Donald Trump has told Volodymyr Zelensky he ‘doesn’t have the cards’ in peace negotiations and accused him of disrespect in an explosive public row in the Oval Office, throwing any ceasefire deal into doubt | WATCH
Catholics around the world are deeply concerned at the latest update on the health of Pope Francis.
Anthony Albanese has been accused of ‘pork barrelling on steroids’, with the government’s $10bn Housing Australia Future Fund pouring funds into Labor marginal, battleground and target seats across the country.
Scientists fear that crucial insights into the origins of the human species will be lost if the planned reburial of thousands of ancient Aboriginal remains goes ahead in outback NSW.
The dystopian picture of an Albanese second act with major roles for Greens and teals may be just the scare campaign the Coalition needs. Yet we have to steel ourselves for the prospect that it could become our lived reality.
The expected circumnavigation of Australia by three Chinese warships will test the navy’s ability to maintain constant surveillance of the vessels, experts warn.
The wild and windy landscape of this part of the world provides an extraordinary challenge but it is incredibly rewarding. Here is how to do it.
For years she suffered from crippling mental illness. Then her partner – desperate to relieve her pain – performed a faecal microbiota transplant using a home enema kit. The nation’s foremost doctors say it could change medicine forever.
Australia is through to the Champions Trophy semi finals despite rain forcing play to be abandoned during their chase of Afghanistan’s target of 274 at Lahore.
Donald Trump’s inability to recognise the acronym AUKUS when asked about it in the Oval Office tell us a few home truths about where this deal – which is central to Australia’s defence planning – ranks in the President’s head.
Are we doing a disservice to women by ignoring their agency in relationships? Sexual power is nothing to sneeze at and the issue here is what flows from sexual freedom.
It might be the Prime Minister’s last stand, but taxpayers be warned: the big spending era will roll on.
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is an American satire and the characters are fictitious. But the film’s warning on what doesn’t make America great is very real.
Jack Ayoub is gay. But it doesn’t follow that he wants to be part of the trans lobby. Will the unionist and former federal ALP candidate be cancelled for his views?
He gave Nicole Kidman her big break – but the director let A-listers Russell Crowe, Brad Pitt and George Clooney slip through his fingers. And don’t even mention Timothée Chalamet …
The March increase in age pension and other Centrelink payments won’t be what Aussies expect. Here’s what you’re set to get.
And what colour is a blue whale’s skin? Pit your wits against Review’s resident Quizmaster.
Countries from Argentina to the US responded in solidarity to the deaths of Israel’s little Bibas boys. Here in Australia? Not a word in response from Anthony Albanese and Penny Wong to this heinous act.
In three decades of working closely with governments on defence strategy, I have never seen a prime minister less competent than Anthony Albanese at leading on national security.
DeepSeek’s introverted billionaire founder has suddenly become a pin-up for Beijing.
Free speech doesn’t mean making ourselves fish in a barrel for malign foreign powers.
Hand-mining sulphur from the crater of Indonesia’s Kawah Ijen volcano is some of the most dangerous and physically demanding work on earth – but for these miners the only way is up. | VIDEO
One Christmas, Robert Dessaix asked for the gift of a doll in a dress. Was he queer, gender fluid, or gender dysphoric? In a modern world that loves its labels he writes: ‘I was just a boy playing with a doll. Masculinity is infinitely nuanced’.
In our rigidly judgmental social order we have parents despairing at oddball children and teachers frustrated, but those kids’ singular minds should be recognised as gifts. There will be a Jeff Bezos or a Bill Gates among them.
In today’s world, in which many Australians are suffering the effects of a cost-of-living crisis, what is the hope on the horizon?
My story begins with a telly show I did half a century ago, when the ABC sent me to review an exhibition of Norman Lindsay’s paintings. Knowing little of art and less of Lindsay I was perfectly unqualified, but that didn’t stop me.
Robert De Niro has not hidden his contempt for the 45th and 47th president, who he has called an ‘idiot’, a ‘moron’ and a ‘clown’. He even said he would like to ‘punch him in the face’. His new series was written before the November election, but could not be more timely.
In Mickey 17, Parasite director Bong Joon Ho explores a sci-fi, parallel universe, where we die to save humanity, and bow down to a failed leader. It’s accuracy to modern times shocked even him, he tells us.
There’s plenty of heated debate in the lead-up to the 97th Oscars, which will include the first transgender woman nominated for best actress. Our film critic assesses the 10 main categories.
Countless war-weary Britons bought into clever advertising showing golden beaches and beautiful houses. In reality, many immigrants arrived Down Under to gross disappointment.
The golden rule is, don’t make deals without leverage. Star has none, leaving its board in the worst possible position to fight for survival.
Veolia is the one company in the world synonymous with the concept of turning waste into energy but the French firm looks to have lost its rights to run the only two commercial plants in Australia.
A classic slap fight is unfolding before our eyes between Mike and Annie Cannon-Brookes, the splitsville rich-listers trying to make each other blink over the carve-up of their $23bn estate.
The decision to delay a decision on whether to award an offshore development licence in NSW until after an election frees Labor from an issue that has proved contentious.
Seelan Nayagam believes a higher power rescued him from certain death as a teenager, and that escape now drives his passion for inclusion at global giant DXC Technology.
