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Dutton: Coalition will beat Labor’s proposed Medicare spending with $9bn pledge

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has declared he will match the government’s healthcare vow and inject an extra $500m into mental health support, after Anthony Albanese revived Labor’s Mediscare campaign at a rally earlier on Sunday.

Greg Brown and Noah Yim

Bulk billing incentive is no cure for health system ills

Bulk billing incentives will be welcome news for many patients but run the risk of rewarding six-minute medicine and move against the direction needed for serious reform of the health system.

Natasha Robinson

Health Editor

commentaryCommentary

Reflections on Pope Francis as his papacy draws to a close

Pope Francis is gravely ill. He is 88 years old and many years ago already lost part of one lung. Over the last few years, he’s been increasingly frail. A good man, a man of God, is coming to the end of his journey.

Greg Sheridan

Foreign Editor

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EXCLUSIVEBusiness40 minutes ago

Cost of living derails retirement hopes

More than half of working Australians don’t expect to build up enough of a nest egg by the time they leave the workforce, according to a new survey from Colonial First State.

Cliona O'Dowd

’decision will be made’World

Israel delays freeing Palestinian prisoners over ‘humiliating’ hostage release ceremonies

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the ceasefire deal freeing Palestinian prisoners will be delayed until Hamas ends ceremonies it holds while handing over Israeli hostages.

Agencies

InquirerInquirer

DAILY TELEGRAPH OCTOBER 9, 2023Pro-Palestine supporters are rallying at Sydney Town Hall as the conflict between Israel and Palestinians escalates. They marched form Town Hall to the Sydney Opera House. Picture: David Swift

The genteel martyrdom of Israel haters

Daniel Pipes

WealthBusiness

No one knows where interest rates are heading

It’s time to call your bank and whine

SCOTT PAPE

Conservative Political Action ConferenceUS Politics

OXON HILL, MARYLAND - FEBRUARY 22: U.S. President Donald Trump reacts to the crowd while arriving at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort Hotel and Convention Center on February 22, 2025 in Oxon Hill, Maryland. The annual four-day gathering brings together conservative U.S. lawmakers, international leaders, media personalities and businessmen to discuss and champion conservative ideas. Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by WIN MCNAMEE / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

‘Daddy’s home’: Trump gets rock star welcome at CPAC

AFP

NRL

Operation Vegas: The jaw-dropping numbers behind the NRL in the US

Adam Mobbs

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AviationAviation

Has Virgin stolen the Qantas crown?

After playing second fiddle for so long, Virgin Australia has claimed two key victories over Qantas this week. So is the smaller airline now the bigger success story? HAVE YOUR SAY

Robyn Ironside

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MAGAZINEThe Weekend Australian Magazine

The professor with the reading level of a primary school student

Keith Houghton rose to the top of academia to become the dean of business and economics at ANU. For 40 years he battled dyslexia in complete secret – this is what he’d do differently.

Tim Dodd

A beautiful marine iguana is standing still on the rocks enjoying the sun bath at San Cristobal in the Galapagos Islands Ecuador.

Cruising evolutionTravel

Face to face with the ‘pirates’ of the Galapagos

This cruise brings you in close contact with all the weird and wonderful wildlife of the famed islands in Ecuador.

RICKY FRENCH

Commentary

The arts belong to all, not just left’s ‘luvvies’

To have Australia represented at the “Olympics of the art world” by somebody who glorified the leader of the Hezbollah terrorists should have been beyond consideration.

Colin Lillie

Scapegoating is an ugly tactic in politics — but it works

Fear of the Other is a winning formula: it gets column inches, inflames grievance, unites a group in a sense of indignant rancour. It’s ugly psychology, and it’s un-Australian.

Nikki Gemmell

‘It’s the culture, stupid’: How the West can be re-won

Rebuilding Western civilisation in an age of disruption and disunity was the main focus at the 2025 ARC meeting in London.

Paul Kelly

Editor-At-Large

Trump’s Putin play horrifies Europe and Ukraine

Donald Trump and his team have taken complete ownership of peace negotiations with Vladimir Putin. But the manner in which they have kickstarted this process has left Ukraine and the rest of Europe horrified.

