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Fans of Port Melbourne sandwich shop Baba’s Deli love to wax lyrical about the Mama’s Vodka: the mother of all chicken-schnitzel focaccias, doused in a creamy, tomatoey, vodka-spiked sauce that the team has to make more than 150 litres of every week.
On our second day at Macquarie Island, we’re told we won’t be able to go ashore for our morning excursion. It’s disappointing, given the incredible experiences we had ashore on day one, but after we arrive at Lusitania Bay, it becomes apparent why.
Police have admitted to battery, false imprisonment and causing “harm and damage” to former Greens candidate Hannah Thomas, who suffered permanent eyesight damage during an unlawful arrest at an anti-Israel protest in Sydney last year.
Zoos Victoria is seeking to cut up to 70 roles across its workforce, prompting concerns the organisation’s operations, conservation and wildlife services will all be affected.
44-year-old victorious alongside partner Victoria Mboko
Australia’s data centre boom will fail to create jobs and productivity if the nation keeps underfunding research and development, Australia’s top scientific body has warned.
Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed met Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden during a visit to the Scandinavian country.
La estadounidense Serena Williams entrena con su compañera de dobles Victoria Mboko de Canadá, en el Queen’s Club el domingo 7 de junio del 2026. (AP Foto/Alberto Pezzali)
The United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand and Norway have imposed coordinated sanctions targeting networks involved in financing, enabling and carrying out settler violence against Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Consulting firm’s Australian arm shared secret client information internally in order to win lucrative audit contracts, a whistleblower has alleged
Australia is set to experience its first El Niño weather event since spring 2023, according to the Bureau of Meteorology and other agencies. The phenomenon historically signals the arrival of hotter, drier conditions for the east coast and can have devastating impacts on the environment as well as the farming of cro…
‘Gender norms explain some of it, but not all of it’ says Tiya Banerjee, an economist at the e61 Institute
Urea prices have risen 75% since the start of the US-Israel war in Iran, eroding the already thin profit margins of Australian grain farmers
Federal environment department says Black Mountain Energy has provided insufficient data as it seeks to drill 20 gas wells in part of world’s largest tropical savanna
The rising Socceroos star isn’t interested in celebrity and heads into his first World Cup with a strong connection to his roots and feet firmly on the ground
Researchers believe the same pair of birds have been mating and nesting in the unusual spot in the Daintree Rainforest for 15 consecutive years
The Press Council considered whether its Standards of Practice were breached by the publication of a cartoon in The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald on 7 January 2026 captioned “Grass roots”. The cartoon depicts a crowd of figures above a strip of grass, holding placards and calling for a Royal Commission. The figu…
Australia, Canada, France, Norway, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom have imposed joint sanctions on West Bank individuals they accuse of "horrific abuses against Palestinian civilians."
Two future stars of Australian swimming and potential medallists at the 2032 Brisbane Olympics announced themselves in barnstorming fashion on Tuesday night, with 17-year-olds Sienna Toohey and Henry Allan showing why the hype surrounding two country teenagers who grew up three hours apart is very real.
Topic:Air Transport Industry
Sydney’s new $6 billion international airport will open to passengers on October 25 after Jetstar locked in the date for its first flights to the Gold Coast, Brisbane and Melbourne.
The things that hold us up sometimes eventually weigh us down. It’s a truism that applies to relationships, careers, personal habits.
New rules allowing fewer parking spaces in apartment buildings have been introduced, while details about several other proposals to increase building activity – including at Mount Gravatt, Cannon Hill and Alderley – have emerged.
From Australian coffee culture to traditional Emirati-inspired sharing menus
BRUSSELS — The hosts of this year’s United Nations climate conference want the world’s governments to support a collective target to electrify 35 percent of global energy use by 2035.
The fame name game (C8) has a number of C8-ers standing up for themselves, and rightly so: “That other Richard Branson more famous than me?” questions Richard Branson of Engadine. “Surely not! He hasn’t made a contribution to Column 8 that has been printed that I am aware of.” Gillian Anderson of Northmead files thi…
A senior industrial relations figure described at an inquiry into bad behaviour in the Queensland construction sector as “a friend of the CFMEU” has had an appeal against her dismissal denied by the state Industrial Relations Commission.
Tue 9 Jun 2026 at 8:55pm
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Topic:Local Government
A major review into native title and cultural heritage approvals in Western Australia’s resources sector has urged more than two dozen recommendations as industry groups warn of consultants “clipping the ticket” as part of the process.
Cricket Australia chief executive Todd Greenberg has declared that selling stakes in Big Bash League clubs is “comfortably the best and most effective way” to preserve Australian cricket’s future – with backing from the game’s broadcasters.
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One day, business at Karlie Crow’s Toorak Village clothing shop was booming. The next, she saw foot traffic plummet and sales drop.
Tue 9 Jun 2026 at 7:29pm
A drunk, speeding motorist was looking for a “thrill” when he fatally struck a nine-year-old boy in front of his family, a court has been told.
Queensland’s deputy premier wrote to developers asking them to remove affordable housing from their building applications, months after changing planning laws to remove requirements for developers to offer cheaper homes.
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A damning report highlighting a “systemic failure across multiple prisons” in WA has been seized on by the opposition, which has called for the resignation of Corrective Services Minister Paul Papalia.
Topic:Urban Development and Planning
Labor MP Ernest Wong and restaurateur Jonathan Yee are facing court over allegedly circumventing election funding laws
Denim giant claims trademarked design has been copied by S-Double, which was founded in 2008 by Shawn Stussy and is owned by the Melbourne-based clothing company
Tue 9 Jun 2026 at 5:53pm
Payne Haas and Cameron Murray will break from NSW Origin camp and make the three-hour round trip to Sydney to support good mate Jai Arrow.
Topic:Community Organisations
A deal to rescue iconic retailer Barbeques Galore from administration has collapsed, with up to 500 jobs to go as the group synonymous with Australia’s barbecue culture prepares to shut its remaining company stores in the coming weeks.
Tue 9 Jun 2026 at 4:43pm
Topic:State and Territory Government
Kuniko is charging back into the field at its high-grade Commonwealth gold-silver-copper project 80 kilometres north of Orange in New South Wales after securing top-tier contractor Titeline Drilling for a significant diamond drilling campaign starting in early July.