An emboldened Chris Bowen has doubled down on Labor’s rollout of offshore wind farms, renewables and the phase-out of coal-fired power plants in a post-election attack on critics of his green power agenda.
The death of Mohammed Sinwar, who took over Hamas in Gaza after his brother Yahya’s death, would mean the most important Hamas leaders behind the October 7 attack have been taken out.
Conflating the rejection of race in the Constitution with the notion that Australians don’t care about Indigenous disadvantage is not only insulting, it’s plain wrong. Both of you need to stop with the baseless accusations.
Foreign Minister Penny Wong took aim at new Opposition Leader Sussan Ley’s criticism of Anthony Albanese’s response to the Middle East crisis, saying the election had proved voters did not want politicians using the issue to score points.
Northern Territory ICAC boss Michael Riches has resigned after a year-long probe into misconduct allegations, which included offering his wife $20k to drop a DVO application.
Opposition Leader Sussan Ley could be forgiven for staring forlornly at the long list of frontbench-quality Liberals who have fallen out of parliament because of the nation’s preferential voting system.
The singer, who dated the music mogul for roughly a decade, is one of the prosecution’s key witnesses in the criminal case.
In one of Australia’s biggest recent sporting coups, Australian Open officials have sealed a deal with Rory McIlroy.
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Labor bestows favours on the morally deserving and penalises everyone else. This has nothing to do with compassion or caring for the vulnerable.
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We claim to be the world’s most successful immigrant nation but can we stay that way, based on official bromides such as ‘our diversity is our unity’ – in other words, that all we have in common is that we don’t have anything in common?
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Conservative commentators – who don’t actually spend much time in our regional heartlands – don’t understand just how popular solar panels, batteries and EVs are out there in voter land.
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With the US in isolation mode, and Russia and China both vying for more influence in Jakarta, adding economic depth to Australia’s relationship with Indonesia has never been more important.
The once three-way race to control Insignia is now just down to one bidder after Bain blamed macro uncertainty for its withdrawal. Also, ASIC is suing Macquarie Securities for ‘misreporting’ short sales.
On a day when Fortescue cut 90 hydrogen jobs, Macquarie says there’s evidence the energy security concerns of major companies have been prioritised over climate action.
As if life as an AFL coach weren’t busy enough, Cats coach Chris Scott has added another job to his busy schedule – this time as a director with an ASX-listed company.
Buy the business, sell the furniture and make out like barbarians – that’s the Brookfield playbook which has left Australia’s second-biggest hospital operator in a mess.
The biggest airline operating between the US and Australia is reducing the number of seats on its new Boeing 787s in a bold bid to attract more premium customers with privacy doors, ottomans and playing cards.
An esteemed fungi specialist posted photographs of death cap mushrooms found about 15 minutes from Erin Patterson’s home two months before she served lunch guests a poisonous beef Wellington.
Anthony Albanese will look to ramp up joint military exercises with Indonesia and turbocharge the nations’ trade and investment ties when he meets with President Prabowo Subianto on Thursday.
Sussan Ley has managed to get under Anthony Albanese’s skin in the past and the re-elected Prime Minister will have to be cautious in his approach.
The message was clear at the second term Albanese ministry’s swearing in – this is a revitalised government focused on families. But we all know two people never made it to the swearing in – Edham Nurredin Husic and Mark Alfred Dreyfus.
Kevin Hogan says while his party intends to recommit to a Coalition agreement with the Liberals, a deal is ‘never a certainty’ amid a deepening rift over the net zero emissions target.
Environmental groups say the election results show that Australians on both the west and east coasts held concerns about the growth of gas
Co-founded by a big-talking former bankrupt at the centre of prior consumer warnings, Zaffar Khan’s Cocoon SDA Care is everything the public does not need associated with the $48.5bn-a-year scheme.
NDIS provider Cocoon SDA Care offered staff secret extra bonuses for signing up clients with significant disabilities, in a program condemned for creating an incentive to pressure those needing support to act against their own best interests.
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Cocoon SDA Care has been the subject of 32 tip-offs over more than four years, and authorities are now concerned it may have been claiming for services that were never provided.
Administrators and doctors must work together to restore trust in Australia’s broken public health system, the Australasian College of Health Service Management president says.
Scientists understand for the first time which genes and brain regions are linked to OCD, after a watershed study put millions of brains under the microscope.
Seven in 10 people will have neck pain at some time in their lives. But there are ways you can relieve it.
Using dumbbells can transform the body and you can do it at home. But how much should you lift? And how often? Here’s what the experts say.
NSW’s most ‘dynamic’ paramedics are set to be diverted to mental health interventions, despite union protests.
If you have a prescription for medicinal cannabis and your driving is unimpaired, should you face a fine and loss of licence? Why premiers are being urged to rethink state laws.
Australia’s medicinal cannabis industry is booming, transforming thousands of lives – some for the better and others for the worse. Is it a legalised ‘drugs racket’? And if so, how do we tackle it?
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The war-devastated nation of Syria seeks US investment to rebuild, as Saudis commit billions in American deal making.
As President Trump signs multibillion-dollar deals on his Middle East tour, it’s not just governments and defence giants set to cash in — his own family could be raking it in too.
My reporting assignments across China since Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ underscore the gulf between what Beijing says and what’s really going on. As CCP mouthpieces claimed they could do fine without the US, factory owners told me: ‘The sky is falling’.