Cameron Stewart

Chief International Correspondent

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HEART OF THE NATIONThe Weekend Australian Magazine

‘I go to Spotlight and battle 10-year-old girls for the chintziest fabric’

Gerwyn Davies has a unique schtick as an artist: he wrangles gaudy materials into fantastic sculptural costumes then photographs himself in situ. What do bystanders make of it?

Ross Bilton

GARDENSThe Weekend Australian Magazine

Good as gold: why spurges are perfect for coastal gardens

EMBARGO FOR TWAM, 22 FEBRUARY 2025. FEE MAY APPLY. Euphorbia plans next to a bench. Photo: Timothy Cuenat / Unsplash

These plants are stalwarts of Mediterranean, coastal and waterwise gardens, best in full sun, resilient to pests and diseases, and are low maintenance.

Helen Young

The Weekend Australian Magazine

King of the hill

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Commanding sweeping views over its 50ha in the Sunshine Coast hinterland, this hilltop property is for sale at $3.9 million-plus.

Michelle Singer

commentaryArts

Read my hilarious T-shirt and weep

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Despite what their owners might think, there’s nothing funny about slogans on clothing.

Steve Waterson

Spotlight

Nation

Trump vs Zelensky

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Apple unveils new ‘affordable’ and greener iPhone

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INQUIRERInquirer

Kemi Badenoch: Nigeria to Britain with love and politics

After the 2024 poll trouncing and under pressure by Reform, Badenoch aims to show Brits the Tories ‘are under new leadership’.

Greg Sheridan

INQUIRERInquirer

Beware: the election could throw up a parliamentary flea circus

Paul Keating rightly called the upper house ‘unrepresentative swill’ and it has become only increasingly unrepresentative as more independents and minor parties wallow in the slops. Now we risk turning the house of government into the same godawful mess.

Chris Kenny

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INQUIRERInquirer

It’s come to this: can Albanese save Labor’s furniture?

This week’s rates cut by the Reserve Bank were welcome – but will they be enough to save Anthony Albanese’s government?

Dennis Shanahan

18 February 2025; Interest rates cut in retro style, Jim Chalmers, Michele Bullock and Anthony Albanese. Sources: NewsWire Artwork by: Frank Ling. Ratio 4:3 For DIGITAL.

inquirerInquirer

RBA’s rate cut won’t cure the Great Australian Malaise

The brutal truth? Cheaper money and government cash splashes won’t get us out of stagnation or make our economy more dynamic.

Tom Dusevic

Magazine

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MAGAZINEThe Weekend Australian Magazine

‘Why is the wife of the UK Tory Party treasurer funding struggling Aussie artists?’

Philanthropist Georgia Black is determined to give Australian artists and performers the international recognition they deserve – and she’s prepared to bankroll the cause herself.

Ariela Bard

Artist Kathy Temin with artwork from her exhibition at Heide Museum.

Q&AThe Weekend Australian Magazine

’Kanye treated me well … but that was before his vile remarks’

Kathy Temin’s in-demand soft sculptures have taken her to some strange places – including James Turrell’s Roden Crater – but none more unexpected than the home of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian.

Ariela Bard

Round black and white clock with both the hour hand and minute hand almost pointing to 12 o'clock. Illustration of the concept of due date, deadline, countdown and doomsday

tick, tick, tickThe Weekend Australian Magazine

Midnight on the Doomsday Clock looms. Will we ever learn?

More pandemics, old and new, are in the wind. A war is raging on Europe’s doorstep. And joy of joys, Donald Trump has secured a second term in the Failed Sate of the US. It seems the only thing we learn from history is how to repeat it.

Phillip Adams

MOTORINGThe Weekend Australian Magazine

This can’t be a supercar — it’s far too easy for a tall, fat bloke to get in

Driving a supercar was once akin to taking control of a monster that runs on a combination of molten lava and absinthe. In this McLaren Artura Spider, it all feels a bit too accessible.

Jeremy Clarkson

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MAGAZINEThe Weekend Australian Magazine

Capturing Australia’s animal magic

Two decades of amazing wildlife photography are showcased in the 20 Years of Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year exhibition | PICTURE ESSAY

Ross Bilton

Review

Gill Hicks's show, Still Alive (and Kicking) is being performed at the 2025 Adelaide Fringe Festival and at the 20th anniversary commemoration of the terrorist bombings in July 2025. Picture - Benjamin Liew

GOING UNDERGROUNDReview

London bombings survivor Gill Hicks takes story to the stage

Gill Hicks, who lost her legs in the deadly 7/7 London terrorist attacks, is staging a searingly personal show at Adelaide Fringe Festival and at a 20th anniversary commemoration in the UK.

