Adam Bandt calls Australia's political system 'rigged'
Greens leader Adam Bandt says Australians are tired of being told to simply work harder if they want a better life.
In his address to the National Press Club on Wednesday, Bandt repeatedly called Australia's political system 'rigged' in favour of big corporations.
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Prime Minister confirms the ABS will test a new question on sexuality
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has confirmed the Australia Bureau of Statistics will test a new question on sexuality ahead of the next census.
The CEO of LGBTIQ+ Health Australia Nicky Bath has welcomed the decision.
Four Corners interviewed Ihab Hamadeh, a Hezbollah politician.
He says Hezbollah have the capability to fight against Israel should the war expand beyond Gaza.
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Israel agrees to 'humanitarian pauses' to vaccinate children against polio
The Israeli military and Hamas have agreed to three separate three-day halts in fighting in the Gaza Strip so thousands of children can be vaccinated against polio.
Global Affairs Editor John Lyons says the situation in Gaza is dreadful and the pause in fighting is good news in a grim situation.
Israel and Hamas have reportedly agree to limited pauses in fighting to facilitate health authorities to vaccinate children against polio. The pauses will be short-lived and will only last for nine hours each day.
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Journalists rarely get access to film in Iran. This is what happened to the Four Corners team when they were filming a rally in the days before the election.
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A top Ukrainian pilot has been killed when an F16 fighter jet donated by the West to combat the Russian invasion crashed.
While the cause of the crash remains unclear, Ukrainian authorities claim Colonel Alexei Mes, codenamed Moonfish, died saving Ukrainian from deadly Russian missiles.
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Anthony Albanese says a new question on sexuality will be tested for the next census, overruling an earlier decision not to add a question to include LGBTI Australians in the national survey.
Anthony Albanese says a new question on sexuality will be tested for the next census, overruling an earlier decision not to add a question to include LGBTI Australians in the national survey.
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Team Australia has claimed its first four medals at the Paralympic games on day one of the tournament in Paris.
Swimmer Tom Gallagher’s first ever Paralympic gold medal was also Australia’s first in Paris, while Brenden Hall, Lakeisha Patterson and Rowan Crothers clinched silver and bronze also in the pool.
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Stand News journalists Chung Pui-Kuen and Patrick Lam, who led a now defunct online news outlet in Hong Kong, have been found guilty of publishing seditious articles.
ABC East Asia correspondent Kathleen Calderwood says the landmark ruling is the first time that there has been a verdict under this colonial-era sedition law involving a media outlet since Britain handed Hong Kong back to China in 1997.
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New laws in Afghanistan make it mandatory for women to completely veil their bodies and faces at all times when in public, while they are also forbidden from publicly speaking up and looking directly at men who are not related to them by blood or marriage.
Human Rights Watch researcher Sahar Fetrat says life under the Taliban is 'suffocating' for women and the international community should do more to denounce the restrictions.
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Two Hong Kong journalists found guilty of sedition
Two Hong Kong journalists have been found guilty of sedition in what will be seen as another blow to the city's press freedoms.
54-year-old Chung Pui-Kuen and 36-year-old Patrick Lam were in charge of Hong Kong's leading news website, Stand News.
Japan's strongest typhoon of the year slammed into the country's southern island, with authorities advising tens of thousands of people to evacuate.
Climate scientist Hisashi Nakamura describes Typhoon Shanshan as one of the strongest to hit Japan.
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More than a thousand new species of ancient viruses discovered in the Himalayas
International scientists have found 1,700 new species of ancient viruses buried beneath the ice in the Himalayas.
Virologist Erin Harvey discusses how the research was conducted.
Labor MP Josh Burns calls for LGBTQI questions to be included in census
Labor MP Josh Burns calls oh his own government to reconsider decision to include the LGBTQI community in the 2026 census.
Matildas player Aivi Luik has revealed she has been found guilty of an anti-doping violation after being treated for a back injury — but wants to use her experience as a warning to other athletes.
Her lawyer Alexis Schoeb says she has committed no wrongdoing.
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An inquest into the Wieambilla shootings has entered its final day.
Josh Robertson is an ABC reporter and childhood friend of killer Nathaniel Train.
He reflects on what the five-week inquest has heard.
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'Serious questions' on Israel's counter-terrorism operation in West Bank: John Lyons
A series of Israeli military raids in the occupied West Bank have killed at least ten people.
The co-ordinated strikes across multiple cities is the biggest incursion by Israel into the territory in the last 20 years.
Global Affairs Editor John Lyons says the operations are politically driven and there’s no accountability.
Australian doctor kidnapped by Al-Qaeda speaks exclusively to the ABC
An Australian doctor who was kidnapped by Al-Qaeda and held for 7 years in the Sahara Desert has spoken exclusively to the ABC.
Jonathan Holmes from Foreign Correspondent spoke to Dr Ken Elliott who was released last year.
WaterNSW shuts Blue Mountains dam over elevated levels of PFAS
Authorities have shut a small dam in the Blue Mountains after tests found traces of cancer-linked PFAS "forever chemicals", and are now investigating the source of the contamination.
Fiona Smith from WaterNSW explains how the chemicals were found in Medlow Dam.
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