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Up to 75,000 business people who regularly travel to the UK are to be given new rights to speed their transit through London
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Sydney theatre’s associate director will take over from Ralph Myers with focus on new talent and Indigenous theatre
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Not since the Great Depression has wealth inequality in the US been so acute, new in-depth study finds
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Bondi Beach protest highlights Abbott administration’s perceived failure to put climate change on G20 summit agenda
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Brisbane’s to-do list is clear: action on tax avoidance, free trade etc. What is unclear is whether the talks will make any difference
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Graham Readfearn: Climate change almost forgotten in the cocoon of a coal sponsored energy forum in Brisbane
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When asked whether he would like a DVD as a prize, Palmer United party leader says, ‘Absolutely, that’s why I rang up!’
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Letters: This is no time for our creative elites to be opting for despairing nihilism
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Egyptian presidential decree allows transfer of foreign prisoners to home countries to be tried or serve out sentences
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Global partnership to launch public access to the underwater version of Street View in Sydney
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Al Anstey calls for stronger protest against imprisonment of Peter Greste, Mohamed Fadel Fahmy and Baher Mohamed
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Petplan bows to public pressure after Choice finds owners paying premiums for a up to a year after their pet had died
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‘I’m focusing not on what might happen in 16 years’ time,’ says PM as pressure mounts to match targets set by China and US
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Brisbane's city centre has been splashed in colour prior to the official start of the G20 summit
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When asked whether he would like a DVD as a prize, Palmer United party leader says, ‘Absolutely, that’s why I rang up!’
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Other cities have Occupy. But Brisbane bands seem willing to take part in the Campbell Newman G20 sideshow, says Everett True. A case of feeding the hand that bites them?
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Ban will apply to new dredging projects but not the larger world heritage area which includes inshore waters where ports are located
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Brodie Donegan, the woman behind the bill which aims to give personhood to a foetus, pushes to reintroduce another version
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Palmer Unity party leader announces dumping from the party of Lambie’s chief of staff, Rob Messenger
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Antony Loewenstein: NGOs with months of front line exposure were shunned in favour of a private company which was awarded a $20m contract to run an ebola response in Sierra Leone
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Guardian Australia: Climate Institute says $2.5bn emissions reduction fund ‘does not add up to credible climate policy’ for Australia
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Van Badham: Labor’s unwillingness to deal with the Greens over preferences shows they’ve been successfully baited by the Liberals into acting against their own interests
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Labor calls the changes a ‘tax on sick Australians’ and fears they will be pushed through by bypassing parliament
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PUP senator’s distancing from Palmer raises prospect of direct negotiations on issues such as renewable energy target
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As the G20 begins in Brisbane, the state of Queensland has undergone radical political reform and unprecedented attacks on civil liberties. Guardian Australia's Joshua Robertson and Bill Code delve into the LNP's (Liberal National Party) public service cuts and some of the principal targets of the government's law and order campaign: outlaw motorcycle clubs. The laws that bikies want struck out in the high court this Friday include those targeting tattooists, laws adding up to 25 years to their jail sentences, as well as laws banning them from going to their clubhouses or meeting in public in groups of more than two. Guardian Australia invited Queensland's attorney general, education minister, local government minister and health minister to appear in this film.
