances state party from Peter Dutton’s nuclear proposal: ‘Our focus is gas’Election 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignPolls tracker; election guide; full federal election coverageAnywhere but Canberra; interactive electorates guideListen to the
  
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• NSW’s sole women’s-only clinic dedicated to trauma ends ‘gamechanging’ focus

  13-04-2025 17:00
  Specialists at Ramsay Clinic Thirroul have reportedly resigned against backdrop of larger shortage of psychiatrists across stateElection 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastIn 2022 Ramsay Healthcare opened Australia’s first women’s-only hospital “dedicated” to trauma-related mental health issues in Wollongong.Ramsay Clinic Thirroul was supposed to be a “gamechanger” designed spec
  
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• Labor announces $10m to provide ‘inclusive, culturally safe’ healthcare for LGBTQ+ Australians

  13-04-2025 17:00
  Exclusive: Funding would go towards third-party training for doctors and nurses, which advocates say would remove barriers to treatmentElection 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignPolls tracker; election guide; full federal election coverageAnywhere but Canberra; interactive electorates guideListen to the first episode of our new narrative podcast series: GinaGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastLabor would provide health workers with training to care
  
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• Election 2025 live updates: Dutton tells Liberal campaign launch ‘Australia will become a nuclear powered nation’

  13-04-2025 05:24
  
  The opposition leader is launching the Liberal party’s campaign at an event in south-western Sydney. Follow liveAnywhere but Canberra: Australian voters on what matters to themInteractive guide to electorates in the Australian electionListen to the first episode of our new narrative podcast series: GinaSee all our Australian election 2025 coverageGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastAlbanese tells Australian UFC fighter to ‘go hard’ in message of supp
  
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• The moment I knew: he bared his soul in a performance and I fell for his sensitive side

  12-04-2025 22:00
  When Mitch launched into a piano recital at his birthday party, his friends were gobsmacked by his hidden talent. Eoin O’Dwyer knew he was the man he had to marryFind more stories from The moment I knew seriesNobody spoke about being gay in Ireland. I come from a big Catholic family – six kids, millions of cousins – from a rural part of the country, and I didn’t think there was anyone like me. Although my parents and family have been unwavering in their support from the d
  
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• ‘It can break you’: Life for parents of autistic children can be exhausting. One podcast is offering hope. Is it real?

  12-04-2025 22:00
  A podcast claims to show that autistic children with limited speech may be able to communicate via telepathy. What does the science say about the idea?Election 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastThere’s a moment, 26 minutes and nine seconds into Disney’s Coco, where the film’s departed souls are trying to clear a customs desk in the afterlife. It’s a moment that Mary* can see clearly withou
  
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• PM and opposition leader campaign in Perth – as it happened

  12-04-2025 08:01
  
  This blog is now closedAnywhere but Canberra: Australian voters on what matters to themInteractive guide to electorates in the Australian electionListen to the first episode of our new narrative podcast series: GinaSee all our Australian election 2025 coverageGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastPlibersek deflects question over whether she would be opposition leader in event of Labor lossPlibersek was asked: “If on May 4 prime minister Peter Dutton gets up and do
  
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• Australia election 2025 live: Albanese and Dutton gear up for campaign launches; Plibersek deflects question over Labor leadership

  12-04-2025 05:02
  Tanya Plibersek says she feels ‘anxious’ at prospect of Peter Dutton becoming prime minister and defends Labor’s stance on salmon industry in TasmaniaAnywhere but Canberra: Australian voters on what matters to themInteractive guide to electorates in the Australian electionListen to the first episode of our new narrative podcast series: GinaSee all our Australian election 2025 coverageGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastPlibersek deflects question ove
  
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• NSW government may buy back Northern Beaches hospital but Healthscope ‘should not expect to profit’

  10-04-2025 06:51
  Recent incidents, including the death of a newborn, have heightened concerns about the level of care at the hospitalElection 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe New South Wales government is considering buying back the public hospital component of Northern Beaches hospital, as its private owner, Healthscope, faces a looming financial crisis.The government said on Thursday it had been notified of a proposal by Health
  
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