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• Best of cartoons, December 27, 2024

  26-12-2024 11:53 via smh.com.au
  
  The news of the day as interpreted by our talented artists, illustrators and cartoonists.
  
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• Lawmakers of Korea's ruling party protest ahead of Han impeachment vote

  27-12-2024 09:50 via abc.net.au
  
  Lawmakers from Korea's ruling party chanted in protest during a vote to impeachment county's acting President Han Duck-soo. 
  
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• Pill testing set to get underway at Melbourne music festival

  27-12-2024 09:27 via abc.net.au
  
  After years of debate, pill testing will get underway at a music festival in Melbourne's west. 
  
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• Brad Battin to replace John Pesutto as Victoria's Liberal leader

  27-12-2024 09:23 via abc.net.au
  
  Brad Battin will be the next leader of the Victorian Liberal Party, following a tumultuous few weeks that saw John Pesutto booted as opposition leader. 
  
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• Dutton’s mysterious free legal advice from prominent Melbourne firm

  27-12-2024 09:10 via smh.com.au
  
  The opposition leader is receiving “ongoing legal assistance” from a firm that opposed him on the Voice to parliament.
  
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• Australia's beach towns are struggling to cope with Christmas crowds

  27-12-2024 08:30 via abc.net.au
  
  Park manager at Reflections Holiday Park in Seal Rocks Katie Toney discusses what the town is like outside peak holiday periods as it attracts massive tourist numbers. 
  
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• Sydney's NYE firework display to be bigger and better than ever before

  27-12-2024 08:01 via abc.net.au
  
  Preparations have begun for the Sydney Harbour New Year's Eve firework display which is set to be bigger and better than ever before.
  
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• Migrants and refugees learn to swim in Sydney

  27-12-2024 08:01 via abc.net.au
  
  A group of 80 people from the Bankstown Adult Migrant English Centre are learning lifesaving skills at one of Sydney's most popular swimming spots.
  
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• QLD government to invest in more crime prevention and youth justice schools

  27-12-2024 05:55 via abc.net.au
  
  The Queensland government will invest about $80 million on six crime prevention and youth justice school across the state. 
  
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• Release of Australian captured by Russia could take years

  27-12-2024 04:48 via smh.com.au
  
  The prime minister has warned the public not to go to Ukraine, but Kyiv’s ambassador says Australians were still asking to go and fight against the Russians.
  
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• Working holidaymaker numbers have soared to record levels. It’s a challenge for Labor

  26-12-2024 19:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Australia is taking in about half of the world’s working holidaymakers in a strong jobs market. One country is leading the surge.
  
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• Dutton’s ‘brave’ nuclear bet relies on coal plants. Their owners are concerned

  26-12-2024 19:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s energy plan is for coal plants to keep running until nuclear is built. But the coal owners need answers.
  
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• Bandt will demand Medicare expansion from Albanese in hung parliament

  26-12-2024 00:22 via smh.com.au
  
  The Greens leader admitted in an interview with this masthead that contentiously stymying Labor’s agenda had “not always been pretty” but was necessary due to Labor’s “tepid” approach to governing.
  
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• The RBA chose to sit on its hands in 2024. Here’s why

  25-12-2024 19:00 via smh.com.au
  
  If and when the RBA does cut interest rates, it will provide relief to millions. But it will also bring sighs of despair from others.
  
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• ‘Do not do deals’: Veteran MP warns against pacts with Albanese, Dutton

  25-12-2024 19:00 via smh.com.au
  
  The key crossbencher who helped decide government in the hung parliament of 2010 says he has learnt not to do formal deals.
  
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• Cost of caring for veterans climbs to $13 billion

  25-12-2024 19:00 via smh.com.au
  
  A backlog of 60,000 unprocessed medical and compensation claims from veterans has been cleared – and has delivered a $13 billion hit to the budget.
  
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• Best of cartoons, December 26, 2024

  25-12-2024 12:38 via smh.com.au
  
  The news of the day as interpreted by our talented artists, illustrators and cartoonists.
  
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• ‘Not forgotten’: PM pays tribute to Cyclone Tracy victims 50 years on

  25-12-2024 04:38 via smh.com.au
  
  Survivors sobbed in Darwin as Anthony Albanese recalled the disaster that left “an entire city almost wiped off the map”.
  
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• Prime Minister Anthony Albanese wishes Australians a Merry Christmas

  24-12-2024 20:53 via abc.net.au
  
  Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has wished every Australian a peaceful and joyful Christmas.  
  
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• Opposition leader Peter Dutton sends Christmas message to Australians

  24-12-2024 20:53 via abc.net.au
  
  Opposition leader Peter Dutton has wished Australians a safe and relaxing Christmas. 
  
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• Sydney NYE fireworks saved after deal between unions and NSW government

  24-12-2024 09:18 via abc.net.au
  
  The threat to Sydney's New Years Eve fireworks has been averted after a deal was struck between the state government and the transport union. 
  
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• NYE fireworks saved after deal reached between unions and NSW government

  24-12-2024 09:18 via abc.net.au
  
  The threat to Sydney's New Years Eve fireworks has been averted in a deal struck between the state government and the transport union. 
  
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• Wages slowdown and struggling economy give RBA room to move

  24-12-2024 09:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Minutes of the Reserve Bank’s most recent meeting suggest inflation pressures are easing faster than expected, in good news for borrowers and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
  
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• Canadian PM Trudeau in fight of his political life after party revolt

  24-12-2024 06:48 via abc.net.au
  
  Justin Trudeau has suffered a series of blows in recent days, spurred by the surprise resignation of Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, which marked the first open dissent against the prime minister from within his cabinet and has emboldened critics.
  
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• ‘Stronger than ever’: PM attends Cyclone Tracy memorial on Christmas

  24-12-2024 05:28 via smh.com.au
  
  Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is in Darwin to mark the 50th anniversary of Cyclone Tracy, Australia’s largest peacetime evacuation and reconstruction.
  
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• PM remembers ‘dark shadow’ of Cyclone Tracy, and Darwin’s resurrection, 50 years on

  24-12-2024 05:28 via smh.com.au
  
  Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is in Darwin to mark the 50th anniversary of Cyclone Tracy, Australia’s largest peacetime evacuation and reconstruction.
  
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• Albanese, Dutton reflect on 2024 in Christmas messages

  24-12-2024 04:47 via smh.com.au
  
  Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton gave thanks to essential staff working over the holiday period.
  
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• Albanese seeks ‘positive outcome’ for Australian volunteer fighter captured by Russia

  24-12-2024 03:33 via smh.com.au
  
  Melbourne man Oscar Jenkins became the first known Australian to be taken prisoner by Russia in Ukraine when footage of him appeared on social media.
  
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• Albanese seeks ‘positive outcome’ for Australian fighter captured by Russia

  24-12-2024 03:33 via smh.com.au
  
  Melbourne man Oscar Jenkins became the first known Australian to be taken prisoner by Russia in Ukraine when footage of him appeared on social media.
  
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• Pakistan’s medicine shortages leave dozens of children dead

  24-12-2024 02:51 via abc.net.au
  
  Prolonged road blockades are starving medical centres and left hundreds of thousands of residents without essential supplies.
  
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