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  • Shoes, which represent Israeli hostages, displayed at a rally in Sydney last October

    Australian Jews grappling with dissolving unity and the rise in antisemitism a year on from 7 October

  • The monitoring sites miners use on the Woronora Plateau. Mining damage to the Sydney water catchment.

    ‘Where’s the accountability?’: Indigenous elders decry ‘irreparable’ coalmine damage to heritage site

    Exclusive: Leaders warn damage to artwork at Dendrobium coalmine in NSW could be a ‘second Juukan Gorge’
  • Panthers celebrate winning the 2024 NRL grand final against the Storm at Accor Stadium

    Panthers create NRL history while Roosters win NRLW crown – grand final 2024 in pictures

    Penrith seal fourth straight NRL title with win over Melbourne, as Sydney hold off brave Cronulla to claim second NRLW premiership

  • Pro-Palestine rallies across Australia – in pictures

  • ‘We just want peace’: anger and grief as thousands of pro-Palestine protesters rally across Australia

  • Rallies held across Australia – as it happened

  • Eight-year-old girl dead and woman missing after Queensland townhouse fire

  • Dutton ‘intentionally lying’ about Australia’s stance on Middle East crisis, Marles says

  • Inside Queensland Labor’s scramble to protect the next generation of leaders as election defeat looms

  • ‘I’ve aged 10 years in the past 10 days’: Australia’s Shia Muslims watch in horror as Lebanon bombarded

Australian politics

  • Prime Minister Anthony Albanese

    Albanese acknowledges ‘terrible pain’ of Hamas attacks in video message marking 7 October anniversary

  • Paul Karp Chief political correspondent

    Labor’s Help to Buy housing bill is darkening parliament’s doors again. Will this time be any different?

    Paul Karp Chief political correspondent
  • Israelis hold red balloons as they attend the first birthday celebration for Kfir Bibas, the youngest hostage to be kidnapped by Hamas militants

    A year of horror, vile political point-scoring and the oldest hatred hitting home. And yet I still hope

    Mark Dreyfus
  • Anthony Albanese and Adam Bandt

    Anthony Albanese may be trivialising the Greens, but grassroots Labor is preparing for a fight

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Opinion & analysis

  • Karen Middleton

    Peter Dutton needs reminding that rights we hold dear don’t come with a caveat

    Karen Middleton
  • Maddie Thomas

    I, for one, will never say no to daylight savings – it feels a bit like cheating time

    Maddie Thomas
  • Amanda Meade

    Fake X accounts fool Sky News Australia – twice

    Amanda Meade
  • Opposition Leader David Crisafulli reacts during a debate with Premier Steven Miles as part of the 2024 Queensland State Election, in Brisbane, Thursday, October 3, 2024.

    David Crisafulli has sold the Queensland public on a crime crisis. It could prove to be his downfall

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Video

  • Collins Street falcons: two chicks have hatched on skyscraper and are taking meals – video

  • Without a national measurement for poverty or disadvantage, how does a country measure whether things are getting better — or worse?

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    What does it mean to be poor? The Australian government isn't sure – video

    Without a national measurement for poverty or disadvantage, how does a country measure whether things are getting better — or worse?
  • Civilians in Ukraine continue to suffer 'because of Russia’s senseless invasion', foreign affairs minister says

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    Putin's use of veto 'the act of a coward', Australia's Penny Wong tells UN security council – video

    Civilians in Ukraine continue to suffer 'because of Russia’s senseless invasion', foreign affairs minister says
  • 'Hostages must be released. Aid must flow. This humanitarian catastrophe must end'

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    'The world demands a ceasefire in Gaza,' Australia's foreign minister Penny Wong tells UN – video

  • Former treasurer and ambassador to the United States Joe Hockey's comment came after after a conversation on the former US president’s 'expansionary' economic policies

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    Hockey on Trump's economic policies: like 'handing a box of chocolates to a four-year-old' – video

  • Nine protesters jumped on top of a train on Wednesday morning headed to the Port of Newcastle, unfurled a banner and began shovelling coal off

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    Activists board coal train as Albanese government approves three coalmine expansions – video

  • Foreign affairs minister Penny Wong says she is 'deeply concerned by this escalation and the losses, loss of civilian lives'

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    Number of Australians in Lebanon ‘beyond capacity of government’ to provide assistance – video

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