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Bushfires: can ecosystems recover from such dramatic losses of biodiversity?
SPECIAL FEATURE: The ecological costs of huge, repetitive, high-severity fires on ecosystems could be colossal.
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Scott Morrison’s approval ratings crash over bushfires in first 2020 Newspoll
The bushfire crisis almost certainly explains the crash in Morrison’s ratings, with opposition leader Albanese now the preferred prime minister, according to poll.
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Some say we’ve seen bushfires worse than this before. But they’re ignoring a few key facts
SPECIAL FEATURE: Climate change is making extreme events even more severe, resulting in unprecedented conditions that are rewriting our nation’s history.
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How to donate to Australian bushfire relief: give money, watch for scams and think long term
SPECIAL FEATURE: One thing to be mindful of during times like these, is that unfortunately some people may seek to prey on the generosity of others.
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Photos of Australia from space, before and after the bushfires and drought
'This crisis has been unfolding for years'. NASA images reveal a ravaged continent.
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Making sense of Australia’s bushfire crisis means asking hard questions – and listening to the answers
SPECIAL FEATURE: I should have twigged straight away. At 8am the sky was a gruesome orange-black, the surrounding bush freakishly quiet. Our mobile phones had no signal. Outside, my car was coated in soot.
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Prime minister turns his back on distraught resident of fire ravaged town
Prime Minister Scott Morrison met with angry locals of bushfire ravaged Cobargo, and it didn't go well.
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Your Christmas shopping could harm or help the planet. Which will it be?
Australians spent $400 million on unwanted Christmas gifts last year. There must be a better way.
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Fair play gaming industry in Australia
Trump's bid was rejected due to bad connection.
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Climate winds blowing on Morrison from Liberal party’s left
OPINION & ANALYSIS: Scott Morrison has refused to meet calls for a national summit or a COAG meeting on the fire effort, but he is no longer able to gloss over the climate debate.
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What kind of Brexit will Britain now ‘get done’ after Boris Johnson’s thumping election win?
OPINION & ANALYSIS: Despite being one of the best-known and biggest characters in British politics, so much remains uncertain about Boris Johnson. Now that he has achieved his parliamentary majority, he must decide what he wants to do with it.
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Volcano disaster: more Australians expected to be confirmed among the dead
11 Australians likely to have been killed by the horrific Mount White volcano eruption.
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The British election explained in five key phrases
SPECIAL FEATURE: It almost seems as if, for many voters, the election is more about who they don’t want than who they do.
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2019 was a year of global unrest, spurred by anger at rising inequality – and 2020 is likely to be worse
SPECIAL FEATURE: 2019 may go down as the most disrupted year in global politics since the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989. The likelihood is that 2020 will be worse, and bloodier.
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Australians caught up in NZ volcano eruption
Up to 50 tourists, including many Australians, are believed to have been on White Island in New Zealand when its volcano began erupting.
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Angus Taylor’s troubles go international, in brawl with Naomi Wolf
OPINION & ANALYSIS: Controversial American feminist writer Naomi Wolf, in an extended phone call (which she videoed) with a Taylor staffer, demanded an apology from the energy minister over his inaccurate claim they’d been corridor near-neighbours at Oxford in 1991 and for implying that she’d campaigned against Christmas.
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Medevac repealed after government comes to secret arrangement with Jacqui Lambie
Lambie had indicated previously that her vote for the repeal would be conditional on the government meeting a condition which she would not specify. She suggested security matters were involved.
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Lessons on terrorism and rehabilitation from the London Bridge attack
OPINION & ANALYSIS: In a deeply tragic irony, the two victims who lost their lives to a man who made a mockery of their idealism were assisted by two others who appear to have genuinely benefited from prison rehabilitation programs.
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Chinese ‘spy’ case may be the greatest challenge to Australian security since Petrov – but caution is needed
OPINION & ANALYSIS: If this alleged attempted interference by China is proved – if it is indeed provable – this would rise to the level of an unacceptable attempt to subvert Australia’s democratic processes.
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Frydenberg turns up heat on Westpac chiefs as bank issues a ‘response plan’ to scandal
Westpac is accused of 23 million breaches of the anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing law, with the alleged breaches include transfers of money to the Philippines for child sex exploitation.
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Paul Keating attacks media for ‘pious belchings’ over China
Former prime minister Keating attacked The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age in particular for their China coverage.
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Mr Morrison, I lost my home to bushfire. Your thoughts and prayers are not enough
OPINION & ANALYSIS: Fire officials warn that this week's catastrophic fire conditions are "where people die". Climate change has arrived, and politicians should drop the meaningless rhetoric.
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Drought and climate change were the kindling, and now the east coast is ablaze
OPINION & ANALYSIS: These unprecedented fires are an indication that a much-feared future under climate change may have arrived earlier than predicted. The week ahead will present high-stakes new challenges.
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Australia is spending less on diplomacy than ever before – and its influence is suffering as a result
OPINION & ANALYSIS: The aspirations for our diplomacy must be upgraded beyond the bare minimum. Ten years on from Diplomatic Deficit, Australia must resist the magical thinking that foreign affairs and trade somehow happen by themselves.
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Attorney-General targets Market Forces in push against environment groups
Attorney-General Christian Porter singled out Market Forces in a Monday statement that said he was co-ordinating advice across several portfolios on what could be done to protect resource businesses from such activism.
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Labor looks to boost protections for workers in insecure jobs: Albanese
With job insecurity on the rise and widespread casual employment, many people had unpredictable income and hours and few protections. “These Australians deserve a greater sense of security”, says opposition leader.
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Victorian police now have ‘shoot to kill’ powers when cars are used as weapons: here’s why this matters
OPINION & ANALYSIS: There are clearly risks in shooting at a moving vehicle. Unlike what happens in films, bullets generally do not stop moving trucks or cars.
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Australia needs a Media Freedom Act. Here’s how it could work
OPINION & ANALYSIS: The imperative to protect press freedom is fundamental and deserving of general recognition and protection. In light of these concerns, our international obligations and the rule-of-law concerns for legal clarity, consistency and proportionality, it is time for a Media Freedom Act.
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Morrison says China knows ‘where Australia is coming from’, after meeting Chinese vice-president
Prime Minister Scott Morrison told reporters he’d made the point ‘which was well received, that Australia is an independent, sovereign nation’.
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Australia is facing a looming cyber emergency, and we don’t have the high-tech workforce to counter it
OPINION & ANALYSIS: Nick Warner, the new director general of the Office of National Intelligence, has sounded the alarm about Australia’s lack of preparedness to counter cyber-threats.
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Define the boundaries in new phase of Australia-China relationship: Penny Wong
‘It is inevitable that Australia will make more decisions that China doesn’t like,’ said Labor's Penny Wong.
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