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  • Eight-year-old Elizabeth Struhs in a pink outfit sits on a man’s lap

    Religion, medicine and the case of Elizabeth Struhs: are 14 people responsible for an 8-year-old’s death?

  • A fire truck moves through a Melbourne intersection.

    Two people found dead after Melbourne house fire

    Firefighters called to Donvale home at about 3.46am Saturday found the house fully engulfed in flames
  • Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is seen during a press conference.

    Albanese tells Russian embassy to ‘back off’ over criticisms of spying charges

    Prime minister’s comments come as embassy claims agency bosses were trying to fuel ‘anti-Russian paranioa’

  • Anthony Albanese slams John Setka after union heavyweight resigns as CFMEU boss

  • Snowfall possible in northern NSW as low pressure brings Antarctic blast to southern Australia

  • Sleeping on waste: how to recycle a mattress in Australia so that it doesn’t end up in landfill (or on the street)

  • How Australian scientists brought Norfolk Island’s thumbnail-sized snails back from the brink of extinction

  • Footage shows snail on the brink of extinction giving birth through its neck - video

  • Sarah lost her savings to a ‘money mule’ scam. She says Australia’s big banks have brushed her off

  • Wildlife rescue group Wires faces crunch vote amid volunteer discontent over funds raised after bushfires

Australian politics

  • Minister for Immigration Andrew Giles speaks to media during a press conference,

    Andrew Giles on celebrating and defending multiculturalism – Australian Politics Podcast

  • Karen Middleton

    The path for Labor to lose western Sydney over Gaza is narrow – but it’s there

    Karen Middleton
  • The prime minister, Anthony Albanese

    PM accuses Dutton of pulling Liberals further to the right; jail sentence for second Blockade Australia protester – as it happened

  • Penny Wong

    Documents reveal why Australia voted yes in key UN motion on Palestinian membership

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Opinion & analysis

  • Josh Taylor

    Apple’s Vision Pro headset is impressive – but it’s hard to know its ultimate purpose

    Josh Taylor
  • James Norman riding an e-scooter at St Kilda, Melbourne

    There’s a high chance of e-scooter riders landing face-first in accidents as I did. We need ways to make them safer

    James Norman
  • A young disabled woman in a wheelchair at home, seen from behind

    The uproar over the NDIS and sex work shows society still struggles to see disabled people as sexual beings

    Clem Bastow and Ali Schnabel
  • doubles pickleball

    Despite not involving eating pickles, pickleball proves to be a joyful surprise

    Nova Weetman
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Video

  • Brisbane couple charged with spying for Russia in alleged attempt to access defence secrets - video

  • Footage shows a man wearing a mask and a hoodie and carrying a sling bag walking out of the victims’ room a few hours before their bodies were discovered

    0:41

    Masked man seen on CCTV before Australian couple found dead in Philippines hotel - video

    Footage shows a man wearing a mask and a hoodie and carrying a sling bag walking out of the victims’ room a few hours before their bodies were discovered
  • Police in Western Australia have released footage of a 38-year-old allegedly trying to evade arrest in Perth

    0:33

    WA man allegedly attempts trampoline escape from police, charged with breaking fence – video

    Police in Western Australia have released footage of a 38-year-old allegedly trying to evade arrest in Perth
  • Talk of a rail connection to and from Tullamarine has existed longer than the city's actual airport

    5:00

    A history of the Melbourne airport rail, the most famous train line to never exist – video

  • Several specialist fire crews are fighting a chemical fire in Derrimut

    1:16

    Factory burns in Melbourne's west after chemical explosion – video

  • Snapping bananas and piercing lemons – what has the world come to?

    3:09

    That's not how you peel a banana: kitchen hacks that will up your fruit and veg game – video

  • Mark Dreyfus says criticism of Israel might be antisemitic when it singles the nation out and applies a standard not applied to other countries

    1:12

    Australia's attorney general says criticism of Israel 'absolutely can be' antisemitic – video

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