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We have been shouting so loudly about how we had to avoid getting ‘ahead of the world’ that we seemed not to notice we were being left behind
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To match the scale of cuts announced by US, Australia would have to reduce emissions by about 30% on 2000 levels by 2025
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Bill Shorten describes Tony Abbott's threat to shirtfront Vladimir Putin as a 'brain snap' and 'diplomatic faux pas'
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In a letter to the Australian prime minister, the pope also urges global action to curb climate change, inequality and terrorism
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Guardian Australia:Industry, Labor and Greens accuse Coalition of breaking election promise and abandoning bipartisanship
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Opposition leader says Abbott’s ‘diplomatic faux pas’ put focus on ‘silly words’ rather than the substantive call for cooperation
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Antony Loewenstein: NGOs with months of front line exposure were shunned in favour of a private company which was awarded a $20m contract to run an ebola response in Sierra Leone
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Van Badham: Labor’s unwillingness to deal with the Greens over preferences shows they’ve been successfully baited by the Liberals into acting against their own interests
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Prices have surged 31.9% since 2011, but the boom this time hasn’t flowed on to household spending
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John Quiggin: The real action has already taken place. The G20 policy agenda is a grab bag of second-order measures
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We have been shouting so loudly about how we had to avoid getting ‘ahead of the world’ that we seemed not to notice we were being left behind
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Claire Moore: Targets won’t be achieved without policies ensuring women do not take on the double burden of precarious paid work while remaining responsible for the unpaid care economy
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Tiny Ferouz is one year-old and Scott Morrison wants to celebrate in style
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James Woodford: Ugandan park rangers face a daily struggle: to protect national parks with very few resources. We should all take note
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Richard Ackland: The council of the NSW bar association, Australia’s dominant bar, has been taken in a putsch by restorationists intent on bringing back old royal honours. It’s a depressing spectacle
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Emily Millane: At best, the arrangements put in place by the ‘professional services industry’ are legal sophistry. At worst, they’re daylight robbery
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Antony Loewenstein: It’s a sign of the times that a company like Serco, with murky financial statements masking its true economic shape, is continually rewarded for failure by new and larger contracts
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Paul Daley: Our politicians ask us to imagine that our ‘fallen’ soldiers ‘sacrificed’ themselves for a higher cause. For many young men sent to the first world war, there was no happy, patriotic ending
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Adam Brereton: Q&A wrap: In a weird and wide-ranging Q&A the panel talked neuroplasticity, WestConnex, and compulsory voting
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Icac survived intact. Margaret Cunneen and Arthur Moses were demolished. But the best is yet to come
Richard Ackland: Aside from a day of exciting courtroom drama, the Cunneen case gave us some very interesting clarifications about Icac and its powers – and an appeal to look forward to -
Larissa Behrendt: If their children had been white, would the families of the murdered Bowraville kids have had justice already? The NSW parliament has affirmed this was the case
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Eleanor Robertson: What ambient conditions produced the widespread uptake of Crossfit, a sport that would’ve been considered indicative of possible pathology just a few years ago?
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Tim Flannery: Australia should be showing leadership on climate at the G20. Instead, as 39 countries put a price on carbon, we’ve just repealed ours
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Brisbane's city centre has been splashed in colour prior to the official start of the G20 summit
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As the G20 begins in Brisbane, the state of Queensland has undergone radical political reform and unprecedented attacks on civil liberties. Guardian Australia's Joshua Robertson and Bill Code delve into the LNP's (Liberal National Party) public service cuts and some of the principal targets of the government's law and order campaign: outlaw motorcycle clubs. The laws that bikies want struck out in the high court this Friday include those targeting tattooists, laws adding up to 25 years to their jail sentences, as well as laws banning them from going to their clubhouses or meeting in public in groups of more than two. Guardian Australia invited Queensland's attorney general, education minister, local government minister and health minister to appear in this film.
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Hundreds of people gathered in Martin Place, Sydney, to mark Remembrance Day with a minute's silence
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Queensland's police minister, Jack Dempsey, promises a friendly and safe G20 as he welcomes 6,000 officers from across Australia and New Zealand ahead of the summit
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An Australian news cameraman is carjacked at gunpoint by a suspect in the crime he was travelling to report
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A giant condom has been placed over the Hyde Park obelisk in Sydney. The condom is part of a campaign to raise awareness about HIV and urge gay men to stay safe
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Opposition leader Bill Shorten at the largest Catholic school in southeast Queensland, stepping up his attack on the Coalition's higher education changes and budget cuts. Shorten points to the government's 'triple whammy' which will discourage students from going to university: fee deregulation; a 20% funding cut to universities; and a doubling in the Hecs debt interest rate
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Palmer United party leader Clive Palmer has a fiery exchange with a journalist he describes as 'Rupert Murdoch in disguise', going on to label the Australian press a disgrace
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Clive Palmer launches the PUP campaign in Victoria ahead of the state election
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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
And the G20 band played on: where is Brisbane's culture of protest?