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Yesterday

OceanGate co-founder and CEO Stockton Rush died in the submersible disaster.

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

The single-digit temperatures have arrived.

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.

Tony Ellwood, director of National Gallery Of Victoria, at the French Impressionism exhibition, which is on until October 5.

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.

Victoria is facing a gas supply crisis.

‘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.

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AFL’s new 2IC, Sydney Swans CEO Tom Harley, with another AFL recruit Brisbane Lions CEO Greg Swann (left) and AFL CEO Andrew Dillon (right).

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.

FILE - In this June 12, 2017, file photo, a Boeing 787 airplane being built for Norwegian Air Shuttle is shown at Boeing Co.'s assembly facility, in Everett, Wash. Boeing is dealing with a new production problem involving its 787 jet, in which inspections have found flaws in the way that sections of the rear of the plane were joined together. Boeing said Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020, it's not an immediate safety risk but could cause the planes to age prematurely. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

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.

Rhema Tieu with her Mitsubishi EV.

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.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Donald Trump in the Oval Office in April.

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.

Architectural render of the Glasshouse penthouse in Burleigh Heads.

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’s Karratha gas plant, North West Shelf project.

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.

Displaced Palestinians walk past the ruins of destroyed buildings along the Gaza City shoreline on Monday, June 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

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.

Donald Trump says he has a “deal” with Xi Jinping. But what Trump calls a “deal” is invariably just a way station to the next fight.

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.

Air India crash

‘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.

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NSW Premier Chris Minns at Barangaroo

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.

Critics of Jason Clare say his attention must now turn to the university sector.

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?

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