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Labor Party leader Anthony Albanese, center back, celebrates with his partner partner Jodie Haydon, right, and Labor senate leader partner Penny Wong at a Labor Party event in Sydney, Australia

Albanese sworn in as PM in Australia ahead of Tokyo summit

Elections

Australia’s new prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has flown to Tokyo for a summit, after being sworn in to office on Monday. He’s meeting with the leaders of the US, Japan and India.

A man victoriously holds up a piece of paper and smiles as other people around him also smile

Climate activists get more strategic with their use of the courts

The Big Fix

Genesis Owusu’s debut album ‘Smiling With No Teeth’ doesn’t shy away from issues of race

Music
A group of four soldiers are shown walking across a field wearing full battlefield fatigues and carrying weapons.

Australian special forces allegedly killed 39 unarmed Afghans — report

Military
several multi-colored MDMA pills

This Australian politician says pill testing could prevent deaths at music festivals

Refugee advocates hold placards as they participate in a protest in Sydney against the treatment of asylum-seekers at Australia-run detention centers

Papua New Guinea police move to evict refugees from Australia’s shuttered detention center on Manus

Conflict

Australia forces all would-be asylum-seekers into camps on two islands. Police in Manus, where one of the camps is located, removed dozens of refugees in an effort to end a stand-off that has drawn global attention to Canberra’s tough asylum-seeker policies.

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Kevin Rudd

In Indonesia, not even the NSA is listening

Global Scan

Government phone hacking is in the news all around the world, and now in Indonesia. The government there recently learned its prime minister’s cell phone was being tapped — but it wasn’t by the Americans. Rather, it was by the Australians.

Blue King Brown: Indigenous Activists and a Best-Selling Band

Conflict & Justice

Though Aboriginal communities have felt marginalized for centuries in Australia, their activism doesn’t typically grow as heated as it did in Canberra Thursday. Marco Werman profiles Blue King Brown, indigenous activists in who are a best-selling band.