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I can see seven smokes shops from my bus stop - governments must act

Although Australia is a world leader in smoking cessation, we’ve done very little to control how and where tobacco is sold. These shops are...

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Brisbane Times

Becky Freeman

Australians are crying out for a fairer system. Luckily, the road map is right here

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Canberra Times

Crispin Hull

Netanyahu Eyes Hostage Breakthrough As Gaza Families Mourn Victims

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country's recent war with Iran had created "opportunities" for freeing hostages held by Hamas...

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International Business Times

Afp News

Iran Voices 'Serious Doubts' Over Israel Commitment To Ceasefire

Iran warned Sunday that it had little faith in Israel's commitment to a fragile ceasefire that ended the most intense and destructive confrontation...

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International Business Times

Ahmad Parhizi

UK Considers Envoy For Britons Held Abroad

Britain is preparing to emulate the United States by appointing an envoy tasked with freeing citizens arbitrarily detained abroad, as it faces...

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International Business Times

Peter Hutchison

Graft Case Piles Pressure On Turkey's Main Opposition

A court hearing that could upend the leadership of Turkey's main opposition CHP is the latest bid to hobble the party behind a wave of spring...

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International Business Times

Burcin Gercek

Around 140,000 Rally In Belgrade Ratcheting Up Calls For Elections

Around 140,000 protesters rallied in Belgrade, the largest turnout in recent months, as student-led demonstrations mount pressure on the populist...

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International Business Times

Mina Pejakovic

I can see seven smokes shops from my bus stop - governments must act

Although Australia is a world leader in smoking cessation, we’ve done very little to control how and where tobacco is sold. These shops are...

5

WA Today

Becky Freeman

I can see seven smokes shops from my bus stop - governments must act

Although Australia is a world leader in smoking cessation, we’ve done very little to control how and where tobacco is sold. These shops are...

5

The Sydney Morning Herald

Becky Freeman

Russia's 'Mr Nobody' Gambles All With Film On Kremlin Propaganda

When Moscow invaded Ukraine, Pavel Talankin, a staff member at a secondary school in Russia's Ural Mountains, was ordered to film patriotic...

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International Business Times

Anna Smolchenko

Anthony Albanese can restrict gas exports and save the Tomago aluminium smelter

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The New Daily

Rod Campbell

Why Musk's war on 'woke mind virus' will fail

5

The New Daily

Simon Kuestenmacher

Australians are crying out for a fairer system. Luckily, the road map is right here

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The Examiner

Crispin Hull

Understanding the ‘Slopocene’: how the failures of AI can reveal its inner workings

What if instead of trying to detect and avoid AI glitches, we deliberately encouraged them instead?

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The Conversation

Daniel Binns

Sexy K-pop demons, a human lie detector and shearers on strike: what to watch in July

One standout from this month’s list is Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, an awe-inspiring thriller that changed the film industry forever when it was...

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The Conversation

John Mickel

‘My greatest handicap was the attitude of normal people.’ Alan Marshall’s artful polio memoir, I Can Jump Puddles, turns 70

Polio is in the news, with vaccination under threat and recent outbreaks. This makes Alan Marshall’s classic disability memoir more relevant than...

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The Conversation

Amanda Tink

We have drugs to manage HIV. So why are we spending millions looking for cures?

Is the cost of research aimed at curing HIV worth it, when HIV can be effectively managed and prevented by existing drugs?

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The Conversation

Bridget Haire

Trump’s worldview is causing a global shift of alliances – what does this mean for nations in the middle?

The US president wants separate spheres of influence dominated by the US, China and Russia. For small states, this new world order poses both risks...

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The Conversation

Dilnoza Ubaydullaeva

Quantum leap for future farmers

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Business News

Andrew Whitelaw

Get real, Bruce: City of Adelaide fable is ‘pure hubris’

The Lord Mayor of Adelaide Dr Jane Lomax-Smith responds to last week’s op-ed from Bruce Djite with her own column, and says the role of Council in...

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InDaily

Jane Lomax-Smith Lord Mayor Of Adelaide

I can see seven smokes shops from my bus stop - governments must act

Although Australia is a world leader in smoking cessation, we’ve done very little to control how and where tobacco is sold. These shops are...

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The Age

Becky Freeman

David Shoebridge: Israel's actions are illegal

Greens spokesperson for foreign affairs, peace and nuclear disarmament, David Shoebridge, speaks to Green Left’s Suzanne James. They discuss the...

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Green Left Weekly

David Shoebridge

Deery: Libs’ loser mentality leading them on a road to nowhere

8

Herald Sun

Shannon Deery

Ben Jennings on Keir Starmer’s first year as prime minister – cartoon

7

The Guardian

Juliet Stevenson

The Guardian view on the museum of the year: a history of the north-east in 3m objects

“Real museums are places where time is transformed into space,” Orhan Pamuk, the Nobel laureate, writes in his 2008 novel The Museum of Innocence....

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The Guardian

Juliet Stevenson

The Guardian view on Budapest’s pride parade: a humiliation for Orbán and a triumph for European values

In late 1980s Hungary, courageous environmental protests against an unpopular dam project played a part in the eventual collapse of the country’s...

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The Guardian

Juliet Stevenson

Palestine Action spraying paint is not terrorism. As ministers abuse their powers, I feel a duty to speak out

Strongly worded emails are not doing it. Appeals to MPs are not doing it. Taking to the streets in our hundreds of thousands with banners and...

