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Newsroom edition: the strategy behind Peter Dutton’s culture wars
Last Friday, a large blaze engulfed a synagogue in Melbourne — which authorities are treating as an act of terrorism. It prompted the federal government to set up a special taskforce to investigate antisemitism in Australia. But in the aftermath, Peter Dutton was accused of ‘disgusting’ political point-scoring by escalating the Coalition’s already growing criticism of the government’s response and by attacking Jewish Labor MP Josh Burns.Bridie Jabour talks to the head of newsroom, Mike Ticher, and the national news editor, Jo Tovey, about Peter Dutton’s strongman politics and why he is stoking culture wars
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Has South Korea’s martial law fiasco changed the country forever?
Last week South Korea’s president, Yoon Suk Yeol, shocked the world when he declared martial law. Although the decision was reversed hours later, Yoon had taken the country into a new and unnerving chapter in its young democracy. Reged Ahmad speaks to Seoul-based journalist Raphael Rashid about why the streets have now exploded with anger and whether the country can come back from the brink
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The ‘senseless, shocking and preventable’ deaths at the centre of a landmark domestic violence inquiry
The Northern Territory coroner has handed down findings in an inquest into the horrific domestic violence deaths of four Aboriginal women. The landmark report exposed systemic failings and made 35 recommendations aimed at stemming what the coroner called an “epidemic of violence”.Nour Haydar speaks to Guardian Australia’s Indigenous affairs editor, Lorena Allam, and Indigenous affairs reporter, Sarah Collard, about the four women at the centre of the inquest and the coroner’s findings
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Inside Damascus after the fall of Bashar al-Assad
Foreign correspondent William Christou travels to Damascus, hours after Syria’s decades-long dictator Bashar al-Assad is ousted from power, and asks whether the country’s 13-year civil war has finally come to an end Read More: Who are the main actors in the fall of the regime in Syria? I wept and wept as I watched the Syrian regime fall. At last, I have a home again
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How the housing crisis is reshaping Australia
As rents continue to increase at alarming rates and more Australians are priced out of the housing market, the Guardian put the call out to readers for their experiences from inside the housing crisis. The response was overwhelming. Reporter Daisy Dumas tells Reged Ahmad what 150 readers have to say about how the pressures of renting and buying have affected their income, relationships and health
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