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- by Cassandra Morgan and Ben Cubby
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As it happened: Paul Keating slams AUKUS, calls Taiwan ‘Chinese real estate’; Details of planned Taylor Swift concert attack revealed
Read the national news headlines for Friday, August 9.
- by Cassandra Morgan and Josefine Ganko
As it happened: Billion-dollar pay rise for childcare workers; Ex-Qantas boss Alan Joyce docked $9 million
Read the national news headlines for Thursday, August 8.
- by Cassandra Morgan and Josefine Ganko
As it happened: RBA rules out rate cut this year; Kamala Harris names VP pick
Read the national news headlines for Wednesday, August 7.
- by Cassandra Morgan and Josefine Ganko
As it happened: ASX steadies as RBA holds interest rates; ‘Twisted’ ideologies prompt ASIO terror threat upgrade
Read the national news headlines for Tuesday, August 6.
- by Cassandra Morgan and Josefine Ganko
Four crash victims accepted lift from a stranger before tragedy
Melbourne Magistrates’ Court has heard that four farmworkers died on a minutes-long car ride to Shepparton when their driver failed to stop at an intersection.
- by Cassandra Morgan
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Animal attacks
Posties bloodied, traumatised in rising dog attack figures
More than 1170 Australia Post workers have been involved in incidents with dogs so far this financial year.
- by Cassandra Morgan
Greens apologise over campaign mail-out blunder
The Greens have apologised to Beyond Blue and Alfred Health after a senior doctor’s work titles were used on a party campaign mail-out without her permission.
- by Cassandra Morgan and Paul Sakkal
Man arrested after 60-year-old found dead in Melbourne’s west
Homicide squad detectives were interviewing the man on Wednesday afternoon.
- by Cassandra Morgan
School’s back, rules are tweaked and mask mandate is out for Victorian students
After months of wearing masks, senior primary school students can finally take them off for the start of term 2 on Tuesday morning.
- by Cassandra Morgan
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Crime
Teenage girl killed in Mornington Peninsula crash
Police are investigating after a teenage girl was struck and killed by a car while walking on a road at Mornington Peninsula.
- by Marta Pascual Juanola and Cassandra Morgan