The Citizen

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02 July 2025 03:58

Agents are charging tenants who need to transfer a lease hundreds of dollars in fees. Experts and tenants say these fees are excessive, exploit a legal grey area and cause hardship during a housing and cost of living crisis. James Worsfold investigates.

The Citizen

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02 July 2025 03:58

Presenting Australia’s oldest public journalism oration, journalist Nour Haydar delivers a searing critique of media coverage of Israel’s attacks on Gaza, and on newsroom cultures that marginalise journalists with lived experience of the region. Coco Veldkamp reports.

The Citizen

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02 July 2025 03:58

“It’s hard when you’re culturally expected to struggle.” The cost-of-living crisis is draining creatives, say experts and those at the beginning and middle of the careers. Ultimately, audiences will be the poorer. Charlotte Walkling reports.

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02 July 2025 03:57

In the housing crisis, people with disabilities are often forced into expensive homes that don’t meet their needs. Best friends Ben and Zac show there are solutions – such as finding helpful house buds – to keep them living independently. Brendan Kearns reports www.thecitizen.org.au/articles/inn...

The Citizen

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02 July 2025 03:57

On the streets of Melbourne on 26 January, reporters @jamscosta and Jerome Des Preaux speak with activists under Indigenous and Australian flags about the causes and concerns that bring them into the streets. www.thecitizen.org.au/articles/clo...