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  • The pro-Palestine protest encampment at the University of Sydney

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    Australia news live: students say new Sydney University protest rules an ‘attack on political freedom’; dating apps agree safety code

  • Fatima Payman at her media conference in Canberra yesterday

    Morning Mail: Fatima Payman and the art of quitting, gas shortfall gets closer, UK exit poll tips Labour landslide

    The rookie senator orchestrated her departure from Labor for maximum impact; Labour on course for record Commons majority as voting closes
  • Australia's Alex De Minaur in action

    Alex de Minaur surges into last 32 of Wimbledon but Daria Saville lets win slip away

    Australian No 1 beats Spain’s Jaume Munar in straight sets, while women’s No 1 had match point but loses to 18th seed Marta Kostyuk

  • Outcasts no more: skateboarders riding Australian boom to Paris Olympics

  • ‘Once-in-a-lifetime event’: rare chance to see explosion on dwarf star 3,000 light years away

  • Gas shortfalls for eastern states worse than predicted just months ago, ACCC warns

  • Rebel with a cause: inside the moment Fatima Payman quit the Labor party

  • Bruce Highway could be Australia’s most challenging road – to drive and to maintain

  • How a family was left ‘shattered’ by a Homesafe contract on their single mother’s home

  • Thousands of patients facing healthcare price hikes after negotiations break down between St Vincent’s and NIB

Australian politics

  • Karen Middleton

    How Fatima Payman leveraged Gaza anger to deliver a stinging rebuke to Labor

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  • Senator Fatima Payman

    Fatima Payman’s decision to quit Labor party will ‘empower opponents on far right’, Wayne Swan says

  • Fatima Payman on Thursday announced she would quit the Labor party but continue to sit in the Senate as an independent.

    Senator says PM’s office planted seed about crossing floor – as it happened

  • The Western Australian senator had become increasingly outspoken on Israel's war on Gaza, leading to her decision to resign

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    Fatima Payman quits the Labor party: the moments leading up to her decision – video

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Opinion & analysis

  • Graham Readfearn

    Dick Smith enters nuclear debate but CSIRO analysis shows his argument in meltdown

    Graham Readfearn
  • Two people shaking hands

    Human rights exist to protect all Australians everywhere, every day

    Rosalind Croucher
  • the Spotify logo seen displayed on a smartphone screen near a pair of earphones

    Spotify’s new audiobook bundle may reduce music royalties and shortchange authors

    Millicent Weber for the Conversation
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    What choices does Fatima Payman have?

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Video

  • Australian defence minister announces $2bn 'top-secret cloud' with Amazon – video

  • Activists on the roof of Australia's parliament throw down paper planes with 'war crimes' emblazoned on one side and a statement of grievances on the other

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    Pro-Palestine protesters hang banners from Parliament House roof in Canberra – video

    Activists on the roof of Australia's parliament throw down paper planes with 'war crimes' emblazoned on one side and a statement of grievances on the other
  • The government’s anti-vaping legislation has kicked in today, it is now illegal to sell vapes other than for therapeutic reasons.

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    Health minister ‘deadly serious’ about enforcing new laws as vapes ban kicks in – video

    The government’s anti-vaping legislation has kicked in today, it is now illegal to sell vapes other than for therapeutic reasons.
  • Ellen Dwyer, an incident controller in the rescue team, says they are 'pleased' they have been able to remove a significant amount of weight and rope from the whale

    Rescue team cuts 800kg of tangled ropes and buoy from humpback whale off Gippsland coast – video

  • The WikiLeaks founder has just ended a 12-year legal battle by accepting a plea deal that saw him accept one charge under the US espionage act

    'Julian plans to swim in the ocean every day,' says Stella Assange after husband freed – video

  • State department official Matthew Miller says the WikiLeaks founder 'put the lives of our partners, our allies and our diplomats at risk'

    Julian Assange put people in danger, US state department says after his release – video

  • Wife of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange asks for privacy after his arrival in Australia following plea deal

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    Stella Assange asks for time to ‘let our family be a family’ after husband's release – video

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