December 1, 2025 – Australia Headlines

1Melbourne Metro Tunnel LIVE updates: First weekday passengers travel on new services

Story gist: First weekday passengers traveled on Melbourne’s new Metro Tunnel train services. The $15.5 billion project opened for regular operations.
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Melbourne Metro Tunnel LIVE updates: First weekday passengers travel on new services
— The Age
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‘Bloody amazing’: fanfare as $15.5b train line opens
— AFR
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Allan may be premier, but the toot-tooting is all Dan Andrews
— The Australian
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Bias summary: Left-leaning The Age provides neutral live updates focused on factual passenger travel. Center AFR emphasizes celebratory fanfare with positive quotes and the project’s $15.5b cost. Right-leaning The Australian highlights political credit to former premier Dan Andrews over current premier Jacinta Allan, using playful ‘toot-tooting’ tone to frame legacy rather than current success.

2Australia news LIVE: Pauline Hanson addresses Melbourne anti-immigration rally; Death toll from Hong Kong apartment complex fire rises to 146

Story gist: Pauline Hanson addressed an anti-immigration rally in Melbourne CBD. The event was met with a counter-rally.
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Australia news LIVE: Pauline Hanson addresses Melbourne anti-immigration rally; Death toll from Hong Kong apartment complex fire rises to 146
— The Sydney Morning Herald
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Anti-immigration protest met with counter-rally in Melbourne CBD
— abc.net.au
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Why latest anti-immigration rallies flopped
— News.com.au
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Bias summary: Left-leaning Sydney Morning Herald frames as neutral live news, headlining Hanson’s speech alongside unrelated Hong Kong fire toll. Center abc.net.au balances coverage by emphasizing both anti-immigration protest and counter-rally. Right-leaning News.com.au adopts critical tone, headlining rallies as ‘flopped’ to highlight poor turnout and failure. Left omits rally outcome; right omits counter-protest details.

3Police bust alleged ‘satanic’ Sydney child abuse network

Story gist: Sydney police charged four men over an alleged international satanic child sex abuse material ring.
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Sydney police charge four men over alleged ‘international satanic child sex abuse material ring’
— The Guardian
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Police bust alleged ‘satanic’ Sydney child abuse network
— abc.net.au
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‘Satanic child sex abuse’ ring busted
— News.com.au
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Bias summary: Left-leaning Guardian emphasizes formal charges and ‘international’ scope with precise legal language. Center ABC.net.au uses neutral ‘bust’ and ‘network’ phrasing focused on Sydney location. Right-leaning News.com.au highlights sensational ‘satanic child sex abuse’ in quotes with punchy ‘ring busted’ tone, amplifying dramatic elements across all but varying emphasis on scale and terminology.

4What to expect as decision day on Macquarie Point stadium finally arrives

Story gist: Decision day arrives for the proposed Macquarie Point stadium in Hobart, Tasmania. Former Premier Peter Gutwein calls critics hypocrites.
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No major left-leaning outlet from our monitored sources covered this story
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What to expect as decision day on Macquarie Point stadium finally arrives
— abc.net.au
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Peter Gutwein slams Mac Point Stadium critics as ‘hypocrites’
— The Australian
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Bias summary: No left-leaning outlets cover the story, leaving progressive perspectives absent. Center outlet ABC.net.au frames it neutrally as an impending decision with practical expectations using ‘finally arrives.’ Right-leaning The Australian emphasizes Gutwein’s attack on critics as ‘hypocrites,’ adopting a combative tone supportive of the stadium project.