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• Why Clive Palmer bets you can’t tell black from white. Or yellow from teal

  05-01-2025 19:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Trying to trademark the word “teal” is just the latest effort by the home-grown billionaire to troll Australia.
  
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• The Israeli ambassador calls him ‘wonderful’. But Palestine’s top envoy is heading home

  07-01-2025 19:00 via smh.com.au
  
  The de facto Palestinian ambassador’s tenure is ending after almost two decades, with one big dream yet to become reality.
  
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• Prominent far-right French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen dies

  07-01-2025 14:03 via abc.net.au
  
  Le Pen founded the populist and Eurosceptic political party National Front, which is now led by his daughter and is the largest party in France's parliament.
  
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• South Korean court re-issues arrest warrant for impeached President Yoon

  07-01-2025 12:20 via abc.net.au
  
  The Corruption Investigation Office for High-Ranking Officials has not confirmed how long the warrant would remain valid.
  
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• Best of cartoons, January 8, 2025

  07-01-2025 12:11 via smh.com.au
  
  The news of the day as interpreted by our talented artists, illustrators and cartoonists.
  
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• Queensland premier opens up on his non-nuclear power plans

  07-01-2025 11:30 via abc.net.au
  
  Queensland Premier David Crisafulli opens up on his plans to use the federal election to his advantage.
  
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• Crisafulli calls for politicians to can 'childish' talk on Australia's energy future

  07-01-2025 11:30 via abc.net.au
  
  Queensland Premier David Crisafulli opens up on his plans to use the federal election to his advantage.
  
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• Coalition vows to restore cashless credit card if elected

  07-01-2025 09:53 via abc.net.au
  
  The opposition has pledged to reinstate a controversial form of welfare income management scrapped by the Albanese government.
  
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• Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau quits top job

  07-01-2025 09:37 via abc.net.au
  
  The Canadian Liberal party leader has bowed to pressure from his colleagues following a weak performance in pre-election polls.
  
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• ‘Very thankful’: Top Palestinian envoy praises Australia for breaking with Israel

  07-01-2025 09:30 via smh.com.au
  
  Izzat Abdulhadi has praised Labor for daring to repeatedly anger Israel and break with the United States in its stance on the Middle East.
  
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• Girl’s burns involving flammable Temu jumper spark calls for regulation

  07-01-2025 08:03 via abc.net.au
  
  Dr Saniyat Islam, who specialises in textile science, says there is a lack of regulation on the labelling of textile contents in Australia.
  
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• North Korea seeking to attract Russian tourists

  07-01-2025 08:02 via abc.net.au
  
  A video produced by the North Korean state-owned travel agency Korean International Travel Company spruiks the Hermit Kingdom's beaches to Russian tourists.
  
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• Korean authorities at a stalemate as arrest warrant for Yoon expires

  07-01-2025 04:02 via abc.net.au
  
  South Korean police are considering detaining presidential security staff who try to block the arrest of Yoon Suk Yeol as an arrest warrant expires. 
  
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• Kamala Harris presides over certification of Donald Trump's victory

  07-01-2025 02:16 via abc.net.au
  
  Donald Trump’s election win has been certified by a joint sitting of the US Congress as Kamala Harris presided over the ceremony as one of her final official acts as vice-president. 
  
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• ‘Not on’: PM weighs in on beach cabana debate

  07-01-2025 02:02 via smh.com.au
  
  Anthony Albanese has found a promising target to rally Australians against this summer: the wave of cabanas being used by beachgoers to secure prime sandy real estate.
  
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• Albanese skips Test cricket as election blitz takes over

  07-01-2025 02:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, a tennis enthusiast, has not revealed plans to attend the Australian Open this year either.
  
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• 'Not a surprise': Justin Trudeau resigns as Canada's Prime Minister

  07-01-2025 01:06 via abc.net.au
  
  Lori Turnbull from Dalhousie University says it's not a surprise that Justin Trudeau resigned as the prime minister and the party now has very little time to rebrand itself. 
  
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• Dutton’s nuclear plan will never happen, but it’s still a gem of a policy

  06-01-2025 19:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s policy will almost certainly never get off the ground, but it has solved a deep and long-standing problem in the Coalition.
  
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• Albanese minister to fly to Israel to mend fractured relationship

  06-01-2025 19:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus’ mission to resuscitate the Australian government’s relationship with Israel follows months of deterioration.
  
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• Best of cartoons, January 7, 2025

  06-01-2025 13:11 via smh.com.au
  
  The news of the day as interpreted by our talented artists, illustrators and cartoonists.
  
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• Why Justin Trudeau is resigning

  06-01-2025 09:52 via abc.net.au
  
  A decade ago, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was a shining figure in international diplomacy. Now he's resigning
  
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• Why Justin Trudeau could resign this week

  06-01-2025 09:52 via abc.net.au
  
  A decade ago, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was a shining figure in international diplomacy. Now he's facing a no-confidence vote.
  
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• Prime minister kicks off election year with road funding pledge

  06-01-2025 09:31 via abc.net.au
  
  Anthony Albanese is promising to fund 80 per cent of the Bruce Highway upgrade.
  
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• Cost-of-living crisis meets new era of electric cars

  06-01-2025 09:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Customers are voting with their wallets and continuing to buy more clean cars despite a tougher economic outlook.
  
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• ‘Hard to justify’: Albanese lashes Coalition’s handling of 2022 Djokovic detention

  06-01-2025 06:01 via smh.com.au
  
  Tennis star Novak Djokovic has revealed he still feels trauma coming through Australian customs years after being detained for being unvaccinated during the pandemic.
  
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• ‘How can I do better?’ Israeli ambassador’s candid confession

  06-01-2025 01:00 via smh.com.au
  
  The ambassador knows he must do more to tell Israel’s side of the Middle East story and stop a once-close bilateral relationship from spinning out of control.
  
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• ‘How can I do better?’: Israeli ambassador’s candid confession

  06-01-2025 01:00 via smh.com.au
  
  The ambassador knows he must do more to tell Israel’s side of the Middle East story and stop a once-close bilateral relationship from spinning out of control.
  
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• ‘Don’t point fingers at us’: Israeli ambassador’s message to Australians

  05-01-2025 18:13 via smh.com.au
  
  In a rare interview, the Israeli ambassador said he believed many Australians fail to grasp the seriousness of the security threats his nation faces.
  
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• Best of cartoons, January 6, 2025

  05-01-2025 14:13 via smh.com.au
  
  The news of the day as interpreted by our talented artists, illustrators and cartoonists.
  
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• Prime minister starts year with a campaign-style blitz

  05-01-2025 12:30 via smh.com.au
  
  Anthony Albanese will travel this week to the Northern Territory, Queensland and Western Australia to sell Labor’s message to voters in marginal seats.
  
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