Mike Lorigan
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- Sep 10, 2026
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'No face-to-face meeting': Former One Nation candidate questions vetting process (opens the original)
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Warren Pickering's public reckoning with his past has raised a broader question for One Nation as it seeks to expand its political footprint: How is the party vetting candidates it puts before the electorate? The Victorian One Nation leader this week admitted to using illicit drugs in his 20s, infidelity and losing his driver's licence three times for drink driving after allegations about his past were published by The Australian. Mr Pickering acknowledged using speed, ecstasy and marijuana when
The home of the Ford Falcon may soon become Australia's AI engine room (opens the original)
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For more than half a century, Ford's Broadmeadows manufacturing plant was known as the home of the iconic Falcon. "That was the manufacturing heartland of Australia," said Basem Abdo, the federal member for Calwell in Melbourne. Now, 10 years after the plant shut its doors, there are plans to turn the former Ford site into the engine room of Australia's AI boom. The $1.1 billion proposal for a massive data centre by Singaporean digital infrastructure firm Zerra DC — dubbed "Project Dune" — is pr
'Gone down like a lead balloon': Ex-FA boss on FIFA's World Cup backflip (opens the original)
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This is David Gallop's view of FIFA president Gianni Infantino's now-infamous World Cup privatisation proposal. "It's so far off passing the pub test that I think it's like he let off a stink bomb in the middle of the pub and people ran screaming, leaving half a schooner behind," Mr Gallop told 7.30. Mr Gallop has been one of Australia's foremost sport's administrators. He was CEO of the NRL from 2002-2012 before jumping ship to become the boss of Football Federation Australia for seven years un
What Germany's IS prosecutions can teach Australia (opens the original)
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When Islamic State invaded northern Iraq in 2014, their campaign of genocide led to the deaths of 5,000 Yazidis and the abduction of 6,000 women and children who were forced to convert to Islam and sold into slavery. Thousands more fled the country, and now more than 4,000 Yazidi people are rebuilding their lives in Australia. But their fight for justice is ongoing and difficult due to an inability to punish the perpetrators of their genocide. "Yazidi people in Australia and around the world exi
'Frightening': Organised crime dominates the illicit tobacco market and it's now online (opens the original)
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It feels like an ordinary, legitimate online shopping experience. A typical e-commerce layout, health warnings and a wide variety of tobacco products are for sale, but the price and the form of payment reveal this website is a black-market business. Australia's illicit tobacco market is now proliferating online, with dozens of websites promoting cheap tobacco and vapes, and offering express delivery through Australia Post across the country. To illustrate the widespread access to these illicit p
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