Topic: Australia — Neutral reports only
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[2026-08-25 05:38 UTC+10:00] [Australia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: SBS News
Snippet: Published 25 August 2026 5:38am
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[2026-08-25 05:30 UTC+10:00] [National / Victoria] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
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[2026-08-25 05:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Brydon Carse is under investigation over a video of him appearing to be led away from a nightclub by police. (Getty Images: Jason McCawley/Cricket Australia)
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[2026-08-25 05:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Harry and Meghan's arrival back in Britain is imminent (the couple are seen here on their recent Australia tour)
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[2026-08-25 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Victorian politics] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: A day after suggesting other projects were more important to Victorians, Carroll has committed to pushing ahead on train line
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[2026-08-25 05:00 UTC+10:00] [National / WA] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: West Australian students who come from advantaged backgrounds could be more than six years ahead of their peers when it comes to learning outcomes, new research suggests.
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[2026-08-25 05:00 UTC+10:00] [National / NSW] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: A council in NSW Premier Chris Minns’ backyard has accused the state government of under-delivering on housing, claiming Labor’s plan for a key part of southern Sydney falls short on new homes and infrastructure compared to its alternative proposal.
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[2026-08-25 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Food / Eating out (Mel)] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: There’s a fairly consistent divide in the world of Melbourne Greek restaurants. On one hand, there are our venerated old-school spots, the places that never change. On the other, there’s a new school − one that’s modernising and evolving what it means to be both Greek and Australian in this oh-so-Greek Australian city.
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[2026-08-25 05:00 UTC+10:00] [National / WA] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Fed up with inaction after his motorcycle was stolen from his property in the east Perth suburb of Stratton last week, a Perth father decided to do his own investigative work.
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[2026-08-25 05:00 UTC+10:00] [National / NSW] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Warning: Graphic content
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[2026-08-25 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Queensland] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: The Queensland Greens will attempt to force Brisbane’s Airtrain into public hands a decade early, through a private members bill to compulsorily acquire the privately operated rail line.
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[2026-08-25 05:00 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: The Australian National University has made a substantial apology and financial settlement to an academic who made serious allegations of bullying, intimidation and misconduct against then-chancellor Julie Bishop.
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[2026-08-25 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Victoria] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Premier Ben Carroll has pared back his predecessor’s grand designs for new train stations along the Suburban Rail Loop to shave $2 billion from the cost of the state’s largest infrastructure project.
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[2026-08-25 05:00 UTC+10:00] [National / Victoria] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: When asked why he would give this year’s Garma Festival in Arnhem Land a miss after promising to attend the Indigenous festival every year, Anthony Albanese said he hadn’t “had a day off all year”, and would be on leave when the festival was to kick off.
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[2026-08-25 04:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Federal Government
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[2026-08-25 04:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: There have been more than 500 cases of diphtheria across Australia this year. (ABC News: Xavier Martin)
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[2026-08-25 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Australia news] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Pauline Hanson’s party does not have a firm grasp on its own migration targets. Here is how it has evolved in the past year
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[2026-08-25 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Bird flu] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Virus has already caused catastrophic losses in pinnipeds in South America and sub-Antarctica, particularly among pups
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[2026-08-25 00:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: England’s Brydon Carse appeals unsuccessfully for the wicket of Australia’s Travis Head during play on the last day of the fifth and final Ashes cricket test between England and Australia in Sydney, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Mark Baker, File)
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[2026-08-25 00:01 UTC+10:00] [Australian politics] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Prime minister will use national cabinet meeting to assuage premiers over new AI law as AEMO forecasts seven-fold rise in datacentre power use
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[2026-08-25 00:01 UTC+10:00] [Australian police and policing] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Ombudsman Iain Anderson says he is concerned police ‘had no clearly understood definition of racial profiling’
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[2026-08-25 00:01 UTC+10:00] [Property / News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: In an unprecedented act of faith, the Anglican church has teamed up with a private developer to deliver housing for sale in exchange for the resurrection of a local church and the provision of new parishioner, and community, spaces – and dozens more parishes are interested in following suit.
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[2026-08-25 00:01 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Victoria] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: The number of Australian data centres in development has doubled since 2025, but their strain on the nation’s power supply is expected to accelerate even further over the next decade.
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[2026-08-24 22:30 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Big business is plotting a union-style campaign to convince “Betty from Blacktown” that Australia’s hard-to-grasp productivity problem hits family budgets, as corporate leaders put Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on notice at an annual get-together of political and business elite.
