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Getting the band back together: ex-adviser Angela Pippos and former MP Zoe Daniel are hitting the speaking circuit.

No, Zoe Daniel has not exited the stage

The former teal independent MP is stepping out in a new direction as part of a double act.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman

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Tens of thousands take part in Budapest Pride.

They tried to ban Pride. Instead, they got Hungary’s biggest anti-government protest in years

More than 180,000 protesters took over the streets of Budapest, many saying they marched not just for LGBTQ rights but in opposition to what they see as an increasingly authoritarian government.

  • Rob Harris
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman, at a press conference during the Prime Minister’s visit to the Amazon Spheres in Seattle, United States of America, on Saturday 14 June 2025. fedpol Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

Amazon boosts Australian investment to $20 billion to meet AI, data demands

The global tech giant will boost its investment in Australia to $20 billion by 2029 to meet surging demand for access to artificial intelligence, web storage and hosting, and more.

  • James Massola
Jacob Greber and Laura Tingle

ABC reveals Laura Tingle’s 7.30 replacement

ABC political correspondent Jacob Greber will take up the highly scrutinised position on the flagship current affairs program.

  • Cindy Yin and Calum Jaspan
Yoogali SC.

They’re the best soccer team in the bush. But they’ve got nowhere to play

Yoogali SC are one of regional Australia’s great sporting stories. But instead of being celebrated, they’re being shut out of the game.

  • Vince Rugari
Lunetta, Canberra.
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Canberra’s newest hatted restaurant is a beacon of big-night energy

“Whatever the pasta is, order it,” says our critic of Lunetta, where a young chef is charcoal-grilling high on the hill.

  • David Matthews
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Lidia Thorpe: “The country doesn’t see the really generous, kind and caring person she is,” says Thorpe’s friend, Sissy Austin.

‘When someone says something nice to me, I just burst into tears’: Inside the mind of Lidia Thorpe

The independent MP knows she’s both loved and loathed, including within her own community – but wants to make it clear she’s more than “an angry black woman”.

  • Melissa Fyfe

Dutton harbours dreams of Kirribilli, but Australians never liked a Sydney bias

In framing their Constitution, the Australian people rejected Sydney as the federal capital. Perhaps Peter Dutton needs a refresher.

  • Helen Irving
The XPT trains have been running since the early 1980s.

They should have been retired by now. Here’s why we’re stuck with XPTs

People who rely on trains to travel long distances in NSW and interstate are paying the price for troubled fleet replacement projects.

  • Matt O'Sullivan

‘We love the harbour’: Dutton says he would live in Sydney as prime minister

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese accused the opposition leader of hubris and “measuring the curtains” before the election.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos and Olivia Ireland

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