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Anthony Albanese has used his first major speech of the year to turn some of Peter Dutton’s own rhetoric against him. The prime minister responded to the opposition leader’s claims he is a weak leader by telling journalists weakness is “not having the guts to come to the National Press Club” – whose offer to speak Dutton is yet to take up during his leadership stint.
Albanese also revealed federal Labor had secured new school funding agreements with South Australia and Victoria, a move greeted as a “very big win” for public education by the Victorian government.
Dutton, meanwhile, has hosed down suggestions the Coalition’s policy on tax breaks for small business would extend to playing a round of golf.
In our daily gallery of photo highlights from around the world, students protest after reports of a mass culling of stray dogs in Morocco as part of a cleanup of streets in advance of the Fifa World Cup.
“You’re playing for your country. That needs to be elite. And if you’re not elite, you’re not going to be able to play for the Socceroos.”
Four matches into his tenure as coach of Australia’s men’s football team, Tony Popovic has laid down a marker for his players.
People have queued for hours to catch a glimpse – and whiff – of Australia’s most famous (for now) plant before it dies. “It has been a privilege to watch,” writes Bec Shaw of Putricia’s allure, “and a much-needed break from the obnoxious loudness of our current times.”
No one in New Zealand is entirely sure where, or how, the “manu” emerged. But the diving style developed by Māori and Pasifika communities has become a national pastime – and the bigger the splash and more inventive the jump, the louder the cheers.
Today’s starter word is: TWEE. You have five goes to get the longest word including the starter word. Play Wordiply.
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