Rosemary Neill

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NO CRYING GAMEReview

He’s Ireland’s solo powerhouse … but don’t ask him about his ex-wife

Beloved actor Stephen Rea is bringing his brilliant staging of Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape to the Adelaide Festival. As is standard for anyone interviewing this national treasure, I’ve been instructed not to ask questions about Dolours Price.

Jane Cornwell

VISUAL ARTSReview

Noel Counihan’s political art was dramatic, but changed nothing

Noel Counihan, The cough...stone dust 1947, from the series The miners, linocut; edition 34/50, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Purchased 1974, Image courtesy of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

The artist’s pieces certainly stand out, but there’s little evidence their messages changed the opinions of Australians in the Depression, World War II and Cold War eras.

Christopher Allen

first watchReview

This cult classic is finally available to binge watch

Homicide: Life on the Street still looks innovative and only slightly dated – and is as dramatically satisfying as it was first time around.

Graeme Blundell

Watch

Belle Gibson, Apple Cider Vinegar, and the Truth Behind the Lies

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Belle Gibson, Apple Cider Vinegar, and the Truth Behind the Lies

Family of accused nurse responds to anti-Semitic remarks

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How Trumps tariffs will tear apart neighbouring cities

Business

BankingFinancial Services

New Westpac boss shakes up consumer bank

*** EMBARGOED UNTIL DECEMBER 16TH 2024*** SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos DECEMBER 5, 2024: New Westpac CEO Anthony Miller on Thursday. Picture: NewsWire / Nikki Short

Westpac’s new CEO Anthony Miller is yet to completely lock down a new-look executive bench, but has moved to reorganise key parts of the bank’s consumer and business units.

Joyce Moullakis

exclusiveBusiness55 minutes ago

Private credit critics ‘miss the point’

11/2/25: Juan Delgado, Co-CEO of global fund manager Hamilton Lane. John Feder/The Australian.

Australian investors want more exposure to private markets, even as warnings rise. Hamilton Lane boss Juan Delgado says low default rates show the strength of private credit.

Cliona O'Dowd

COMMENTARYMarketsAn hour ago

Investing amid volatility during Trump’s second term

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 20: Traders work on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) floor on February 20, 2025 in New York City. The Dow fell over 400 points as investors remain concerned about tariffs and uncertainties with continued inflation. Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by SPENCER PLATT / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

As we step further into 2025, financial markets are grappling with a rapidly evolving landscape, raising fundamental questions about economic growth, inflation and investment strategies.

Charlie Jamieson

CommentaryEconomics

Only recession can make ‘ruthless’ Victoria great again

General views of Melbourne from Eureka Tower. Friday, November 8. 2024. Picture: David Crosling Aerial, Generic Melbourne

Not all is lost. Victoria has a clear competitive advantage across four world-beating exports and these mines won’t run dry. But first there will be pain.

Eric Johnston

MarketsMarkets

Results season unravels as earnings expectations dashed

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA : NewsWire Photos - SEPTEMBER 30 2024 ; A general view of the digital boards at the ASX in Sydney. Picture: NewsWire / Gaye Gerard

Corporate profits look to have bottomed but a long-waited recovery may be delayed, with banks disappointing and resources companies cutting dividends.

David Rogers

ExclusiveCompanies

Top Gupta director Patel quits InfraBuild board

A trusted lieutenant of Sanjeev Gupta has quit the board of steel products company InfraBuild, as the British industrial magnate reels from losing control of Whyalla.

Perry Williams and Nick Evans

Health & Wellbeing

LAUNCESTON, TASMANIA, NewsWire Photos. 23 FEBRUARY, 2025. Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese makes a major speech about Laborâs plan to Build Australiaâs Future and Strengthening Medicare. Picture: NewsWire/ Scott Gelston

Bulk Billing pushPolitics

Dutton will ‘cut Medicare off at the knees’: PM

Anthony Albanese has accused Peter Dutton of planning on ‘cutting bulk billing off at the knees’, as he ramps up his claims a Coalition government would dismantle Medicare after pledging $8.5bn for taxpayer-funded doctor visits.

