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Climate Change · QueenslandTwo-thirds of Australia's Great Barrier Reef showed the highest levels of coral cover seen in decades. But the reef remained vulnerable to increasingly frequent mass bleaching, a new report released on Thursday showed. The gains made could easily be reversed by cyclones, new bleaching events, or crown-of-thorns outbreaks.See the Story
Parts of Australia's Great Barrier Reef show highest coral cover in 36 years
44% Center coverage: 73 sources
International · CanberraAustralia's new government sworn in Wednesday includes a record 13 women. Youth Minister Anne Aly is Australia's first female Muslim minister. Linda Burney becomes the first woman, and only the second Indigenous person, to serve as Indigenous Affairs minister. New Prime Minister Anthony Albanese led the center-left Labor Party to an election victory.See the Story
Australia PM Albanese appoints record number of women to diverse Cabinet
44% Left coverage: 32 sources
Europe · LondonBritish Prime Minister Boris Johnson survives a no-confidence vote that has left him a severely weakened leader. Conservative Party lawmakers voted by 211 to 148 to support him as leader. Johnson is now free from another challenge for a year. Previous prime ministers who have faced no- confidence votes, including Margaret Thatcher, have been terminally damaged.See the Story
Boris Johnson: For now he stays in office, but is he really in power?
53% Center coverage: 32 sources
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US & Canada · WashingtonTop congressional Republicans are rushing to former President Donald Trump's defense. The FBI executed a search warrant at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida as part of an investigation into the handling of potentially classified material. Trump is seen here in Wisconsin on August 5 in Wisconsin.See the Story
FBI raids Trump's Mar-a-Lago: 'Unprecedented' for agency to execute search warrant against former president
48% Left coverage: 25 sources
Trade · SydneyDominic Perrottet has asked Department of Premier and Cabinet secretary Michael Coutts-Trotter to conduct a review into Stuart Ayres' conduct. This relates to the interaction the NSW trade minister had with the department over John Barilaro's appointment to the role of senior trade and investment commissioner to the Americas. Investment NSW chief executive Amy Brown is due back before the upper house inquiry from 10am.See the Story
New South Wales Trade Minister Stuart Ayres resigns after inquiry into John Barilaro appointment
Coverage: 12 sources
US & Canada · CanberraDelil Alexander was born in Australia and has Turkish citizenship by descent. He left Australia for Turkey in 2013 and crossed the Syrian border before he was arrested by a Kurdish militia in 2017. The 35-year-old Alexander is in a Syrian prison on terrorism convictions. He denied involvement with the Islamic State group and told his sister he made confessions under torture.See the Story
Court rules minister can’t strip dual nationals of Australian citizenship for suspected terrorism
50% Left coverage: 12 sources
Voting · CanberraThe Australian Electoral Commission has expanded the telephone voting service to anyone who has had COVID since 6pm on Friday, May 13. There were fears about 50,000 sick West Australians could miss out on the opportunity to vote on Saturday. Labor first raised their concern with the AEC on Tuesday night but it has taken until the eve of the election for eligibility to be expanded.See the Story
Election rules to change to ensure all Australians with COVID-19 can vote
Coverage: 8 sources
EntertainmentThe Sydney Morning Herald has denied a wave of criticism alleging that the Australian publication pressured Rebel Wilson into outing herself as LGBTQ. Wilson publicly came out through a post on her Instagram Thursday, sharing a photograph of herself with her girlfriend, Ramona Agruma. On Sunday morning, Wilson seemed to corroborate that the Herald's contact with her was not appropriate, responding to a post that stated the Herald admitted to giving her a heads up.See the Story
Sydney Morning Herald retracts column after claims journalist 'outed' Rebel Wilson
83% Left coverage: 6 sources
TwitterJackson Palmer, the co-creator of Dogecoin, spoke to Australian news site Crikey. He called Elon Musk a "grifter" who wasn't capable of running basic code. Palmer also said he thought Musk was out to destroy Twitter by sowing discord and distrust.See the Story
Dogecoin Cocreator Calls Elon Musk a 'Grifter' Who Had Trouble Running Basic Code
100% Left coverage: 3 sources
Pauline HansonOne Nation senator Pauline Hanson stormed out of the Senate chamber during the acknowledgement of country. President Sue Lines acknowledged the Ngunnawal and Ngambri people as traditional custodians of the Canberra area. Senator Hanson said she could not accept the welcome to country or a proposal to be moved later in the day that would raise the Indigenous flag.See the Story
Pauline Hanson snubs Indigenous acknowledgement
100% Left coverage: 2 sources
