Man dies six days after assault witnessed by school children
A man has died in hospital six days after two men allegedly assaulted him in a park next to a primary school in Melbourne’s southeast.
· Alexander Darling
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Newest first · UTC+11:00Revealed: Two new Sydney schools to ease growing suburb’s crowding crisis
Tanya Morris has always been worried about which high school her daughter Skylar will attend.
· Mostafa Rachwani
Sydney MP, lord mayor ask police watchdog to investigate Oxford Street drug raids
The Sydney MP and lord mayor have asked the police watchdog to investigate allegations of aggression and heavy-handedness by officers during a drug operation at Sydney’s Oxford Street on Saturday night.
· Jessica McSweeney, Kayla Olaya
A giant of Australian biotech who developed therapies for the world
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· Brenda Niall
Qantas planea un vuelo directo Londres-Sydney de 22 horas para octubre del próximo año
Un avión de Qantas se dispone a aterrizar en el aeropuerto de Sydney, Australia, el 21 de febrero de 2013. (AP Foto/Rick Rycroft, archivo)
· Rod Mcguirk
Ethan Brown gears up for Group Three rides as he bids to follow up Sha Tin treble
Australian rider will partner Patch Of Theta and Chancheng Glory for trainer Francis Lui on Sunday
· Owen Goulding
Brown gears up for Group Three rides as he bids to follow up Sha Tin treble
Australian rider will partner Patch Of Theta and Chancheng Glory for trainer Francis Lui on Sunday
· Owen Goulding
Fly nonstop from London to Sydney: Qantas plans 22-hour direct flight
A Qantas plane prepares to land at Sydney Airport in Sydney, Australia, Feb. 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File)
· Rod Mcguirk
True North bags neighbouring deposit to supercharge QLD copper play
True North Copper has consolidated the groundholding at its flagship Cloncurry copper project in northwest Queensland, securing the adjacent Mongoose resource after Glencore opted not to exercise its right of first refusal.
· Andrew Todd
‘Carry his loss’: Family mourn son, drunk driver jailed
Riding brightly lit e-bikes, the Guimaraes family were on an afternoon outing when Keith Andrew Chambers lost control of his van.
· Andrew Stafford, Laine Clark
Paitai crashed over NSW to score
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Gina Rinehart says Australia should give Elon Musk islands to launch satellites into space
Billionaire also tells summit land could be given to skilled Israelis to build ‘advanced war drones’, according to Hancock Prospecting notes
· Sarah Basford Canales
Brroooaaawrrr! Gina goes all toy story and gives Pauline a bulldozer
Fresh from assuring Australia she stands for the little, hard-pressed people, Pauline Hanson accepted another gift from billionaire Gina Rinehart on Thursday.
· Tony Wright
University backs down over ‘Hunger Games’ cuts that put 1800 jobs in doubt
Deakin University has scrapped plans for a shake-up that would have put almost a third of its total workforce in doubt after a groundswell of opposition.
· Jackson Graham
Gina Rinehart says Qld should give some of its islands to Elon Musk
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· Jessica Ross
Crucial evidence uncovered on influencer’s phone amid free birth inquest
Crucial evidence discovered on the mobile phone of a wellness influencer who bled out after free birthing at home has led to an adjournment in the inquest into her death.
· Melissa Cunningham
‘New normal’: Migration levels dip but remain higher than pre-COVID years
Migration levels have dipped to the lowest levels since mid-2022, with 301,000 new arrivals to Australia in the past year, according to data released the day after One Nation leader Pauline Hanson supercharged her assault against immigration and called for the end of multiculturalism.
· Alexandra Smith
Ginebra core shores up Gilas for road games vs Australia, New Zealand
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Police raid on Universal Club in Darlinghurst
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Afternoon Update: CGT exemptions for small business; ebike thefts soar; and Australia’s top university named
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· Luca Ittimani
Tips and previews for racing at Randwick on Saturday
4. Chains Of Love showed her hand that she’s going to develop into a stakes class horse with her game effort second-up in Queensland in Listed company. She sat handy after drawing wide and while the winner was too slick she held her ground. Back to Highway grade, fitter, she’ll put herself on speed and be the one to…
· Ray Hickson
Australia’s migration reaches lowest level since 2022
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Litchfield maps out new NT copper-nickel search zone
Litchfield Minerals says its BHP Xplor-backed technical work has changed the way it looks at its Harts Range ground in Australia’s Northern Territory, shifting the story from a handful of separate copper and nickel prospects to a potentially much bigger belt-scale mineral system.
· Doug Bright
Forrestania stakes claim as next emerging gold force in WA
By almost any measure, Forrestania Resources’ transformation from a small-cap explorer into a major emerging gold producer with a sprawling multi-hub footprint across Western Australia’s premier mining belts in barely three years represents an extraordinary evolution.
· Murray Ward
Media union blasts Pauline Hanson’s ‘bitter, unprofessional’ attack on Guardian journalist
Union calls for journalists to stand with colleagues when they are targeted by politicians as Anthony Albanese says media organisations play ‘vital roles in our democracy’
· Tom Mcilroy
Bustling hunts firmer footing at Randwick after long fall from Everest
The prospect of a better surface at Randwick will lead one-time Everest slot-holder Bustling back to Sydney on Saturday for the first time since his career was put on hold 21 months ago.
