After inflation fell to its lowest level in four years, Jim Chalmers hailed ‘remarkable progress’ and said a soft landing for the economy now looked likely but he would refrain from giving the RBA any advice.
Investors in a luxury tower at Queens Wharf have been refunded millions of dollars in deposits, with interest, after the developer confirmed the project faces three-year delays.
World leaders and royals, including King Charles and Australia’s Danish Queen Mary wiped tears as elderly survivors at the 80th commemoration of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau told of their excruciating experiences and warned against the rising global tide of anti-Semitism.
A group of eight Coalition MPs want the major banks to follow their US counterparts in pulling out of the UN-backed Net Zero Banking Alliance after Donald Trump’s election, saying membership risks hurting business competitiveness and access to finance.
Seesaw day on the ASX following heavy falls across US tech stocks. Investors spooked following emergence of low-cost Chinese generative AI model DeepSeek. Goodman, NEXTDC, DigiCo, uranium stocks, Nuix fall hard.
The Coalition’s new foreign affairs spokesman David Coleman has signalled a Dutton government would push for reforms of the UN amid criticisms of the body’s stance on Israel.
Israel announces a deal was reached with Hamas for the release of another six Israeli hostages this week. While thousands of people were allowed to return to the heavily destroyed north of the Gaza Strip for the first time since the early weeks of the 15-month war.
Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton have attended a solemn ceremony in Perth to mark 80 years since the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp, as world leaders gathered in Germany to commemorate the atrocity that took the lives of six million Jewish people and millions of others.
Thousands have flocked to Australia Day events across the nation to commemorate the greatest nation in the world, with new citizens from over 150 different countries pledging their patriotism to Australia.
Annual events protesting against Australia Day have had a noticeable drop in attendance, with rallies being infiltrated by alleged neo-Nazis.
Peter Dutton will set a 2035 emissions reduction target if he wins the election, senior Coalition sources say, as he warned leaving the Paris accord – like Donald Trump – would damage Australia’s trade relationships.
The new Trump administration’s massive spending plan will certainly flow through to a handful of Australian companies already enabling artificial intelligence.
Police are poised to make a second arrest after charging a Sydney man for attempting to torch a synagogue, while police remain coy on potential financial incentives for alleged crimes after debit cards seized.
Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan has called for an end to pro-Palestinian protests across the nation, saying if ‘the guns can be silenced in Gaza’, the disruption to local streets can also stop.
Sydney’s pro-Palestine protesters have vowed to march indefinitely until their ‘demands’ are met, despite Sunday’s ceasefire, as thousands of activists marched again on the city’s CBD.
No vote campaigner Warren Mundine says he’s ‘back in the game’ despite losing Saturday’s Bradfield Liberal preselection as moderates rejected claims of factional infighting.
The Coalition is devising a plan to force the Prime Minister’s hand on Tasmania’s great salmon standoff, with major federal election implications.
Dion Barber also described some of the sexual abuse he experienced from his father and grandparents during his time under the legal care of the state.
Animal welfare activists will target marginal seats in Western Australia and around the country over plans to reverse Labor’s live sheep export ban.
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