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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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‘secret trip’Politics

Daniel Andrews Premier of Victoria visiting China with Beijing's Forbidden City in the background. Picture Supplied

Daniel Andrews ‘must reveal’ China visit purpose

Opposition immigration spokesman Dan Tehan wants Victoria’s Premier to explain the reason for his latest trip to China, saying he’s visited the Middle Kingdom ‘more than Warrnambool’.

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EmissionsNation

The smoke is thick at Darwin Airport: Picture by Ben Cole

Top End suburb the worst for air pollution

A Darwin suburb is blighted by the nation’s most polluted air, according to a global report.

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dramatic scenesPolitics

Lidia Thorpe has been forced to the ground by police and protesters after she tried to disrupt British trans critic Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull's speech at the Let Women Speak rally outside Parliament House on Thursday. Draped in an Aboriginal flag, the bizarre vision showed Ms Thorpe crawling on the ground as police tried to help her up before eventually walking back to a group of counter-protesters. Picture: Twitter

AFP probes Thorpe, police clash at anti-trans rally

Lidia Thorpe was pushed to the ground by police as she tried to interrupt a rally by Kellie-Jay Keen | WATCH

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Shadow Minister for Education Sarah Henderson breaks down after making a statement in the Senate chamber at Parliament House in Canberra, Friday, March 24, 2023.

Lib senator blasts ‘abhorrent’ comments

Sarah Henderson has accused Labor Minister Murray Watt for verbally attacking her during a debate on neo-Nazis, and says he made the most ‘distressing statement’ ever directed at her.

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‘riddled with issues’Defence

The MRH-90 Taipan helicopter is seen in shallow water on the beach after crashing off Jervis Bay. Picture: TNV

Special forces on board ADF chopper crashed off Jervis Bay

The ADF grounds its Taipan fleet after a trouble prone MRH-90 lost power during a counter-terrorism exercise; soldiers say they want US Blackhawks to replace the ageing helicopters.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos FEBRUARY 8, 2023: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton attended the UN Women Australia International Women's Day Parliamentary Breakfast, in Parliament House Canberra.Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gary Ramage

Release Solicitor-General advice on voice: Dutton

Peter Dutton says he has questions on how the voice will deliver practical results, and wants transparency on its wording.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 2: Professor Megan Davis of The Government Referendum Working Group addresses the media after meeting with the Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton at Parliament house in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Voice working group ‘so close’ on advice

Members of the working group will meet with Anthony Albanese tonight to present in detail what they believe the referendum question, constitutional amendment and principles should be.

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ADELAIDE/ KAURNA YARTA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos MARCH 17, 2023: Attorney General Mark Dreyfus standing with the National Referendum Engagement Group, speaks to media regarding the Voice to Parliament discussions in Adelaide. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Morgan Sette

Labor secretly changes voice proposal

The Albanese government has quietly amended the Indigenous voice proposal to limit its executive impact; the NSW campaign has a week to go.

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healthScience

Scans of patients with dementia according to their linguistic abilities. Picture: University of Sydney

Fight signs of dementia by learning a language

Adopting a language in addition to one’s mother tongue may not just serve as an impressive skill – it could be a way to fight frontotemporal lobe dementia.

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exclusiveScience

Nurse Megan Piper (51) has a history of high cholesterol and dementia in the family and new research has linked cholesterol to increased risk of dementia. Australian scientists have made an exciting breakthrough categorically discovering the link between the two and this is the first time scientists have been able to prove the link anywhere in the world. She is now striving to lead a healthier lifestyle to help combat it. Jane Dempster/The Australian.

Dementia linked to high cholesterol

The Heart Research Institute’s Ashish Misra is behind the world-first discovery which opens the door for GPs to calculate a person’s risk of the neurodegenerative disease

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