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Art valued at nearly $200m stolen from Brazil collector's widow in a heist planned by daughter. (AP PHOTO)

Brazil widow's daughter behind art con

Ukraine's creditors have agreed a two-year debt freeze on $US20 bln ($A28 bln) of overseas debt. (AP PHOTO)

Ukraine's creditors agree debt freeze

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Lower house independents - from left: Sophie Scamps, Allegra Spender, Kylea Tink, Zali Stegall and Monique Ryan. Picture: Sitthixay Ditthavong 

Some will emerge as green-blue teal while others may seem more like blue-green.

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Why would the government deliberately make things more expensive?

Defence Minister Richard Marles speaks defence force chiefs in Canberra earlier this year. Picture: Supplied

This newly commissioned review will explain how the world has altered dramatically and that our strategic guidance - how we're defending the country - is now hopelessly outdated.

How we're defending this country is now hopelessly outdated

Vladimir Putin's war on Ukraine has not gone to plan. Picture: Shutterstock

Are Moscow's soldiers prepared to continue dying, or will they surrender instead of defending their marginal gains against Kyiv's coming offensive?

As Ukraine's offensive begins, only Putin will decide how this ends

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks at the Sydney Energy Forum on July 12. Picture: Getty Images

Climate change is no longer simply a great moral challenge - it's also an urgent and practical one.

Forget 2030: the climate crisis is here now

Anthony Albanese should focus on the Greens and teal independents and work with them, not against. Picture digitally altered

Albanese is, sadly, colour blind: he can't see teal or green. He reduces every colour to a binary black or white. Even shades of grey vanish.

Albanese is still dancing to Morrison's tune

The ability to interrogate databases to find links allows raw detail to be seen in a new way. Picture: Shutterstock

If Australia is to retain the features that make this the sort of society we want to live in, it's vital to engage with new technologies in a positive way.

Data more than a numbers game

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives in Turkmenistan on June 29 to attend the VI Caspian Summit. Picture: Getty Images

As far as the repulsive Russian dictator is concerned, war is back as a weapon of statecraft.

The way military force is being used has changed

Anthony Albanese's decision to cut crossbench staff defies belief. Picture: Keegan Carroll

Albanese's astounding disregard of independents and Greens suggests he hasn't understood the election result.

This was a teal good stuff-up from Albanese

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There will be no war with China on Albanese's watch, just as there will be no kowtowing to Beijing, either.

Don't bother fighting the last war - it's over

American navy submarine USS San Juan (SSN-751) docks at the Simonstown Naval Dockyard in Cape Town in 2009. Inset: Peter Dutton. Pictures: Getty Images, Keegan Carroll

The reason Peter Dutton never persuaded his colleagues that the purchase of two ready-made US SSN nuclear submarines was a workable option is simple: it wasn't.

Dutton's submarine plan was sunk on arrival

Team captain, also known as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, addressing his new Labor line-up. Picture: Elesa Kurtz

The Coalition will need to spend time in the nets, practising and getting its selection processes right before it bothers re-taking the field.