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News A teary Scott Morrison has confirmed Australia will follow in America’s footsteps to remove troops from Afghanistan by the end of the year.

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News Australia’s unemployment rate has dipped again as the country continues to recover from the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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News As Australia continues to battle an explosion in cocaine and methamphetamines, a new report has given a stark insight into the human cost of the drugs.

News The PM has been inching his way towards a net zero emissions target for 2050, but scientists say the climate is in crisis and action needs to be drastic.

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Crime The Christchurch mosque shooter has launched a legal challenge over his prison conditions due to go before the High Court of New Zealand.

Crime A police station has been burned down and a police officer and her family have fled as her house was surrounded and protests rage.

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Pets & Animals The RSPCA has denied profiteering from designer dogs, amid outcry over “appalling” $4500 adoption fees for French bulldogs rescued from backyard breeders.

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News An adorable, unreleased photo taken by Kate Middleton shows the Queen and Prince Philip surrounded by their great-grandkids.

Business Virgin Australia will hire hundreds of workers and add dozens of new flights with ‘pent-up’ travel demand set to explode.

News The Duke of York, who stepped back from public duties last year, has reportedly approached the Queen about his father Prince Philip’s funeral.

Crime A police reality TV show has upset viewers with scenes of an “evil” domestic abuser grinning as her partner was rushed to hospital.

TV Beloved kids show Bluey has copped a serve for failing to represent “disabled, queer, poor and gender diverse dog families”.

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Business Bernie Madoff, the notorious fraudster behind an epic $84 billion scam — the biggest in Wall Street history — has died in prison.

Health PM flags mass vaccination hubs across the country as the only way to get a majority of Australians inoculated against coronavirus by the end of the year.

News About 20 firefighters have battled to save a home from complete destruction after a kitchen fire erupted on Wednesday night.