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• Bed shortages force prisoners to sleep on mattresses on floors of Perth's jails, as fears of rising tensions grow

  24-10-2024 23:18 via abc.net.au
  
  Overcrowding forces dozens of prisoners at two of Perth's largest jails to sleep on mattresses on the floor in "Dickensian" conditions.
  
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• Outback city calls in specialists to deal with putrefying stench

  24-10-2024 23:01 via abc.net.au
  
  An independent odour consultant is patrolling the streets of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, looking for the source of a foul smell residents say is impacting their quality of life. 
  
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• Odour specialist brought to WA's outback to solve mystery of 'rotten egg' stench

  24-10-2024 23:01 via abc.net.au
  
  An independent odour consultant is patrolling the streets of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, looking for the source of a foul smell residents say is impacting their quality of life. 
  
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• When it comes to climate, Labor is keeping an eye on Washington before it looks to Paris

  24-10-2024 22:04 via abc.net.au
  
  If Donald Trump wins the US presidency on November 5, his victory will have profound implications for other countries on many fronts. Not least of them will be climate change policy.
  
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• 'Can we trust them?' Business group savages Liberal government over 'embarrassing' Spirits fiasco

  24-10-2024 20:28 via abc.net.au
  
  Tasmania's business and tourism groups have grown increasingly fed up with the state government over its handling of the new Spirit of Tasmania vessels. That anger overflowed on Thursday.
  
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• 'A calamity for Tasmania': Premier wanted calm seas over Spirits fiasco, but now he faces a storm

  24-10-2024 20:28 via abc.net.au
  
  Tasmania's business and tourism groups have grown increasingly fed up with the state government over its handling of the new Spirit of Tasmania vessels. That anger overflowed on Thursday.
  
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• Why Albanese’s migration nightmare should frighten Dutton too

  24-10-2024 20:00 via smh.com.au
  
  The government will miss its migration targets by a long way, but that puts huge pressure on the Coalition. How could it make drastic cuts without wrecking parts of the economy?
  
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• Best of cartoons, October 25, 2024

  24-10-2024 14:01 via smh.com.au
  
  The news of the day as interpreted by our talented artists, illustrators and cartoonists.
  
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• Global bloodshed biggest threat to economic recovery: Chalmers

  24-10-2024 13:30 via smh.com.au
  
  Treasurer Jim Chalmers has used an address to the International Monetary Fund to warn growing military conflicts pose a risk to the global economy.
  
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• Albanese’s small-target strategy, Voice ‘disaster’ risk Labor’s future: party elder

  24-10-2024 10:45 via smh.com.au
  
  Kim Carr has joined other Labor luminaries in warning about the party’s prospects but does not want it to follow the Greens into “woke” policies.
  
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• Vast failures exposed in report into Victorian Building Authority

  24-10-2024 10:25 via abc.net.au
  
  An independent review of the Victorian Building Authority has exposed its failures to protect home-owners stuck with building defects. 
  
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• Significsny failures exposed in report into Victorian Building Authority

  24-10-2024 10:25 via abc.net.au
  
  An independent review of the Victorian Building Authority has exposed its failures to protect home-owners stuck with building defects. 
  
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• Significant failures exposed in report into Victorian Building Authority

  24-10-2024 10:25 via abc.net.au
  
  An independent review of the Victorian Building Authority has exposed its failures to protect home-owners stuck with building defects. 
  
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• Too old, too expensive: Coal can’t wait for nuclear, says energy regulator

  24-10-2024 09:02 via smh.com.au
  
  The high-stakes parliamentary inquiry into nuclear power examined Peter Dutton’s plan to build nuclear power plants across the country.
  
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• WA Museum under fire for acquiring perspex cover on famous Frederick McCubbin painting defaced by climate protesters

  24-10-2024 08:20 via abc.net.au
  
  The WA Museum is criticised after acquiring a piece of perspex protecting an iconic Australian painting which was graffitied by climate activists.
  
