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A new report from Australia’s peak doctors’ body says private health insurance is increasingly failing to deliver value to the roughly 15 million Australians who hold a policy. Source link

A UK public inquiry has concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin “must have” ordered the Novichok nerve agent attack on Russian double agent Sergei Skripal in 2018.  Source link

A $1.13 billion stadium on the edge of the Hobart CBD has been approved by Tasmania’s upper house, satisfying a key condition for the state’s AFL licence. Source link

Peter Scammell, who is facing a murder charge over the death of his partner Katrina Hawker five years ago, was granted bail just over 24 hours after being extradited from Victoria. Source link

Australia leaves Nathan Lyon out of its XI for the second Ashes Test at the Gabba, marking an almost 14-year first. Source link

South Australian police say a woman has died after a dog attack at Whyalla in South Australia’s upper Spencer Gulf region this afternoon.    Source link

The High Court of Australia agrees to hear a special case brought by two teenagers challenging the federal government’s upcoming social media ban for Australians under 16. Source link

A girl who was allegedly criminally neglected at the hands of her mother before she died told a friend she was “treated like a slave” and was “scared to go back home”, a court has heard.   Source link

Connor John Christopher Lyons will be eligible for parole in six months after pleading guilty to 31 child sex offences. Source link

A Tiwi Islands man who murdered a 23-year-old Bangladeshi student during a Darwin home invasion in 2023 has been sentenced to life behind bars.    Source link