Latest Australia news and comment
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The Australian star of Alice in Wonderland on her new film, a feminist take on Punch and Judy, and why her costumes need pockets -
Labor leader denied non-attendance at Victoria’s Labor party conference sparked by threats of a union walkout -
Police allege man attempted to backburn to protect crop and hoped to benefit from government payments after blaze
Opinion & analysis
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Although prices in Sydney and Melbourne are on the rise, there are ‘serious questions’ about whether they can be sustained -
How poignant that Behrouz was freed from Australia’s grip and welcomed by Christchurch, a city that knows prejudice only too well -
Ben Roberts-Smith is fronting the Telegraph’s Save Our Heroes campaign, but its print coverage left out accusations against him, which he denies. Plus: Bettina Arndt misfires – again
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We had a bushfire two months ago that burned most of our property. It didn’t matter. It burned again
Video
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After six years forcibly held by Australia’s offshore processing regime in Papua New Guinea, most of it incarcerated on Manus Island, the Kurdish Iranian journalist and refugee advocate Behrouz Boochani arrives in New Zealand.
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Residents of the leafy suburb return to find their houses safe ... and pink
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A wind vortex spirals amid a raging fire, flinging debris and embers in mid-north Queensland
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A thick layer of smoke blankets parts of Australia’s east coast as bushfires continue to burn
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'Dad’s been here 50 years and never seen anything like that' - residents return to survey fire destruction
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'Catastrophic conditions are where people die' says rural fire chief as state of emergency declared across NSW
Rightwing identity politics ignores the fact the ‘working class’ is not just white men