Topic: Australia — Neutral reports only
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[2026-03-31 06:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Colombo Mayor, Vraie Cally Balthazaar, who visited Australia under the Special Visits Programme of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Australia, delivered a speech on Women in Leadership to a group of Ambassadors and High Commissioners and several members of the Sri Lankan community, at a lunch at the Sri Lanka High Commission (SLHC) in Canberra recently.
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[2026-03-31 06:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Australian petrol prices tend to follow predictable cycles, but they've all gone out the window in recent weeks.
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[2026-03-31 06:28 UTC+10:00] [Porepunkah shooting] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Until they heard the gunshots, locals say they had no idea the 56-year-old fugitive had been hiding out next door
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[2026-03-31 06:19 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Property News: Australia's most expensive streets, and how much it costs to live in them.
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[2026-03-31 06:04 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-03-31 06:01 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Queensland] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Queensland’s signature literary awards will from this year be managed by the Brisbane Writers Festival, after a standoff that led to a high-profile ministerial intervention and the state library being stripped of its role.
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[2026-03-31 06:00 UTC+10:00] [National / Queensland] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: A rising number of teacher aides and cleaners say they are being physically and verbally assaulted by students in Queensland schools, with staff warning their safety is being compromised by inadequate training and resources.
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[2026-03-31 05:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: A photo of Dezi Freeman issued by police following the shooting. (Supplied: Victoria Police)
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[2026-03-31 05:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: AP News
Snippet: United States head coach Mauricio Pochettino after facing Australia in the second half of an international friendly soccer match, Oct. 14, 2025, in Commerce City, Colo.(AP Photo/David Zalubowski, file)
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[2026-03-31 05:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Larissa Ham is a digital producer with the ABC's Melbourne team. During more than two decades in the media, she has also worked as a producer, journalist and editor at The Age, and as a freelance writer for numerous publications.
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[2026-03-31 05:22 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: It looks almost like a scene from a post-apocalyptic movie. Seven months after he killed two police officers, Dezi Freeman emerged from a shipping container draped in a blanket. Then, police say, he drew a gun stolen from one of the men he killed.Soon after, Australia's most wanted fugitive was dead, surrounded by old cars, tractors and tell-tale signs of how he might have been surviving in a part of Victoria that's as beautiful as it is remote.READ MORE: Dezi
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[2026-03-31 05:16 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Australians are set to see some much-needed relief at the petrol pump after Anthony Albanese announced the reduction of a key fuel tax for three months.The fuel excise, a tax on petrol, will be halved, seeing petrol prices finally go down after soaring for weeks due to the supply issues arising from the Middle East conflict.These changes and others will take effect soon, with Australians now having more certainty as to when they will pay less at the bowser.LIVE UPDATES:
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[2026-03-31 05:00 UTC+10:00] [National / NSW] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: The City of Sydney has identified more than 30 state-owned sites, including prime harbourfront hotels, that could be transformed into thousands of new homes, as Lord Mayor Clover Moore calls on the NSW government to “do more” to solve the state’s housing crisis.
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[2026-03-31 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Food / Eating out (Syd)] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Sydney’s lower north shore has long been the home to an excellent collection of Japanese restaurants. In Neutral Bay, there are almost 20 around Military Road, packed into an area smaller than eight football fields. Near Coles, Komaru quietly pumps out excellent sushi and sashimi lunch sets, while Jugemu & Shimbashi is still one of the only restaurants in Sydney making soba by hand.
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[2026-03-31 05:00 UTC+10:00] [National / WA] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: A Perth nurse has been struck off after two episodes of aggression towards young patients in the psychiatric ward of Bentley Hospital, in one case punching or pushing a boy who had a diagnosis of autism, depression, and anxiety.
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[2026-03-31 05:00 UTC+10:00] [National / Victoria] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: When Cyril Land’s voice began to fail, changing overnight into a croaky whisper, his wife, Lee, knew something was wrong.
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[2026-03-31 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Food / Eating out (Mel)] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Age
Snippet: When Ten Minutes By Tractor opened on the Mornington Peninsula in 2006, regional Victorian dining looked very different than it does today. In fact, you could say the same about fine dining in general. The audiences were different, as well as the expectations. Customers were in it for the luxury, the pampering, the fanciness and, yes, the food and wine.
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[2026-03-31 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Technology] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Australia’s privacy regulator has released draft rules that would force apps, games, streaming platforms and educational tools to overhaul how they handle children’s personal information, in the most significant expansion of online protections for minors since the social media age ban took effect last year.
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[2026-03-31 05:00 UTC+10:00] [National / Victoria] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Flinders Lane will become a “pedestrian first” street this year and other thoroughfares in the CBD will follow as part of a council plan to close some local roads to car traffic for part of the day.
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[2026-03-31 05:00 UTC+10:00] [National / NSW] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Providing free public transport in NSW would punch a hole of up to $160 million a month in the state’s finances, amid growing pressure on the Minns government to ease hip-pocket pain from escalating fuel prices caused by the Iran war.
