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Social media giants such as Meta and TikTok have been put on notice, with the federal government announcing a wide-ranging probe into online platforms’ potential harm to Australians. 

Confronting footage has emerged of pro-Palestinian students at Queensland’s largest university admitting they would be terrorists if involved in the overseas conflict. Troubled former North Melbourne footballer Tarryn Thomas is again being investigated by police for allegedly harassing a former partner. 

A Port Lincoln father allegedly caught with methamphetamine in Bali was sent an unsolicited package, purportedly holding lubricant but actually containing drugs, while in the Indonesian party capital.
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A repeat domestic violence offender with an apprehended violence order banning him going near his former girlfriend ambushed her outside a Sydney gym and stabbed her in the throat with a kitchen knife. 

Jewish students and staff at Queensland’s top university fear for their safety after a suspected antisemitic attack on the office of a Jewish academic. The governnment will pump an extra $3.25 billion into the North East Link – the biggest single investment it has made in Victoria since being elected. 

Twenty scholarships will soon be available for students wanting to work in artificial intelligence research at Lot Fourteen, with significant investment aimed at boosting SA as a global competitor in the sector. 
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Accused mushroom murderer Erin Patterson has formally entered not guilty pleas to three charges of murder and five of attempted murder as her case will be fast-tracked for trial to the Supreme Court. 

 

Premier Steven Miles’ $1000 election sweetener, spruiked as helping Queenslanders with their power bills, could be cashed out and spent on anything in a $2.5bn billing loophole.  

Medical experts are sounding the alarm as a predicted epidemic of cancer in under 50s threatens to overwhelm the country’s GPs and blow out hospital wait times.  

Sydney’s iconic Darling Harbour has been given a multimillion-dollar facelift, with a new playground, sound shell and a bamboo forest at the Chinese Garden of Friendship to be officially opened to the public Wednesday. 
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Under-18s will be banned from buying knives, raising the age limit from 16 while NSW Police will get new powers to search people for blades in response to the alleged stabbing of an Assyrian bishop in Wakeley and the Bondi Junction massacre. 

 A new $400 bonus for an estimated 700,000 Victorian students will be unveiled as the key cost of living measure in today’s state budget. 

 

The state government has spent more than $111m buying properties and doing technical studies for a renewable energy project that has no business case, is not backed by the Opposition and is vehemently opposed by locals.  

A third of primary school students and almost half of high schoolers have sought, or are planning to start, treatment for mental health concerns. 
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Parents will be able to see social media through the eyes of their teenage children using a new tool exposing how young people can be surrounded by misogynistic content that promotes harmful attitudes toward women. 

Staff shortages, lenient consequences for poor behaviour and the false perception educators get 12 weeks off a year are some of the systematic issues driving disrespect in the classroom. 

Queenslanders won’t pay “a single cent” for electricity from July, with Premier Steven Miles doubling the state’s power rebate to $1000 in a major $2.5bn pre-election cash splash. South Australian mums and dads are less likely to yell at their kids or feel guilty about how much time they spend together than parents elsewhere in the country.
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Coward-punch killer Kieran Loveridge, whose unprovoked attack on a young man on a Kings Cross street 12 years ago shocked Sydney, is now out of jail and on a crusade to educate young men about the dangers of alcohol and violence, saying if anyone knows the horror consequences, it’s him. 

The union for prison officers has accused the Victorian government of recklessly endangering their lives amid what it brands an “epidemic of ­assaults”. 

Queensland Premier Steven Miles has buckled to pressure and will remove the detention as a last resort clause amid poor electoral prospects and mounting criticism the government is soft on crime. AstraZeneca has acknowledged that its Covid-19 vaccine can cause a rare and potentially deadly blood-clotting condition, according to court documents. 
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