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[2026-08-24 22:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon unveiled the proposed law on Monday. (AP: Charlotte Graham-McLay)
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[2026-08-24 21:00 UTC+10:00] [National / NSW] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: “Adding to the ridiculous practice of establishments requiring a tie for entry (C8), in the late ’60s I was denied entry to the Chatswood Charles Hotel. They stated I needed a tie,” says Max Redmayne of Drummoyne. “My response was to take a shoelace and create a bow tie, and yes, that was acceptable, which points to the ludicrous practice.”
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[2026-08-24 20:13 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-08-24 20:00 UTC+10:00] [National / Victoria] [Factuality: 90]
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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[2026-08-24 19:54 UTC+10:00] [National / Queensland] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Welcome to Brisbane Times’ Queensland public sector column, Public Circus. This week: Right to Information answers (and questions) from the Redlands, how to move 584 boxes of sensitive docs, plum jobs from City Hall to 1WS, and more.
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[2026-08-24 19:30 UTC+10:00] [National / Victoria] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Two youth suicide clusters in Melbourne’s east involving the deaths of 10 people, the youngest aged 13, have raised new concerns about Victoria’s troubled mental health system.
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[2026-08-24 19:30 UTC+10:00] [National / NSW] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Only two of Sydney’s high-fee private boys’ schools have attained gender equity on their governing boards, prompting concerns that councils dominated by men are ill-equipped to grapple with issues of sexual consent, misogynistic social media content and preparing students for the modern workforce.
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[2026-08-24 19:09 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-08-24 19:06 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-08-24 19:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: The concept model of a large-scale data centre project that has been proposed for the Western Downs. (Supplied: Urbis)
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[2026-08-24 18:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Retail Industry
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[2026-08-24 18:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Brydon Carse is under investigation over a video of him appearing to be led away from a nightclub by police. (Getty Images: Jason McCawley/Cricket Australia)
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[2026-08-24 18:32 UTC+10:00] [National / Victoria] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Yarra Mayor Stephen Jolly told police he was scared he would be “knifed” when four masked protesters attended his post-election party in 2024, where he is accused of punching one in the face.
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[2026-08-24 18:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: By Victoria Pengilley
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[2026-08-24 18:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Ex-skipper Ricky Ponting says it is time replacements for Marnus Labuschagne should be considered; others say no urgency for more changes
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[2026-08-24 18:17 UTC+10:00] [Ricky Ponting] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Ex-skipper Ricky Ponting says it is time replacements for Marnus Labuschagne should be considered; others say no urgency for more changes
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[2026-08-24 18:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: This drone was intercepted carrying contraband into the Townsville Correctional Complex on May 17. (Supplied: Queensland Corrective Services)
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[2026-08-24 18:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: The campaign to prevent the killing of wild horses in national parks has moved to the NSW north coast. (ABC South East NSW: Adriane Reardon)
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[2026-08-24 18:03 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Anthony Albanese has promised to keep a special deal to protect Western Australia’s share of the GST for as long as he is prime minister, reminding every other state that it was his government bankrolling an agreement that was on track to cost taxpayers $60 billion.
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[2026-08-24 18:00 UTC+10:00] [Games] [Factuality: 95]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Developers who met through Australia’s improv scene and publishers of comedic party games have united for this slithering challenge in which you play as one extended limb
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[2026-08-24 18:00 UTC+10:00] [Sport / NRL] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Age
Snippet: The NRL will run the first trial of its controversial kick-off rule change on Thursday night in the match between Brisbane and Melbourne.
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[2026-08-24 17:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Redland City Council has released plans to build an outdoor lagoon that the acting mayor has said will be "better than Brisbane's" South Bank Beach.
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[2026-08-24 17:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Housing Construction Industry
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[2026-08-24 17:43 UTC+10:00] [Australian trade unions] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Police arrest five men and search six properties including the union’s Victorian headquarters
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[2026-08-24 17:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: New Zealand is looking to follow Australia's lead in restricting social media access for minors. (Nikkei montage/Source photo by Getty Images)
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[2026-08-24 17:25 UTC+10:00] [Independent Commission Against Corruption] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Charles Perrottet appeared to be furthering fugitive developer Jean Nassif’s interests by undermining adversaries, a former NSW MP claims
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