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A seven-year case just forced the Education Department to erase $23bn in student debt
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A very strong El Niño is being forecast for winter, and it points the storms south
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The 2027 Social Security raise is being guessed at at 3.6 to 3.8 per cent, and none of it is official yet
Three forecasters put next year's cost-of-living adjustment above this year's 2.8 per cent. The figure that counts is not calculated until October, from three months of data that are not all in.
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Senators wrote a funding patch that runs past the midterms, and quietly took back some spending power
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Nauru is now Naoero, and the change went through parliament rather than a vote
The Pacific state has adopted its own-language name by constitutional amendment. A referendum was skipped, the country code changes, and a separate diplomatic reversal landed the same fortnight.
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A seven-year case just forced the Education Department to erase $23bn in student debt
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A seven-year case just forced the Education Department to erase $23bn in student debt
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A very strong El Niño is being forecast for winter, and it points the storms south
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The 2027 Social Security raise is being guessed at at 3.6 to 3.8 per cent, and none of it is official yet
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Senators wrote a funding patch that runs past the midterms, and quietly took back some spending power
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