Yesterday
OceanGate disaster doco lays bare company’s failures
Netflix’s documentary about the Titan catastrophe uses familiar techniques to spotlight the faulty judgment of billionaire owner Stockton Rush.
This Month
Double-digit power price hikes coming just in time for winter
Retailers are telling customers they will be hit with increased electricity prices of up to 14 per cent – well above the rises in the regulated default market.
Meet Tony Ellwood, art’s blockbuster man
Say what you like about the director of the National Gallery Of Victoria – and plenty do – but he has attracted more Australians to art than anybody in history.
Whose robotaxis were torched in LA? Take our weekly news quiz
Have you been paying attention this week? Test your knowledge across politics, business and world news.
‘Bailing out bad decisions’: Queensland slams Victoria over gas supply
Any hopes of pulling more gas from the north was shot down by the Liberal-National government in Brisbane, which is fed up with southern energy policies.
How AFL boss Dillon recruited his dream team to respark the season
AFL CEO Andrew Dillon has lured Tom Harley away from the Sydney Swans and Greg Swann from the Brisbane Lions as he tries to turn around a sputtering start to his tenure.
Air India crash unlikely a systemic Dreamliner problem: experts
Qantas is closely monitoring implications of the devastating Air India crash, but experts say it is unlikely to signal broader safety issues.
Inner-city EV owners resort to desperate measures
Electrical cables snaking over balconies and over hanging roads and footpaths are a nightly occurrence in many inner-city suburbs. And it’s about to get worse.
Trump’s review may not be the biggest threat to AUKUS
Defence insiders are alarmed that Australia isn’t moving fast enough on its end of the deal with Washington.
Israel’s strikes are major snub to ‘global peacemaker’ Trump
Israel’s strikes on dozens of Iranian targets appear to rebuff the US president, who has repeatedly urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to target Tehran.
Farming couple, lotteries boss smash Qld apartment records
The buyers of Queensland’s most expensive luxury apartments on the Gold Coast have been revealed as a Wagga Wagga-based couple and a lotteries entrepreneur.
Woodside seeks more time on North West Shelf response
A deadline for the gas giant to respond to the government’s conditional approval of the mammoth North West Shelf gas facility is about to run out.
How Frank Lowy’s Tel Aviv think tank says the Gaza war can end
Once Israel ends the war, an Arab-Egyptian reconstruction plan would have to be modified to ensure Hamas cannot regroup and take over again.
Trump’s ‘deal’ with China is just a waypoint to the next fight
Donald Trump behaves as though he has an unfettered ability to dictate terms to foreign countries, but that doesn’t work when you are so reliant on a single supplier.
‘No idea how I survived’: Briton tells of Air India crash
A 40-year-old passenger appears to have been the sole survivor among the 242 people on board the Dreamliner that crashed shortly after take off.
Chris Minns blows up Crown pokie dream at Sydney casino
The NSW premier has ruled out lifting a restriction on pokies at Sydney’s second casino after a scathing report on failed harm minimisation.
If AUKUS falls over, Australia is left with very little indeed
For the past three years, Labor’s national security team has steadfastly insisted that it has no plan B. This Pentagon review will stress test that formula.
AI exec buys trader’s resort-style mansion in Palm Beach
In Sydney’s weekend hotspots of Palm Beach and Whale Beach, two contemporary mansions have traded ahead of the winter slowdown.
Fixing the ‘crisis’ of Australian universities
Higher education, in the words of one expert, is in “serious trouble”. Can Jason Clare, regarded as the nicest minister in Canberra, fix the system?
In Los Angeles chaos, Trump thinks he is on to a winner
Immigration raids in California have sparked nationwide protests, but Donald Trump surged to power promising to crack down on illegals and law and order. Will his base reward him?