Queensland has introduced laws to crack down on ‘claim farming’, a practice where members of the public are contacted and encouraged to make compensation claims. And a new study has found ‘inconsistencies’ in the way courts consider the possible impact of media
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Medevac was supposed to give us access to medicine and healthcare but forced our bodies into small hotel rooms that we could not escape For eight years, I felt the invisible sword of the Australian government piercing between my eyes with the
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Victorian and NSW students and teachers are being urged to wear masks indoors as Covid cases surge Health workers paint dire picture of Australia’s hospital systems as more than 8,500 staff isolateGet our free news app, morning email briefing and daily news
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Mostafa Azimitabar was held in immigration detention for 15 months in Melbourne’s Park and Mantra hotels Get our free news app, morning email briefing and daily news podcast A refugee detained for more than a year in two Melbourne hotels has spoken
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Closing submissions begin in the former SAS soldier’s long-running defamation trial against three newspapers Get our free news app, morning email briefing and daily news podcast Ben Roberts-Smith was a courageous soldier who sought neither decorations nor fame, but had a target
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Tenants’ advocates want no-grounds terminations – and the end-of-lease evictions that function the same way – abolished It was a tradesperson attending the house for another job who first alerted Natalie to the fact the wooden front stairway of her rental, a
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Officer who allegedly flagged the dropping of charges was not authorised to make that decision, Victoria police tell court Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our free news app, morning email briefing and daily news podcast A Victoria
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Exclusive: company acknowledged in documents leaked to the Guardian it had used ‘hyper-aggressive tactics’ in global expansion What are the Uber files?Uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak revealsThe whistleblower: I’m exposing a system that sold people a lieGet
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Justices Chris Maxwell and Terence Forrest said the ‘oppressive sentencing regime’ ignored evidence and was contrary to public interest Get our free news app, morning email briefing and daily news podcast Victoria’s highest court has delivered a withering assessment of the state’s
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The small Pacific island nation of Vanuatu is behind a campaign to raise the issue of climate change before the International Court of Justice. And how should culturally sensitive historical photographs be handled? A leading US university is sued for allegedly causing
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