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A tiny village was just named Australia's BEST tourism town - yet some still have no idea it exists
Daily Mail
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September 9, 2025
A tiny town with a population of just under 5,000 people has been named a surprise winner at the 2025 Top Tourism Town Awards. But many people have never even heard of it. Located in the picturesque south-west NSW valley - just a 40-minute drive...
Major announcement for Bluey fans with stage show set to tour Australia next year
Seven News
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September 9, 2025
Wackadoo! Bluey’s Big Play the Stage Show is back! The much-loved cartoon character will return to the stage with an Australian tour next year. The production will feature puppets in a theatrical adaption of the Emmy Award-winning children’s TV...
The nutrition numbers of the last decade are in and we’ve still got a long way to go towards a more nourished Australia
The National Tribune
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September 9, 2025
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has now released the most comprehensive dataset available on our nutrition habits in the country since 2011-2012, the National Nutrition and Physical Activity Survey. Dietitians Australia says while moderate...
Ethics-driven Australian AI venture launches with largest local AI infrastructure
Gov Tech Review
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September 8, 2025
A new ethics-driven Australian AI venture, Sovereign Australia AI, has launched with an investment in commercial Australian AI infrastructure which the founders says is designed to keep our nation in control of its digital future. The company says...
Address To Business Council Of Australia Annual Dinner
The National Tribune
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September 8, 2025
Prime Minister I begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land on which we meet and I pay my respects to elders past, present and emerging. It is a pleasure to be back at the BCA’s Annual Dinner and to be joined by so many of my...
Australia SWF tops $166b, boosts developed market investments
Deal Street Asia
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Australia’s sovereign wealth fund, the Future Fund, said on Tuesday its valuation had reached A$252 billion ($166.22 billion) as it boosted its developed markets equity investments and reduced property and credit exposures in the past year. The...
Why Australians are realists on China
The Interpreter
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September 9, 2025
The Trump administration recently unveiled an ambitious AI Action Plan, with plans to turn the United States into an “AI export powerhouse”. As Australia prepares to release its own National AI Capability Plan later this year, it finds itself once...
Clean energy transition opportunity for "new era" of Australian prosperity: PM
Xinhua News Agency
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SYDNEY, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) -- Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said that the clean energy transition can set his country up for a "new era" of prosperity. Addressing a Business Council of Australia (BCA) event in Sydney on Monday...
American rabbis express solidarity with Australian Jewish community
The Australian Jewish News
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September 9, 2025
The largest orthodox rabbinic organisation in North America has written to Australian religious Jewish leaders expressing “profound solidarity” amid what it describes as a wave of antisemitic sentiment fuelled by government rhetoric and actions....
Australia's sovereign wealth fund tops $166 billion, reduces US portfolio
Yahoo Finance
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By Scott Murdoch SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's sovereign wealth fund, the Future Fund, said on Tuesday its valuation had reached A$252 billion ($166.22 billion) as it pared back its U.S. market exposure to boost investments in Germany and Japan....
At 2+2, Japan, Australia Hail Milestone in Defense Cooperation
The Diplomat
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September 8, 2025
On September 5, the Japanese and Australian governments held a foreign and defense ministerial meeting (“2+2”) in Tokyo. The two sides described Australia’s decision to adopt an upgraded version of Japan’s Mogami-class frigate for its navy as “a...
Donald Trump, domestic violence and the dangerous politics of “lesser” harm
Women's Agenda
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September 9, 2025
Governments must make fiscal choices. But some choices are clearer than others. Investing in children is not a cost but a foundation for a stronger, safer, more prosperous Australia. Yet policies designed to support families and protect women are...
BHP pays $110m to settle class action brought by Australian investors over Samarco dam disaster in Brazil
The West Australian
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September 9, 2025
BHP will pay $110 million to aggrieved Australian investors who bought shares in the Big Australian just before the deadly Samarco dam collapse in Brazil. The class action was launched in 2018 on behalf of shareholders who acquired BHP stock...
Why does South Australian democracy need to evolve?
In Daily
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September 9, 2025
It is rare for a day to pass without someone in the Australian media warning about the mounting dangers to democracy. More often than not it is in reference to overseas trends such as rising authoritarianism, civil unrest, or increasing tribalism...
Wild weather system set to lash Australia
Cairns Post
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September 9, 2025
Australians are being told to keep their umbrellas and jackets close, with warnings that a powerful system will bring days of unsettled conditions. Bureau of Meteorology senior meteorologist Jonathan How said the system had already delivered heavy...
Is it OK to export new Japanese escort ship model to Australia despite arms export ban?
The Mainichi
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The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force's Mogami-class frigate "Kumano" is seen at the force's Yokosuka base in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture. (Mainichi/Tsumuki Nakamura) The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about...
Taylor Caudle to row for Australia at 2025 World Championships
BVM Sports
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September 8, 2025
MADISON, Wis. – Former Badger rower Taylor Caudle has been named to the Rowsellas squad set to represent Team Australia at the 2025 World Rowing Championships, which runs from September 21-28 in Shanghai, China. The Rowsellas are athletes who have...
NSW is on track to score a 476,000-hectare koala reserve, one of Australia’s largest
Time Out
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Koalas, one of Australia’s cutest animals (sorry, ’roos), are sadly under threat. Without action, these eucalyptus-munching marsupials could be extinct in the wild in NSW by 2050. To prevent this, the government is delivering on its election...
‘Self-sabotage’: Unwanted world record costing Australian taxpayers $232 billion a year
Sky News Australia
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September 9, 2025
A former state trade official will tear into the size of the nation's bureaucracy in a withering takedown of the world-leading number of Australian public sector workers per head of population. Ex-NSW Senior Trade and Investment Commissioner for...
Education Minister Jason Clare to create teaching super group to reverse dropout rate in public schools
PerthNow
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September 9, 2025
Education Minister Jason will consider establishing a super education body to help boost rates of public school students finishing year 12. Under targets set by the Better Fairer Schools Arrangement (BFSA), which states and territories must aim to...