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Marles open to defence spending hike after meeting Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth

Source: ABC NewsTopic: Defence and National Security

How Australia approved a gas project until 2070 without considering climate

Source: ABC NewsTopic: Climate Change

Luxury tours off, money gone: Insolvency scandal rocks Aussie tour operator

Source: ABC NewsTopic: Travel and Tourism

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Photographers capture aurora australis over southern Australia

An alert about a geomagnetic storm might not sound like a good thing, but it's exactly the kind of notification photographers of the southern night sky want to be getting.

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Source: ABC NewsTopic: Photography

Analysis: Trump's lost control of his tariff see-saw, making his aims even harder

Since Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs were announced, they have been changing constantly.

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Source: ABC NewsTopic: Tariffs

Suspected boat arrivals from China discovered in Arnhem Land

Up to eight people, believed to be from China, have been detained by border protection authorities after reaching a remote part of the Northern Territory coast by boat earlier this week.

Bawinanga Rangers

Source: ABC NewsTopic: Defence and National Security

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Why your coffee may cost more on the weekend

It’s common — and legal — for businesses such as cafes to charge extra on weekends for services.

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Source: ABC LifestyleTopic: Hospitality Industry

Diddy's ex-assistant testifies about alleged abuse, rape at hands of former boss

Plus the hunt is on for the next generation of Australian horror creators, and Lorde releases second single.

Sean 'Diddy' Combs blows kisses to people in the audience during his sex trafficking and racketeering trial

Source: ABC EntertainmentTopic: Courts

Artist 'struggling to process' winning $100k prize for under-40s

Artist Jack Ball found transphobia, desire and care in 1950s and 70s newspapers. They turned them into the installation Heavy Grit, which just won the Ramsay Art Prize.

Jack Ball, a 39-year-old trans man in glasses, smiles brightly in front of a photographic work, including pops of orange colour.

Source: ABC ArtsTopic: Awards and Prizes

Bus driver's double life spreading kindness

As one of his day jobs, Mark Wall ferries kids to school as a bus driver. But when a natural disaster strikes his community, he wears a uniform of a different kind.

A bright green evacuation sign on lawn.

Duration: 3 minutes 3 seconds

Source: ListenTopic: Volunteers

'All you see is fake': Rental scams on the rise on social media

A rental advocacy group in Western Australia's north calls for tighter regulations on tenancy applications, amid an increase in scams targeting people searching for a home online.

A woman looking at a Broome rental map

Source: ABC KimberleyTopic: Scams and Fraud

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Reconciliation Week 2025

Calls for First Nations history to be better taught at Victorian schools

A number of Victorians have admitted to having a gap in knowledge on First Nations history, saying it wasn't prominent in their schooling. They're now calling for findings from the Yoorrook Justice Commission to be taught in schools across Victoria.

Unidentified student and teacher outside a classroom with a bag rack on display.

Source: ABC NewsTopic: Education

'You can't ignore 65,000 years': Aboriginal dance group challenges myths

James Webb has been performing traditional Aboriginal dance for over three decades, but it has always been about more than just the show for his Wadumbah dance group.

Wadumbah dance group members James Webb, his son Terrence Webb and grandson Stanley Webb, posing for a photo.

Source: ABC NewsTopic: Reconciliation

Tasmanian government to drop treaty process and focus on truth-telling

The Tasmanian government will fund the establishment of truth-telling and healing commissioners, but it will no longer pursue a treaty with Tasmanian Aboriginal people.

People gathered for NAIDOC Rally. One lady holds a sign that reads 'Treaty'.

Source: ABC NewsTopic: Indigenous Policy

'A smorgasbord of emotions': Visiting Country for the first time

When Skye visited Country for the first time, she wanted to do it respectfully, so she tracked down the right people to find out what she needed to know.

A young First Nations woman stands on a boardwalk platform in a rainforest.

Source: ABC LifestyleTopic: Indigenous Culture

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Country town honours life of woman brutally murdered in 1932

Many decades after her death, murdered sex worker Jean Morris now rests in a north Queensland grave decorated with fresh flowers and a headstone.

A black-and-white portrait of a striking, dark-eyed woman looking directly at the camera.

Source: ABC North QldTopic: Laws

Heritage listing of Australia's deadliest mine disaster site a 'bit late'

A New South Wales coal mine where 96 men and boys died in an explosion 123 years ago is heritage listed, 14 years after the initial application.

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Source: ABC IllawarraTopic: Disasters, Accidents and Emergency Incidents

Duct tape holds the floors together at Myer's original store in Bendigo

The grandson of celebrated entrepreneur and retail giant, Sidney Myer, wants the original Myer department store in Bendigo restored to its former glory.

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Source: ABC Central VictoriaTopic: History

The disturbing practice of 'human zoos' happened right under our noses

The strange and disturbing phenomenon of exhibiting humans in zoos was once considered a European thing, but a boomerang found under topsoil in a Melbourne park contradicts that.

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Source: ABC ArtsTopic: History

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