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Police are investigating damage to a communications tower in the NSW Hunter region after calls to triple-0 were impacted by an Optus outage. Source link

Spy chief Mike Burgess will not name the countries capable and willing to assassinate their dissidents on Australian soil, but these are some possibilities. Source link

A south-east Queensland council has commissioned an independent review of its flood zone mapping modelling. Source link

Nine platform are included in Australia’s world-first social media ban for under 16s next month, however the regulator warns that list could grow. Source link

Millions of Americans have flocked to polling booths around the US, casting their votes for governors, mayors and ballot measures. Source link

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s 2023 promise to fix a “building with buckets to collect leaks” remains unfulfilled, according to the National Gallery of Australia’s annual report. Source link

Australia’s Josh Giddey becomes the first Bulls player to record back-to-back triple doubles since Michael Jordan in 1989 as the Bulls continue their fast start to the NBA season. Source link

South Australia’s Liberal party says it will phase out stamp duty by 2041, if elected in March, but the premier has labelled the promise as “one of the most reckless, dangerous policy announcements” he has ever seen. Source link

The consequences of a contaminated biopsy sample, which led to a man being wrongly diagnosed with lung cancer and having part of his lung unnecessarily removed, were “profound”, a coroner has found. Source link

New Yorkers shake the United States’s political establishment and deliver 34-year-old democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani a stunning victory in the city’s contentious mayoral election. Source link