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• 'Celebrating vandals': MPs take aim at WA Museum for acquiring perspex protecting priceless painting defaced by climate activist

  24-10-2024 08:20 via abc.net.au
  
  The WA Museum is criticised after acquiring a piece of perspex protecting an iconic Australian painting which was graffitied by climate activists.
  
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• Pacific leaders blame Australia for role in climate crisis

  24-10-2024 06:53 via smh.com.au
  
  Prime Minister Anthony Albanese had barely touched down in Samoa when the Commonwealth summit faced a split over who should pay to cut emissions.
  
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• Could these two coastal Queensland seats turn the tide on Labor?

  24-10-2024 06:42 via abc.net.au
  
  In 2020, Labor turned two long-held blue seats red in the state's south east. Caloundra and Nicklin are again setting the scene for another knife-edge battle, which could determine who will hold government.
  
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• Could these two coastal Queensland bellwether seats turn the tide on Labor?

  24-10-2024 06:42 via abc.net.au
  
  In 2020, Labor turned two long-held blue seats red in the state's south east. Caloundra and Nicklin are again setting the scene for another knife-edge battle, which could determine who will hold government.
  
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• 'Death sentence': Pacific nations slam Australia's climate record at Commonwealth meeting

  24-10-2024 06:11 via abc.net.au
  
  Several Pacific island nations are ramping up pressure on Australia over climate change during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.
  
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• 'Death sentence': Pacific nations plead for Australia to phase out fossil fuels

  24-10-2024 06:11 via abc.net.au
  
  Several Pacific island nations are ramping up pressure on Australia over climate change during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.
  
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• Shark warning tower installed after WA diver's death offline as summer looms

  24-10-2024 05:11 via abc.net.au
  
  Three shark warning towers on the state's remote south coast need urgent replacement — including one that's completely offline — but there's confusion over who should foot the bill.
  
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• Price was right to raise abortion debate, says pro-life Joyce

  24-10-2024 02:58 via smh.com.au
  
  The former deputy prime minister pushed back against shadow cabinet colleagues who say abortion is a state rather than federal issue.
  
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• Price was courageous to debate abortion issue, says pro-life Joyce

  24-10-2024 02:58 via smh.com.au
  
  The former deputy prime minister pushed back against shadow cabinet colleagues who say abortion is a state rather than federal issue.
  
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• Australian Pathology launches television ad about bulk billing services

  24-10-2024 02:24 via abc.net.au
  
  Australian Pathology launched a television ad campaign expressing concerns about whether pathology will continue to be bulk billed in the future.
  
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• Australian Pathology launches campaign about bulk billing services

  24-10-2024 02:24 via abc.net.au
  
  Australian Pathology launched a television ad campaign expressing concerns about whether pathology will continue to be bulk billed in the future.
  
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• Victoria's longest serving female councillor retires after 42 years

  24-10-2024 01:30 via abc.net.au
  
  The night Gwenda Allgood told her husband she was considering running for local council, she slept in her son's bedroom. She refused to leave until her husband gave her his support.
  
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• Can Lidia Thorpe be disqualified as a senator?

  24-10-2024 01:30 via abc.net.au
  
  Lawyer Anne Twomey says the Constitution does not expressly disqualify her as senator if she has renounced her pledge.
  
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• Thorpe revises comments about oath, now saying she 'misspoke' owing to grammatical error

  24-10-2024 01:27 via abc.net.au
  
  The Senator joked on Wednesday she had sworn allegiance to the Queen's "hairs" not her "heirs" but now says that was not intentional.
  
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• Labor open to further action on Thorpe, but options are limited

  24-10-2024 01:27 via abc.net.au
  
  Katy Gallagher has pointed to the possible use of Senate standing orders if Lidia Thorpe is disorderly on the floor of the Senate, while the Coalition is seeking legal opinions on her affirmation.
  
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