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K'gari was the name of the Island before English Colonists settled.
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K’gari officially recognised as Fraser Island's name

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From The New Daily
7th June 2023
Updated 7th June 2023
K'gari sheds colonial legacy, traditional name officially restored
K'gari is officially shedding the name "Fraser Island", a step that will help remedy the damage done by the fabricated stories of Eliza Fraser.
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From Independent Australia
3rd September 2013
We really must talk about the Howard and Costello economic disaster
According to the LNP and their old media campaign team, Howard and Costello were brilliant economic managers; Alan Austin debunks this obvious furphy decisively.
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From Awabakal Lands at Lake Macquarie, A Good Morning to all my family, friends and others online this Tuesday, have an awesome day, take care and stay safe.
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Australia’s budget balance second-strongest, IMF says www.themandarin.com.au/244524-austr...

From The Mandarin
19th April 2024
Australia’s budget balance second-strongest, IMF says
An IMF Fiscal Monitor report said the government had jumped from equal 14th in 2021 to No.2 for balancing budgets.
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Australia’s budget balance second-strongest, IMF says www.themandarin.com.au/244524-austr...

From the Mandarin
19th April 2024
Australia’s budget balance second-strongest, IMF says
An IMF Fiscal Monitor report said the government had jumped from equal 14th in 2021 to No.2 for balancing budgets.
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From Independent Australia
29th July 2024
Facts and figures confirm Murdoch’s minions are continually lying to you
News Corp in Australia systematically distorts the ‘news’ it publishes, this time on bankruptcies.
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From Independent Australia
25th November 2024
Australia sets impressive trade records which newsrooms refuse to report
Recent World Bank data provides another endorsement of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s economy.
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From Independent australia
22nd April 2024
Australia's fiscal health under Labor reaffirmed in latest IMF rankings
The latest International Monetary Fund (IMF) survey shows Australia rapidly recovering from the nine disastrous Coalition years, as Alan Austin reveals.
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From Independent Australia
2nd September 2024
Chalmers on track to join Keating and Swan as world’s best treasurer
The latest economic news confirms the Albanese Government is responding to uncertain times remarkably well, as Alan Austin reports.
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From Independent Australia
10th June 2024
Data shows Queensland Labor's economy outperforms other states again
As elections approach, the mainstream media are ramping up efforts to deceive voters into reinstalling the Coalition, Alan Austin reports.
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From Independent Australia
4th April 2013
Time to end Tony Abbott's deceitful debt scare campaign
Tony Abbott, aided by the mainstream media, has been dining out on public misperceptions and fear around national debt. Matthew N. Donovan blows the lid on another Abbott scare campaign.
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From Independent Australia
4th April 2013
Time to end Tony Abbott's deceitful debt scare campaign
Tony Abbott, aided by the mainstream media, has been dining out on public misperceptions and fear around national debt. Matthew N. Donovan blows the lid on another Abbott scare campaign.
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From Independent Australia
26th February 2015
Higginson reveals Liberal Party chaos: Where did all the money go?
The exasperated letter from Liberal Party treasurer Philip Higginson shows a party that is deeply divided, dysfunctional and with serious governance and probity issues, writes Ross Jones.
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From Independent Australia
2nd February 2021
Morrison Government's gross debt makes Labor's GFC stimulus look like petty cash
As record debt under the Morrison Government spirals to new heights, perhaps the Coalition will become synonymous with debt disasters.
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From AFR
6th June 2022.
Election 2022 results: Liberals push for budget control after $1 trillion debt
Angus Taylor and Jane Hume will push for the Liberals to return to lower spending and conservative budgeting, after the Coalition bequeathed the new Labor government a $1 trillion debt.
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From Independent Australia
8th October 2020
The Coalition’s latest trillion-dollar tax cuts Budget promo
The Morrison Government's 2020 Budget message is a trillion in debt and no "baked in" spending or "unfunded" empathy anywhere in sight.
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From Independent Australia
31st August 2020
Coalition adds more debt in nine months than Labor did in under six years
Australia’s ballooning debt is not just an economic problem, it presents character and moral challenges as well. Alan Austin reports.
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From Independent Australia
20th May 2022
A Liberal history of irresponsible economics
How much better will the economy be under Morrison and Frydenberg?
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From Independent Australia
13th May 2024
Measuring a decade of reckless Liberal Party debt
The latest debt figures prove the stark differences between Australia’s political parties. Alan Austin reports.
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From Independent Australia
16th September 2025
The $1 trillion truth: Coalition to blame for Australia’s soaring debt
As gross government debt nears $1 trillion, the numbers reveal a confronting truth — most of it was racked up by Coalition governments.
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The secret history of News Corp: a media empire built on spreading propaganda
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From The Conversation
16th May 2019
The secret history of News Corp: a media empire built on spreading propaganda
New research reveals how News Limited was secretly established in the early 1900s by a mining company for the express purpose of disseminating ‘propaganda’.
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From Independent Australia
26th September 2025
50 years of truth-telling about Australia’s racist past
Marking half a century since its groundbreaking first edition, Exclusion, Exploitation and Extermination remains a powerful work of truth-telling on colonial race relations.
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From Independent Australia
26th September 2025
Brethren and Pentecostal cults and the 'quid pro quo' for Australia's democracy
As the links between extreme religious cults and Liberal Party politicians pile up, managing editor Michelle Pini considers the 'quid pro quo'.
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From Independent Australia
18th November 2021
Coalition provocation and silence fueling ugly Melbourne 'protests'
Before we focus on the people at the Melbourne "protests", we should consider the messaging that got them there and the complicit silence that enabled them.
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