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  • Elizabeth Holmes in “You Can See Everything.”
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    ‘You Can’t See Anything’: the slow rollout of Nathan Fielder’s movie is agony for foreign filmgoers
  • A courtroom sketch shows Erin Patterson attending proceedings via a video link from the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre, in the Victorian Court of Appeal in Melbourne
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    Mushroom killer to be jailed for life after appeals court finds sentence too light
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    He set out to travel the world without flying. Things didn’t go to plan
  • An aerial view of the site of a proposed AI datacenter near Dalby, Australia, on October 10, 2026.
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    Anthropic taps a deep well of distrust as it eyes its Australian AI debut
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    This was a cost-saving way to travel the world. Then Covid changed everything
  • Floral tributes are placed outside the offices of Australian lawmaker Helen Haines who was critically wounded in a "targeted" attack, in Wangaratta, on October 21, 2026.
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    Australian lawmaker has both legs amputated after allegedly deliberate attack by car rammer
  • A Qantas flight from Rome to Perth, Australia, was canceled after a reported outbreak of bedbugs onboard.
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    Qantas plane grounded after reported bedbug outbreak
  • 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
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  • A Book Doof event on August 2, 2026 at Section 8 bar in Melbourne, Australia.
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  • A Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) in captivity, circa 1930. The species is believed to have become extinct in the early 20th Century. (Photo by Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)
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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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  • 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.
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    Vandals target ‘world’s oldest’ Chinese parade dragon in an Australian museum
  • ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT, 1994
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  • Four surviving 1770 Gweagal Spears.
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    Aboriginal spears returned to Australia after 250 years in ‘momentous occasion’
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