Cost of nearly 60 goods and services explodes
Gas and insurance all jumped by more than 30 per cent, while spare car parts, postal services, tobacco and a variety of food – including fruit – rose by 20 per cent or more.
Politics
Grazier outrage as axe falls on $40m carbon credit plan
A method that generated the country’s fourth highest number of carbon credits, worth about $40m, has been suspended, leaving the beef industry fuming.
Why cashed-up Labor refuses to stand up to the CFMEU and Cbus
Following the money is a useful guide to understanding what is going on in the public square. The revelations about the CFMEU and Cbus are really the tip of the iceberg.
From history to memoir, the must-reads of 2025
In 2025, a year for state and federal elections, many notable books will be published that you should list now for future reading.
PM, Dutton pay tribute to emergency workers, defence personnel | WATCH
The Prime Minister acknowledged Christmas as a time for a ‘well-earned break’ while the Opposition Leader pointed to people struggling through the cost-of-living crisis.
ALP ‘slowly’ going Green over Israel
Greens leader Adam Bandt declares Labor is edging towards the minor party’s hard-left position on the conflict in the Middle East, insisting the Albanese government has been ‘forced to admit that we were right all along’.
Cashed-up state twists the knife
WA’s government says it can afford to invest in roads, ports and infrastructure even as it maintained a conservative position on iron ore price projections that boost its bottom line.
Honouring Andrews and legacy of service
Former minister Kevin Andrews is in the company of ‘the mighty saints of old’ after being farewelled at a state funeral in Melbourne.
Iconic dairy ‘could be nationalised’
A Liberal Premier is open to nationalising one of Australia’s oldest and best known and loved cheese makers if its foreign owner fails to agree its sale to a suitable buyer.
‘Abandoned’: Duggan family blast government over extradition
The family of a former US marine pilot and Australian citizen accused of illegally training Chinese pilots say they are ‘devastated’ by the ‘inhumane’ decision for him to be extradited to the United States.
Brad Battin blasted; ‘he’s walked away from unity deal’
He hasn’t even got the top job yet, but Victorian Liberal leadership favourite Brad Battin is already facing friendly fire.
Unions back down as NYE celebrations ‘in the court’s hands’
Sydney’s New Year’s Eve festivities hang in the balance after the Minns government rejected a multimillion dollar union peace deal.
Pesutto’s leadership ‘dead’ as new partyroom vote looms
A spill of the Victorian Liberal Party leadership could be held as soon as Friday, with opposition police spokesman Brad Battin considered the frontrunner to replace Pesutto.
It’s time; Pesutto urged to resign for sake of the state
John Pesutto launched a Hail Mary bid to save his leadership on Sunday – but it’s too late.
Close the Gap flops ‘risk class actions’
Governments could face class actions if they do not start to meet targets to reel in the disparities between mainstream Australia and Aboriginal people, former Indigenous Australians minister Ken Wyatt has warned.
‘Time to move on from voice’: Wyatt
The nation’s first Aboriginal treasurer and federal cabinet minister have each proposed a path to end the post-referendum standstill in Indigenous policymaking, saying that it is time to move on from the Uluru Statement from the Heart.
Leadership of the pack has been lost, Costello warns
Australia’s opportunity to remain a global economic leader is slipping away, with the nation risking a return to ‘middle of the pack’ among developed countries, says former treasurer Peter Costello.
Special salmon law on political menu
Legislative ‘solutions’ to Tasmania’s salmon standoff are on the political menu, but industry just wants Tanya Plibersek to do her job.
Teals tried to stop miners’ lifeline
The Albanese government ignored an 11th-hour bid by teal MPs to stop it approving coalmine extensions that have shored up thousands of jobs in Queensland and NSW.
Grog, limos and even doughnuts on the taxpayer
Victoria’s Big Build senior executives and board members have been forced to repay the cost of alcohol ‘inadvertently’ charged to taxpayer-funded credit cards at two dinners.
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