Now I can say I was narrowly defeated in a poetry slam by the national champion AND Miles Franklin winner. Congrats to Omar

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Omar Musa wins 2026 Miles Franklin Literary Award for Heart of Darkness 'critique', Fierceland

#BREAKING 🚨 The new DEWR Secretary announced they'll seek to resume suspending or cancelling welfare payments on October 26 in respect of: • Refusal or failure to accept an offer of suitable work • Failure to 'reconnect' with a provider within 4 weeks www.dewr.gov.au/assuring-int...

A fascinating and compelling interview with writer and critic Merve Emre by @suzygracias.bsky.social at Kill Your Darlings. It seriously has you reconsidering how you approach reading, writing and thinking

The New Yorker Critic with Her Eye on Australia

An interview with Merve Emre

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Statement from DEWR Secretary on resuming paused components of the Targeted Compliance Framework for jobseekers and compensation payments: www.dewr.gov.au/assuring-int...

Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit hearing for its inquiry into the management of client privacy in the Australian public sector on today from 10.30am. Watch here: www.aph.gov.au/News_and_Eve...

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Subscribe to our channel at @AUSParliamentLive to view the streams or listen to our podcast summaries of Question Time! LIVE STREAMING PARLVIEW VOD PODCASTING

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Joint Public Accounts and Audit Committee will also be holding a public hearing for its inquiry into the management of client privacy in the Australia public sector on Wednesday 29/7. Will be in Canberra and broadcast on the APH website and YouTube channel. www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...

Public Hearings

Public Hearings

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Joint Public Accounts and Audit Committee will be holding a public hearing for its inquiry into the administration of the Age Pension on Tuesday 28/7. Will be in Canberra and can broadcast on the APH website and YouTube channel. www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...

Public Hearings

Public Hearings

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Luke Bateman was 19 and living out his NRL dream when he went to a casino for the first time. It kick-started a gambling addiction, and he retired from sport $250,000 in debt.

Luke Bateman earned $400K a year and gambled away every cent

Luke Bateman was 19 and living out his NRL dream when he went to a casino for the first time. It kick-started a gambling addiction, and he retired from sport $250,000 in debt.

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Twenty-seven people including families with young children went missing after two boats capsized in rough seas in Papua New Guinea's north-east on Saturday.

Villagers hold vigil for stranger as PNG boat tragedy victims wash ashore

Twenty-seven people including families with young children went missing after two boats capsized in rough seas in Papua New Guinea's north-east on Saturday.

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Joint Public Accounts and Audit Committee will also be holding a public hearing for its inquiry into the management of client privacy in the Australia public sector on Wednesday 29/7. Will be in Canberra and broadcast on the APH website and YouTube channel. www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...

Public Hearings

Public Hearings

aph.gov.au

Joint Public Accounts and Audit Committee will be holding a public hearing for its inquiry into the administration of the Age Pension on Tuesday 28/7. Will be in Canberra and can broadcast on the APH website and YouTube channel. www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...

Public Hearings

Public Hearings

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Parliamentary Library's restructure plan provided in response to Question on Notice at Budget Estimates. Subject-based sections in the research branch to be replaced by 'strategic pillars': www.aph.gov.au/api/qon/down...

Fifteen years ago today, 77 lives were taken - most of them young - on an island that should have been a place of summer, friendship, and first ideas about the world they wanted to build. On that day, Norway grieved, and Europe grieved with it. Utøya. Oslo. We remember.

House of Reps teams took the 3 winning places at the chamber departments trivia night. Green Machine leaving the Senate red-faced

📣 📣 📣 The Australian Social Policy Conference draft program is now available on our website: www.aspc2026.com/program Check it out and register to join us for what promises to be an excellent #ASPC2026 in sunny ☀️ Meeanjin / Brisbane, at The University of Queensland - 30 Sep-2 Oct 2026 🫶

A decade or so ago I spent a year trying to avoid any cultural product that depicted male violence against women. The sheer bulk of books, movies, TV shows etc that ruled out was frankly unhinged. The killing of women is the constant background hum of our culture www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

Nine out of ten bestselling novels in UK have one thing in common: a woman is murdered

Author Wendy Jones highlighted the trend in an Instagram post: ‘What is going on here?’

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*solemnly* I cannot in good conscience support Norway against the people they colonised

Looking forward to the essay about how sauna culture helped Norway triumph in the Florida heat

Good point from the Egyptian coach: ""At noon you go for a stroll, you go to get some fresh air, to maybe go on a brunch, but you do not go to play football." www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

'We have suffered injustice': Egypt coach fumes at ref after Argentina loss

Egypt coach Hossam Hassan says his side "suffered an injustice" in defeat to Argentina, raging at the referee for a number of perceived errors.

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Australians continue to dominate the World Cup

Michael Klapdor@mklapdor.bsky.social · last mo.

Australia dominating the world cup by having Sia’s titanium playing before every match

Australians continue to dominate the World Cup

Michael Klapdor@mklapdor.bsky.social · last mo.

Australia dominating the world cup by having Sia’s titanium playing before every match

From the Telemundo broadcast just now by the commentary team during a slow-mo replay of the goal and a shot of Haaland with his hair down: "This is a perfect goal. The ball didn't touch anything." In exaggerated, gravely, dramatic voice: "TERMINATOR"

Retail outlets/agencies saying they have to lift their prices in line with historical CPI increases is going to drive me insane: "Due to rising costs associated with the Consumer Price Index (CPI)"

It’s 43 minutes past midnight. This is downtown Oslo.

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I think maybe tomorrow is canceled

This is a wild story. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

She claims to be helping children around the world, but is it real?

Receiving millions of views online, the Lily Jay Foundation claims to help children across the world. She was even given an award for her work. But what is real and what is AI-generated? ABC NEWS Veri...

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Channeling Cortnee

The game of soccer has proved insufficient to resolve a game of soccer. We will play a different game instead.

Channeling Mike

Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC

A parliamentary report recommends a sweeping overhaul of Asian language education in Australia, saying the lack of knowledge is a sovereign risk to the country.

ATAR points bonus recommended to increase Asian language studies

A parliamentary report recommends a sweeping overhaul of Asian language education in Australia, saying the lack of knowledge is a sovereign risk to the country.

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