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OVERNIGHT RAIDS

Police eliminate Alameddine crime network

Sixteen people have been charged after a series of raids which NSW police claim has effectively dismantled the high-profile Alameddine crime group.

Deportation law hits road block, Labor minus a plan B

The PM has suffered a major political setback after embattled ministers Clare O’Neil and Andrew Giles failed to rush emergency removal powers for non-citizens through parliament.

Melbourne Lord Mayor calls it quits after six years

Sally Capp will not seek re-election later this year after two terms in office, just a day after Derryn Hinch pulled the pin on his mayoral campaign.

GOOD FRIDAY APPEAL

‘Wacky’ surgery puts Noa back on her feet

When a surgeon told Noa Ognall he wanted to try ‘something wacky’, he wasn’t kidding.

INDIGENOUS EDUCATION

AIEF celebrates 15 years of real outcomes

The Australian Indigenous Education Foundation has allowed First Nations children to ‘set high expectations’ of themselves for 15 years, driving up year 12 completion and university rates across the country.

Hundreds turn up for Newington old boys’ vote

High-profile people have turned up to a meeting of Sydney private school old boys, as the warring over Newington school’s governance and its move to coeducation continues.

Inquirer

INQUIRER

The bloody reality of fighting an embedded enemy

Just like the fierce nine-month battle to remove Islamic State terrorists from Mosul, there was no way for Israel to remove Hamas from power without mounting a full-scale ground invasion.

Inquirer

A picture worth a thousand conspiracy theories, but now we know the truth

Princess Kate has shared with the world that she is battling cancer. We should take a moment to reflect on why we’ve been so ready to believe the wild and bizarre over sensible, real-life explanations.

Inquirer

Green-left lawfare forcing people of faith to margins

We are seeing the opening of a new religious culture war.

Politics

*POOL* Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks to the media during a press conference following a tour of the new Waratah Super Battery project site, located at the former Munmorah Power Station in Colongra, NSW, Wednesday, December 21, 2022. Picture: AAP Image/Bianca De Marchi via NCA Newswire - NO ARCHIVING

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POLITICS NOW

Solar splurge ‘just start’ of Made-in-Australia

Anthony Albanese hailed his $1bn push to make solar panels in the Hunter as 'just the beginning' of more Made-in-Australia projects to be revealed before the budget.

MINING PAINS

Mineral exports reveal energy shift

Nickel and lithium export earnings are on track to be slashed by almost half amid plunging global prices, over-supply fuelled by China and rapid EV sales slowdown in the US and Europe.

IMMIGRATION

Nearly half of released detainees unmonitored

Nearly half of the dangerous non-citizens released into the community are not wearing electronic ankle bracelets, with the government facing claims of a ‘cover-up’.

RENEWABLES

PM flags ‘a future that’s made in Australia’

Anthony Albanese will launch a six-week Made-in-Australia pre-budget campaign in the NSW Hunter region, where he will unveil a $1bn solar panel manufacturing investment.

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Politics

Nearly half of released detainees unmonitored

Nearly half of the dangerous non-citizens released into the community are not wearing electronic ankle bracelets, with the government facing claims of a ‘cover-up’.

March 27, 2024

Nation

IBAC drops case against key Operation Sandon witnesses

‘You won’t be prosecuted’: bombshell twist in IBAC’s Operation Sandon investigation clears Geoff Ablett and others.

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Nation

Ex-Spotlight producer threatens Lehrmann with defamation suit

Bruce Lehrmann has been hit with a defamation threat after denying he was involved in a drunken night with a former Seven producer which involved two Thai massages.

March 28, 2024

Nation

‘I apologise’: ADF chief’s admission of failure

Australian Defence Force chief General Angus Campbell has apologised ‘unreservedly’ for the suicide crisis coursing through the military.

March 28, 2024

Nation

Less Christians but more religious groups, ABS finds

There are more religious groups in Australia despite a decline in Christianity and an increase in secularism, the latest ABS data into the nation’s religious affiliation reveals.

March 27, 2024 March 27, 2024

Politics

Mineral exports reveal energy shift

Nickel and lithium export earnings are on track to be slashed by almost half amid plunging global prices, over-supply fuelled by China and rapid EV sales slowdown in the US and Europe.

