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  • The photos of foreign surfers who disappeared are displayed on a poster on the beach in Ensenada, Mexico, on May 5, 2024.
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    Three men found guilty in the 2024 killing of Australian and US surfers in Mexico
  • In an image submitted by Adidas in its legal filing, a model wearing White Fox four-stripe shorts poses next to an advertisement for White Fox clothing.
    Federal Court of Australia
    Adidas sues White Fox fashion label over four stripes design
  • Former Bishop of Broome Christopher Saunders shown at West Australian District Court in Perth, Australia, on August 11, was sentenced for sexually abusing two young Indigenous men.
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    Former Australian Catholic bishop sentenced for abusing Indigenous men
  • Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese listens during the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly at United Nations headquarters, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026.
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    ‘Extreme concern’ over first known AI hack of a government system
  • F-35s fly in formation with their afterburners during a kick-off celebration for the "Great American State Fair" on the National Mall in Washington, DC, on June 24.
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    Missing F-35 fighter jet parts were mistakenly diverted to Hong Kong
  • This undated image shows Gus Lamont.
    SA Police
    A young boy vanished in the desert one year ago. Why are there still no clues?
  • Tourists gather to view the Twelve Apostles in Victoria on April 12, 2025.
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    Australia’s new visa rules will force backpackers to join a lottery to stay longer
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    Sydney Sweeney under fire from athletes over nude sports-prediction ad
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  • Nick Kyrgios has been provisionally suspended from tennis.
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    Tennis star Nick Kyrgios provisionally suspended for cocaine use
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    Princess Eugenie announces the name of her baby daughter

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  • MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - MAY 18: McDonald's Fawkner is seen re-opened on May 18, 2020 in Melbourne, Australia. McDonald's has closed 12 restaurants across Melbourne for deep cleaning after an external delivery driver tested positive for COVID-19.  The precautionary decision to close the stores was made after a truck driver delivering supplies to the restaurants while asymptomatic later tested positive for coronavirus. All staff have been asked to self isolate not to return to work for 14 days. The restaurant closures come after the closure of the Fawkner and Craigieburn McDonald's restaurants due to COVID-19 cluster outbreak last week. (Photo by Daniel Pockett/Getty Images)
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    McDonald’s shortens breakfast time in Australia as bird flu causes egg shortage
  • Vape pens are pictured on a counter at a vape store, in Melbourne, Australia, May 2, 2023.  REUTERS/Sandra Sanders
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    Australia restricts vape sales to pharmacies in ‘world-leading’ move to cut nicotine use
  • Elon Musk, owner of X, speaks at the Milken Institute's Global Conference at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on May 6, 2024.
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    Australia drops legal fight against X over church stabbing video
  • Qantas Airways CEO Vanessa Hudson announces half-yearly earnings in an aircraft hanger at Sydney's Kingsford Smith airport in February 2024.
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    Qantas CEO: ‘We let our customers down’ on canceled flights scandal
  • Cows walk through a field during a cattle drive at a farm in Gunnedah, New South Wales, Australia, on Thursday, May 28, 2020. A growing number of Australia's primary producers are mulling the potential for a further tightening of restrictions on Australia's agricultural exports by China. Two thirds of Australias farm production is exported, with almost one third of this, 28%, going to China, including 18% of Australia's total beef production, according to Australia's National Farmers' Federation. Photographer: David Gray/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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    China lifts ban on five Australian beef exporters

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    Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
    These Picasso pieces are on display in a ladies’ restroom inside a museum. Here’s why
  • From right, Gina Rinehart and a portrait of her by artist Vincent Namatjira.
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    Australia’s richest woman seeks removal of her portrait from exhibition
  • Loong is displayed at the Golden Dragon Museum in Bendigo.
    Golden Dragon Museum
    Vandals target ‘world’s oldest’ Chinese parade dragon in an Australian museum
  • ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT, 1994
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    Why the drag looks in ‘The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert’ are still iconic, 30 years on
  • Four surviving 1770 Gweagal Spears.
    Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Cambridge
    Aboriginal spears returned to Australia after 250 years in ‘momentous occasion’
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