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Guardian Australia win Walkley award for Indigenous affairs for The Descendants series Christopher Hopkins also named the Nikon-Walkley Press Photographer of the Year for work published in Al Jazeera, The Age, and the Guardian * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Guardian Australia has won a Walkley award for excellence in journalism for a series on Australians facing the truth of their family’s involvement in frontier violence. Guardian Australia won the Walkley Indigenous affairs at Thursday night’s ceremony for the The Descendants series, which built on Guardian Australia’s 2019 Walkley award-winning series The Killing Times. The series explored the deeply personal process of truth-telling about some of the most horrific incidents in Australia’s past, from both sides of the frontier. Continue reading...

Guardian Australia win Walkley award for Indigenous affairs for The Descendants series

By the numbers: the latest ICE and CBP data on arrests, detentions and deportations in the US The Guardian US reviewed figures from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection since Trump’s inauguration

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I haven't been able to get this out of my head all day...290.600 deportations, 65,140 people in detention . ....

Jordan Baker appointed editor of the Herald as Bevan Shields steps down Baker, the chief reporter for the Herald, will start in the new role in 2026.

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Congratulations Jordon Baker, and also to Bevan Shields for four years - it's a tough gig and the Herald does a great deal of quality reporting

The 2025 BirdLife Australia photography awards – in pictures A preening brush turkey, a wise cassowary and some hungry terns are among the winning and shortlisted photos in this year’s prize

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Nauru president floats returning NZYQ refugees to home countries, in interview Australia tried to suppress In an interview kept secret since February, David Adeang wrongly stated the people Australia has begun deporting to his country are not refugees

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The secret transcript...

‘Culture cringe’: experts dismiss Coalition claims Chris Bowen cannot remain minister while leading Cop31 negotiations Coalition claims key diplomatic role at next year’s conference in Turkey would make Bowen a ‘part-time minister’ while Australians face inflated energy prices

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just some facts.....

‘The whole thing stinks’: outsourced ATO call centre workers shocked by conditions as callers complain about inexperienced staff Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand also say the ATO’s ‘phone system just doesn’t work’

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maybe why the service is often so bad??...

Labor advances universal childcare plan with new laws to allow collection of data from private operators Exclusive: Jason Clare says new powers will ensure information is ‘representative’ to help government deliver ‘evidence-based reforms’

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Leaked Coalition talking points direct MPs to argue dumping net zero does not conflict with Paris agreement Exclusive: Guidance distributed to MPs seeks to pre-empt questions about plan’s compatibility with Paris agreement, indicating opposition is aware of potential breach

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The $9tn cost to Australians: how a ‘misrepresented’ figure on net zero took on a life of its own A network of climate academics called Net Zero Australia say the actual cost of building a low-carbon energy system to Australians would be about $300bn

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Trump shrugs off Khashoggi murder during Saudi prince’s White House visit US president also claims Mohammed bin Salman ‘knew nothing’ about murder of journalist

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Trump defends Saudi crown prince over Khashoggi killing, claiming he ‘knew nothing about it’ and ‘things happen’ - live President contradicts US intelligence over killing of regime critic with remarks during Oval Office meeting with Mohammed bin Salman

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"These things happen"

Academics say their net zero costing is being ‘misrepresented’ after Nationals repeat $9tn claim Researchers behind report cited by some in the Coalition say their work is based on various assumptions – largely involving cost to overseas customers, not Australians

In a triumph of hope over experience I am re-upping this fact check while listening to Pauline Hanson on ABC RN breakfast repeating the misrepresented figure

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Business and energy leaders warn Coalition dumping net zero won’t cut power bills and demand more detail CEO of Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry calls Sussan Ley’s new policy ‘a bit of a plan not to have a plan’, echoing business scepticism

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coalition says cutting power prices is the goal of their policy, business says….

Meet the whistleblowers who exposed Queensland’s domestic violence failures: ‘I was warned they would pulverise me’ Exclusive: The women who made Guardian Australia’s two-year investigation possible on why they decided to break ranks and speak out

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Broken Trust: how police failed Hannah Clarke and her children - podcast In the first episode of this special Full Story investigation, Broken Trust looks at serious police failings, in the lead-up to the murders, that were overlooked by the coronial inquest and not invest...

If you listen to one thing today, spend some time with this.

Not always the easiest listen, but I think this crisis deserves our attention.

Hannah Clarke murders: Queensland police made potentially critical mistakes, new evidence reveals Exclusive: Detectives investigated ‘veracity and motive’ of Brisbane woman’s allegations of domestic violence and coercive control – even after the horrifying attack that killed her and her children

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An important two year investigation

Are Australians really paying more for electricity than other countries? Australia’s electricity prices have gone up a long way over the past decade or so, but global energy trends have also pushed up bills in other countries

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The short answer is no. We’re around the middle of the pack, and a little further down the list after accounting for our relatively high incomes.

Factchecking five Coalition claims about net zero, from power prices to the $9tn cost As Liberals join Nationals in abandoning a 2050 emissions target, we unpick some of the opposition’s talking points

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Facts......

Mining firm BHP found liable in UK for disastrous Brazilian dam collapse About 600,000 people seeking compensation a decade on from disaster that killed 19 and devastated villages

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The Australia-based BHP, which is also listed on the London Stock Exchange, said in a statement that it intended to appeal against the decision and would continue to defend against the UK group action.

Is climate change really something we need to stress about? | Fiona Katauskas We could just wait until it all boils over

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Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new.
This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
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Facebook community groups and maggot-infested rats: the inner workings of Australia’s climate misinformation war Senate inquiry hears how ‘propagandised misinformation’ is drowning out legitimate concerns in Australia’s regions over renewable energy

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The inquiry heard from Grant Piper, a farmer who chairs the National Rational Energy Network (NREN) – a group launched in 2023 to connect groups opposed to renewables projects. The group’s first zoom meeting in 2023 was hosted by Barnaby Joyce’s office

Trump news at a glance: president faces potentially damaging congressional vote over releasing Epstein files Attempts to persuade two female members of Congress to withdraw backing for petition appear to have failed – key US politics stories from Thursday 13 November at a glance

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Malcom Turnbull accuses Liberals of ‘Trumpian campaign against renewables’ after party dumps net zero Climate groups call backflip a ‘disaster’ while moderate Liberals worry about impact on winning back urban electorates

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The Whyalla steelworks might be the best place in the world to make low-cost green iron. Will Labor seize the moment? | Rod Sims and Baethan Mullan If the government is committed to the energy transition and a future made in Australia, the choice that must be made is clear

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What does net zero emissions actually mean? And is it different to the Paris agreement? – video More than 140 countries have set or are considering net zero emissions targets, mostly for 2050

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World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating

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Not sure if the coalition party room is reading this....

The spectacular nonsense of the Coalition’s internal brawl over the 2050 net zero emissions target | Clear air The public stoush is really about whether the party will drop the charade or maintain it while shuffling some words

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It had to be said

Advance launches last-minute lobbying campaign pressuring Liberal MPs to dump net zero target Rightwing lobby group’s email blitz targets party ahead of Liberal shadow ministry meeting at 9am on Thursday

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