Topic: Australia — Neutral reports only
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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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[2026-08-24 17:23 UTC+10:00] [Politics / NSW] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Building Commissioner James Sherrard attended the completion ceremony for a development project despite being aware of an investigation that ultimately resulted in the developer being fined $220,000 for conduct deemed of “extreme severity”.
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[2026-08-24 17:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Adam Reynolds has not been able to recover from a calf injury in time. (Getty Images: Ian Hitchcock)
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[2026-08-24 17:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Megan Tangye died after she was taken to Port Macquarie Base Hospital in December 2025. (Supplied: NSW Police)
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[2026-08-24 16:55 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Orbit Resources has fired up the drill rig for a new campaign at its 1.7-million-ounce gold equivalent, gold-silver-base metals, Lewis Ponds project in New South Wales. The company is targeting resource expansion after a fresh batch of assays confirmed a significant mineralised zone sitting outside the current deposit.
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[2026-08-24 16:36 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-08-24 16:30 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-08-24 16:30 UTC+10:00] [National / NSW] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
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[2026-08-24 16:17 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 92]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Beetaloo Energy Australia has tapped one of the nation’s biggest gas infrastructure players to map out a 750-kilometre pipeline that could become the critical midstream link between its Carpentaria shale gas project and its ambitious Beetaloo Digital development near Darwin.
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[2026-08-24 16:17 UTC+10:00] [National / Queensland] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: A Queensland man accused of killing his former partner before dumping her body in the Brisbane River has made a third bid for freedom.
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[2026-08-24 16:11 UTC+10:00] [Bird flu] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Phillip Island’s ‘iconic’ little penguins get first bird flu vaccinations in what is thought to be largest program of its kind
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[2026-08-24 15:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Australia in December became the world's first country to ban social media for children under 16, blocking them from platforms including TikTok, YouTube and Meta's Instagram and Facebook.
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[2026-08-24 15:43 UTC+10:00] [ASIA PACIFIC] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Japan Times
Snippet: Sydney – New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said on Monday his party will introduce a bill in Parliament that seeks to ban children under 16 from using social media, proposing fines of up to 10% of a platform’s global revenue for noncompliance.
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[2026-08-24 15:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Anna Volkova from software platform HiBob says the business cost of AI can be weighed up in human ways. (ABC News: Daniel Irvine)
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[2026-08-24 15:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: The court has heard more evidence about a 2008 lunch where a complainant alleges Alan Jones touched him. (ABC News: Jamie McKinnell)
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[2026-08-24 15:28 UTC+10:00] [Australia news] [Factuality: 95]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Veteran radio host’s indecent assault and sexual touching trial enters fourth week, with fellow shock jock Jason Morrison telling court complainant C appeared ‘stuck’ beside Jones
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[2026-08-24 15:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Transport Accidents and Incidents
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[2026-08-24 15:17 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: King River Resources has substantially widened the exploration lens at its historically high-grade Mindoolah gold project in Western Australia, kicking off a multi-pronged geophysics and geochemistry campaign designed to light up new drill targets well beyond the old mine workings.
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[2026-08-24 15:14 UTC+10:00] [National / Victoria] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Melbourne’s social cohesion has “frayed” in the past two years amid protests and graffiti the Jewish community report being targeted by, according to the city’s lord mayor.
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[2026-08-24 15:07 UTC+10:00] [National / WA] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Warning: This story contains graphic content.
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[2026-08-24 15:00 UTC+10:00] [National / Victoria] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Crime rates were climbing steeply at suburban train stations across Melbourne in the years before Victoria Police decided to strip them of security officers, new data reveals.
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[2026-08-24 14:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Zak Butters has told Port Adelaide he plans to head to Victoria. (ABC News: Briana Fiore)
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[2026-08-24 14:48 UTC+10:00] [Politics / WA] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has assured West Australians the GST arrangements that have boosted the state budget by billions annually will remain unchanged while he is in the top job.
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[2026-08-24 14:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Royal Commissions
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[2026-08-24 14:26 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Gold producer Kaiser Reef has completed a high-resolution airborne magnetic survey over its Maldon gold project in Victoria, a move designed to zero in on the next batch of drill targets in one of Australia’s most historically rich goldfields.
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[2026-08-24 14:22 UTC+10:00] [Sydney Swans] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: AFL chief executive Andrew Dillon faces media for first time since players stood down, saying ‘the way we treat women says a lot about who we are’
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[2026-08-24 14:04 UTC+10:00] [Sport / AFL] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Zak Butters has played his last game for Port Adelaide, informing club officials at his exit meeting on Monday that he would exercise his restricted free agency rights.
