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The ICAC is investigating a blow-out in spending on contractors under former building unit head Anthony Manning (front).

A new boss, his buddies and a $2.6 billion cash splash: Inside the ICAC probe into School Infrastructure

The ICAC is investigating a unit that insiders say “pushed the boundaries” when it came to department rules.

  • Michael McGowan and Lucy Carroll

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Lee Jae-myung on the campaign trail this week.

He’s survived slums, sweatshops and a stabbing. Now this leader has to survive Donald Trump

When the US president launched his global trade war in April, South Korea was hamstrung, frozen by political turmoil. And a key industry was in the firing line.

  • Lisa Visentin
Fusarium graminearum.

‘Gravest national security concerns’: Chinese students charged in US with smuggling fungus

Prosecutors say the two, who were a couple, tried to bring “a potential agro-terrorism weapon” into “the heartland of America” and may have previously snuck in material hidden in their shoe.

  • Devlin Barrett
Vladimir Putin speaks to China’s President Xi Jinping during the Victory Day parade in Moscow.

Putin gave him ice-cream. Xi says they’re best friends. But this bromance has limits

The leaders of Russia and China have cultivated an image of affection that has alarmed Donald Trump, but not all is as it seems, analysts say.

  • Lisa Visentin
Elon Musk on tour with US President Donald Trump in Doha, Qatar, earlier this month.

How Elon Musk’s Starlink enables a multibillion-dollar online scam industry

Looking across the Moei River from Thailand, you can see them on the distant Myanmar rooftops – dozens of white rectangles, arranged in clusters. They’re a warning sign for what could be lurking underneath.

  • Zach Hope and Kate Geraghty
Defence Minister Richard Marles has backed in a speech by his US counterpart Pete Hegseth in which he declared America’s commitment to the Indo-Pacific and warned China posed a real and potentially imminent threat.

‘Peace through strength’: Marles backs Hegseth after ‘stark’ China warning

Australia’s defence minister has endorsed a blistering address by his US counterpart warning Beijing that America is ready to “fight and win decisively” if it seeks military conflict over Taiwan.

  • Lisa Visentin
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US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth speaking in Singapore on Saturday.

‘Real and could be imminent’: Hegseth warns on China threat, says US ready to fight

In a blistering address to Indo-Pacific security officials, the US defence secretary warned China that America is ready to “fight and win decisively” if it seeks military conflict over Taiwan.

  • Lisa Visentin
Peng Yujiang, 55, flew nearly 8600 metres above sea level. He was apparently a victim of what paragliders call cloud suck, in which they are rapidly drawn upwards.

‘My hands were frozen’: A paraglider soared nearly 9km high – by accident

Peng Yujiang, 55, had set out simply to test some equipment, but a dangerous cloud phenomenon sucked him up to levels on par with Mount Everest’s summit.

  • Ephrat Livni
Trucks from Russia and Belarus wait for custom clearance at a parking lot in Manzhouli, a Chinese town on the border of Russia.

Giant dolls, an empty theme park and semi-trailers: The tourist trap that’s now a lifeline for Russia

We arrive in Manzhouli a day before Xi Jinping is to meet Vladimir Putin in Moscow. It’s a ghost town, where bored attendants man empty rides. But a dusty carpark nearby tells the real story.

  • Lisa Visentin

‘Be very realistic’: Defence expert on the new world order – and Indonesia’s rise

Professor Hugh White, our leading defence and intelligence analyst, discusses Australia’s national security in the shadow of Trump’s foreign policy shift.

  • Greg Callaghan

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