Greg Brown

Rural Australians are making the case for a better health service, pitching for a national plan. Picture: Frank Ling

‘RAW DEAL’Health

‘We’re treating people like lepers’: Rural Australia wants a better health deal

Rural Australians are making the case for a better health service, pitching for a national plan. Will they be heard above the noise of a federal election campaign?

Steve Robson

Sarah Wheeler rides across NSW and Queensland

Outback Long Ridewellbeing

After a double tragedy, Sarah Wheeler found purpose in grief

Driven by sorrow but also determination, Sarah Wheeler embarked on a charity horseback ride 290 days ago. On Saturday, she returns home.

Penny Timms

Homemade oatzempic drink of oat milk and lime in a glass on the table

EXPLAINERHealth

Oatzempic: it’s famous on TikTok but should you try the weight-loss ‘miracle’ drink?

The DIY beverage made from oats, water, cinnamon and lime juice has amassed over 40 million views on TikTok for its rumoured health benefits. Here’s what the experts say.

PETA BEE

Amanda Duncan, the nurse who blew the whistle on the boss of the Launceston General Hospital for allegedly altering death certificates to avoid coronial investigations.Hobart Tasmania13/02/2025photo - Peter Mathew

Inside storyHealth

Courage of the sister: uncovering one of medicine’s most confounding scandals

The nurse who uncovered years of serious failings at the Launceston General Hospital had a deeply personal reason to advocate for patients. Amanda Duncan’s sister had needed someone just like her.

Christine Middap

EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND - AUGUST 12: Giles Yeo attends a photocall during Edinburgh International Book Festival 2019 on August 12, 2019 in Edinburgh, Scotland. (Photo by Simone Padovani/Awakening/Getty Images)

‘just the beginning’Health

What really makes us hungry?

Little has been understood about what goes on in the brain’s ‘appetite control centre’. The first cell map of the human hypothalamus, though, is set to supercharge future weight loss drugs.

Natasha Robinson

SYDNEY WRITERHealth

How swimming helped me overcome a stroke at age 26

When the novelist Emilia Hart became seriously ill at 26, she stopped trusting her own body — until she started visiting her local pool.

EMILIA HART

MEET THE TEAM

Bronwyn

Beverley Brooker, right, at a gathering for her 50th birthday.

exclusiveNation

Murder suspect Winfield’s ‘breach’ over will role

Jon Winfield may have breached his obligations as executor in the will of a woman who left him a shock multimillion-dollar inheritance, by delaying a payment to a second beneficiary.

David Murray

Clockwise from left: Cathy Hardy, left, with her cousin Beverley Brooker in 2017; Brooker at a gathering for her 50th birthday; Jon Winfield. Picture: Supplied/Liam Mendes

exclusiveNation

‘Devious’ Winfield faces windfall challenge

A multimillion-dollar inheritance received by murder suspect Jon Winfield could be in jeopardy after a former sole beneficiary heard of developments in the Bronwyn podcast | NEW EPISODE

David Murray

Jon Winfield, suspect in the disappearance of his wife; and Beverley Brooker, who left Mr Winfield most of her estate.

ExclusiveNation

Frequent house calls by suspect raised concerns

Frequent visits by Jon Winfield, the longtime suspect in the disappearance of his wife Bronwyn, to the home of a terminally ill woman had aroused suspicions of Lennox Head residents.

David Murray

Bronwyn podcastNation

‘Control freak ruined our sister’s funeral’

Only eight people showed up to the Ballina funeral of Beverley Brooker, a woman born and bred in the northern NSW town and who worked there her whole life, but it was still too many for Jon Winfield.

David Murray

exclusiveNation

Murder suspect Winfield’s ‘breach’ over will role

exclusiveNation

‘Devious’ Winfield faces windfall challenge

ExclusiveNation

Frequent house calls by suspect raised concerns

Bronwyn podcastNation

‘Control freak ruined our sister’s funeral’

Travel

Expert guideTravel

From penises to punk: five must-see Icelandic museums

Reykjavik’s museums explore an intriguing blend of Icelandic history, culture – and anatomy.

