Australia’s longstanding bipartisan support for Israel has been stretched to breaking point after Anthony Albanese used a parliamentary tribute to October 7 victims to decry the conflict’s broader toll in Gaza and Lebanon, triggering a bitter split with the Coalition.
Labor’s proposed bipartisan motion has been bitterly rejected by Peter Dutton who is looking to pin down Anthony Albanese as his government loses support.
Until last week, Yaari Vigder’s world had been a picture of happiness. He lived with his fitness instructor wife and baby boy in the historic port city of Jaffa. A terror attack changed everything.
Two of the nation’s leading Jewish groups have sought public commitments from Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton for the major parties to preference each other over the Greens at the next election.
High-profile restaurateur Alan Yazbek has been revealed as the protester arrested after allegedly holding up a swastika sign at a pro-Palestine rally.
Tassie Senator Jacqui has revealed figures that show Canberra’s Qantas bias is more than mere rumour and the flying kangaroo’s Chairman’s Lounge is a particular favourite.
Richard White’s alleged lover Linda Rogan claims he expected sex for investment in her wellness business, court documents reveal.
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In its wishy-washy approach to the Middle East crisis, the Albanese government is not alone in failing to understand the dire implications of the barbaric October 7 slaughter of Jews and subsequent events.
One year after the brutal Hamas attack that ended Israel’s two-decade golden age of relative peace, expanding wealth and growing diplomatic ties, the country is now firmly on the counter-attack and preparing to be at war for years.
While the Jews had faced the Third Reich, times have changed – and ‘never again’ isn’t only a slogan. What does that mean in practice? Simply put, Israel’s gruesome epiphany could ultimately lead to the obliteration of Iran.
Only in the last two days have two senior Ministers clearly enunciated that Israel has the right to respond and that Australian Jews are suffering the most because of social divisions.
The Reserve Bank has opened the door to potential interest rate cuts by the year’s end if the economy worsens yet has warned of upside risks to inflation that could trigger rate rises.
Big investors are preparing to play in China again, but the wild swings are not for the faint hearted.
Microsoft’s AI assistant saves workers an average of about 20 hours a month allowing them to concentrate on important work. But a debate has emerged about how to share those time savings.
Australia’s biggest health insurer says more staff are “willing to go above and beyond” as part of a new program allowing staff to work four days per week with no loss of pay.
The $2bn Melbourne-based funds manager has paid more than $100m to purchase three Bannisters resorts which house two chic seafood restaurants operated by the world-famous British chef.
WA’s ombudsman has resigned after the state’s Corruption and Crime Commission found he had created a ‘sham’ process to approve his own extensive travel to destinations around the world.
Top Iranian figures in Australia have called on the federal government to list the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organisation and to expel Tehran’s ambassador.
Building unions have signed up more than 600 companies to a CFMEU 21 per cent pay deal in Victoria.
Crossbencher Robbie Katter will move to immediately introduce legislation to overhaul Queensland’s abortion laws after the state election in a move that could trigger another conscience vote on the reforms.
Jayson Gillham is suing the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in the Federal Court, with a trial likely to be scheduled in March next year if mediation fails.
Prosecutors urgently launch an appeal and consider charging rapist Christian Brueckner of murdering Madeleine McCann after German legal shock.
The likely successor of Hassan Nasrallah, the assassinated leader of terrorist group Hezbollah, is likely to have been killed by the IDF in an airstrike last week.
Bound by wrenching misery, this community of survivors amassed in the dark for this saddest of reunions, waiting until exactly 6:29am – the moment when a final song that had been playing at the Nova festival was cut off due to the incoming rocket fire.
Israel is fighting on every front, anti-Israel protests are global, diplomatic pressure on Israel is building and its allies are losing patience. Division and mistrust between Muslim, Jewish and other populations are growing around the world. There is only one way to turn it around.
Raw footage, running for about 45 minutes, captures the unspeakable horror of October 7: innocent people being murdered, beheaded, hunted down, raped, kicked, bashed, burnt alive. Here’s what Australia’s leaders had to say when I asked if they had seen it.
Since the October 7 attacks, Australian values have been traduced. What is happening affects the entire country and the collective impact is profound.
If Bernie Sanders and Dick Cheney can agree, they can’t possibly be wrong—or right, for that matter.
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On the anniversary of the October 7 massacre of Israelis by Hamas, Donald Trump has urged all Jews to back him in November, arguing he’s ‘done more than any other president’ for Israel.
The statistics on convicted murderers cited by the Republican nominee include cases from his administration.
From the runways at Paris to Bondi on a summer’s day, thongs are having a (nother) moment. Best warn your podiatrist.
The popular white variety gets serious with these highly-rated wines from four of Australia’s leading regions – offered at a special one-off price.
