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“So, people voted No and they said to us after, ‘Can we go and change our vote?' That's the sort of thing that sticks with you and you think, we've got to be better with this,” federal member for Lingiari Marion Scrymgour told Crikey.

This week our Northern Territory correspondent Julia Bergin unpacked how the referendum unfolded in a region where a statistically small but symbolically large population resides.

Meanwhile we brought you a wealth of analysis on the bombardment of Gaza, including from Ayman Qwaider, whose family has been killed.

Elsewhere we revealed real estate agents are already using AI, looked at what ice melting in Antarctica means for the nation's coastal residents, and reminded you that Qantas doesn't know the definition of the word “flight”.

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A fog of mystery surrounds the recent expansion of Operation Beech.

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GUY RUNDLE

Labor only changes if you tear it a new one and make it wear it as a hat. Middle East groups must break away and run against it.

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Qantas reveals five amazing facts you didn’t know about your flight!
BERNARD KEANE

You think it's our fault that we sold many thousands of flights we never intended to operate? Actually it's yours. And our workers'.

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Gaza is the great test of our time. We can’t consent to Israel’s revenge attack on a subject population
GUY RUNDLE

Preferring cold death-dealing to brutality isn't a moral choice. It's technobarbarism, to hide complicity in slaughter.

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Killing my sister, her children and more than 3,000 Palestinian children will not bring peace
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'My sister and her three kids were killed, along with every single member of my brother-in-law’s family. They’re all gone. My brother-in-law was the only one to survive because he had left the house to go and get them some food.'

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‘Can we go and change our vote?’: The aftermath of the referendum in the Northern Territory
JULIA BERGIN

The NT was the big subject of national referendum debate. Local voices say it was excluded from genuine conversations, processes, and outcomes.

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The Daily Mail doesn’t listen, football’s coming home and AI goes rogue
DAANYAL SAEED

This week an ABC veteran moves on and journalists were put under the spotlight for their coverage of gendered violence.

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‘Yes, it’s really us’: How Israel’s social media strategy battles for followers at the frontline
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When the US spoke of winning hearts and minds, it surely wasn’t thinking of social media algorithms — but that’s where today's wars are fought.

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Real estate agents are already using ChatGPT to do their jobs
CAM WILSON

Emails, product listings, even deciding whether you're a good 'prospect': artificial intelligence is automating property management.

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It is moments like this that keep me going as a lawyer
MICHAEL BRADLEY

With one decision, the High Court has fundamentally reset the law when it comes to cases of childhood sexual abuse, enabling survivors long shut out of the justice system to seek redress.

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Has Labor lost control of foreign student numbers?
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It's no coincidence there's a rental crisis when we have record foreign students. Their benefits are huge — so what can the government do?

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What Australia’s coastal residents are in for now Antarctica’s ice melt is inevitable
EMMA ELSWORTHY

There's no longer a way to stop a sea level rise that will endanger the 9 in 10 Australians living near the coast, even if we stay below 1.5 warming.

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Tony Abbott’s 25 consistent, unflinching core beliefs on climate change
CHARLIE LEWIS

Tony Abbott is now saying he never believed in climate change. Which only adds to his contradictory statements on the subject over the years.

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Online publications have used a photorealistic image of a missile attack from Adobe Stock without marking it as fake.

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