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Julian Assange live news: judge says WikiLeaks founder will leave court ‘a free man’ and sentences him to time served

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Australia politics live
Two Coalition senators cross the floor to back Greens’ failed bid to break up supermarket duopoly

Sydney
Luna Park's lease on sale for first time in 20 years with price tag of $70m

Economy
Inflation rises to 4%, stoking concern interest rates could increase again

Senex Energy
Gina Rinehart-backed company gets approval from Tanya Plibersek for coal seam gas project

The rural network

Fury road: a forlorn hope that, for once, Australia would choose the hard path on climate

Calla Wahlquist

Sometimes driving down old and familiar country roads conjures up romantic memories. Or, as after Dutton’s nuclear announcement, it just fills you with anger

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Full Story
Julian Assange released from prison – Full Story podcast

Sport

Australia miss out when it matters at T20 World Cup as Warner bids farewell

Geoff Lemon

State of Origin
Walsh ready for revenge as Maroons look to seal series win over Blues

Mu’s fall exposes self-defeating cruelty of US Olympic trials

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Culture

Namedropping
Is Mona’s latest exhibition its most annoying yet?

‘A stone-cold masterpiece’
The Raid is one of the best action flicks ever made

Lesbians unleashed!
The joyous, sexually explicit photographer no publisher would touch

Opinion

One exclusive Australian institution is facing up to its deeply racist past while another backs away from it

Paul Daley

Ending easy access to harmful vapes will prevent another generation of Australians becoming addicted

Becky Freeman

After a decade in detention I call Australia home. Labor’s deportation bill is horrific

Farhad Bandesh

Lifestyle

‘It’s a cure-all’
The simple, soothing power of congee – and chefs’ tips on how to serve it

Trend watch
Dressing pretty is over: this is fashion’s ugly decade

Technology

Big tech
Apple found in breach of EU competition rules

Science

Archaeology
‘Prehistory under our football pitches’: bronze age finds excavated from Cardiff sports field

Environment

Great Barrier Reef
‘Most of it was dead’: scientists discover one of Great Barrier Reef’s worst coral bleaching events

Energy
Peter Dutton’s nuclear plan could cost as much as $600bn and supply just 3.7% of Australia’s energy by 2050, analysis suggests

Video

Live stream: Julian Assange awaits sentencing in Saipan district courtroom – video

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