abc.net.auadded August 2026
ABC News Australiaby Anna Levy25 Aug 2026
In 2001, Australia was criticised on the world stage for its unprecedented hardline policy on asylum seekers. Twenty-five years later, governments around the world are following suit.
ABC News Australia25 Aug 2026
In short: Tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees have protested over dire conditions in their Bangladesh camps.
ABC News Australia25 Aug 2026
In short: A rare tornado in France has devastated the small village of Pomas, leaving 37 people injured.
ABC News Australia25 Aug 2026
In short: A US-based Chinese artist has been sentenced to three years jail over his satirical works dating back nearly two decades.
ABC News Australiaby Matthew Doran25 Aug 2026
In short: Right-wing Israeli politician Zvi Sukkot has posted a video online showing him taking a sledgehammer to a memorial in the occupied West Bank.
ABC News Australiaby Aoife Hilton25 Aug 2026
In short: Generational inequality is pushing more young Australians out of the housing market, Anglicare's new Falling Behind report shows.
ABC News Australiaby Olivana Lathouris25 Aug 2026
Federal politician Luke Gosling has been charged with breaching his bail conditions, less than a month after he was arrested over allegations he assaulted the Northern Territory Administrator.
ABC News Australiaby Brooke Chandler25 Aug 2026
In short: Wollondilly Council has promised to establish a bushwalker safety program after the death of 18-year-old hiker Lily Hooper.
ABC News Australiaby Marina Trajkovich25 Aug 2026
In short: A brumby cull in northern NSW has been suspended for two weeks after a brumby advocate launched legal action against the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and...
ABC News Australiaby Jason Om and Richard Mockler25 Aug 2026
Factory workers who helped make a Chinese-brand of camera glasses appear to have been unknowingly filmed by the devices in accidental videos.
ABC News Australiaby Bethanie Alderson25 Aug 2026
In short: A backyard swimming pool where a 19-month-old toddler drowned may never have been subject to an application for compliance, an inquest has heard.
ABC News Australiaby Hannah Story25 Aug 2026
In 1945, Margaret Olley — one of Australia's most celebrated painters — graduated from the National Art School, then known as East Sydney Technical College, with first-class honours.
ABC News Australiaby Roxanne Fitzgerald25 Aug 2026
In short: Darwin retirees Graham and Margaret Doyle watched their home burn down on Sunday, as a bushfire swept across their rural property.
ABC News Australiaby Talissa Siganto25 Aug 2026
In short: Antonio Rotondo has pleaded not guilty in the Brisbane District Court to more than a dozen charges, including 11 counts of stalking and five counts of distributing intimate images.
ABC News Australiaby Olivana Lathouris and Jess Ong25 Aug 2026
In short: Woolworths has installed outdoor speakers at its Darwin city store to play the supermarket's 'Fresh Food People' jingle on repeat in a bid to deter loitering.
ABC News Australiaby Tobi Loftus25 Aug 2026
What's next? Queensland's CFMEU inquiry has heard allegations the union hired private detectives to spy on security contractors during a long-running dispute.
ABC News Australiaby Clancy Balen25 Aug 2026
In short: Tasmanian coroner Madeleine Wilson has concluded human remains found in southern Tasmanian are believed to be Edward Harold Tait.
ABC News Australiaby Ashleigh Barraclough and Emily Smith25 Aug 2026
In short: Tasmania's George Town council has approved a proposal to build an AI data centre at the site of the former Gunns pulp mill at Long Reach.
ABC News Australiaby George Yankovich25 Aug 2026
In short: A parliamentary inquiry into the National Trust of South Australia (NTSA) has heard from Moonta committee members who were sacked during a dispute with the charity.
ABC News Australiaby Kenji Sato25 Aug 2026
In short: Brisbane City Council has banned the non-consensual use of recording devices at public pools. The ban will apply to all 21 of the council's pools in the city. What's next?
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