He’s stepped off the Succession set and got behind the desk to deliver a ‘scary’ message to workers.
For the powerhouse behind some of Australia’s best known brands, regularly escaping to the country with her young family provides a necessary respite.
Eager passengers rush to book the best tours and dining tables the minute they’re released. Don’t stress – there’s another way.
These exotic alternatives to Europe’s well-sailed waterways deliver the gentle pleasures of river cruising with a dose of adventure.
These harbour hubs are drenched in stirring relics of war, religious landmarks and other echoes of the past.
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The new Mercedes-AMG GT 63 isn’t just huge, it’s ridiculously loud and fast, hitting 100km/h in just 3.2 seconds. It’s mad and completely out of tune with the times – and I love it.
The hit musical Hamilton has attracted criticism for taking artistic licence with history. But one star of the local production is having none of it.
There’s a smile but no service when a traditional drinker meets the inflexible rules of modern ‘hospitality’ culture.
Attica chef Ben Shewry has attracted big-name support for his evisceration of food critics and restaurant guides, including from one of the world’s most celebrated superchefs.
She was labelled a ‘communist rebel’, a ‘revolutionary’ whose modern dance style was ‘ugly’. But Elizabeth Dalman outlasted them all to build Australian Dance Theatre into a beloved national institution.
In a stunning development in the battle for the 18th NRL licence, the Western Bears have had their bid to join the league rejected by Peter V’landys and the ARL Commission, opening the door for the NRL to take control of a new team in Perth.
Just ten days on from the end of his time at the Sydney Roosters Joey Manu is back in training – watch as he comes to grips with the challenges of Japanese rugby.
At the risk of being made look foolish again, DEAN RITCHIE claims 2025 will mark the end of the Penrith Panthers dynasty, with the tyranny of travel and lack of home ground just the start of the issues that club must conquer.
The World Club Challenge will remain the only trophy unclaimed by the all-conquering Panthers, with Penrith’s management telling the NRL there’s ‘no way in the world’ the club can play the prestigious annual match.
Penrith players ditched the party attire for suits and ties for their end-of-season presentation night, where co-captain Isaah Yeo took top honours. See the full awards plus the best photos from the evening.
Pressure is ramping up on Peter V’landys and the ARL Commission to intervene in the shocking omission of Dally M winner Olivia Kernick from the Jillaroos squad.
Vacancy rates are critically low and house prices continue to soar. We need a novel way of thinking to build the houses we need.
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Russian gunrunner Viktor Bout was traded in 2022 for US basketball star Brittney Griner.
The supreme leader was left shaken by the assassination of Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah, his friend and ally-in-chief. The Islamic Republic has never looked weaker.
The ASX-listed travel business will relaunch its corporate meetings and events business to position it for global opportunities as Australian companies look to spend big on conferences.
In a positive sign for the proposed Qatar-Virgin deal, Qatar Airways has answered a call from Australia to help bring Aussies home from Lebanon.
An arts degree will cost students just under $17,000 a year, which makes medicine and dentistry a bargain at $13,000. There are ways to address this, just not politically easy ones.
A three-year university project that seeks to disprove the ‘protectionist myth’ that Australia is ‘an island continent girt by sea’ has been awarded nearly half a million dollars as part of a grant program that no longer allows for government vetoes.
The ratings for the closely-fought match between the Panthers and the Melbourne Storm were up on last year’s NRL centrepiece but were easily outstripped by the TV audience for the lopsided AFL Grand Final a week earlier.
The taxpayer-funded broadcaster’s watchdog received more than a dozen complaints about an article that readers claimed was ‘too sympathetic to Hezbollah’.
Queensland government fund manager QIC has sold off Sydney’s Westpoint Shopping Centre to Haben and a US group.
Tinkering with property taxes drives investors out of the market – it’s just happened in New Zealand and now Canberra is looking at a very similar picture.
The draft Scam Prevention Framework could penalise telcos for abiding by one code while breaking another, the Communications Alliance has warned.
TPG Telecom is targeting apartment owners with its cheap and fast broadband offering – some 10 times faster than the NBN – that is achieved by ‘hot-rodding up’ old copper wire.
Americans Gary Ruvkun and Victor Ambros have won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Medicine for their groundbreaking discovery of genetic switches that exist across the tree of life.
The recovery of some whale species amid massive increases in shipping is creating a new threat for the leviathans – and one that could mean changes to Australian shipping.
If cooking a whole fish isn’t an option but you love the sound of this recipe, thick white fish fillets will work wonderfully.
Legend has it these cookies were created by an Italian chef for royalty in the mid-1800s. The two small, round biscuits come together with a chocolate filling – a perfect kiss.
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