January 11 – 17, 2025

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at PCYC Cairns.

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Bill Shorten in front of an NDIS sign.

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Exclusive: Children targeted in NDIS crackdown

Despite claims the government’s reform of the National Disability Insurance Scheme is focused on fraud, a third of the savings will come from pushing children off the scheme.

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Is Musk tweaking X’s algorithm to push right-wing conspiracies?

As Elon Musk reignites a British scandal involving gangs of men who sexually groomed underage girls, there is increasing evidence he is distorting the algorithm of his social media platform to advance his own political views.

Palestinians pick their way across the ruins of a city.

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Letters, Cartoon & Editorial

Cartoon

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Editorial
Dutton and Murdoch’s grift on Welcomes to Country

You can picture the staffer who thought of this, some slippery little Tarocash chancer. It would have been pitched as the perfect story for the quiet weeks of January, a chance to capture the news cycle for a day or two, to get ready for the annual race-baiting of Australia Day. It is the budget line equivalent of a Chinese-made flag.

Letters

Awake to evil

Right-wing attacks on wokeness were referenced by two contributors in the December 21–January 10 edition (Karen Barlow, “Exclusive: Dutton set to revive Indigenous placenames fight” and Thomas Mayo, …

Clear hypocrisy

The possible revival of the Indigenous placenames fight – particularly in light of the referendum result – I found to be rather depressing. The uniqueness of Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait …

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Culture

Life

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Food

Grilled bananas with salted caramel sauce, vanilla ice-cream and peanuts

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Sport

Bowled over by the Australia v India Test series

A tantalising series between India and Australia – complete with polar opposite debutants and the jubilant return of Scott Boland – saw Test cricket reclaim its place as a crowd favourite.

Puzzles

Quotes

Etiquette

“Well, that’s not on … Here, everyone owns the beach.”

Anthony AlbaneseThe prime minister expresses his concern over cabanas being used to reserve space on the beach. If you want to do that, you should buy a $4.3 million house like everyone else.

Survival

“I would like to thank all of the emergency services personnel for their tireless work searching for 13 days in tough conditions to locate me.”

Hadi NazariThe man who spent two weeks lost in Kosciuszko National Park responds after being rescued. He lived on foraged berries and two Uncle Tobys muesli bars.

Environment

“The windmills are driving the whales crazy, obviously.”

Donald TrumpThe president-elect explains the problem with wind farms, obviously. It’s presumed he means with desire

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