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The most entertaining fake news I’ve ever seen did the rounds last week, claiming – rather boldly – that King Charles had defied Keir Starmer and refused to sign his compulsory Digital ID legislation.

According to the AI-generated hilarity, the King looked the Prime Minister in the eye and said six historic words, ‘I cannot, in good conscience, approve this.’

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Parliament returns today for a rare special sitting recalled early by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Labor’s original intention was to ram through the contentious omnibus bill on hate speech, gun buybacks, and related measures in the wake of the horrific Bondi terror attack.

Since neither the Coalition nor the Greens have agreed with Labor’s response to the Islamist...


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Australia is right to be alarmed by the resurgence of antisemitism. Jewish Australians are facing harassment, intimidation, vandalism, and threats that strike at the heart of a pluralist society. Government action is necessary, but the form that action takes matters as much as its intent.

Parts of the Australian government’s proposed response to antisemitism (temporar...


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Today’s geopolitical world is more like the turbulent and bloody 19th to mid-20th centuries than the Cold War long period of (nuclear stand-off) peace after the second world war, or the dominant US-ordered world of the recent past after the end of Soviet communism.

Since at least the 1950s, most Westerners have experienced a time of ‘near perfect combination of freedo...


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NSW Meteorologist Mr Newman said a heatwave covered the southern half of Australia in which the temperature over great areas of Victoria, South Australia, and New South Wales exceeded 40 degrees.

There were many bushfires, with record March temperatures in all states except Queensland. Melbourne experienced five consecutive days of around 40 degrees; Adelaide, six. Be...


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