Penny Hunter

Holiday financesTravel

How much?! Our passport is now the most expensive in the world

Passport of Australia on the pile of different passports. Immigration concept. Australian passport. 3d illustration

Heading to the post office to get my passport renewed, I got a nasty shock. I could not believe how much it cost to get an Australian travel document.

Milanda Rout

DIGITAL DETOXTravel

Biohacking and brain bootcamps: has wellness travel gone too far?

A cluster of nature-focused retreats are touting a simpler road to wellbeing free of maddening technology. Their refreshing approach sees the return of mountain hikes, nourishing meals and a slower pace.

Alice Cavanagh

Chill in styleTravel

The only place in NZ you can camp on a glacier

Camping on the glacier with Franz Josef Glacier Guides in New Zealand.

For exclusivity, isolation, views and a guaranteed chill-out ambience, nothing comes near this unique South Island glamping experience.

Jeremy Bourke

Sport

LAHORE, PAKISTAN - FEBRUARY 22: Josh Inglis of Australia celebrates his century during the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 match between Australia and England at Gaddafi Stadium on February 22, 2025 in Lahore, Pakistan. (Photo by Sameer Ali/Getty Images)

Cricket

‘Long gone’: Aussie hero’s added England barb after stunning win

Josh Inglis hit a maiden century to help Australia chase down the highest target in Champions Trophy history – and then rubbed salt into England’s wounds with a pointed barb.

Wires

TOPSHOT - Australia's Josh Inglis plays a shot during the ICC Champions Trophy one-day international (ODI) cricket match between Australia and England at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore on February 22, 2025. (Photo by Aamir QURESHI / AFP)

Cricket5 minutes ago

How Langer ultimatum launched Australia’s next Ashes superstar

Australia may have unearthed their next Ashes superstar – and they have former coach Justin Langer to thank for it. Here’s the inside story on how Josh Inglis turned his back on England.

Ben Horne

Cricket

Ponting urges patience as Konstas discovers Test identity

Cricket legend Ricky Ponting has revealed the step Sam Konstas must take to cement his place in Test cricket, but is backing the young star’s selection for the World Test Championship final.

Simeon Thomas-Wilson

Japanâs Fuka Nagano (L) reacts as she gets tangled with Australiaâs Mary Fowler during the SheBelieves Cup football match between Japan and Australia at Shell Energy Stadium in Houston, Texas, on February 20, 2025. (Photo by Mark Felix / AFP)

FootballFootball5 minutes ago

Honesty session readies Matildas for US clash

A players-only honesty session in the wake of their humiliating 4-0 loss to Japan has the Matildas primed for their key SheBelieves Cup clash against the US in Glendale, Arizona on Monday.

Emma Greenwood

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 22: Jagga Smith of the Blues limps from the field during the 2025 AFL match simulation between the Carlton Blues and St Kilda Saints at Ikon Park on February 22, 2025 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Michael Willson/AFL Photos via Getty Images)

AFL44 minutes ago

Brutal injury to top draft pick rocks Blues

Carlton have been dealt a cruel blow weeks out from the 2025 season, with prized draft pick Jagga Smith set to be on ice for the entire year.

Jay Clark

Lewis Dodd has not had a great start to his NRL career.

NRL15 minutes ago

Buzz’s highlights, lowlights: Rabbitohs’ recruiting woes exposed

Alarm bells should be ringing at the Rabbitohs, Josh Addo-Carr’s lucky escape for some sideline sledging and more in Phil Rothfield’s highlights and lowlights from the week in sport.

Phil Rothfield

Daily Cartoon

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Johannes Leak cartoons

The Nation

Peopleâs Liberation Army-Navy Jiangkai-class frigate Hengyang. *** Local Caption *** As part of Australiaâs whole-of-government maritime border protection efforts, Defence routinely monitors all maritime traffic in our Exclusive Economic Zone and maritime approaches. Australia respects the right of all states under international law to exercise freedom of navigation and overflight in international waters and airspace, just as we expect others to respect our right to do the same. Picture: ADF

Diplomatic complaintDefence

‘Disconcerting’: Australia confronts China over live weapons exercise

The Albanese government has lodged a diplomatic protest with Beijing over a live weapons drill between Australia and New Zealand, as the Defence Minister reveals China is yet to give a ‘satisfactory’ explanation.

Ben Packham, Will Glasgow and Amelia Swan

One Aussie state’s lucrative salmon industry has been thrown a $37m lifeline, after facing years of uncertainty and added scrutiny from conservation groups.

