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#7 TOP IA STORY OF 2025: Daily Telegraph tries to stage antisemitic incident

Exposing Rupert Murdoch's News Corp as a News Creation factory has been IA's thankless task for ...  
Firebombed friendlyjordies still receiving death threats

Three years on from the firebombing of the home of Jordan Shanks, AKA friendlyjordies, an ABC Four ...  
Chris Minns and the Sydney Harbour 'Gaza Streisand effect'

Is it possible that New South Wales State Premier Chris Minns is secretly a strong supporter of ...  
Broken system, broken spirits: NSW public education in crisis

As public schools across NSW buckle under pressure, exhausted teachers are walking away, exposing ...  
High Court logging appeal decision may be a game changer

Conservation groups can now challenge Forestry Corporation decisions ... and the list of concerns ...  
Plans resurrected for Blue Mountains tourist park

Plans to build a wildlife park in the Blue Mountains to lure more tourists would result in an ...  
Biodiversity offsets for dummies

Biodiversity offsets promise conservation but enable destruction. A failed system fueled by ...  
Spike Milligan: The 'goon' who loved Australia

Former actor and comedian Spike Milligan often visited Australia to spend time at his brothe ...  
Daily Telegraph tries and fails to stage antisemitic incident

Not content with the many existing instances of alleged antisemitic behaviour, The Daily Telegraph ...  
Viewers light up music choices for New Year's Eve fireworks

Congratulations to IA music columnist David Kowalski for bagging the #1 top IA story 2024. Drum ...  
Summer lovin': Balmoral Beach

The beauty of Sydney's Balmoral Beach. The joy of young hearts.  
Labor turns nature summit into blatant act of hypocrisy

Misinformation, weasel words and hypocrisy were all Labor had to offer at a recent summit designed ...  
NSW Labor ignores environmental threats with another useless panel

NSW Premier Chris Minns’ latest effort to ensure the ongoing destruction of koala habitat is the ...  
The brumby whisperer

Horse handler Greg Powell, pictured at dusk with one of the brumbies he'd trained after capturing ...  
Manyana's bushland battle: Plibersek's decision affects environmental future

The future of an environmentally significant area of land targeted for development rests on the ...  
Surprise visitor lights up fire-brigade demo

 A passerby joins in with fire brigade members during a demonstration in Martin Place, Sydney ...  
POEM: The Road

This poem is an *IA Writing Competition (creative work category) entry.  
Koalas continue to suffer under Chris Minns' NSW Government

The NSW Government's koala habitat protection policy – or lack thereof – appears to be moti ...  

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