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Anthony Albanese says “Well, we are doing nothing to repatriate or to assist these people. I think it’s unfortunate that children are caught up in this”.

Suddenly, Albo’s a hard-nosed patriot (with an acute scent for votes)

Lo and behold, the PM doesn’t want the ISIS brides or their children to return to Australia. Labor’s U-turn is highly suspect.

  • Parnell Palme McGuinness

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WA Police Commissioner Col Blanch and Australian Federal Police Commissioner Krissy Barrett confirming the Invasion Day rally incident had been declared an act of terror.

WA Police boss says no intelligence warning ahead of rally attack

WA Police Commissioner Col Blanch has rejected claims by independent Senator Lidia Thorpe that there was intelligence suggesting the likelihood of an attack on January 26.

  • Hamish Hastie and Holly Thompson
Pioneer Monument, Samuel Craven, 1871 at Flagstaff Gardens was desecrated along with the Separation Monument graffitied this week ahead of Australia Day 2026.

Council to ramp up protection for statues after hefty repair bills

The City of Melbourne passed a motion calling for a proactive approach for statues and memorials during “periods of heightened risks to public property”.

  • Cara Waters
London-based Australian dancer Steven McRae wil play Romeo in the Queensland Ballet's production of <i>Romeo and Juliet</i>.

How a boy from the western suburbs conquered Covent Garden

Steven McRae danced his way from Rooty Hill to a coveted place with London’s Royal Ballet. Now he wants to help open doors for other Australian kids with a dream.

  • David Crowe

Australia’s neo-Nazis are shape-shifting. And as dangerous as ever

Neo-Nazis have embraced the idea of swarms of independent cells – with no central control or direction – as a more effective way to produce chaos and social panic.

  • Waleed Aly
Morrison made a speech at a Jerusalem antisemitism conference overnight in which he demanded Australian Islamic institutions enforce stricter regulations to quash “radical Islam”.

‘Deeply damaging’: Aly says Morrison’s Islam speech risks inflaming tensions

The comments follow a fresh rift that former PM Scott Morrison opened with Australian Muslims when he gave a speech in Israel on Tuesday night.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
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The alleged bomb was thrown into the Invasion Day rally crowd.

Perth Invasion Day rally bomb scare being investigated as ‘potential terrorist act’

A counter-terrorism team comprising WA Police, Australian Federal Police, and the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation has confirmed it is investigating the incident.

  • Hannah Murphy

Labor must use its mandate to reform our unfair tax system

It’s time that our government started implementing some of the serious changes that our country needs.

The man accused of making and throwing a bomb at an Invasion Day rally in Perth’s CBD.

Accused bomb-maker appears in Perth court after Invasion Day rally scare

A Perth man has faced court charged with making an explosive after an improvised bomb was thrown into a crowd of protesters at an Invasion Day rally on Monday.

  • Heather McNeill and Hannah Murphy
A protester burns the Australian flag in Brisbane on Monday.

Crisafulli condemns flag burning, reigniting hate speech debate

The premier said a flag-burning incident at an Invasion Day protest was “as disgraceful as you get”, and he called on the Commonwealth to consider outlawing the act.

  • Catherine Strohfeldt and Matt Dennien