FISHINGNewsWire

Lifeline thrown to Aussie salmon workers

One Aussie state’s lucrative salmon industry has been thrown a $37m lifeline, after facing years of uncertainty and added scrutiny from conservation groups.

Emma Kirk

20-02-2025 - Dr Mohamed Ghilan at St Vincent's Community Rehabilitation Centre Kew on Thursday. Picture: Liam Mendes / The Australian

exclusiveNation

Job rehab for Hamas fan doctor

Liam Mendes

A Slater and Gordon billboard is seen outside their office in Melbourne on Wednesday, December 6, 2017. Slater and Gordon shareholders have approved a lifeline for the troubled law firm, voting to back a recapitalisation plan at a meeting in Melbourne. (AAP Image/Luis Enrique Ascui) NO ARCHIVING

law firmLegal Affairs

Law firm slams explosive email as hoax

Ellie Dudley and Stephen Rice

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA. NewsWire Photos. FEBRUARY 21, 2025. Federal Minister Tony Burke at the citizenship ceremony at Sydney Olympic Park. Picture: NewsWire / Jeremy Piper

election 2025Nation

Mayors, Coalition blast ‘vote buying’ in citizenship ceremonies

Alexi Demetriadi and Geoff Chambers

World

(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on February 20, 2025 shows posters bearing the portraits of Israeli hostages Shiri Bibas (C) and her two children Ariel (L) and Kfir (R), held in the Gaza Strip since the October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas militants, set up on a square outside the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, on January 21, 2025. Hamas is due to hand over the bodies of four hostages on February 20, including those of the Bibas family, who have become symbols of the hostage crisis that has gripped Israel since the Gaza war broke out. The transfer of the bodies is the first such handover of remains by Hamas since its October 7, 2023 attack on Israel triggered the war. (Photo by AFP)

‘News we feared the most’World

Kibbutz confirms death of Israeli hostage Shiri Bibas

An Israeli kibbutz confirmed the death of Shiri Bibas, as Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to make Hamas pay for a ‘mix-up’ that resulted in the wrong remains being returned.

AFP

President Donald Trump. Picture: Nathan Howard/Reuters

insiders’ wordThe Wall Street Journal

White House and Ukraine close in on deal for mineral rights

The agreement, sought by the Trump administration for military aid, could help resolve the flare-up of tensions between President Zelensky and Donald Trump.

Alan Cullison, Alexander Ward and James Marson

In an image released on February 20, 2025, Israeli soldiers carry the coffins of deceased hostages Oded Lifschitz, Shiri Bibas and her two children Kfir and Ariel Bibas, who were kidnapped during the deadly October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas, and were handed over under the terms of a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, in the Gaza Strip. Picture: Government Press Office / GPO

remains unknownWorld

Cruellest twist of all: Kfir and Ariel home without mum

Cameron Stewart

TOPSHOT - White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks during the daily briefing in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 12, 2025. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)

Media fightbackMedia

News agency sues White House officials over access denial

AFP

(FILES) Pope Francis waves to the crowd during the weekly general audience at St Peter's Square in The Vatican on November 20, 2024. Pope Francis has "stable" conditions with his blood tests showing a "slight improvement", the Vatican said on February 19, 2025, as the 88-year-old pontiff undergoes ongoing treatment for bronchitis in both lungs. (Photo by Filippo MONTEFORTE / AFP)

ConclaveWorld

Cardinals gather as Pope lies ill

Tess Livingstone

Aviation

SCARBOROUGH SHOAL, SOUTH CHINA SEA - FEBRUARY 18: A Chinese Navy warship sails near the waters of Scarborough Shoal, as seen from aboard a Philippine Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources plane on February 18, 2025 in the South China Sea. A Chinese Navy helicopter nearly collided with a Philippine Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources plane in the latest flare-up of tensions between the two countries in the disputed waters. The incident occurred when the Chinese Navy deployed a helicopter to tail the Philippine civilian plane, which was conducting a routine maritime domain awareness flight over Scarborough Shoal, located within the Philippines' exclusive economic zone. (Photo by Ezra Acayan/Getty Images)

Chinese ‘live fire’ prompts airline flight path warnings, diversions

AviationAviation

Scoring Qantas rewards seats might be about to get easier

BRISBANE AUSTRALIA THURSDAY 19TH DECEMBER 2024 Generic picture of a QANTAS plane at the Brisbane International Airport Picture David Clark

It’s possible to find Qantas rewards seats to Europe during summer as the airline bumps up its reward program.

