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Tricia Rivera is a reporter at the Melbourne bureau of The Australian. She joined the paper after completing News Corp Australia’s national cadet program with stints in the national broadsheet’s Sydney and Brisbane newsrooms.

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Bring Them HomeNation

Mottel Gestetner is responsible for designing the poster and organising the community effort to pin it up. Picture: Tricia Rivera / The Australian

Poster boy for missing hostages

The nation’s biggest Bring Them Home Now poster has been unveiled in St Kilda, with members of the community calling for the return of Israeli hostages taken by Hamas on October 7.

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Westfield tragedyPolitics

Bondi Junction mass stabbing murderer Joel Cauchi.

Killer was not on ‘fixated threat’ radar

Westfield mass murderer Joel Cauchi was not being monitored by Queensland police’s specialist fixated offenders unit.

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FOREIGN MINISTER PENNY WONG - SPEECH TO THE ANU NATIONAL SECURITY COLLEGE - CANBERRA - TUESDAY, 9 APRIL 2024 Picture - Rohan Thomson/ANU

Wong’s plea to Dutton: turn down the heat

Penny Wong has urged Peter Dutton to wind back ‘overblown, inflammatory rhetoric’ on Israel and Palestine, saying it is affecting domestic social cohesion.

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LIVE: Politics NowPolitics

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - APRIL 11, 2024. The Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese addresses the Queensland Media Club in Brisbane.Picture: Dan Peled / NCA NewsWire

‘Not a one-off’: PM hints further announcements

After unveiling the Future Made in Australia policy, Anthony Albanese says there will be further announcements in the lead-up to the budget.

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Vacant streets in Alice Springs after the NT government implemented a 14 day curfew for youths in the wake of spiralling crime on March 27, 2024. Picture: Pema Tamang Pakhrin

‘Circuit breaker’ as Alice curfew extended

NT Chief Minister Eva Lawler hailed ‘encouraging’ results in Alice Springs as she announced an extension of the youth curfew.

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aid workers strikePolitics

Former Chief of the Defence Force Air Chief Marshal Mark Binskin (Retd) speaking at China Matters, launches China narrative for Australia at the National Press Club Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

‘Full access’: EX-ADF chief to lead Israel probe

Anthony Albanese says he expects ‘full co-operation’ from Israel as Air Chief Marshal Mark Binskin is named special adviser on Israel’s killing of seven aid workers.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos APRIL 3rd, 2024: Leader of the opposition Peter Dutton gives the keynote address at the COSBOA (Council of Small Business Organisations Australia) Summit at the Sofitel , Darling harbour. Picture: NCA NewsWire / John Appleyard

Supermarkets probe a ‘Mickey Mouse review’

Peter Dutton says the Emerson report into supermarkets was conducted by a Labor mate with an outcome predetermined by the Treasurer and won’t offer price relief to consumers.

Noah Yim and Tricia Rivera

protestNation

Deborah Conway has been under fire recently for her pro-Israel comments. She is performing jin Altona and pro-Palestinian groups have called for her performance to be cancelled. It's going ahead so they are holding a

Activists target Conway but fail to stop the show

Pro-Palestinian activists occupied the grounds outside Jewish singer-songwriter Deborah Conway’s concert on Thursday night after failing in their mission to get the performance cancelled.

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INDIGENOUSNation

Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan met with Yoorrook Justice Commissioners earlier this year. Picture: X/Yoorrook Justice Commission.

Allan government met with backlash over Yoorrook response

The state government has been chastised over rejecting recommendations put to it by the nation’s first formal truth-telling body, with one Indigenous group saying a ‘paralysis’ has set in since Jacinta Allan became Premier.

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how the attack happenedPolitics

A Palestinian man rides a bicycle past a damaged vehicle where employees from the World Central Kitchen (WCK), including foreigners, were killed in an Israeli airstrike, according to the NGO as the Israeli military said it was conducting a thorough review at the highest levels to understand the circumstances of this

‘Misidentification’ led to lethal strike on aid workers: IDF

The IDF apologises for the strike that killed seven aid workers after their cars were hit by three separate missiles: Albanese demands Benjamin Netanyahu give full accountability over the tragedy.

Tricia Rivera and JESS MALCOLM

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