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Once Australia’s second priciest city, Melbourne has become more affordable. What happened – and will it last? More homes and less property investor activity has seen Victoria’s capital rise up the affordability rankings

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Updating my LEGO White House

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Brian Tyler Cohen

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Disgraced former congressman George Santos released from prison in New Jersey Trump commuted Santos’s seven-year sentence for fraud and identity theft after he had served less than three months

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CSIRO research threatened by historically low government funding - ABC listen Australia's national science agency has hit historically low levels of government funding. That's according to new analysis from the parliamentary library β€” commissioned by independent Senator David P...

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NSW anti-protest law ruled unconstitutional after Palestine Action Group court challenge PAG had challenged expanded police powers to restrict protests near places of worship

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We could quit Aukus and fund CSIRO for nearly 700 years.

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Albanese urged to β€˜secure the future of science’ as CSIRO reckons with ongoing decline in funding CEO Doug Hilton says the agency’s budget allocation β€˜has not kept up with the cost of doing science’

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The fledgling UN tried to rein in mass-scale misinformation. The world turned its back and is now paying the price | Roland Burke The ruinous result of the US approach to freedom of information and media has made anti-democratic contagion impossible to ignore

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The mood is ominous at CSIRO as jobs disappear β€˜by stealth’ – and staff are wondering who’s next National scientific agency has been β€˜reshaping its research portfolio’ to deal with an imminent funding cliff in 2024

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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Fired national security prosecutor warns colleagues in note on way out Michael Ben’Ary says he was fired based on a social media post by a January 6 conspiracy theorist

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Sound Up πŸ”Š

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Base formulation may be linked to 20 sunscreens falling short of SPF claims, drug regulator finds TGA investigation also finds some testing laboratories may be more reliable than others

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Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

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β€˜Exciting’ clinical results offer hope for new class of MS therapies Cambridge trial suggests diabetes drug with antihistamine can partially repair damage in the nervous system

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School history lessons minimise the role of women, report finds Campaigners say key stage 3 curriculum plays to misogny and teaches a β€˜false version of the past’

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Meta exposΓ© author faces bankruptcy after ban on criticising company Exclusive: Sarah Wynn-Williams faces $50,000 fine every time she breaches order banning her from criticising Meta

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Sally Rooney unable to collect award over Palestine Action arrest threat The Normal People author can no longer safely enter the UK without potentially facing arrest, according to a statement read out by her publisher at the prize ceremony

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'BBC policy on Brexit is not impartial' Why is the BBC giving so much time to hardline Brexiteers, asks journalist Raymond Snoddy

1/ After the referendum, BBC chief Lord Hall ordered the BBC to treat Brexit as a done deal, a decision which all but wholly excluded Remainer opinion from the BBC for around 2 years, thus grossly biasing the Brexit debate. It was a grotesque abuse of democracy.
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The Gaza family torn apart by IDF snipers from Chicago and Munich Five-month investigation reveals how four members of one family were shot and killed in a single day and highlights a pattern in which Israeli troops target unarmed civilians

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Some new street art spotted in DC 🀣

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Migrant community marches in favour of making themselves leave Australia

Migrant community marches in favour of making themselves leave Australia

A group of white people from immigrant backgrounds have demanded that people like them should "go back to where they came from" chaser.com.au/general-news...

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Doctors find drug that is better than aspirin at preventing heart attacks Discovery that clopidogrel is more effective blood thinner could transform health guidelines worldwide

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