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Mar 27, 2025 | 
bbc.com | Hannah Ritchie
How will Australia choose its next prime minister? Hannah RitchieGetty ImagesIt is compulsory for Australians to vote on election day - and many will queue for a customary sausage in breadOn 3 May Australians will head to the polls to vote in their first federal election since 2022. The results will determine who the next prime minister will be, as well as the make-up of the nation's parliament. How does Australia's voting system work?
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
bbc.com | Hannah Ritchie
The ban aims to reduce "harms" on children and will take at least a year to implement, the PM says.
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | Hannah Ritchie
Senator Lidia Thorpe made her protest in Canberra's Great Hall of Parliament last month [Getty Images]Australian lawmakers have voted to censure an Aboriginal senator who heckled King Charles during his visit to Canberra last month, to express their "profound disapproval" of her protest. Lidia Thorpe shouted "you are not my King" and "this is not your land" shortly after the King addressed the Great Hall of Parliament, in an effort to highlight the impacts of British colonisation.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
bbc.com | Hannah Ritchie
The government says it wants to mitigate the "harm" social media is inflicting on children.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
bbc.co.uk | Hannah Ritchie
Australian researchers have poked holes in an old thought-experiment known as the "infinite monkey theorem".
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Hannah Ritchie
Hannah Ritchie - BBC News, SydneySeptember 6, 2024 at 1:31 AM·3 min readAustralia's internet watchdog says she received "death threats" and that her children were doxxed after she was targeted by Elon Musk for attempting to regulate his social media platform. Earlier this year, the eSafety commissioner took X to court over its refusal to remove videos of a religiously motivated Sydney church stabbing for its global users.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
es-us.noticias.yahoo.com | Hannah Ritchie
Hannah Ritchie - BBC News Australia4 de septiembre de 2024, 1:21 p.m.·3 min de lecturaLa atleta olímpica australiana Rachael Gunn se disculpó con la comunidad de breakdance de su país, ante la “reacción violenta” que desató su controvertida rutina en los Juegos de París, que fue noticia a nivel mundial.
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Hannah Ritchie
Hannah Ritchie - BBC News, SydneyAugust 19, 2024 at 2:52 AM·3 min readThe boss of Foxtel - a majority News Corp-owned cable television company in Australia - has "unreservedly" apologised after an image surfaced of him performing a Nazi salute. Patrick Delaney said he believed he was showing "the similarity" between the gesture and one used by some fans of a Western Sydney soccer club when the photo was taken a decade ago.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
bbc.com | Hannah Ritchie
Kai McKenzie, 23, was attacked by a three-metre-long great white shark in Australia on Tuesday.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
bbc.com | Hannah Ritchie
‘Dad tried to kill us’: The fire that devastated AustraliaBy Hannah Ritchie, BBC News, Sydney BBCFilicide - when a parent intentionally kills their child - is the second most common form of domestic homicide in AustraliaThe night comes back in fragments: the sound of exploding glass, the frantic call made to police, the tiny shivering bodies emerging from the flames. Eve’s hand shakes as she pieces it together.
