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  • A general view of the crowd at Federation Square ahead of Robbie Williams holding a free public concert

    Thousands swarm to free Robbie Williams gig at maxed out Fed Square in Melbourne

  • The entrance to the Manning Rural Referral Hospital in Taree

    Man shot dead by police in NSW hospital car park after allegedly aiming gun at officers

    Man believed to be in his 30s fatally shot by officers outside Manning hospital in Taree on the mid-north coast
  • A Virgin Australia check-in area

    Suspect questioned over alleged sexual assault of Virgin Australia flight crew member in Fiji

    Airline sends support staff to Nadi after reports of assault during a night out in the early hours of 1 January

  • Searchers find hiking poles of man missing for a week in Kosciuszko national park

  • Falling house prices and drop in Victorian rental numbers could mark rise of owner-occupiers

  • Baby Remi, among the first born of new Beta generation, arrives in Australia just minutes after new year

  • Man questioned over woman’s fall to death from seventh-floor Sydney balcony

  • US rapper Ice Spice faces fan backlash over ‘disrespectful’ five-minute appearance at Brisbane gig

  • BoM data finds 2024 was Australia’s second-hottest year on record

  • Chad Morgan, Australian country music star, dies aged 91

Australian politics

  • Jenny Morrison, Melania Trump, Donald Trump and Scott Morrison

    Scott Morrison rings in the New Year with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago resort

  • Composite image featuring (L-R) Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese, RBA Governor Michele Bullock, US president-elect Donald Trump and opposition leader Peter Dutton

    Eyes on the poll: five themes that will mark Australia’s politics in an election year

  • John Howard with George Bush at the White House in June 2004

    Australia kept quiet about early deployment of forces ahead of Iraq war, cabinet papers show

  • John Howard

    A cost-of-living election: Howard ministers agreed to $4bn in last-minute spending in 2004

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Opinion & analysis

  • Martin Kettle

    Millions of Britons want a fresh start and a new life. But they will find it at home, not in Australia

    Martin Kettle
  • John Quiggin

    If crypto is incorporated into Australia’s financial system, we will be lucky to avoid contagious collapse

    John Quiggin
  • Gabrielle Chan

    Territory – Australia’s answer to Yellowstone – runs counter to our positive self-image. Is that why farmers hate it?

    Gabrielle Chan
  • Two men with water hoses try to fight a fierce fire burning on a rural property

    Our sky turned red. In black summer, Australia stepped off ‘some kind of precipice’

    James Bradley
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Video

  • New Year's Eve: from Auckland to London, the world welcomes 2025 – video

  • As the fire approached Pam Turner's home, she ushered the hand-reared joeys inside as they are still too young to fend for themselves

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    Woman shelters 20 orphaned joeys in her home from Grampians bushfire – video

    As the fire approached Pam Turner's home, she ushered the hand-reared joeys inside as they are still too young to fend for themselves
  • Harry Binnendijk's home burnt down in the early hours of 31 December 2019. Five years later, he's still rebuilding

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    Black summer: five years later, Cobargo is still rebuilding – video

    Harry Binnendijk's home burnt down in the early hours of 31 December 2019. Five years later, he's still rebuilding
  • Victoria's emergency management commissioner says soaring temperatures and strong winds are exacerbating a bushfire emergency in the state

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    Victoria fires: 'difficult’ weather for firefighters as 55,000 hectares burn in Grampians - video

  • As 2024 draws to a close, Guardian Australia presents a look back at the year’s most memorable moments from Australian politics

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    From Lidia Thorpe’s royal welcome to Barnaby Joyce’s sobering moment: 2024 in #Auspol – video

  • Right whales have unique textured patches called callosities, meaning individuals creatures can be identified and tracked from photos decades apart

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    Southern right whales can live to over 130 years old: new research – video

  • Retired broadcaster Alan Jones arrives at Sydney’s Downing Centre court where he is met by a large media scrum and members of the public

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    Alan Jones arrives at Sydney court before hearing into historical assault charges – video

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