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[2026-08-24 13:57 UTC+10:00] [Sport / Cricket] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Alex Carey has urged Australian selectors to think carefully about their options before cutting No.3 Marnus Labuschagne from the Test team.
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[2026-08-24 13:51 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-08-24 13:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Speaking in Perth, Anthony Albanese says WA's GST deal will remain in place. (ABC News: Keane Bourke)
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[2026-08-24 13:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Staffing gaps are fuelling safety concerns as Sydney Airport records four aircraft close calls in the past month
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[2026-08-24 13:20 UTC+10:00] [Australia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Staffing gaps are fuelling safety concerns as Sydney Airport records four aircraft close calls in the past month
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[2026-08-24 13:16 UTC+10:00] [National / NSW] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Warning: Graphic content
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[2026-08-24 13:10 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Forrestania Resources has delivered a belter of a resource upgrade at its British Hill project in Western Australia, lifting the global inventory to a hefty 175,690 ounces of gold, largely supported by recent drilling at site, which has delivered deep, high-grade gold hits, including a 29-metre intersection grading an impressive 3.91 grams per tonne (g/t) gold from 220m downhole.
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[2026-08-24 13:03 UTC+10:00] [National / Queensland] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Brisbane’s ambition to stage the most accessible Olympic and Paralympic Games ever will not extend to major improvements at the Gabba, with Sport Minister Tim Mander declaring the government will not spend heavily on a stadium ultimately destined for demolition.
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[2026-08-24 12:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: PLS plans to release a feasibility study in the coming months on doubling the output capacity of its Pilgangoora mine in Western Australia. (Screenshot from PLS's website)
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[2026-08-24 12:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: The CFMEU declined to comment on the Victoria Police raid. (ABC News: Brian Hurst)
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[2026-08-24 12:52 UTC+10:00] [National / Victoria] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Age
Snippet: The Melbourne headquarters of the CFMEU have been raided by police and five people taken into custody as part of an investigation into allegations of corruption and links to outlaw bikie gangs.
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[2026-08-24 12:33 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Lachlan Murdoch’s former Australian lieutenant was the “driving force” behind his bruising, and ultimately unsuccessful, attempt to wrench control of the family empire from his siblings in a bitter succession clash, unsealed documents from a Nevada courtroom show.
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[2026-08-24 12:24 UTC+10:00] [Politics / NSW] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Follow the hearings live
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[2026-08-24 12:22 UTC+10:00] [National / WA] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Hawthorn coach Sam Mitchell is optimistic his team will be able to achieve what no other club has done this year: beat Fremantle in Perth.
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[2026-08-24 12:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Local Government
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[2026-08-24 12:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: The alleged assault took place on the Adelaide Oval footbridge. (ABC News: Carl Saville)
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[2026-08-24 12:10 UTC+10:00] [National / NSW] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: The heads of all three school sectors will participate in an urgent roundtable crisis talks at the behest of the state’s education minister following a spate of alleged sexual assaults by Sydney schoolboys.
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[2026-08-24 12:04 UTC+10:00] [National / Queensland] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Unions have warned of a “tinderbox” situation in Queensland’s overcrowded, unsafe youth detention centres, as hundreds of workers walked off the job following a breakdown in wage negotiations.
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[2026-08-24 12:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Andrew Dillon, AFL chief executive, will speak at a press conference. (Getty Images: AFL Photos/James Wiltshire)
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[2026-08-24 11:54 UTC+10:00] [Property / News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: A first home buyer couple renting in Surry Hills paid $2.05 million for a Redfern terrace at auction on Saturday, $50,000 less than its reserve price.
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[2026-08-24 11:50 UTC+10:00] [One Nation] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Liberal senator says rightwing party ‘falls down on the details’ after David Farley claimed it wanted additional 100,000 migrant workers
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[2026-08-24 11:30 UTC+10:00] [National / NSW] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: A bullying case brought against Liverpool Mayor Ned Mannoun by his council’s unionised staff has been discontinued, with both parties accepting an end to the case after Mannoun read out a statement affirming his commitment to his council’s media policies.
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[2026-08-24 11:30 UTC+10:00] [Food / Eating out (Mel)] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: After a successful summer seafood pop-up at Stokehouse’s beachfront kiosk in St Kilda, and recent months cooking and eating her way around Morocco, Italy and the Netherlands, ex-Hope St Radio chef Ellie Bouhadana is launching her own restaurant.
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