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[2026-03-31 05:00 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: March 31, 2026 — 5:00am
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[2026-03-31 05:00 UTC+10:00] [National / Victoria] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
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[2026-03-31 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Victoria] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Gout Gout fever swept through Melbourne at the weekend as thousands, including a hefty spread of the good and the great of Australian athletics, worshipped at the altar of the teenage sprint sensation.
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[2026-03-31 05:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: ABC Health & Wellbeing
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[2026-03-31 04:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: When it comes to this at-home tanning solution, stars have a sunny outlook.
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[2026-03-31 03:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: ERROR 404 page not found Click here to go to the home page
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[2026-03-31 01:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Australian soap star Alea O’Shea is undergoing treatment for brain cancer.
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[2026-03-31 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Petrol prices] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Flow-on effect will depend on how quickly service stations sell more expensive fuel, experts warn, leaving Easter travel plans up in the air
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[2026-03-31 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Petrol prices] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The US president thumbs his nose at concerns about the most serious energy crisis in global history. But Australia, like other countries, is paying a high price
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[2026-03-31 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Petrol prices] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Victoria and Tasmania are trialling free public transport as a way to drive down demand for petrol. But will it work – and who will benefit?
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[2026-03-31 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Australia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Australia’s friendly against Curacao on Tuesday is the crucial audition for players to show Tony Popovic they deserve a ticket to the US
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[2026-03-31 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Parents and parenting] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Survey also found 65% of gen Z think ‘things are better if men do paid work and women do care work’
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[2026-03-31 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Music] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Jack Karlson’s rallying cry of ‘democracy manifest’ added to national collection of sound recordings that hold historical, cultural and aesthetic significance
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[2026-03-31 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Australian food and drink] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Butter-dipped soft serve ice-cream is one of several aesthetic-driven dishes highlighted at the Sydney Easter show, where flavour comes second to presentation
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[2026-03-31 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Photography] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: View image in fullscreenA member of Australia’s Iranian community reacts as a police officer removes him from the path of a bus taking members of the Iranian Women’s Asia Cup football team to the airport, outside the Royal Pines Resort on the Gold Coast.Photograph: Patrick Hamilton/AFP/Getty ImagesShareView image in fullscreenNice slices at Cake Picnic in Melbourne’s Kings Domain, where each ticket-holder brought a cake.
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[2026-03-31 01:00 UTC+10:00] [National / NSW] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Vaping is likely to cause cancer, a first-of-its-kind scientific review has found, contradicting claims it is safer than smoking and highlighting the urgency of efforts to stop young people becoming addicted.
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[2026-03-31 00:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Anika Wells says social media companies must obey Australia's laws if they want to operate here. (ABC News: Matt Roberts)
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[2026-03-31 00:00 UTC+10:00] [Travel / Inspiration] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: “I’ll ask the ancestors to look after you tonight.”
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[2026-03-31 00:00 UTC+10:00] [Business / Markets] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Global energy giant Shell is cautioning Australia against taxing gas exporters’ windfall profits, declaring it would destabilise vital trade ties with Asian partners and make it harder for the government to secure increasingly scarce deliveries of petrol, diesel and jet fuel from the region.
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[2026-03-30 23:52 UTC+10:00] [Television] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: MAFS Australia fans are appalled that a horrendous dinner party wasn’t pulled – but it’s not without precedent. From nightmarish model makeovers to a grotesque fight night, here are the worst scenes that caused outrage
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[2026-03-30 23:30 UTC+10:00] [Australian Rules] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: North Melbourne’s Tristan Xerri charged with serious misconduct over the incident, in which he wiped his blood onto Andy McGrath’s face
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[2026-03-30 21:33 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-03-30 21:23 UTC+10:00] [National / Queensland] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Welcome to Brisbane Times’ Queensland public sector column, Public Circus. This week: a deep dive into the long-awaited public health service overhaul, a familiar reviewer, the (not) hiring freeze, and more.
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[2026-03-30 21:00 UTC+10:00] [National / NSW] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: “In the early ’60s, I was Premier Askin’s (C8) afternoon paperboy after school in Manly,” writes Jim Rogers of Byron Bay. “He insisted it be delivered to his door step. If home, he’d open the door for a chat after I blew the whistle and give me a coin. Once, around Christmas, he gave me the massive sum of 10 shillings to buy my mum a present.
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[2026-03-30 20:47 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Property News: Australia's most popular suburbs in every capital city.
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[2026-03-30 20:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Sharon Fulton was 39 when she was murdered by her husband in 1986. (Supplied)
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[2026-03-30 20:32 UTC+10:00] [Southeast Asia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-03-30 20:20 UTC+10:00] [Porepunkah shooting] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Freeman is understood to have emerged from his hideout cloaked in a blanket or doona, which he dropped to reveal a weapon
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[2026-03-30 20:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Public Transport
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[2026-03-30 20:00 UTC+10:00] [National / Victoria] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: To submit a letter to The Age, email letters@theage.com.au. Please include your home address and telephone number below your letter. No attachments. See here for our rules and tips on getting your letter published.
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