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Labor targets ‘visa hopping’ international students in crackdown on ‘permanently temporary’ migration
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Australia news live: Melbourne soaked by wettest day since 2024; Jackie O’s $80m legal fight with KIIS FM owner delayed
Follow the day’s news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast A Sydney man has been charged after allegedly restraining, choking and sexually assaulting a young woman in a park, Australian Associated Press reports. A 23-year-old woman was walking from Flemington Station through Airey Park in Homebush, in Sydney’s west, around 11.15pm on Friday 18 September when she was stopped by a man not known to her, police say. Continue reading...
The Guardian
Women hospitalised and three men charged with assault and choking after separate home invasions in Sydney
NSW police allege the men, aged 18, 19 and 20, broke into homes in Arncliffe and Bankstown this week before assaulting the women aged 31 and 32 Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Three men have been detained after two women were allegedly assaulted during separate home invasions in Sydney’s south-west. New South Wales police were called to a home invasion in Arncliffe at about midnight on Tuesday morning. Continue reading...
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What happened in the failed execution of Christa Pike - and what next?
The convicted killer is in hospital in Tennessee after surviving two lethal injections, in a case that has raised many questions.
Al Jazeera
Everything you need to know about Brazil’s tight presidential race
Voters will soon decide between President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and the son of former President Jair Bolsonaro.
The Guardian
Beau Lamarre-Condon asked police investigator about murder of Lilie James day before shootings, court hears
Lamarre-Condon asked fellow officer if Paul Thijssen ‘would have gotten away with’ James’s murder if he hadn’t subsequently killed himself Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon asked a colleague, a day before he allegedly murdered Jesse Baird and Luke Davies, if a high-profile killer would have “gotten away with it” if he’d not taken his own life, a Sydney court has heard. Lamarre-Condon, 31, has been accused of fatally shooting the couple with his police service weapon in Baird’s Paddington home on 19 February 2024. Continue reading...
The Guardian
The Bolsonaros…they’re back! Brazil heads to the polls – podcast
Latin America correspondent Tom Phillips reports on this Sunday’s historic presidential elections in Brazil, as the son of jailed former president Jair Bolsonaro hopes to take power You would have been forgiven for thinking that when Jair Bolsonaro was convicted in September 2025 of attempting a coup, his political career was finished and his legacy forever tainted. But in the first round of Brazil’s presidential elections this Sunday, another Bolsonaro has genuine hopes of victory – not Jair, but his son Flávio, who ialso campaigning to have his father released released. Continue reading...