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Contest boycotts a shameful betrayal

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The Australian

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Bigger lesson in bad water and botched hydro plan

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The Australian

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Trans lobby’s insidious sway

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The Australian

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The Guardian view on regulating pornography: a £1m fine does not prove the Online Safety Act is working

The Guardian view on regulating pornography: a £1m fine does not prove the Online Safety Act is working

Awareness of the harm caused by online pornography is rising. Last month, the government bowed to pressure from campaigners and pledged to make...

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The Guardian

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The Guardian view on the crown estate inquiry: a necessary probe and a wider debate

The Guardian view on the crown estate inquiry: a necessary probe and a wider debate

Everyone in Britain has views about the royal family. In many cases, lots of views. Britain’s parliament, however, never lets the subject pass its...

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The Guardian

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Big government gets in the way and must be reduced

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The Australian

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Japan deserves our solid support

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The Australian

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No accountability for ISIS brides

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The Australian

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The Guardian view on a four-day week for teachers: a clever way to end the staffing crisis

The Guardian view on a four-day week for teachers: a clever way to end the staffing crisis

Can you guess which professionals in England work 26 hours of overtime a week without compensation, give up time with friends and family to deal with...

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The Guardian

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The Guardian view on US-Russia talks on Ukraine: a warning to Europe to move faster on security cooperation

The Guardian view on US-Russia talks on Ukraine: a warning to Europe to move faster on security cooperation

Donald Trump’s desire to end the war in Ukraine might be sincere, but his motives are selfish. He wants the glory of having brokered a deal and does...

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The Guardian

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Talk of war must harden Europe

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The Australian

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Green shoots in economy need good policy to grow

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The Australian

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The Guardian view on policing: the lesson of Sarah Everard’s murder is that a culture of impunity must be stamped out

The Guardian view on policing: the lesson of Sarah Everard’s murder is that a culture of impunity must be stamped out

The abduction, rape and murder of Sarah Everard by a serving police officer in 2021 caused an outpouring of grief, fear and rage. The reaction was...

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The Guardian view on Labour’s plan to cut jury trials: it’s wrong to remove a pillar of British justice

The Guardian view on Labour’s plan to cut jury trials: it’s wrong to remove a pillar of British justice

Can Labour save a failing system by hollowing out its safeguards? David Lammy, the justice secretary, thinks so. Under his proposals, jury trials in...

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The Guardian

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Venezuela a test of US strength

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The Australian

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Anti-Semitism shifts from fringes to the mainstream

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The Australian

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Energy and AI in race for future

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The Australian

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The Guardian view on men’s health: the needs of different groups can only be addressed in a functioning system

The Guardian view on men’s health: the needs of different groups can only be addressed in a functioning system

Men, on average, have lower life expectancy than women – by around four years in the UK. They account for three-quarters of all deaths by suicide...

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The Guardian view on OBR v the Treasury: ministers have embraced the theatre of errors

The Guardian view on OBR v the Treasury: ministers have embraced the theatre of errors

The confected frenzy splashed across the morning front pages from the Telegraph to the Mail is remarkable mostly for its absurdity. An outrage machine...

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The Guardian

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Build it: why we're calling for a yes vote for the Macquarie Point stadium

Build it: why we're calling for a yes vote for the Macquarie Point stadium
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The Examiner

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Happy couple’s historic wedding

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The Australian

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Turning hype into defence gains

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The Australian

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Relying on vagaries of the wind risks power penury

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The Australian

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Back Ukraine in Western interest

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The Australian

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Renewables transition faces a ‘de-energisation’ crisis

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The Australian

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The Guardian view on the inequality emergency: why a Nobel prize winner’s warning must be heeded

The Guardian view on the inequality emergency: why a Nobel prize winner’s warning must be heeded

When Swiss tycoons handed Donald Trump a gold bar and a Rolex watch – gifts that were followed by a cut in US tariffs – it was no diplomatic...

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The Guardian

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The Guardian view on the Send crisis: Bridget Phillipson must be tough with the Treasury so children aren’t penalised

The Guardian view on the Send crisis: Bridget Phillipson must be tough with the Treasury so children aren’t penalised

The crisis over special educational needs and disabilities in England is not just a question of cash. Children and parents spend months and years...