March 27, 2024

Politics

Bosses want wage rise to be below inflation

Unions accuse employers of supporting real wage cuts for low-paid workers.

March 27, 2024

Politics

PM flags ‘a future that’s made in Australia’

Anthony Albanese will launch a six-week Made-in-Australia pre-budget campaign in the NSW Hunter region, where he will unveil a $1bn solar panel manufacturing investment.

March 27, 2024

Indigenous

Alice anarchy sparks night-time lockdown

The besieged Northern Territory Labor government has implemented a curfew in Alice Springs for anyone under 18 as the PM faces pressure to return after startling footage of a rioting mob emerges.

March 27, 2024

Indigenous

Only slow and steady will solve decades of ­failure

If what we saw this week in Alice Springs was no more than a horrific fight between people from the settlement of Utopia and another family, that is the best possible scenario.

March 27, 2024

Indigenous

British ‘opposed frontier killings’

Henry Reynolds has told the Yoorook Justice Commission the British government in the 1830s and 40s was dominated by humanists who were concerned about the fate of Indigenous people.

March 27, 2024

Companies

Coles to hoard cash amid Armaguard risk

Coles will hoard cash over the Easter break in case Armaguard collapses with a rescue deal for the money provider in danger of faltering amid ongoing crisis talks.

March 27, 2024

Defence

China war would deliver hammer blow to economy

Any kind of China conflict would devastate the economy with two-thirds of Australia’s exports and 40 per cent of its imports at risk of coming to a halt, warns a new report.

March 27, 2024

Politics

Green project approvals plummet

The rate of approvals for energy projects has plummeted in the past 12 months, a major report warns, casting doubt on the nation’s ability to meet Anthony Albanese’s 43 per cent emissions reductions target.

March 27, 2024

Nation

Australia’s trade tactics criticised after WTO loss to China

Trade experts say the Albanese government should never have dropped its wine and barley cases against China in the WTO, saying ‘what’s good for the goose is good for the gander’.

March 27, 2024

Politics

Albanese politically outplayed over detention debacle

Labor made a gross error of judgement in believing the opposition would be a willing participant in its attempts to paper over the cracks in national security.

March 27, 2024

Defence

‘Unachievable’: dire AUKUS warning as Brits’ subs program sinks

Australia’s $4.6bn funding pledge for Britain’s nuclear submarine industry comes despite a fresh warning by a UK parliamentary committee that its naval reactor program looks ‘unachievable’.

March 27, 2024

Politics

Catholic school heads warn of ‘covert lives’

The Catholic Church ‘discriminates against women’ and some Catholic school teachers are living ‘covert lives’, high school principals have told a legal inquiry.

March 27, 2024

Politics

NVES policy must be reviewed frequently

Peak bodies in the trades and farming sectors are bracing for price rises in the vehicles that are essential to their industries, ­urging the government to commit to frequent reviews of the NVES.

March 27, 2024

Politics

Labor’s green streak behind delay of bill: opposition

A bill that environmental groups had feared would make it easier for oil and gas projects to proceed will now not go before the senate until after Easter.

March 27, 2024

Indigenous

‘Time is now to push on with Makarrata’

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, June Oscar, has urged the government to push ahead urgently with a Makarrata Commission.

March 27, 2024

Technology

Digitial accomplice: Gang dupes 30,000 Aussies with help from Meta

A single international fraud syndicate has fleeced more than 30,000 Australians out of hundreds of millions of dollars with the help of mass advertising campaigns on Facebook and other online platforms.

March 27, 2024

Nation

Tyrrell foster parents learn their fate

William Tyrrell’s foster parents now have criminal records after intimidating a child who is not William.

March 27, 2024

Politics

Labor’s ‘betrayal’ warning on religious freedom

Faith leaders have urged Anthony Albanese not to ‘betray’ them by negotiating with the Greens to pass contentious discrimination reforms removing protections for religious schools.

Canberra Bureau chief

Greg Brown is the Canberra Bureau chief. He previously spent five years covering federal politics for The Australian where he built a reputation as a newsbreaker consistently setting the national agenda.

Canberra Bureau chief

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