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Australia’s top architecture awards dominated by projects that provided community benefits, including a refurbished toilet block
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But where are the figures to back up his positive claims?
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People living in north-west pastoral and west coast districts of South Australia should leave on Thursday night or early Friday morning
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Andrea Lowe, 30, was assistant to state police minister when she deleted incriminating emails relating to elaborate scheme
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NSW upper house recommends legal changes to allow retrial of suspected killer of three children snatched from Aboriginal community on NSW north coast in early 1990s
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Rob McCreath hopes world leaders will see his message and pressure Australia to make better use of renewable energy
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Government refuses to comment on allegations that more than 10% of people held in Australian-government centre are smoking the drug every night and 30-40% on a regular basis
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Party leader releases a slew of TV ads and spells out his Victoria heritage but dodges questions on the East West Link and mining
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Plan comes months after bitter seven-year dispute about Australia’s first such facility appeared to have ended
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Clive Palmer launches the PUP campaign in Victoria ahead of the state election
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Liberals accuse Labor of mudslinging after reports that candidates were interviewed by ombudman’s office about donations
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Too many asylum seekers? Try the Australian solution. It works!
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When Brenda the civil disobedience penguin stumbles across some naughty messages, what she learns could bring down the government
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Sol Bellear: The NSW government’s hurried assault on land rights – followed by a hasty retreat – is deeply unfortunate and has damaged any trust Aboriginal people can have in the Baird government
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When a carrot tries to enter parliament in a questionable outfit, he finds out the hard way who's allowed to be racist in the nation's capital
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Clive Palmer launches the PUP campaign in Victoria ahead of the state election
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Too many asylum seekers? Try the Australian solution. It works!
See the main cartoon here
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When Brenda the civil disobedience penguin stumbles across some naughty messages, what she learns could bring down the government
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Sol Bellear: The NSW government’s hurried assault on land rights – followed by a hasty retreat – is deeply unfortunate and has damaged any trust Aboriginal people can have in the Baird government
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When a carrot tries to enter parliament in a questionable outfit, he finds out the hard way who's allowed to be racist in the nation's capital
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Aspen Medical says it has been already approached by 350 volunteers but only 25 to 50 Australians would go at a time
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Tony Abbott has announced $20m to help set up a 100-bed Ebola treatment centre being built by the UK in Sierra Leone
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Guardian Australia’s morning news briefing from around the web
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It’s the perfect time to rethink the way Australia handles asylum seekers, says a new report, and it recommends big changes
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Barnaby Joyce’s comments come amid fears from farmers that biosecurity could be transferred from the agriculture ministry to Scott Morrison’s department
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Even at a national event, crowds can be brutal: Gillard was cheered, Rudd received in silence. But the question that remained was: what more could Whitlam have done, had he only had the time?
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Greens say Victoria voters have lost faith in planning decisions thanks to donations from property developers, but major parties unlikely to shiftFull coverage of the Victoria election
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Government outsources medical mission to private company as Tony Abbott says some staff are likely to be Australian
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‘When he breathed, he truly was Australia’s greatest white elder and friend without peer of the original Australians,’ Noel Pearson tells gathering
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The election has officially started, and Denis Napthine and Daniel Andrews chose radio to talk to voters. We learnt a few things, too
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Croquembouche Lad has lost a couple of mates at the Melbourne Cup. He's not too happy about it
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David Leyonhjelm: I can’t oppose the government alone. Shorten needs to realise that legislator’s remorse doesn’t make up for Labor’s weak opposition to national security creep
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Antony Loewenstein: Whitlam supported Suharto, challenged Israel and had a tense relationship with the US. His foreign policy legacy contains plenty to trouble myth-makers on both the left and right
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Rebecca Shaw: I never could find out what might have been with my first love, Alexandra. But when someone like Tim Cook comes out, fewer and fewer people like her are filled with self-hatred
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For too many Australian authors the Anzac centenary is little more than a marketing opportunity, but Steve Sailah’s A Fatal Tide is a subtle challenge to the mythologisers, writes Paul Daley
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Even at a national event, crowds can be brutal: Gillard was cheered, Rudd received in silence. But the question that remained was: what more could Whitlam have done, had he only had the time?
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Croquembouche Lad has lost a couple of mates at the Melbourne Cup. He's not too happy about it
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Social media may have tut-tutted at the display of partisan and nostalgic fury at Gough Whitlam’s memorial service, but it was an manifestation of the great and enduring battle of ideas
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Lucy Clark for The Hoopla: What is success? Thanks to my daughter, I have re-thought the meaning of the word. If her resilience in the face of difficulties isn’t a triumph, I don’t know what is
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Oliver Milman:It can be easy to forget the Cup is about small men whipping animals. When deaths occur, we are sharply jolted from the spectacle but can’t play the ignorance card
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Somayya Ismailjee: The dating coach giving conferences worldwide on ‘pick-up artistry’ sanitises and normalises sexual assaults. Refusing him yet more platforms to spread his message is essential
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Adam Brereton: Foreign betting giants bought up our online gaming industry in recent years. Now the spectacle of the Melbourne Cup serves to recoup their investment
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It's First Dog on the Moon's handy Melbourne Cup sweep animals as entertainment form guide
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Q&A wrap up: Why was George Brandis appearing solo in Bankstown to talk counter-terror, when the audience was full of potential panel members?
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Tim Hollo: Undermining Christine Milne’s leadership for the sake of bad deals with an unpredictable mining billionaire is poor politics that leaves the nation worse off
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When children are assaulted on Nauru it is a matter for Australian law, whatever Scott Morrison says
Richard Ackland: The immigration minister’s fevered attempt to shred the rule of law is coming into conflict with legal norms that say states cannot abandon their responsibilities
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Tony Abbott has announced $20m to help set up a 100-bed Ebola treatment centre being built by the UK in Sierra Leone
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Indigenous leader Noel Pearson drew laughs and cheers from the crowd gathered to celebrate the life of Gough Whitlam at Sydney Town Hall as he reeled off a long list of Whitlam-administration achievements.
