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Rob Harris is Europe correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.

Family makes shock discovery of unknown Captain Flinders portrait
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Family makes shock discovery of unknown Captain Flinders portrait

The painting, worth more than $1 million, has gone on public display for the first time this week ahead of a reburial service for the explorer, the first person to circumnavigate Australia.

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Respect for Macron falls to new low among French public

Respect for Macron falls to new low among French public

Emmanuel Macron was once France’s young and charismatic president who embodied hope. He is now widely despised, considered narcissistic and disconnected.

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Private schools are meant to help you get ahead. Not in Starmer’s cabinet

Private schools are meant to help you get ahead. Not in Starmer’s cabinet

Two-thirds of Rishi Sunak’s cabinet were privately educated, but only one MP in Labour’s new cabinet paid to go to school. It’s a rapid turnaround.

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Kyiv children’s hospital hit as Russian missile attack kills dozens across Ukraine

Kyiv children’s hospital hit as Russian missile attack kills dozens across Ukraine

Missile strikes were launched on several Ukrainian cities - including the capital Kyiv - killing and wounding dozens and damaging a children’s cancer hospital.

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How Anthony Albanese helped Keir Starmer win his way to Downing Street

How Anthony Albanese helped Keir Starmer win his way to Downing Street

Political gurus worldwide often look to the US to live out a West Wing-style fantasy, but UK watchers say it is Australia that really sets the tone in Westminster.

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Celebrations will be short-lived for Starmer, he’s got to fix a broken Britain
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Celebrations will be short-lived for Starmer, he’s got to fix a broken Britain

Britain’s new prime minister faces perhaps the most monumental challenges of any incoming UK leader since Clement Attlee’s Labour Party won in a landslide in 1945.

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Eight memorable moments from the UK election campaign

Eight memorable moments from the UK election campaign

From bungee jumping to Count Binface, in the weeks before Labour’s landslide win, the British election generated no shortage of remarkable scenes.

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‘This is for Gaza’: What the UK election means for Anthony Albanese
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‘This is for Gaza’: What the UK election means for Anthony Albanese

UK Labour lost five seats to pro-Palestinian independent candidates during the course of the night, all in areas with significant Muslim populations.

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King Charles asks Starmer to form government after Labour election landslide

King Charles asks Starmer to form government after Labour election landslide

Rishi Sunak has stood down as leader of the Conservatives after Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party swept to power, all but wiping out the ruling Tories.

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UK election 2024 as it happened: Rishi Sunak concedes defeat to Keir Starmer; Labour to form majority government

UK election 2024 as it happened: Rishi Sunak concedes defeat to Keir Starmer; Labour to form majority government

The polls have closed in the UK and Keir Starmer’s Labour Party is poised to take power, sweeping away Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives after 14 years.

  • by Rob Harris, Jessica McSweeney, Nick Ralston and Angus Thomson
So long UK Conservatives, and thanks for all the memes
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So long UK Conservatives, and thanks for all the memes

The tumultuous Thatcher years were memorialised in song and literature, but this current generation of Tories are probably best forgotten.

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