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Anthony Albanese’s most senior female colleagues have been drawn into the increasingly bizarre political controversy over his “melons” podcast appearance, with critics accusing Labor of applying one standard to its opponents and another when the Prime Minister himself is under fire. Finance Minister and Minister for Women Katy Gallagher, Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Social … Read more

Karl Stefanovic has divided followers after posing alongside his wife Jasmine Yarbrough and One Nation leader Pauline Hanson at the Mount Isa Rodeo — then declaring the two women the “luckiest girls in the world”. The former Today host shared the photograph from the celebrated Queensland event, with Stefanovic, Yarbrough and Hanson embracing the rodeo theme in … Read more

Three One Nation senators have turned their backs during an Acknowledgement of Country in the Australian Senate, staging a highly visible protest against a ceremony their party wants removed from government institutions and public life. Queensland senator Malcolm Roberts, New South Wales senator Sean Bell and Western Australian senator Tyron Whitten faced away as Liberal … Read more

A baby has been born to a woman in India with an extremely rare congenital condition that left an additional head attached to her abdomen. Amlekha Bairva gave birth to the baby last month in a small government-run hospital in her village before she was transferred to JK Lone Hospital in Jaipur, Rajasthan, for further … Read more

A two-year-old girl with a 28-inch (72cm) head has been given a new lease of life following pioneering surgery to reduce its size. Maryam, whose family name is unknown, was born with hydrocephalus – a build-up of fluid inside her skull, which can prove 𝖽𝖾𝖺𝖽𝗅𝗒. The girl, who also suffers from megalencephaly – a rare … Read more

Labor and the Greens have voted against an attempt by Pauline Hanson to force an urgent Senate debate on sweeping legislation designed to make it harder for Australians linked to foreign terrorist organisations to return home. The Senate rejected One Nation’s bid to suspend standing orders by 35 votes to 24, preventing the party’s Protecting Australians … Read more

Pauline Hanson has turned the extraordinary political saga surrounding Anthony Albanese and a gift of Japanese Crown Melons into a new argument over transparency, demanding to know why the fruit does not appear on the Prime Minister’s public register of interests. The One Nation leader has seized on what has become known as “Melongate”, accusing … Read more

Long before Mehreen Faruqi entered Australian politics, became a Greens senator and rose to the party’s deputy leadership, she was a little girl in Lahore learning what war sounded like. Faruqi has described Lahore as the “best city in Pakistan”, a place for which she retains enormous affection. But some of her earliest memories of … Read more

When Kiara Duprey, then 24, and her partner Javier Floreniani learned during a 12-week pregnancy scan that their unborn daughter’s arms and legs were not developing as expected, they were faced with news no parent is ever prepared to hear. Doctors initially suspected Roberts syndrome, a rare genetic condition, and warned that the baby might … Read more

SHE DID IT!   Zoey’s Brain Surgery Went Well There’s an encouraging update on 9-year-old Zoey Jones, who underwent brain surgery at Children’s of Alabama. Zoey lives with Sickle Cell Disease, an inherited blood disorder, and Moyamoya Disease, a rare condition that can narrow the arteries supplying blood to the brain. According to her mother, Erin, … Read more