Widely varying calculations on how much you should have in super do little but confuse most investors – you need to do something different.
Everyone’s reason for choosing to freeze their eggs is different. Three women who have undertaken the process tell how they began, and share their hopes and fears | READ AND WATCH THEIR STORIES
Patients with chest pain, severe respiratory distress and acute stroke languish for hours in emergency departments while those needing cardiac surgery frequently wait months.
Divorce in Australia is changing. Why are couples taking longer to call it quits?
A dying woman’s first person account of her appalling healthcare after being diagnosed with a terminal illness has sparked calls for urgent change.
The term medical misogyny is divisive and hits hard against men who care for women. But is there a deeper issue of mismanagement built into the system?
The self-styled ‘dragon lady’ behind the unashamedly strictest school in Britain has some stern advice for soft, middle-class parents.
Devastated by a profound lack of care after being diagnosed with a terminal illness, a Queensland mother, wife and academic spent some of her precious final time writing of her shocking experience. She died on Monday.
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Investigative journalist Hedley Thomas has met with the full family of Bronwyn Winfield as he discusses the mystery of the Lennox Head mother’s disappearance.
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
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.
A New Zealand doctor has backed as ‘honest and truthful’ an account by a retired nurse of seeing what she feared was the body of missing NSW mother Bronwyn Winfield wrapped in sheets in the back of a car.
Aptly called the Overseas Highway, this 266km stretch of bitumen soars over mangroves, aqua blue water and has an incredible history.
The famous Byron Bay hotel has opened new accommodation and we were among the first guests to stay. Here is our review.
Think British food is bad? These award-winning restaurants helmed by the next generation chefs in the UK will make you think again. And one particular venue was simply unforgettable.
Our recent story on hotels behaving badly drew a huge response from readers, who have drawn our attention to additional examples of modern hospitality getting it wrong.
The NRL’s multimillion-dollar gamble on Las Vegas is hitting the jackpot … just not in the manner it thought it would.
It was meant to be a rugby league spectacle but it turned into a dance-off, as fans packed downtown Las Vegas to party with all eight teams in a red carpet spectacular.
The ICC’s rules say that Afghanistan should not be playing Australia in the Champions Trophy … but they are and the First World needs to get used to it.
Cricket Australia is investigating how private equity could enhance the Big Bash and return the league to its former status as the undisputed No.2 T20 league on earth.
Barring the sudden appearance of white smoke billowing from the chimneys at the AOC’s headquarters, the pending appointment of one of the most hallowed jobs in Australian sport remains shrouded in secrecy.
The Barossa Valley missed out to Mount Barker in the first two years of Gather Round. This is the story of how the small town of Lyndoch landed the footy festival — and the people behind it.
A first-generation berry farmer is looking to extend the berry season in Australia with new methods of farming.
Thousands of people across Australia are in desperate need of social and affordable housing. We can’t give it to them without building more homes quickly.
Would you eat meat grown in a laboratory? You will soon have the opportunity, from top-end quail foie gras to mass-market lamb mince.
WA Labor Premier Roger Cook was not invited to – nor was he aware of – Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke’s citizenship and voter sign-up blitz this week in Perth.
China’s latest Pacific deal is a huge embarrassment for NZ and a potential security problem for Australia.
A task force initiative announced this week – but signed off by Francis on February 11, before he was hospitalised – reveals the extent of the Vatican’s financial problems.
A turf war is looming in the international travel space following approval of Qatar Airways’ investment in Virgin Australia, in an encouraging sign for travellers.
A pilot who died alongside two of his passengers at Rottnest Island in January had contemplated an earlier than scheduled flight because of forecast rough conditions at the WA holiday spot.
Controversial anti-Israel academic Randa Abdel-Fattah has had her $870,000 taxpayer-funded research grant suspended.
‘Australian students must come first.’ The Coalition’s education spokeswoman Senator Sarah Henderson has spelled out her hard-line ‘student-first’ policies for higher education.
The Washington Post will no longer run views opposed to ‘personal liberties and free markets’ on its opinion pages, its owner Jeff Bezos has announced.
The platform’s entry into the already crowded streaming market in Australia has been the subject of industry speculation for more than a year.
Property prices rebounded to a fresh high in February, with the recent interest rate cut proving a boon for market conditions.
Renovating the former private residence of a pioneering modern architect in Melbourne’s Toorak was a labour of love for this leading architect.
The family tracking platform has acquired a New York-based ad start-up as it looks to ramp up location-based targeting that will send coupons for stores its users frequent.
The Australian Securities & Investment Commission is ‘very interested’ in whether WiseTech has broken the Corporations Act after Richard White’s dramatic appointment as executive chair.
Australia and New Zealand face the highest prevalence of breast cancer internationally, a new study has found, also showcasing progress on reducing mortality.
If the first launch of an Australian-made rocket goes to plan, a jar of Vegemite will be floating in space as soon as March 15 in a step that will bring the nation closer to space sovereignty.
This dialled-in bunch of winemakers and grape growers from the NSW Central Tablelands have created a drop which I can only describe as a masterclass in cool-climate chardonnay.
They beg to be eaten straight from the punnet, torn open to reveal their jammy interior. But if you can bear to wait, to let them find their place in a dish, the rewards are even greater.
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