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New Zealand’s economic missteps hasten exodus to Australia’s sunny shores 2025-03-06
Taipei Times

By Lucy Craymer / Reuters Corey Ngaru and his partner, Elian Lellimo, left recession-hit New Zealand for the sunshine of Australia’s Gold Coast just a week ago, bidding a teary farewell to family and friends as they seek better jobs and pay elsewhere. “There’s a bunch more options, more...

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Plants struggled for millions of years after Earth’s worst climate catastrophe – new study 2025-03-06
The Conversation

A king fern at the Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney, Australia. Marcos Amores With the world on the threshold of 1.5°C of warming, one pressing question is: how bad can it get? The answer may lie beneath our feet. Buried underground are rocks, many rocks, and they are old. For palaeontologists like us,...

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Advocates praise recommendations from Australian sexual violence report but say lack of radical change a ‘missed opportunity’ 2025-03-06
The Guardian

Advocates have welcomed recommendations from a report into the criminal justice system’s treatment of victims of sexual violence as “incredibly symbolic”, but others say the commission’s failure to suggest radical change was a ‘missed opportunity’....

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Australians lose more money to gambling in a year than government spends on aged care, ... 2025-03-04
The Guardian

The $31.5bn lost each year likened to a ‘hidden, unspoken black hole’ that cost-of-living policies have not addressed...

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Australia’s government has no plans to establish a strategic crypto reserve 2025-03-04
BitRSS

The Albanese government...

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Singaporean man charged in Australia with importing 40kg of meth and cocaine into Sydney 2025-02-25
Straits Times

SINGAPORE – A Singaporean man who allegedly brought 40kg of drugs into Sydney on Feb 20 has been charged in Australia. In a statement on Feb 25, the Australian...

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Plans to deport three non-citizens to Nauru thwarted by legal challenges 2025-02-25
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Urgent applications to the High Court and the Federal Court halt the federal government's deportation to Nauru of three members of the NZYQ cohort of non-citizens identified for removal. ......

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New Zealand Foreign Minister to Question Chinese Naval Activity in Beijing Visit 2025-02-24
gCaptain

By Lucy Craymer and Renju Jose WELLINGTON, Feb 24 (Reuters) – New Zealand’s Foreign Minister Winston Peters will touch down in Beijing on Tuesday for a three-day visit as relations between the two countries are strained after Chinese Navy vessels conducted live firing exercises in the Tasman...

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Missing Australian member of Islamic State found alive in Syrian prison 2025-02-21
The Guardian

Exclusive: Mustafa Hajj-Obeid, who left Australia in 2015, is being held in Panorama prison, a detention centre for accused IS members run by the SDF...

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China issued 'disconcerting' warning of live-fire exercises to planes flying above: Australia 2025-02-21
The Times of India

Chinese navy exercises off Australia's east coast...

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