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Det Supt Scott Moller says he did not understand why Higgins wanted to ‘involve the media’ before giving formal statement to police Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily
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Minister attacks ‘scare campaign’ after opposition leader says plan would ‘re-racialise’ Australia Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast The minister for Indigenous Australians has blasted Peter
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AFP’s Scott Moller says he charged Lehrmann on advice of DPP despite investigators not thinking Brittany Higgins’s allegations reached threshold for prosecution Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily
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David Speirs said protest was ‘a good thing’, but ‘there are some countries where your head would be cut off for doing that sort of protest’ Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails,
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Financial services minister Stephen Jones will say today that BNPL services will be treated as a credit product. Follow the day’s news live PwC scandal: should we trust private companies with government secrets? – Full Story podcastGet our morning and afternoon news
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ABC argues Brittany Higgins broadcast did not identify Bruce Lehrmann and could not have defamed him
ABC says press club address could not have been defamatory even if Lehrmann’s identity already widely known Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast The ABC has
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I’ve watched smart, funny teenagers unravel behind bars. Australia needs to raise the age to keep young kids out of prison It is deeply distressing that on the one hand I, a 30-year-old white woman cancer patient, receive cards from strangers in
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Former ATO worker lodges appeal against a South Australian district court decision not to grant him protection Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Richard Boyle claims a judge was wrong to deny him whistleblower protections,
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Climate activists face large penalties and three-month jail terms in bipartisan move which appears to have been hashed out on talkback radio Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily
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