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Noah Yim is a reporter at The Australian’s Canberra press gallery bureau. He previously worked out of the newspaper’s Sydney newsroom. He joined The Australian following News Corp’s 2022 cadetship program.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos, DECEMBER 29, 2024. Housing Market stock photo at Austral, Sydney. New home under construction : Picture: NewsWire / Flavio Brancaleone

Foundations for housing need fix, ALP told

Construction industry leaders have urged the government to support civil construction skills and training in a bid to boost housing supply.

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Soldiers, assigned to 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment, depart the well deck of the amphibious transport dock USS Green Bay (LPD 20) in combat rubber raiding crafts as a part of a joint amphibious assault raid exercise during Talisman Saber 17. Talisman Saber is a biennial U.S.-Australia bilateral exercise held off the coast of Australia meant to achieve interoperability and strengthen the U.S.-Australia alliance. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Sarah Myers/Released) *** Local Caption *** The Talisman Saber series of exercises is the principal Australian and United States Military Training activity focused on the planning and conduct of mid-intensity ‘high end’ war fighting. Exercise Talisman Saber is the largest combined, joint military exercise undertaken by the Australian Defence Force (ADF) and provides invaluable experience to ADF personnel to improve combat training, readiness and interoperability, exposing participants to a wide spectrum of military capabilities and training experiences. The biennial exercise was conducted for the seventh time in 2017, involving more than 30,000 US and Australian participants, operating in the maritime, land and air environments.

ADF recruiter takes aim … and misses

A recruiter hired to fix a staffing crisis within the Australian Defence Force is almost 30 per cent behind target.

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(Left to right) MPs Andrew Charlton, Tony Burke and Jerome Laxale during a citizenship ceremony in Sydney. https://www.instagram.com/p/DGaEU36zxvd/?hl=en&img_index=1

Citizenship ceremonies ‘timed’ around Burke’s calendar

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke instructed staff to organise the timing of a citizenship blitz around his ‘window of availability’, giving him a chance to pose up in front of new voters ahead of the election, his department secretary revealed in Senate estimates on Monday.

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When Telegram, the messaging-app company, wanted to raise funds, like many others it shunned the public stock market. PHOTO: CHRIS RATCLIFFE/BLOOMBERG NEWS

Encrypted platform fined $1m

Encrypted messaging platform Telegram has been fined almost $1m for failing to meet a deadline to address terrorist, extremist violence and child sex exploitation material on its servers.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - January 20, 2025: Ukrainian Ambassador to Australia Vasyl Myroshnychenko at the Ukraine Embassy in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

‘Thanks, and stick with us’: Kyiv envoy in plea to Canberra

The plea comes as Tony Abbott warns Europe must come to terms with the fact its failure to unite against Russia has partly led to US President Donald Trump’s antipathy towards Kyiv.

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This handout photo taken on February 13, 2025 and released by The Australian Defence Force shows the Royal Australian Navy ship HMAS Arunta (lower L) sailing near the People's Liberation Army-Navy (PLA-N) Fuchi-class replenishment vessel and Weishanhu Jiangkai-class frigate Hengyang in the Tasman Sea. Australia's foreign minister voiced concern on February 21 over live fire drills conducted by three Chinese warships sailing off the country's east coast. (Photo by Handout / AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE FORCE / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

‘Hyped it up’: Beijing fires back over naval exercises

Chinese defence ministry spokesman Wu Qian on Sunday said the PLA had sent repeated safety notices before the drills and that his country was ‘strongly dissatisfied’ with Australia’s response.

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ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos FEBRUARY 21, 2025: Press conference by Leader of the Opposition Peter Dutton at the Building a Bigger, Better SA Forum. Picture: NewsWire / Brenton Edwards

Coalition outbids Labor on Medicare with $9bn splurge

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has declared he will match the government’s healthcare vow and inject an extra $500m into mental health support, after Anthony Albanese revived Labor’s Mediscare campaign at a rally earlier on Sunday.

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