Sussan Ley has been elected the first female leader of the Liberal Party, winning a contest against Angus Taylor by 29 votes to 25. Jacinta Price pulled out of the deputy position vote, with Ted O’Brien getting the nod.
Anthony Albanese has used his post-election ministerial shake-up to shaft longtime factional rival Tanya Plibersek and promote close ally Murray Watt to finalise Labor’s contentious nature-positive reforms.
A woman who was briefly chief executive of disability care provider Cocoon SDA Care says she warned then-NDIS minister and other federal authorities about the firm in 2023.
Long-awaited allegations against music mogul Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs have been outlined in court, as his lawyers claim he just lived a ‘swinger’ lifestyle.
The President started a trade war with Adam Smith. He lost.
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.
Growing up as the son of Australian tennis stars, having a casual hit with grand slam champions, and being able to pick the brain of golf greats? That’s par for the course for Australia’s latest budding golf superstar.
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.
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Mark Dreyfus is the most substantial lawyer and the last King’s Counsel in parliament. His loss from cabinet is a minor national tragedy. Ed Husic, on the other hand, was right to be dropped over his breaches in cabinet discipline.
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Anthony Albanese wants to be remembered as the prime minister who introduced universal childcare. The only problem is, how to pay for it when government debt is already at a record high?
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The Islamist terrorists ruling Gaza have used Israel’s concern for every one of its citizens to temper the Jewish state’s response to the October 7 massacres. But Israel’s territorial moves into the enclave this month indicate a government finally ready to use its full force.
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Anthony Albanese should have intervened to save both Ed Husic and Mark Dreyfus from factional execution.
It’s a temporary 90-day tariff rollback, but will benefit Aussie businesses that came under pressure from trade tensions between the US and China. A possible pullback in future rate cuts, moves away from defensive stocks are also on watch.
Gary Weiss and Ariadne are working with the private equity firm, amassing over 10 per cent of the travel group’s shares.
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 corporate regulator has broadened its investigation to the superannuation fund trustees as part of its probe into Falcon Capital and the wound-up First Guardian.
The new boss of ANZ has issued three immediate priorities, telling staff there will be no shortcuts as he strives for a ‘high performance, winning’ culture.
Disability advocates have slammed Anthony Albanese’s move to shift the National Disability Insurance Scheme to Mark Butler and the broader health portfolio.
David Littleproud has left the door open to dumping the net zero emissions by 2050 target after he was returned to the Nationals leadership.
Business leaders have blasted Jim Chalmers’s call for a six-year extension to fixing Australia’s productivity levels, with Chris Corrigan saying the Treasurer had a ‘complete inverse of a plan for productivity’.
Senior Liberal Party sources say a close victory could trigger a shaky early tenure for Ms Ley, who would need to bring warring moderates and conservatives together.
The appointment of Andrew Charlton and Daniel Mulino to cabinet is as much about keeping a tight rein over economic messages as it is about giving them room to showcase their talents.
Anthony Albanese confirmed that Tanya Plibersek would be dumped from the environment portfolio after a turbulent three-year tenure.
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.
NSW’s most ‘dynamic’ paramedics are set to be diverted to mental health interventions, despite union protests.
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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By inviting Donald Trump to join the talks, Volodymyr Zelensky appears to be trying to portray Vladimir Putin as the true obstacle to peace: US President suggests he could travel to Turkey.
The two countries said they will slash tariffs by 115pc and ‘establish a mechanism to continue discussions about economic and trade relations’.
Pope Leo XIV has called on global leaders to safeguard the right to free speech and a free press, demanding freedom for detained journalists around the world.
Both governments stood to benefit from a short, sharp conflict that raised their stocks internally, but the cost-benefit analysis for India appears less clear cut.
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.
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.
Despite being the home state of the new President, Miami is actually a hotbed of different cultures, architecture and food. Here is where to eat, drink and stay.
Director Justin Baldoni’s US$400 million lawsuit against Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds intensifies with the subpoena of the pop megastar, who Lively referred to as one of her “dragons,” in connection with alleged interference in the film’s script.
Speaking to Vogue Australia ahead of her Cannes debut, Mia Threapleton has a pinch-me moment stepping into the filmmaker’s latest fantastical dream world.
Like so many young Australians, my life is a subscription service. My dream of buying a decent place where I live is unrealistic; simply renting and keeping it together is already a struggle.
Nicolas Cage brings his manic energy to this idiosyncratic thriller in which NIMBYism is taken to the extreme. There are times, under the unblinking Australian sun, where it looks like his head is about to explode.
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.
Alyssa Healy was in India’s far north when husband Mitchell Starc’s IPL game was abandoned and players were ferried out of the country. She details their escape from the conflict engulfing India and Pakistan.
In a CODE Sports exclusive, the ultimate list of every player agent can be revealed: the master negotiators behind the NRL’s biggest contract stories this season are finally uncovered. SEE THE FULL LIST
Jamarra Ugle-Hagan should be lauded for booking into a health facility. But now the penny has to drop for the young star – like it did for Jesse Hogan and Tyson Stengle – or his career could slip away.
One of the most highly anticipated domestic grudge matches may have just taken another step closer after a shock title fight offer.
From groundbreaking $10 million deals to stables of NRL rich listers – these are the silent influencers brokering the biggest and most important deals in rugby league.
Test cricket will miss Virat Kohli for many reasons. The showman, the artist and street fighter all rolled into one irresistible package, writes Robert Craddock.
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.
Air New Zealand has shown off its first retrofitted 787 that brings more economy leg room, a sky pantry and lie-flat business class seats. Plus a sneak peek at Skynest bunk beds | WATCH THE VIDEO
As airlines roll out upgraded cabins, finding the perfect business class seat comes down to the details — privacy, seat layout, and personalisation. Here’s what separates the best from the rest.
A $60,000 pay rise has been handed to the beleaguered vice-chancellor of the Australian Catholic University, Zlatko Skrbis, after he delivered a $38m financial surplus on the back of rising international student enrolments.
A former University of Tasmania executive says he ‘experienced sensory overload’ due to autism during a meeting, but the university says he behaved inappropriately, which in part led to his termination.
Salesforce has doubled down on agentic AI as it seeks to grow its hold of the market and become the number one CRM platform.
Australian brands and media properties face intense scrutiny for aligning with negative parties, yet Facebook and TikTok are free to receive the majority of media budgets. Tumbleturn’s Jen Davidson argues its up to marketers to change things.
Bali was once a wild west for residential property investment but Johannes Weissenbaeck’s OXO Living aims to raise the standard of buying on the Indonesian island paradise.
Renting a home and buying an investment property sounds like a good strategy but it rarely works out for most people and here are the reasons why.
Microsoft’s local boss Steven Worrall is leaving the tech titan to helm Telstra’s $15bn infrastructure business as the telco bets big on artificial intelligence.
Donald Trump’s trade war is expected to cost Apple $1.4bn in the next three months as an influential technology group warns the prices of smartphones and other devices are set to soar.
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.
Mother’s Day matters because we often need to be reminded of just how much mums do for us.
It is one of the most recognisable labels in Australia and with his first taste of Wynns’ latest release, Nick Ryan says this wine remains as vital to the local industry as ever.
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