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Dinh Nguyen escaped from Vietnam after more than six years in a “re-education camp” after the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975.

When Saigon fell, Dinh Nguyen was condemned to torment beyond imagining

Dinh Nguyen has lived through pain and loss inconceivable to most of us. But on the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, he says he lives in heaven now.

  • Tony Wright

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Pope Francis had a brief private meeting with US Vice President J.D. Vance on Sunday.

The story behind J.D. Vance’s unlikely visit with Pope Francis

Donald Trump’s vice president had come on the busiest weekend of the church’s Jubilee year, expecting a meeting with a sickly pope who had condemned his policies.

  • Natalie Allison
Illustration: Joe Benke

As Dutton parades his softer side, let’s not forget how hard he’s played the politics of race

In these racially charged times, the opposition leader has returned to old ways as the election campaign approaches.

  • Sean Kelly
Police and emergency services stand near a damaged car that drove into demonstrators marching in Munich.

‘Probably an attack’: Children among injured as car drives into Munich crowd

The incident came hours before Munich was to host a conference of world leaders, and before Germany’s federal election.

  • Anja Guder and Wolfgang Rattay
A woman washes her clothes in the al-Hawl camp in 2019.

Peter Dutton said it was too dangerous to go to this Syrian prison camp. We went there anyway

In the power vacuum left by Bashar al-Assad’s fall, amid the weakness of Russia, Iran and Hezbollah, nobody knows who will control Syria or how they will rule.

  • Michael Bachelard
Illustration: Andrew Dyson

Trump would love these terrifying laws. Why are we passing them without proper debate?

Entire communities of people, based only on where they are from, could be barred from Australia.

  • Sarah Dale
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A man has died in the Royal National Park after being pulled unresponsive from a swimming hole on Monday, November 25.

Man in 20s dies in popular Royal National Park swimming hole

The tragedy at a waterfall near a well-known hiking trail took place as new funding for Bondi’s Float to Survive campaign expands its message nationally.

  • Julie Power and Penry Buckley
The government has dumped the immigration detention centre contract with Serco.

Australia quietly ditches $4.6b detention contract with scandal-plagued Serco

The British multinational will no longer run immigration detention centres, ending a partnership that has been riddled with claims of violence, drug trade, neglect and understaffing.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
Feinstein says guitars remain the most popular instrument among detainees, although there are often requests for regional instruments, especially from asylum seekers from the Middle East.

‘Everything else disappears’: How music brings relief in detention centres

Philip Feinstein, 76, collects donated instruments to deliver to those waiting in immigration detention.

  • Penry Buckley
Police doused “neo-Nazis” in pepper spray as they tried to disrupt a refugee rally.

Neo-Nazis pepper-sprayed after attempting to disrupt refugee rally

Police dispersed a balaclava-clad group near a refugee encampment on Tuesday night, sending them running as demonstrators cheered.

  • Cassandra Morgan

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