Even at $1.2bn, Alfred has nothing on Cyclone Jim
Jim Chalmers is citing Cyclone Alfred’s $1.2bn cost to the economy as a ‘big new pressure’ on his budget next Tuesday, but what about the federal Treasurer’s big-spending policies?
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How Smith’s fellow Aussies got to 10,000
One did it with a push to mid-on, one with a cut shot to the boundary and the third a drive through covers. Here’s the tale of the first three Aussies to reach 10,000 runs.
Albanese’s Newspoll fall is slow and steady
While Anthony Albanese has avoided something that befell all his predecessors in the past three decades, he has suffered a seemingly inexorable decline in support.
Albanese wide of the target? No, it’s just politics
The Prime Minister is opening the year by reviving his pre-2022 election pitch that he is a politician of conviction, as he puts a $873bn price tag on Peter Dutton’s nuclear policy.
PM opens poll year in mining states tour
Anthony Albanese is set to pull the starter’s gun on his on-the-ground campaigning ahead of an election due by May, spending the week in regional Queensland and WA.
Smith falls just short of 10,000 club — and he’s not the first to do so
Getting to the batting milestone of 10,000 career runs isn’t always easy – as Steve Smith found out at the SCG on Sunday.
History on Aussies’ side in Test series decider at the SCG
Forty-two years have passed since the last time an Australian cricket team arrived at the Sydney Cricket Ground for a fifth Test match that would decide a series.
‘Time for talk has passed’: Hindu leaders urge PM to act
A top Hindu leader has warned the nation is ‘incubating religious intolerance’ with its failure to clamp down on anti-Semitism, claiming those who hate Jewish Australians ‘hate people of all faiths except their own’.
The greatest MCG Tests of all time
After this year’s Boxing Day Test went down to the wire, it was a timely reminder the MCG has dished up some stunning results over the decades.
Community mourns man of God killed while spearfishing
The 40-year-old suffered injuries to his neck while fishing with his family off the Central Queensland coast, becoming the first victim of a fatal shark attack in Australia in a year.
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