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  • With the help of over a hundred volunteers, artist Nina Sanadze is turning three tons of flowers left on Bondi Beach into artworks that will show at the Sydney Jewish Museum next year.
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    Three tons of mourners’ flowers to be transformed into art memorializing Bondi Beach shooting
  • 67,800 yr old hand stencil
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    Discovered: An outline of a hand that’s at least 67,800 years old
  • MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JANUARY 15: Australian amateur tennis player Jordan Smith is interviewed after winning the $1 million Australian Open One-Point Slam, ahead of the 2026 Australian Open at Melbourne Park on January 15, 2026 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Kelly Defina/Getty Images)
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    One-Point Slam winner Jordan Smith on life after beating tennis’ greats to $670,000
  • Grey mangrove, Avicennia marina, with pneumatophores exposed at low tide, clearly indicating the extent of the plant's root system, Fraser Island, Queensland, Australia. (Photo by: Auscape/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
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    Body of Canadian woman, 19, found surrounded by dingoes on Australian island
  • People stand next to warning signs in place, and beaches are closed after a surfer suffered a shark attack today at Dee Why Beach in Sydney, Australia, on January 19, 2026.
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    Four shark attacks in two days. Why Australia’s beaches are so dangerous this year
  • Emergency services responded to a shark attack in Sydney Harbour on January 18, 2026.
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    Three Sydney shark attacks in 26 hours leave two in critical condition
  • Australia's Jordan Smith celebrates with the trophy after defeating Taiwan's Joanna Garland in the 1 Point Slam exhibition event ahead of the 2026 Australian Open at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne on January 14, 2026.
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    Amateur outlasts pros for massive payday at ‘One Point Slam’ ahead of Australian Open
  • Adelaide Writers' Week is part of the Adelaide Festival.
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    Literary festival axed after high profile authors join mass walkout over dumped Palestinian writer
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  • SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 16: People participate in a candlelight vigil at Bondi Pavilion at Bondi Beach on December 16, 2025 in Sydney, Australia. Police say at least 16 people, including one suspected gunman, were killed and more than 40 others injured when two attackers opened fire near a Hanukkah celebration at the world-famous Bondi Beach, in what authorities have declared a terrorist incident. The government is moving to tighten gun laws across the country. (Photo by Audrey Richardson/Getty Images)
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    Life changed for Jews in Australia this week. Will it ever be the same?
  • (From left) Matilda, Rabbi Eli Schlanger and Peter Meagher.
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    Loved and forever remembered. These are the victims of the Bondi Beach antisemitic massacre

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  • KAYENTA, ARIZONA - JUNE 23: In an aerial view, the Kayenta Solar Plant is seen on June 23, 2024 in Kayenta, Arizona. In late February, the U.S. Department of Energy announced that it would begin plans to provide $76.5 million in federal financing to the Navajo Nation's Red Mesa Tapaha Solar Farm in southeast Utah. The move is intended to provide tribal lands with greater accessibility to power grids and further generate energy sales for the nonprofit Navajo Tribal Utility Authority. The nonprofit oversees and provides power to approximately 40,000 homes within the Navajo Nation, spanning portions of southeast Utah, northeast Arizona and northwestern New Mexico. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
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  • <p>A police officer hailed as a hero for shooting dead one of the attackers responsible for the Bondi Beach massacre has been identified by Australian media as Detective Senior Constable Cesar Barraza. He is believed to have shot dead Sajid Akram, 50, according to the Sydney Morning Herald and CNN affiliates 9News and 7News.</p>
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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
  • Australia restricts vape sales to pharmacies in ‘world-leading’ move to cut nicotine use
  • Australia drops legal fight against X over church stabbing video
  • Qantas CEO: ‘We let our customers down’ on canceled flights scandal
  • China lifts ban on five Australian beef exporters

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  • Australia’s richest woman seeks removal of her portrait from exhibition
  • Vandals target ‘world’s oldest’ Chinese parade dragon in an Australian museum
  • Why the drag looks in ‘The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert’ are still iconic, 30 years on
  • Aboriginal spears returned to Australia after 250 years in ‘momentous occasion’
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