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Put defence ahead of sugar hits

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The Australian

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The dirty business of new energy

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The Australian

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Seeing a doctor for ‘free’ is just not honest, GPs explain

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The Australian

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Judgment punctures dogma

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The Australian

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Mother-baby healthcare in need of urgent overhaul

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The Australian

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Trump puts ayatollahs on notice

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The Australian

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The Guardian view on Friedrich Merz’s grand coalition: gambling on a new centre ground

The Guardian view on Friedrich Merz’s grand coalition: gambling on a new centre ground

Some years ago, hundreds of German finance ministry staff dressed in black and formed a giant zero to salute their boss, Wolfgang Schäuble, as he...

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The Guardian view on taking back control of steel: back in state hands, but far from sorted

The Guardian view on taking back control of steel: back in state hands, but far from sorted

In 1976, night-shift steelworkers at Templeborough – then the world’s largest electric arc plant – broke a production record. A letter from...

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The Guardian view on Donald Trump’s Congo deal: mineral riches for protection

The Guardian view on Donald Trump’s Congo deal: mineral riches for protection

“The vilest scramble for loot that has ever disfigured the history of human conscience” is how Joseph Conrad described colonial-era concessions...

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The Guardian view on neighbourhood police: bobbies on the beat can’t do everything

The Guardian view on neighbourhood police: bobbies on the beat can’t do everything

It is difficult to square last week’s announcement of the first tranche of 13,000 extra neighbourhood police, across England and Wales, with the...

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Launches had too much sugar, not enough substance

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The Australian

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The Guardian view on Keir Starmer’s EU reset: there is no time for timidity

The Guardian view on Keir Starmer’s EU reset: there is no time for timidity

Supporters of Britain’s rupture from the European Union have struggled to quantify benefits from Brexit, but when Donald Trump unveiled his schedule...

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Spending rails essential to curtail deficits and debt

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The Australian

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Meta preys on vulnerable teens

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The Australian

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Great powers get set to divorce

12.04.2025 10

The Australian

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The Guardian view on steel on the brink: Britain’s last blast furnaces face extinction

The Guardian view on steel on the brink: Britain’s last blast furnaces face extinction

As John Lennon sang, life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans. His lyric must be ringing in ministers’ ears this week. The UK’s...

11.04.2025 4

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The Guardian view on the tariff war pause: the Trump trade shambles is not over

The Guardian view on the tariff war pause: the Trump trade shambles is not over

It was Donald Trump who blinked first. Never forget that. China is unlikely to overlook its importance. A week after launching an all-out global trade...

11.04.2025 10

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Higher power prices are something beyond debate

11.04.2025 10

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Windschuttle a fierce intellect

11.04.2025 10

The Australian

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Super funds need more focus

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The Australian

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The Guardian view on the Pennine Way: a pioneer of long-distance soul therapy

The Guardian view on the Pennine Way: a pioneer of long-distance soul therapy

For those seeking pastoral shelter from the storm of world events this spring, there is a special incentive to look north. Sixty years old this month,...

10.04.2025 50

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The Guardian view on Trump’s trade war: no one will win, but China is taking the long view

The Guardian view on Trump’s trade war: no one will win, but China is taking the long view

No one, least of all consumers and workers, will win the ferocious trade war that Donald Trump has unleashed. This is “a game of who can bear more...

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Greens agenda to demolish mum-and-dad investors

10.04.2025 10

The Australian

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Teaching is no place for dunces

10.04.2025 10

The Australian

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Trade war is only getting started

10.04.2025 10

The Australian

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Energy plan that cuts risk and puts engineers in front

09.04.2025 9

The Australian

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Time short to stop Iran nukes

09.04.2025 10

The Australian

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Bandt’s repugnant views exposed

09.04.2025 9

The Australian

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The Guardian view on early years education: new nurseries must be the start of something bigger

The Guardian view on early years education: new nurseries must be the start of something bigger

Figures showing a steep increase in the number of safety incidents involving children at nurseries in England are a reminder that the...

08.04.2025 5

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The Guardian view on Starmer’s choices: time to be bold

The Guardian view on Starmer’s choices: time to be bold

In his speech to the Labour party conference in 2005, Tony Blair used a seasonal analogy to make the case for embracing disruptive but inevitable...

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Trump tariff implosion gives Dutton a fresh start

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The Australian

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Darwin port best in local control

08.04.2025 10

The Australian

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The Guardian view on sentencing guidelines: rightwing politicians must not call the tune

The Guardian view on sentencing guidelines: rightwing politicians must not call the tune

Courts knowing more about the people they are sentencing is a good thing. Last month’s attack by the shadow justice secretary, Robert Jenrick, on...

07.04.2025 5

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The Guardian view on the return of landmines: a deadly peril resurges

The Guardian view on the return of landmines: a deadly peril resurges

Eleven years ago, members of the Ottawa treaty banning the use, production, stockpiling and transfer of antipersonnel mines agreed a deadline...

07.04.2025 20

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Poor to subsidise rich on household battery scheme

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The Australian

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Hold industry funds to account

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The Australian

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A disaster at home and abroad

07.04.2025 10

The Australian

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The Guardian view on Michael Sheen’s new national theatre for Wales: an act of defiance

The Guardian view on Michael Sheen’s new national theatre for Wales: an act of defiance

Michael Sheen’s statement of intent for his newly founded national theatre for Wales couldn’t be more clear. The Welsh actor launched the company...

05.04.2025 20

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The Guardian view on Donald Trump’s tariff ultimatum: tribute for access to America’s empire

The Guardian view on Donald Trump’s tariff ultimatum: tribute for access to America’s empire

When Donald Trump stood before union auto workers in the Rose Garden he declared “Liberation Day”, promising to stand up for Main Street. Whether...

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Lawyer X debacle continues

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The Australian

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Tariff turmoil enters the federal election contest

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The Australian

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Trump sparks market meltdown

05.04.2025 8

The Australian

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The Guardian view on Israel’s killing of paramedics: a new atrocity in an unending conflict

The Guardian view on Israel’s killing of paramedics: a new atrocity in an unending conflict

After 18 months of slaughter, it is still possible to be shocked by events in Gaza. More than 50,000 people have been killed, according to Palestinian...

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The Guardian view on Trump’s tariffs: a monstrous and momentous act of folly

The Guardian view on Trump’s tariffs: a monstrous and momentous act of folly

For the world’s already embattled trading system, it is as though an asteroid has crashed into the planet, devastating everyone and everything that...

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Make schooling an election issue

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The Australian

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Trump ‘Liberation Day’ was expected but full of risk

04.04.2025 6

The Australian

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The Guardian view on dignity at the workplace: good for the economy as well as society

The Guardian view on dignity at the workplace: good for the economy as well as society

A few years ago, the Harvard professor Michael Sandel used an episode in his Radio 4 series The Public Philosopher to discuss perspectives on the...

03.04.2025 10

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The Guardian view on online safety: don’t let Trump dictate the terms of debate

The Guardian view on online safety: don’t let Trump dictate the terms of debate

In 1858, when London could no longer tolerate the stench of raw effluent in the Thames, city authorities commissioned a system of sewers that operates...

03.04.2025 10

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Wage rise consent confirms the lack of policy contest

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The Australian

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China backs ‘handsome boy’

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The Australian

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