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Ticket to rideshare: disability groups call for change

Ticket to rideshare: disability groups call for change

Transport subsidy schemes around Australia need urgent reform to give people with disabilities greater choice and lower costs, a report has found.

Australian social media ban both a success and failure

Australian social media ban both a success and failure

Australian social media ban both a success and failure

Australian social media ban both a success and failure

Australian laws banning children from social media have the world talking but two months in, experts say they are far from foolproof.

Online creators working to disrupt the police narrative

Online creators working to disrupt the police narrative

Online creators working to disrupt the police narrative

Online creators working to disrupt the police narrative

Standing outside police recruitment events, armed with 'you shouldn't be a cop' flyers, Tom Raue hopes to change Australians' minds.

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From inconvenience to crisis, islands battle king tides

From inconvenience to crisis, islands battle king tides

Low-lying islands in the Torres Strait have been inundated after another frightening king tide season as locals continue the legal fight for climate justice.

Tower residents' eviction win ahead of High Court fight

Tower residents' eviction win ahead of High Court fight

The Court of Appeal has ordered a state government body to halt its plan to evict residents at three public housing towers earmarked for demolition.

Harbour Bridge joyriders sparks calls for e-bike action

Harbour Bridge joyriders sparks calls for e-bike action

Footage of young men dangerously riding e-bikes and motorcycles on the Sydney Harbour Bridge has fuelled calls for more accountability.

Leading disability employer sold, saving jobs

Leading disability employer sold, saving jobs

The nation's second-largest disability employer has been sold, saving 1250 jobs, after a government rescue package prevented its collapse.

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Workers strike at troubled youth detention facility

Workers strike at troubled youth detention facility

Workers strike at troubled youth detention facility

Workers strike at troubled youth detention facility

Children and young people have been restricted to their rooms for hours as workers went on strike against conditions at the trouble-plagued facility.

'Cause for alarm': party drug deaths spike tenfold

'Cause for alarm': party drug deaths spike tenfold

'Cause for alarm': party drug deaths spike tenfold

'Cause for alarm': party drug deaths spike tenfold

At $5 per dose, deaths linked to a notorious party drug have skyrocketed with an Australian hospital warning overdoses are now a daily occurrence.

Rural water supplies struggling to cope after heatwave

Rural water supplies struggling to cope after heatwave

Rural water supplies struggling to cope after heatwave

Rural water supplies struggling to cope after heatwave

Locals in one rural town are lining up in a pub car park to receive free bottled water, as parts of country Australia get a reprieve from an intense heatwave.

UN human rights focus mulled as protest law challenged

UN human rights focus mulled as protest law challenged

UN human rights focus mulled as protest law challenged

UN human rights focus mulled as protest law challenged

Protecting human rights after terrorist events could be considered by three judges as activists challenge anti-protest laws brought in after the Bondi massacre.

Plea for unity as Australia Day highlights divisions

Plea for unity as Australia Day highlights divisions

Plea for unity as Australia Day highlights divisions

Plea for unity as Australia Day highlights divisions

Emotions have run high at competing Australia Day rallies as the prime minister highlighted the role immigrants have played in helping to shape the nation.

Fire with fire: growing fight to shift booze culture

Fire with fire: growing fight to shift booze culture

Fire with fire: growing fight to shift booze culture

Fire with fire: growing fight to shift booze culture

More than a decade after a rural woman started a charity by sharing her story of alcohol addiction, a movement to reframe boozy bush culture is in high demand.

'A grieving nation': PM's apology as Bondi dead mourned

'A grieving nation': PM's apology as Bondi dead mourned

'A grieving nation': PM's apology as Bondi dead mourned

'A grieving nation': PM's apology as Bondi dead mourned

A national day of mourning for those killed in the Bondi attack has culminated in an emotional memorial service and a personal apology from the prime minister.

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'Death to Australia': vandals target colonial statues

Two monuments in a major city's CBD have been defaced in the lead-up to Australia Day, with leaders condemning the vandalism as disgraceful and despicable.

'Literally unbelievable': families mourn Bondi victims

Families of those killed in the Bondi Beach terrorist attack are trying to come to terms with their grief as Australia pauses for a national day of mourning.

Swimmers face deadlier threat than rising shark attacks

A bigger menace lurks in Australian waters than a recent string of shark attacks, swimmers are being warned ahead of the long weekend.

Labor issues ultimatum on hate speech laws

Changes to hate speech laws remain up in the air as Anthony Albanese issues a take it or leave it offer to the coalition on the contentious laws.

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Hate speech laws could be 'salvaged' after backdown

Despite criticising Labor's proposed hate speech laws as unsalvageable, the coalition is looking to get elements passed in an emergency session.

Religious leaders unite in call for hate speech rethink

Religious leaders have united across faiths to urge the prime minister to go back to the drawing board on contentious hate speech reforms.

Social media app investigated over child abuse material

Australian officials are looking into the creation of child abuse material on Elon Musk's social media platform amid global outcry over the issue.

Hate speech laws in peril as Libs, Greens spurn reforms

Major changes will be needed to the government's hate speech laws overhaul for any hope of rushing the legislation through parliament.

Jewish groups push to scrap hate speech law exemptions

Coalition members and Jewish groups have come out against proposed hate speech laws drawn up in response to the Bondi massacre.

Neo-Nazis surveilled after hate laws prompt disbanding

Proposed hate speech laws drawn up in response to the Bondi massacre have led to the disbanding of one of Australia's most prominent neo-Nazi groups.

Aussie ex-detainee's dire warning for 'vulnerable' Iran

Tehran's decades-old dictatorship could be about to topple, says an Australian expert who was jailed for 804 days by the Iranian regime.

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