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If the G20 is primarily an economic forum, what about the world it's held on?
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The attorney general denies that new laws preventing the disclosure of 'special operations' would have stopped reporting on the Edward Snowden leaks
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An Australian man has dived into the ocean near Australia's Rottnest Island and climbed onto a dead whale while sharks circled the rotting carcass
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Albany in Western Australia is soon to host a $2.7m reenactment of the departure of Anzac troops from its harbour bound for Egypt and ultimately, Gallipoli and the western front
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The prime minister and the Victorian premier, Denis Napthine, announce a new police taskforce to tackle Victorian trade union corruption
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Australian prime minister Tony Abbott says the best way to deter foreign fighters is to 'stop them leaving in the first place'
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First Dog on the Moon shares some of his early, unpublished work with the Guardian Australia multimedia team. There are curious teen pizzas and sea cucumbers with appalling habits, and of course, early renditions of the Dog himself
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An SBS series promises to reveal the unsustainable fishing practices prevalent in the seafood industry
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A University of Canberra lecturer in sustainable communities has challenged Labor leader Bill Shorten over a potential weakening of the renewable energy target
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Australia says it will stop issuing visas to people coming from countries in west Africa hit by Ebola
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News that Australia's opposition leader has done something 'progressive' and voiced support for marriage equality has the team from the Roast bringing out the Bill Shorten dancers
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Labor leader Bill Shorten takes to the TV airwaves to make the case against what he calls 'Mr Abbott's $100,000 degrees'
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Sydney teenager Abdullah Elmir has appeared in a second propaganda video for the Islamic State, purportedly filmed in Mosul, Iraq
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The Greens leader, Christine Milne, says the Australian government must respond to the call for help from African countries to tackle Ebola
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Greens senator Scott Ludlam has appeared in a rap video taking on the federal government's data retention laws
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Western Australian Premier Colin Barnett has been heckled by protesters during a rally against deaths in custody
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Two Australian pilots are being detained in Indonesia for allegedly violating the country's air space
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The coming winter and the threat of renewed fighting hang over Donetsk and Luhansk after rushed elections
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Israeli PM says status quo will not change at site known as Noble Sanctuary to Muslims and Temple Mount to Jews
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Beijing dismisses scathing EIA report on wildlife trade which claims ivory haul of Xi Jinping delegates in Tanzania doubled price on illegal market
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Prosecutors reportedly examining whether billionaire Russian gas trader transferred allegedly corrupt funds through US
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Proposed law to prevent Iranians from keeping animals deemed unclean is latest crackdown on ‘western cultural invasion’
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Republicans won eight out of nine key Senate races, regained control of the upper chamber of Congress and triumphed in crucial gubernatorial contests
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Letters: While it is surely right to reaffirm notions of a shared black identity in order to reactivate the head-on struggle against racism, I hope that will be part of a much wider realignment of politics on the progressive left
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Letters: The process for selecting the secretary general is so poor that the case for reform speaks for itself: there is no job description, no timetable for the appointment and no formal scrutiny of candidates
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Friendships more decisive in recruiting UK jihadis than Islamic State propaganda on social media, radicalisation experts say
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June’s general elections ruled unconstitutional by court in Tripoli, which says resulting parliament should be dissolved
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Israeli security forces and Palestinian protesters clash in East Jerusalem after a Palestinian man drove a vehicle into a crowd at a railway station
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Ian Black: The Syrian president is the beneficiary of a muddled campaign that leaves him free to strike against his own enemies
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Ed Balls and Douglas Alexander say there is legal question over the EU commission’s demand for backdated budget contribution
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Critics deplore Leni Riefenstahl footage of Hitler games in promotional video – as ministry stresses mistake should not detract from Greek tourism success
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Titanochelon was 2 metres long and roamed the ‘streets of Madrid’ between 20m and 2m years ago, study finds
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Jesuit priest and writer whose God of Surprises persuaded many to stay within the church
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From members of the police to the deputy president, a commission seeks justice for the 34 miners who lost their lives at the Lonmin mine strikes in 2012. Greg Nicholson reports
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Amid the epidemic, young people are carrying on dancing at the Fatou Rose hotel, putting Red Cross health advice to one side and trusting in chlorinated water
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Lawyers for victims at inquiry into killing of 34 miners also call for South African vice president Cyril Ramaphosa to be investigated
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A porcupine at the Londolozi reserve in South Africa fights off a pride of 17 lions by shaking its tail and running backwards towards the predators
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Clashes erupt in Brussels between demonstrators and riot police after around 100,000 people marched through the Belgian capital in protest against spending cuts
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The wife of president Ashraf Ghani has surprised many Afghans by speaking out on women and internally displaced people
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Township residents celebrate 5 November by dressing up in their – or their parents’ – best clothes and asking for money. Photographer Daniel Born captures the characters of the ‘penny penny’ tradition
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Chi, which published topless pictures of Duchess of Cambridge, accused of sexism over images of minister Marianna Madia
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The newest resident of Chicago's Shedd Aquarium is an orphaned southern sea otter pup. Just five weeks old and weighing less than 6lbs, she was rescued along the California coast by state wildlife officials. Here she takes a bath at the aquarium and then is fed from a bottle
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Testifying against Shrien Dewani, Monde Mbolombo admits he lied in 2012 trial at which Xolile Mngeni was convicted
Australia's racist constitution is a stain on our country. Do we care enough to change it?