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The Guardian

Juliet Stevenson

Trump 2.0 alienates Southeast Asia’s next generation

US President Donald Trump’s second term has sent the global economy into a tailspin with a torrent of  tariffs announced on 2 April. In doing so,...

8

Pearls and Irritations

Sharon Seah

Labor’s Left majority: A defining moment

The May 2025 election delivered something quietly historic. For the first time since the 1970s, the Labor Left faction holds a majority in caucus....

8

Pearls and Irritations

Stewart Sweeney

The obscenity of American preaching

One way to get a robust, comparative fix on how obscene American global preaching about human rights has become is (borrowing a vivid image from...

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Pearls and Irritations

Richard Cullen

Murdoch’s News Corp has moved into the mortgage business. Where are the regulators?

If you want to advertise a house online in Australia, you  don’t have many options. Just two companies dominate the market. Australia’s largest...

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Pearls and Irritations

Roberta Esbitt

AUKUS project has worsened Australia’s ties with China

I have argued elsewhere (Asia Sentinel, 24/5/2025) that five factors could throw the US$245 billion AUKUS deal off balance following the recent...

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Pearls and Irritations

Ba Hamzah

Switching from a failed vape and tobacco policy to a successful one

Australia’s health policy in relation to vapes is in disarray. Yet this deeply flawed approach is currently supported by all state, federal and...

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Pearls and Irritations

Ross Fitzgerald

NZ cities are getting hotter: FIve things councils can do now to keep us cooler when summer comes

Stand in any car park on a sunny day in February and the heat will radiate through your shoes. At 30°C air temperature, that asphalt hits 50–55°C –...

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Pearls and Irritations

Timothy Welch

Bunker busters shook us all

Iran’s grievance, moral or legal, against Israel and the United States over the bombing of nuclear sites is not assisted by the fact that Israel...

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Pearls and Irritations

Jack Waterford

The superannuation system matures at 12% of wages

Tomorrow, thirty-four years after I nominated a 12% wage equivalent as the appropriate level of compulsory contribution into superannuation, the...

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Pearls and Irritations

Paul Keating

The contemporary world is run by political dinosaurs facing extinction

An aging generation of mostly male leaders is presently occupying the commanding heights of the most powerful states around the world. They share a...

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Pearls and Irritations

Allan Patience

The way to tackle obesity in the UK is to make healthy food affordable. But the government won’t admit it

The government’s policy on obesity, announced on Sunday, sounds as though it’s tough on the supermarkets: they really must do better on the health...

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The Guardian

Zoe Williams

How can Australians make sure AI delivers on its hype? By proudly embracing our inner luddite

If I hear another well-intentioned person justifying their support for the regulation of AI with the qualifier “I’m no luddite, but …” I’m going to...

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The Guardian

Peter Lewis

Nine goes all in on sports with EPL coup to bulk up Stan

Nine Entertainment has taken a big swing (or massive header) in buying the broadcast rights to English Premier League and FA Cup soccer to bolster...

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WA Today

Elizabeth Knight

Trump’s America exploits its ‘revenge tax’ to back out of historic deal

The “revenge tax” is dead but the fate of a global tax deal that took more than 40 years to achieve is now up in the air. Earlier this month, the...

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The Sydney Morning Herald

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Trump’s America exploits its ‘revenge tax’ to back out of historic deal

The “revenge tax” is dead but the fate of a global tax deal that took more than 40 years to achieve is now up in the air. Earlier this month, the...

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Brisbane Times

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Trump’s America exploits its ‘revenge tax’ to back out of historic deal

The “revenge tax” is dead but the fate of a global tax deal that took more than 40 years to achieve is now up in the air. Earlier this month, the...

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WA Today

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Trump’s America exploits its ‘revenge tax’ to back out of historic deal

The “revenge tax” is dead but the fate of a global tax deal that took more than 40 years to achieve is now up in the air. Earlier this month, the...

10

The Age

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Nine goes all in on sports with EPL coup to bulk up Stan

Nine Entertainment has taken a big swing (or massive header) in buying the broadcast rights to English Premier League and FA Cup soccer to bolster...

10

Brisbane Times

Elizabeth Knight

Nine goes all in on sports with EPL coup to bulk up Stan

Nine Entertainment has taken a big swing (or massive header) in buying the broadcast rights to English Premier League and FA Cup soccer to bolster...

9

The Age

Elizabeth Knight

Nine goes all in on sports with EPL coup to bulk up Stan

Nine Entertainment has taken a big swing (or massive header) in buying the broadcast rights to English Premier League and FA Cup soccer to bolster...

10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Elizabeth Knight

Voices raised against Minns government’s go-slow on cannabis reform

Premier Chris Minns’ practice of putting pragmatism above principle on drug law reform is ordinary social policy and only delays the inevitable. He...

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The Sydney Morning Herald

The Herald&x27S View

Why Trump-induced mayhem doesn’t scare your super fund

Monday caps off a wild financial year for global markets, and therefore, for the retirement savings of just about all of us. But despite all the...

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The Age

Clancy Yeates

Out of the rubble of Iran, renewed hopes for a Gaza ceasefire

Without being too rosy-eyed, the possibility of a new ceasefire in Gaza looks the best it has since death took a brief holiday in January when US...

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The Sydney Morning Herald

The Herald&x27S View