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[ad_1] SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAI’m sitting in Becca Lunnon’s living room, and things feel a little strange. The room itself is fine – it’s a pleasant enough spot looking out on her slightly neglected garden. There’s a pair of gymnastics rings hanging from the ceiling and a set of beanbags instead of couches, but apart from that, it’s everything you’d expect from a comfortable home in Acton, a sort-of-Hobart suburb near the airport, with horsey two-hectare blocks and a quick commute into the city.But it’s the comfort…

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[ad_1] OpinionPeter HartcherPolitical and international editorJune 13, 2026 — 5:00amJune 13, 2026 — 5:00amSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAOne Nation appears to be breaking free of its political moorings to become something bigger – an Australian countercultural movement. It offers itself as a political party with some policies. Remove excise on beer in venues, for instance, and allow income splitting for couples. Its policies are neither complete, coherent nor costed. Neither are the Liberals’, however, so they’re not alone in this.More important than One Nation’s policy specifics is its…

[ad_1] It’s not exactly top secret, the facility we’re visiting today, but it may as well be. There’s no obvious branding on this grey, virtually windowless monolith of a building, certainly nothing that overtly advertises its purpose. You’d really have no idea what goes on inside. Drone factory? CIA substation?Breach the initial perimeter (a car-park boom gate with a keypad) and the level of security only escalates: a Mission Impossible-style fingerprint scan is required just to get past reception; from there, there’s another five security checkpoints between us and what we’ve come to see. Finally, we arrive at the big,…

[ad_1] June 13, 2026 — 5:00amSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAA“Mark it up as a win,” said the young man at the Waste Transfer Centre, as I showed off the tiny piece of black plastic that I’d located in the scree of rubbish between the car bays and the bins. It had somehow detached itself from my ute hours previously, when I’d visited the tip to dispose of some pruned tree branches.The plastic bit houses the rod that goes from one side of the ute to the other, keeping…

[ad_1] SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAIn simpler times, the young people coming through the Merrylands Youth Centre were drawn to petty crimes. Now it’s stabbings and kidnappings.Youth workers with limited resources are on the front lines of Sydney’s escalating gang wars, where young people are being drawn into increasingly brazen and violent crimes.Merrylands is the epicentre of Sydney’s violent crime crisis.Glenn Campbell“It’s next level,” centre manager and youth worker of 24 years George Pedersen said. “It’s the worst I’ve ever seen it.“They get dragged into areas they shouldn’t…

[ad_1] SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAA proposed security treaty with Ukraine has been stalled for almost a year, hampering Australia’s ability to tap into Ukraine’s expertise in drones and other advanced military technologies gained from its four-year war against Russia.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed bilateral security agreements with 28 nations including the United Kingdom, Japan and Canada, as well as the European Union, making Australia a notable omission.Ukraine’s efforts to repel Russia’s invasion have seen it become a pioneer in the use of low-cost drones.AP Photo/Andrii MarienkoThe…

[ad_1] Ghana midfielder Thomas Partey will not take part in his team’s World Cup game against Panama next week after his visa application to Canada was refused, FIFA said on Friday.The former Arsenal midfielder was charged with five counts of rape and one count of sexual assault in July 2025 and two months later pleaded not guilty. In February Partey, who now plays in Spain with Villarreal, was charged with two additional counts of rape and has also pleaded not guilty to those charges.“FIFA can confirm that player Thomas Partey will be unable to travel from Ghana’s Team Base Camp…

[ad_1] SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAACoalition MPs have seized on Pauline Hanson’s suggestion her daughter Lee could be the next party leader, questioning whether Barnaby Joyce would play second fiddle to the Hanson family and warning Hanson to “watch your back”.At a Chamber of Commerce function in Perth on Thursday, Hanson said she would not quit politics until the “right people” were in place. She hinted that could be her daughter Lee Hanson, who stood at the last election for a Tasmanian Senate seat and will do so…