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GP and Muslim community leader Jamal Rifi in front of his medical centre in Belmore, Sydney.

In Sydney’s west, division over Gaza action drives election debate

An activist group’s attempt to ban politicians from attending Muslim events has drawn criticism from some community leaders, but others insist politicians haven’t got the message.

  • Perry Duffin, Anthony Segaert and Matt Wade

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Flyers by Stand4Palestine instructing followers to confront and disrupt politicians in mosques.

‘Interrupt, disrupt, expose’: Plan to drive MPs from Sydney’s mosques

A campaign is under way to force government and opposition politicians away from the city’s Islamic community by heckling and filming them.

  • Perry Duffin
An unauthorised flyer claimed Tony Burke is a “racist immigration minister”.

Tony Burke forced to leave prayer event; unauthorised flyers label him ‘racist’

Activists are flooding the immigration minister’s western Sydney electorate with flyers and banners labelling him a “racist”.

  • Jessica McSweeney
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke.

Furious Dutton says Burke is lying about caravan plot briefings

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke accused the opposition leader of playing into criminals’ hands, but the Coalition said its leaders were briefed on January 30.

  • Olivia Ireland and James Massola
Protesters marched outside Columbia University on Monday demanding the release of Mahmoud Khalil.

‘First arrest of many’: Graduate faces deportation as Trump cracks down on student protests

The case marks a dramatic escalation of the US president’s efforts to curb what he calls “antisemitic and anti-American activity” on university campuses.

  • Michael Koziol
Sam Delich and Kylah Day in Territory. Netflix declined to commission a second series, despite its global success.

Could Trump’s tariffs spell disaster for Australia’s screen industry?

High-profile shows cancelled, no sign of streaming quotas and the spectre of Donald Trump have sent a chill through Australia’s film and television industry.

  • Karl Quinn
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A citizenship ceremony in Olympic Park.

What it’s like at one of Sydney’s so-called ‘vote-buying’ citizenship ceremonies

Under the Sydney Showground’s corrugated iron roof, hundreds of soon-to-be Australian citizens wore their Saturday best. But with allegations of an industrial-scale vote stack, one couple believed there was too much focus on voting.

  • Max Maddison
Senator Kerrynne Liddle says claims a failed Voice referendum would harm reconciliation are ‘outrageous’.

Coalition senator fills in for Burke at citizenship ceremonies slammed by Dutton

Kerrynne Liddle spoke at a citizenship ceremony on behalf of Tony Burke on the same day Coalition colleagues implied he was using the events to swing votes in key seats.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
Peter Dutton

Dutton wrongly says Labor is fast-tracking citizenship for Gazans to win votes

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton made a series of unfounded claims in an interview on Thursday. Home Affairs says nobody who has fled the war-torn strip since 2023 is eligible for citizenship.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
Peter Dutton has rejected comparisons of him to Donald Trump.

Opposition leader is more like Trump than he cares to admit

Until the Liberals find a leader worthy of representing Australia, we’re better off in Labor’s steady hands, writes Graham Lum.

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