· Craig Kerry
Kuniko hits high-grade gold-silver in old NSW workings
Kuniko Limited has turned up the heat at its Commonwealth-Silica Hill project in New South Wales, unveiling more high-grade gold and silver from two old-timer prospects just one kilometre from its recent eye-catching bonanza silver discovery.
· Andrew Todd
Confidence collapses as businesses push for support in Queensland budget
Queensland businesses are now more pessimistic about the national economy than they were during the 2008 financial crisis following the sharpest confidence collapse in two decades, a major lobby group says, as it pushes for relief in the upcoming state budget.
· William Davis
Eviction notice for elderly Melbourne renter ruled invalid
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· Jesse Thompson
Long-standing faults put Qld student, staff information at risk, report finds
Students and staff members’ personal information is vulnerable to a hack because of a long-running failure to respond to cybersecurity threats at Queensland universities, an audit has found.
· Catherine Strohfeldt
Charity shaping AI copyright rules funded by Anthropic-linked donors
A charity helping shape Australia’s approach to artificial intelligence and copyright has received more than $1 million from philanthropic funds with personal and financial ties to Anthropic, an AI giant that would benefit directly from the organisation’s proposal.
· David Swan
Australia superpower v USA pentagon: how each team can win their World Cup clash
The Socceroos and United States both made a fast start to their campaign – here is what the Group D rivals must do to maintain momentum in Seattle
· Alexander Abnos, Jack Snape
Embattled National Trust of SA to front inquiry over volunteer complaints
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· George Yankovich
Inquest into Melbourne influencer’s death following freebirth halted after new phone evidence discovered
Coroner tells freebirth inquest new material ‘of such significance’ any findings must be postponed so information can be analysed
· Melissa Davey
Billionaire philanthropist's ex-secretary accused of stealing $1.7m secures bail
Thu 18 Jun 2026 at 3:45pm
· Isobel Roe
‘I’ve never seen anybody this beat up’: Man, 87, bashed in Sydney aged care home
An elderly resident at a specialist dementia care facility catering for people with severe behavioural and psychological symptoms has allegedly been bashed by another resident in Sydney’s south-west.
· Jack Gramenz
Luis Díaz se viste de héroe en la presentación de Colombia en el Mundial; gol, asistencia y victoria
El colombiano Luis Díaz celebra después de anotar el segundo gol de su equipo ante Uzbekistán en partido por el grupo K del Mundial, el miércoles 17 de junio de 2026, en Ciudad de México. (AP Foto/Ashtin Barker)
· Le N Felipe Gir N
Amateur hour: It’s time for NSW to clear the decks … from Trodden and Daley down
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· Neil Breen
Nobody saw Popovic’s Turkey masterclass coming. Now for his next trick
San Francisco: If you correctly predicted Australia’s starting line-up against Turkey, the next thing you should have done was buy a lottery ticket.
· Vince Rugari
Melbourne philanthropist Patricia Ilhan dies after cancer battle
Melbourne philanthropist and business identity Patricia Ilhan has died aged 62 after a battle with cancer.
· Fiona Byrne
Racism hindered NSW police investigation into the 1988 death of Indigenous teenager Mark Haines, inquest found
Coroner overturned initial police finding of suicide, saying their investigation was ‘deeply flawed, superficial and inadequate from the outset’
· Australian Associated Press
More than 13,000 seal pups die on remote Australian island amid bird flu outbreak
Testing confirms spread of deadly H5N1 virus on the subantarctic Heard Island, about 4,000km south-west of Perth
· Petra Stock
As neighbours searched for beloved local widow, her killer stood among them
In the hours after Milena Bogojevska bound, gagged and killed her elderly neighbour, she shopped for shoes and lottery tickets.
· Erin Pearson
Qld men charged, ‘mother vessel’ seized in multimillion-dollar drug-smuggling ring
Six men have been charged over an alleged multimillion-dollar import ring along Australia’s east coast, after police uncovered an international drug-smuggling operation sparked by the discovery of a large quantity of cocaine in regional Queensland.
· Courtney Kruk
Red Metal heap leach breakthrough fires up Qld rare earths play
Red Metal Limited has moved a big step closer to proving a low-cost processing route for its monster Sybella rare earths project in Queensland, with definitive column leach tests delivering stellar recoveries from coarse-crushed ore using weak sulphuric acid at ambient temperature.
· Doug Bright
Police investigating after geese mowed down by car in Victoria
Thu 18 Jun 2026 at 1:58pm
· Nate Woodall
Impeccable and ambitious, this cosmic outback crime drama is Australian TV at its best
The Killings at Parrish Station is impeccable, ambitious Australian television – a six-part series with an unnerving, cosmic take on the classic outback mystery. Propelled by a razor-sharp script filled with tension, terror, humour and a dash of existential pondering (think Midnight Mass or True Detective, with fewe…
· Jared Richards
Labor started building $217m Burswood racetrack before securing Supercars deal: report
Earthworks began on the Burswood peninsula for a controversial $217.5 million racetrack before Labor had even secured an agreement with the nation’s premier car racing organisation, a new report reveals.
· Holly Thompson