When a couple breaks up, should the man have to pay for freezing his ex’s eggs? Writer Charlotte Ree bares all on the brutal reality of undergoing the process alone, the hidden costs of the fertility industry, and why demanding financial support after a breakup might just be the ultimate act of modern feminism.

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Our love didn’t last, but after the grief there is gratitude

A Mother’s Day tribute like no other

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Senior Telstra executives may not receive their annual bonuses after the telco suffered its worst outage in a decade. Plus, Meghan to reunite with Harry in the UK and ‘The Human Headline’ Derryn Hinch dies at 82.

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Telstra CEO Vicki Brady returns to Australia from overseas holiday as police probe death after outage

Telstra chief defends outage response after minister criticises communication timeline

Commentary by Jared Lynch: Telstra outage: Albanese government ‘tax grab’ blamed for brittle networks

Meghan ‘bringing Archie and Lilibet to UK on private trip’

Derryn Hinch, journalist, broadcaster, senator, dies aged 82

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Judges vs prosecutors. Politicians vs lawyers. There’s an intriguing power struggle going on in NSW that raises big questions about the separation of powers and how our criminal justice system really works  - and our own Ellie Dudley has been breaking all the scoops. She joins today’s episode.

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Top prosecutor Sally Dowling accused of giving ‘false evidence’ over media leak

NSW Attorney-General Michael Daley slams ‘insane’ attack on top prosecutor Sally Dowling

Australia’s top prosecutors rally behind Sally Dowling ahead of inquiry report

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The ABC’s Editorial Director Gavin Fang told the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion the national broadcaster made a ‘bad mistake’ when it broadcast an inaccurate statistic about the conflict in Gaza. 

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ABC admits ‘bad mistake’ in Gaza ‘14,000 starving babies’ report

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Can Prince Harry possibly rebuild his relationship with the Royal Family - and the British public - after a humiliating High Court defeat in his case against the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday? Associate Helen Trinca joins us from London to dissect the 436-page judgment and its fallout. 

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Prince Harry loses Daily Mail privacy case

Analysis by Helen Trinca: Harry ignores collateral damage to royals with reckless response to court loss

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Commonwealth prosecutors are fighting to overturn a judge’s decision in the matter of two Sydney nurses accused of threatening to kill Israeli patients. Plus, Telstra is facing questions about the cause of a massive network outage that caused chaos across the country. 

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Prosecutors fight to use video of Bankstown nurses in court

Telstra network outages: telco scrambles to get network working

Commentary by Eric Johnston: Telstra’s outage problem is now CEO Vicki Brady’s problem

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Australia-China relations are at a significant low, after a Chinese submarine launched a nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile in the South Pacific and Anthony Albanese accused Beijing of a ‘provocative’ act that undermined regional peace. Today, the journo who broke the story before the missile was even fired – Ben Packham – joins us from the Solomon Islands.

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China launches sea-based missile in South Pacific after Anthony Albanese signs pact with Fiji

Commentary by Ben Packham: China claims this was a routine missile test and not tied to our new Fiji deal. Pull the other one

‘Get used to’ our nukes, says China, as US lashes ‘rapid, opaque’ buildup

China missile test a nuclear ‘message’ to Australia

China missile test raises an intelligence question for PM

Editorial: China’s missile test shows it has got the Pacific message

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The NRL has eclipsed Aussie Rules for the richest broadcast deal in Australian history, with a $5.3 billion split of the rights between Nine and Foxtel. Plus, Nigel Farage to face questions over multimillion-dollar gift, Richard White steps down as chair of WiseTech, and Belgium crushes the USA’s FIFA World Cup dreams.

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Confirmed: NRL crush AFL with record-breaking broadcast deal worth $5.3 billion

Watchdog set to interview Farage over $9.6m gift

WiseTech billionaire Richard White steps down as chair amid two criminal probes

Commentary by Eric Johnston: New WiseTech chair fails first test of independence

Even Trump couldn’t save USA from Belgium humiliation

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The Twilight of Exceptionalism, a new book by Australia’s most eminent political journalist and historian, Paul Kelly, is packed with startling revelations about the governments of Tony Abbott, Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison, including ex-PM John Howard’s frank assessment of where his successors went wrong. Paul Kelly’s here with the exclusive first interview on the book, which hits bookshops on July 14. 

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Australia is enraged after China fired a submarine-launched nuclear-capable missile in the South Pacific after briefing governments including ours of the plan. Plus, England is through to the quarter finals of the FIFA World Cup after defeating co-hosts Mexico.

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China to test nuclear missile in South Pacific after Anthony Albanese signs pact with Fiji

Red card, penalty dramas as England edge Mexico, Norway beat Brazil

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Are the mainstream media really dead, or are Karl Stefanovic and Piers Morgan just trying to convince themselves? In a masterclass of reality television that nobody saw coming, Karl sat down with the British firebrand on his superyacht in the South of France. Today, Media Diary’s Steve Jackson joins us to break down the interview, the "business" lessons Karl is trying to learn about the YouTube landscape, and why the mainstream might have more life in it than these two are letting on.

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How Karl lost his radio gig

Nine’s rush to tie up Stefanovic successor

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