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🇦🇺 Posts are falsely claiming the World Bank has classified Australia as a "third world country", but a spokesperson for the bank told us it does not use the outdated term and in fact considers the country to be high-income u.afp.com/Srx9 https://u.afp.com/Srx9

2026-07-21T09:08:56.368Z