Controversial new Trump tariffs 'not linked' to Australia's slavery laws, trade minister says
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Australian fugitive to fight extradition as he breaks silence outside Greek court
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WA news LIVE: Albany residents divided on shark cull proposal after fatal attack
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Aussies dominate England in Women's T20 World Cup warm-up
Tue 9 Jun 2026 at 8:19am
Man charged with murder after alleged fight at pub in Melbourne’s west
A man will face court today charged with murder after allegedly stabbing another man to death behind a pub in Melbourne’s west.
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Richard Gere reveals whether he’s seen son Homer’s raunchy ‘Euphoria’ sex scene with Sydney Sweeney
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‘Desperately unfair’ VCE calculator shortcuts to be banned for exams
VCE students will be banned from using specific formulations and features on advanced model calculators in maths exams from next year.
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'Extremely traumatising': Modern slavery victims let down by police, courts
Tue 9 Jun 2026 at 6:58am
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Australia news LIVE: Albanese vows to cut migration as One Nation leads in third poll; Xi Jinping lands in North Korea for meeting with Kim Jong-un
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Morning Mail: ‘Less lethal’ police weapons, Pocock on taxing datacentres, and revisiting Strictly Ballroom
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Australian stabbing suspect faces court in Greece
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Plague locusts a 'ticking time bomb' for Victorian farmers
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Brisbane drug trafficking charges
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‘Really urgent’: Teen vaccine rates tumble, leaving cancer elimination in doubt
Australia’s goal to eliminate cervical cancer by 2035 is under threat amid a worrying national decline in vaccinations.
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Brisbane River to get spectacular fountain and light display at South Bank
An outdoor water and light show is set to illuminate the Brisbane River at South Bank as a centrepiece event of Brisbane Festival this year.
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The $400k super line that could define how comfortable retirement is
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What 26 years of data says about the typical domestic violence killer
Three decades of data have revealed a unique insight into the average profile of a domestic violence killer in NSW as the state’s coroner warned the “deeply complex and wicked problem” was a persistent driver of homicide.
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Secret chart that reveals target date for Sydney metro line’s opening
The NSW government has narrowed down the opening date for the final stage of Sydney’s $30 billion M1 metro line to mid-October which, if realised, will end more than two years of major disruptions for tens of thousands of commuters.
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Hospitals turn to sniffer dogs to combat illicit drugs in wards
Victoria’s secure psychiatric units are increasingly resorting to the controversial use of drug detection dogs to combat the danger illegal drugs are posing to patients and staff in hospital wards.
· Grant McArthur, Kieran Rooney
Andrew McConnell’s genre-defining dining room comes of age, and is as buzzy as ever
During the reporting for The Age’s recent series on Melbourne’s restaurant tycoons, writer Rachael Ward called me to ask, among other things, what ingredients were responsible for the wild success of chef and restaurateur Andrew McConnell.
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‘Disgusting conditions’: Workers allegedly living on luxury Burwood high-rise site
Migrant workers have been living illegally in “dangerous and disgusting conditions” within a major development in Burwood, the CFMEU has alleged.
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This Socceroos veteran doesn’t get recognised much at home. In Turkey, even his sister does
San Francisco: Aziz Behich is the ninth most capped Socceroo of all time and scored the goal that all but sealed Australia’s spot at this World Cup, which will be his third. And yet he could walk down any main street in the country and probably not get stopped.
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Topiary kangaroo brings touch of Oz to Baillieu society wedding
We have only seen a few social media glimpses of the celebrations so far, but suffice to say the wedding of Melbourne’s Christopher Baillieu to his American fiancee Merrill Hermann in St Louis is a front-runner for the society wedding of the year.
· John Buckley, Fiona Byrne
Alternative route to Japan offers great food and service – plus it’s cheaper
It’s school holidays, and peak sakura (cherry blossom) season, and I’m trying to get to Tokyo. Direct flights from Australia are either expensive or nonexistent, so I’m flying to Japan with Garuda via Tokyo. While check-in at Melbourne Airport is busy, it’s also friendly. I’d checked in online 48 hours ahead to ensu…
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Plan for suburb’s first 25-storey highrise set to test council upzoning push
Plans have been lodged for a first-of-its-kind 25-storey apartment tower next to Westfield Carindale, as an ambitious Sydney-based developer tests Brisbane council’s appetite for dramatically taller buildings in the suburbs.