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The Guardian

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The Guardian view on Turner and Constable: radical in different ways

The Guardian view on Turner and Constable: radical in different ways

JMW Turner appears on £20 notes and gives his name to Britain’s most avant garde contemporary art prize. John Constable’s work adorns countless...

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The Guardian

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The Guardian view on Ukraine peace talks: Putin is taking Trump for another ride on the Kremlin carousel

The Guardian view on Ukraine peace talks: Putin is taking Trump for another ride on the Kremlin carousel

As Donald Trump’s Thanksgiving Day deadline for a Ukraine peace agreement came and went this week, the Russia expert Mark Galeotti pointed to a...

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The Guardian view on city living: an urban species is still adapting to our new environment

The Guardian view on city living: an urban species is still adapting to our new environment

Cities have existed for millennia, but their triumph is remarkably recent. As recently as 1950, only 30% of the world’s population were urban...

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The Guardian

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The Guardian view on restricting trial by jury: a shabby evasion of responsibility

The Guardian view on restricting trial by jury: a shabby evasion of responsibility

Abolition of trial by jury in England and Wales in all but the most serious cases is not the official policy of Sir Keir Starmer’s government –...

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The Guardian

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The Guardian view on the peers lobbying scandal: Lords reform is a vital step for restoring trust in democracy

The Guardian view on the peers lobbying scandal: Lords reform is a vital step for restoring trust in democracy

Not much about the House of Lords is defensible on principles of democratic representation. One plausible merit of an appointed chamber is that...

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The Guardian

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The Guardian view on Labour’s budget: real gains for children and struggling families are a welcome shift

The Guardian view on Labour’s budget: real gains for children and struggling families are a welcome shift

Rachel Reeves’s budget contains many measures to make any social democrat cheer. Scrapping the two‑child benefit cap, putting up gambling taxes,...

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The Guardian

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We saw evil and didn’t look away

27.11.2025 7

The Australian

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Inflation spike’s painful consequences for borrowers

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The Australian

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Sudan’s humanitarian tragedy

27.11.2025 10

The Australian

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The Guardian view on renewing municipal England: the Tories’ malign legacy lives on

The Guardian view on renewing municipal England: the Tories’ malign legacy lives on

In a sobering report on public services published last month, the Institute for Government (IfG) struck an almost lyrical note when recalling the...

26.11.2025 4

The Guardian

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The Guardian view on the carer’s allowance scandal: Liz Sayce’s review is a step towards fixing a broken system

The Guardian view on the carer’s allowance scandal: Liz Sayce’s review is a step towards fixing a broken system

The callous treatment of thousands of carer’s allowance claimants reflects appallingly on the priorities and leadership of the Department for Work...

26.11.2025 4

The Guardian

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Regional dangers rife as Xi pushes Trump on Taiwan

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The Australian

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Excessive spending means big tax

26.11.2025 10

The Australian

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Greens, teals play tribal feminism

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The Australian

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The Guardian view on UN climate talks: they reveal how little time is left

The Guardian view on UN climate talks: they reveal how little time is left

This year’s UN climate talks in Brazil’s Belém ended without a major breakthrough. The text of the final agreement lacked a deal to shift away...

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The Guardian

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The Guardian view on a viable peace framework for Ukraine: with Europe’s help, Zelenskyy can have better cards

The Guardian view on a viable peace framework for Ukraine: with Europe’s help, Zelenskyy can have better cards

There was a grim familiarity to the unveiling of Donald Trump’s latest peace proposals for Ukraine last week. As in August, when the US president...

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The Guardian

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Scrap new FOI laws and be open

25.11.2025 10

The Australian

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Russia’s grey-zone war threatens Europe

25.11.2025 10

The Australian

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Send in the BOM squad to clean up bureau and its $100m white elephant

25.11.2025 10

The Australian

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Incredible two-day Ashes Test

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The Australian

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Multimillion-dollar US weapons sale boosts Taiwan

24.11.2025 10

The Australian

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Allan harks back to failed regime of Daniel Andrews

24.11.2025 10

The Australian

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Conflicted and exposed in the new COP arrangements

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The Australian

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