Ukraine said if Vladimir Putin skips talks in Turkey this week it would be a ‘clear sign’ to the world the Russian leader is not serious about peace, and the West should reply with boosted military support to Kyiv.
In a trade truce with the US, Beijing tells Chinese airlines that they can resume taking delivery of pre-existing jet orders.
This buzzing capital is awash with cutting-edge architecture and art from the past and present. Here’s where to find it.
New Zealand has a lot of long, steep and gruelling hikes. This four-day outing is not one of them, but that doesn’t mean it’s without challenges.
New Zealand is known for its breathtaking lodges but a remade urban hotel makes a case for staying in the city.
This international airline has new routes from Australia and links to the US, Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan. We test it out.
One of France’s Premier Grand Cru winemakers has secretly helped us deliver a cabernet-blend at a price that’s hard to believe.
Every Middle Eastern household will have a version of this, and there’s never really any hard and fast rules besides one, very non-Italian rule: it should be heavily spiced.
This remake of Ang Lee’s seminal 1993 comedy is a tender, at times thought provoking, look at the cultural and generational tension in the Asian-American LGBTQ community.
Two Vogue Australia editors sit down with the designers they’re eager to see on the runway this week.
Bill Henson, one of Australia’s most decorated living artists, says we’ve forgotten about beauty in art, in favour of ‘ticking boxes about this or that … post-colonial pushback, DEI, BLM, LGBTQ’.
Christina Baehr runs an off-grid hostel in the Huon Valley while raising (and homeschooling) her huge family. She’s not famous, and she’s not rich, but in her first year of publishing she doubled her household income.
When this wealthy 79-year-old British expat and his model girlfriend were abducted for ransom in Ecuador, suspicion fell on her. But the truth was even stranger.
As a teen I suffered from the trap of perfectionism – it was a prison and I was so hard on myself. I never want to return to that former life.
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Graham Kennedy and Don Lane were fulsome on their praise for Peter Faiman, who directed their variety shows. With Paul Hogan, it was a different story … and it only gets juicier.
Three years ago Barbara Symonds was woken by the phone call that felt like a sledgehammer to the chest. The loving mother has paid tribute to son Andrew – one of Australia’s most beloved larrikins – and recalls her memories of that awful evening.
In one of Australia’s biggest recent sporting coups, Australian Open officials have signed Rory McIlroy to play the next two years.
More than 50 of rugby league’s most significant player agents have taken part in an exclusive CODE Sports survey, revealing the best and most difficult clubs to negotiate with — and more. READ THE FULL SURVEY RESULTS
Ten years on from Adam Goodes’ war dance, the league still asks how they can get the legend back to the game. It’s why the AFL’s Sir Doug Nicholls Round still possesses a tinge of sadness.
Nathan Cleary, Payne Haas and rising Dolphins star Isaiya Katoa are on track to be the NRL’s first $2 million players, according to the game’s leading agents, whose survey results reveal why that figure should remain anonymous.
The go-home factor is never more relevant than in WA. Currently 84 players at rival clubs would sit on Fremantle and West Coast’s trade target whiteboards – but how many are gettable?
Australia’s best private companies are pushing all the right boundaries.
Cobblestone streets, iconic landmarks, and breathtaking fjords await. Don’t miss this incredible opportunity to win an unforgettable journey for two.
Comeback kid Tim Wilson shows central office why Liberals must be bolder – and unapologetic about it.
The first American Pope faces enormous challenges, not least the deep divisions within the church. But make no mistake – in style, probably in substance, this Pope is a serious course correction from the chaos of the Francis years.
The International Civil Aviation Organisation said claims brought by Australia and the Netherlands over the shooting down of Flight MH17 in 2014 were ‘well founded in fact and in law.’
Donald Trump is ready to accept a Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet as a gift from Qatar’s ruling family during his trip to the Middle East this week, defending it as fiscally smart move.
As the Albanese government looks to limit international student visas, newly tabled annual reports reveal how many universities cashed in on foreign student fees last year – and which vice-chancellor took a pay cut.
When Shiva Yousefpour moved to Australia more than a decade ago to forge a new life, she didn’t know how to use a sewing machine. After earning two other degrees, she started studying fashion at TAFE, and has since launched her own fashion brand.
What now for Zoe Daniel, the journalist turned teal who is refusing to accept that she has lost her seat of Goldstein to Liberal MP Tim Wilson?
Weeks before the speculation about global restructure of GroupM, The Growth Agenda spoke to the local leadership team about its collaborative structure.
The fight for one of the country’s best known storage businesses has turned hostile, with the target company rejecting a low-ball $1.93bn bid by the billionaire who controls a majority of the company.
Healthscope’s North American owner has effectively ceded control of the ailing healthcare operator to its lenders who are looking for ways to get it back on its feet.
Samsung’s thinnest smartphone, the Galaxy S25 Edge, may be ‘lighter than a packet of chips’, but boasts the firepower and top AI features of its heftier devices.
Meta and other social media giants have snubbed an Australian start-up that has developed a tool to block online abuse in less than a second.
The long-running saga over salmon farming in Tasmania’s Macquarie Harbour was triggered by green groups on ‘questionable’ and ‘thin’ evidence, a new report finds.
There is a 99.7 per cent certainty that the world has at least one gas in its atmosphere that, on Earth, is produced by living things.
The char, which gives these beans a lovely smoky flavour.
More than 1800 bottles of some of the finest wines are being offered through an online auction – including some famed Domaine de la Romanee-Conti worth thousands of dollars.
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