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CFMEU warns of union investigation after video shows worker belongings
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The Perth councils with the highest-paid CEOs
Chief executives across Perth’s local governments took home on average more than $357,000 a year – and more than a quarter of the bosses were paid more than WA Premier Roger Cook.
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Australia cruise to win over England in Women’s T20 World Cup warm-up
Eng 157-6; Aus 158-5. Aus win by five wkts
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Al tiempo que Ucrania combate la invasión rusa, algunas regiones reportan más partos prematuros
La enfermera Victoria Bohdanova cambia el pañal de un bebé prematuro dentro de una incubadora con temperatura controlada en el centro perinatal regional de Zaporiyia, Ucrania, el miércoles 6 de mayo de 2026. (Foto AP/Evgeniy Maloletka)
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Should Married at First Sight be taken off air? - podcast
Allegations of rape and sexual assault on the UK’s Married at First Sight have brought a fresh focus on the Australian version. Former Mafs contestants and political figures, such as Tanya Plibersek, have spoken out calling for a broader reckoning around the show.
A job that changed me: I was teaching in a juvenile detention centre when a repeat offender’s poetry moved me to tears
On my first day, I was terrified. But I quickly came to realise these young people weren’t irredeemably bad
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Revealed: the ‘less lethal’ weapons Australian police don’t want you to know about
Launchers that shoot ‘bullet-like missiles’, chemical irritants and stinger grenades: experts say these weapons can cause serious injury or even death. But they are deployed by police against crowds with little scrutiny
Big Freeze had drama, brilliance and freewheeling footy. Neale Daniher would have loved it | Jonathan Horn
Melbourne and Collingwood let their attacking football do the talking as 90,000 at the MCG felt the absence of the AFL great and MND advocate
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Dunkley dropped & Jones opens in England T20 warm-up
England lose their first T20 World Cup warm-up to Australia by five wickets in Cardiff.
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Households outshine business in Australia’s rooftop solar revolution, report finds
Australia leads world in residential solar per capita with 22GW installed but commercial and industrial sector has deployed only a quarter of that
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Green energy is shielding Australia from a global power price shock
Renewable energy and batteries are decoupling Australia’s power prices from volatile global markets, helping shield consumers from severe electricity bill shocks emerging in other countries due to the ongoing war in Iran.
· Nick Toscano, Mike Foley
Queensland couple donates $40 million to fight MND as Daniher’s legacy inspires at MCG
A Queensland philanthropist couple has donated an astonishing $40 million to support research into curing motor neurone disease, as the football community remembered Neale Daniher in the first Big Freeze match since his death two weeks ago.
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Daley names NSW Blues squad
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The $400m budget hole set to spread hiring squeeze to police ranks
Welcome to Brisbane Times’ Queensland public sector column, Public Circus. This week: precarious police finances, a proposed department restructure, “Project Invisibility” and more.
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Celebrating a king of humility and courage
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Cigarettes, drugs and alcohol used to bribe teens into fights in youth detention, class action claims
A major class action has been launched over allegations of physical and sexual abuse of children detained at the Parkville Youth Justice Precinct over more than 50 years.
· Cameron Houston
Elusive gull drifts thousands of kilometres off course to Australia, turning birdwatching into ‘extreme sport’
‘Twitchers’ rush to coastal Western Australia to see black-headed gull, which usually flies between Europe and Asia
· Ima Caldwell
Nightclubs at risk of ‘disappearing forever’ in aftermath of crime wave
Along the Yarra River, the row of hospitality venues is finally starting to show signs of life.
· Gemma Grant, Isabel McMillan
Kalyn Ponga has a shoulder charge problem. NSW will be hoping history repeats
June 8, 2026 — 7:30pm
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