Tansy Harcourt

AviationAviation

Engine dramas put brakes on Air New Zealand

Air New Zealand will add eight Boeing 787-10 Dreamliners to its fleet from 2022. Picture: Supplied.

Air New Zealand’s half year results have been dealt a hefty blow from engine issues, keeping as many as 11 jets out of service at a time.

Robyn Ironside

Education

Rupinder Brar, left, and with Anthony Albanese at a private Toorak function.

College owner with ties to PM cops a lashing

‘victimhood’ cultureThe Times

Business dumps DEI but cultural guards cling to woke ideal

Australian art critic & author Robert Hughes in New York. P/

Universities and cultural establishments are where woke ideology is most deeply entrenched and will be hardest to shift.

James Marriott

Higher Education

Knowledge for nothing: women the winners in RMIT’s free tech diploma

Free Diploma of IT student, Vicki Kane, studies online from her home in Corryong in north-east Victoria.

RMIT University is offering a free IT degree for women and gender diverse students across Victoria.

Joanna Panagopoulos

Media

Time’s up for Nine over its woeful Domain grip

job cutsMedia

Axe falls at radio group Southern Cross Austereo

Southern Cross Media Group managing director and chief executive officer John Kelly.

Australian’s biggest radio network Southern Cross Austereo is set to axe dozens of jobs across the company, as it continues to cut costs in a challenging operating environment.

James Manning

SKY ANTI-SEMITISM SUMMITNation

Packer: ‘nurse footage beyond imagination’ | WATCH

## STRICT 21:00, 19/02/2025 embargo ## James Packer appearing on Sky News interview with Sharri Markson

James Packer says footage of two Sydney nurses threatening to kill Israeli patients is ‘beyond imagination’.

Joanna Panagopoulos

Property

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos SEPTEMBER 14 2023. Generic housing & real estate house generics. Pic shows a very old, characterful house for sale in Balmain. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Max Mason-Hubers

Domain takeover play unlikely to slow REA growth trajectory

PropertyProperty

Rising construction costs hit property market

Charter Hall's proposed Chifley South development in the Sydney CBD

Real estate funds giant Charter Hall says the property market upswing has begun, but fewer new buildings are being built as costs soar.

Ben Wilmot

LogisticsCommercial

Big-buying Irongate swings in behind the industrial and logistics sector

ISPT is selling the Interchange Industrial Estate in Narangba, Queensland

Property group Irongate is again making its mark with a series of lucrative industrial real estate plays.

Ben Wilmot

technology

Royobi electric mower v the petrol powered Victa

Electric dreams: Is the grass really greener?

‘Trump like Santa Claus’The Times

Xi readies army of tech hotshots to take on US

President Xi of China has stopped trying to rein in Chinese business power and instead is bolstering it. Image: The Times

The Chinese president spoke to the bosses of the largest technology companies, such as Huawei and DeepSeek, asking them to step up at this ‘prime time’.

Richard Spencer

Cost of livingTechnology

How to get a better deal at Telstra

Australia's largest mobile phone network Telstra is changing its plans with an aim to attract new customers and to entice current customers to upgrade their phones. Kirra Watson, 19, of Kewarra Beach, is upgrading her current Telstra plan with a new one. PICTURE: BRENDAN RADKE

Sick of paying through the roof for mobile plans at Telstra? Chief executive Vicki Brady says you can get a better deal. Here are the options.

Jared Lynch

Science

NASA is training humanity’s most powerful telescope on a “city-killing” asteroid to determine whether or not we need to brace for deep impact.

NASA upgrades risk of ‘city-killer’ asteroid hitting earth

‘Out of options’Nation

‘Confronting, tough’ decision to euthanise 90 whales

False killer whales stranded on a remote Tasmanian beach, near Arthur River, on the West Coast. Picture: NRE Tasmania

Attempts to rescue 90 surviving false killer whales stranded on a remote Tasmanian beach have failed, forcing authorities to make ‘tough, confronting’ choices.

Matthew Denholm

studyThe Times