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2025-01-27 20:08
Morning everyone. An Auschwitz survivor has made a moving speech at the ceremony to mark 80 years since the camp’s liberation, warning of a “huge rise” in antisemitism.
In other big overseas news, tech stocks have plunged as a new Chinese AI appears to outperform its US rivals.
On home soil, the increasingly two-tier dental care service is the subject of a special Guardian investigation today; deaths of our roads are rising faster than since the 1960s; and the Hobart Hurricanes have claimed their first Big Bash title thanks to an astonishing century from a 23-year-old rising star.
Why Australia needs better whistleblower protections
Kieran Pender, associate legal director at the Human Rights Law Centre, tells Nour Haydar why more needs to be done to ensure workers who speak up about wrongdoing are protected.
In a special investigation, Natasha May reports on how the inequality of Australia’s dental care system is forcing people to skip regular checkups and leading to record numbers turning up to hospitals for dental procedures. The share of costs that the patient pays for dental care is nine times higher than GP visits, and half of the federal money earmarked for dentistry goes to subsidising the uptake of private health insurance. Our chart shows how Australians pay a lot more than people in other OECD countries for dental care.
Katie Cunningham fantasises about renovating midcentury homes and has set up a Facebook group to gather like-minded fixer-uppers. The only problem is, too many of them have been spoiled by whitewash. And on the subject of housing, Patrick Lenton laments the decline of the share house as more young people live with their parents and miss out on the fun – and sometimes squalor – of communal living.
Labour is investing $3.8bn to improve NBN speeds and head off a possible challenge from Elon Musk’s Starlink, the Sydney Morning Herald claims in an exclusive. The latest Newspoll in The Australian shows Anthony Albanese’s popularity continuing to decline. It was a stormy night in Sydney, but Territorians are still sweltering in the heat with the monsoon yet to appear and now officially later than it has ever been, NT News reports.
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