Uni students tackle 60yo Agent Orange chemicals in Sydney waterway
Topic:Water Pollution
· Shannon Corvo
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Newest first · UTC+11:00'It's like a decaying body': Australian farmers battle mouse plague
A mouse plague is terrorising farmers across large swathes of Australia, with the rodents running rampant around homes and ravaging fields of grain.
· Lana Lam
Australia talks about reconciliation — but how does it translate?
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· Sbsaustralia
Life and death in the outback: Why Australians are still dying in the bush
It's the road trip Kelly Townsend has been dreading.
· Erin Parke
‘Nothing seems to be happening’: Is Queensland falling behind on plastic bans?
Single-use plastics have become a forgotten issue for the Queensland government, according to a veteran campaigner key to the implementation of the Containers for Change program.
· Julius Dennis
Australia’s truckies were already struggling to survive. Then the fuel crisis hit
Truck drivers like Frank Black rely on diesel – and lots of it. When prices surged the sums stopped adding up. He fears for his industry
· Sarah Smaje
An industry targeting Australia’s ageing population is growing, but can AI deliver more humanity in aged care?
While companion robots are being introduced and virtual experiences hope to ‘take loneliness away’, one expert agrees tech should never replace the human element
· Tory Shepherd
Six-year-old Sienna’s parents have fought the NDIS every year of her life for funding that keeps her alive
Sienna has cerebral palsy, cannot talk and needs her lungs suctioned every few minutes. Her mother June ‘can tell you exactly what every cent’ in her NDIS plan is for
· Kate Lyons
Australia’s best photos of the month – May 2026
View image in fullscreenToby Tasker of New Zealand, Padraig Heffernan of Australia and Jared Monk of New Zealand compete in the men’s 3000m steeplechase during the 2026 Oceania athletics championships at Arafura stadium, Darwin. Photograph: Joel Carrett/AAPShareView image in fullscreenOne Nation leader, Pauline Hans…
Pantries can be time machines. An expired tin of lychees moved house with us – twice
As a child, I didn’t understand the ancient food decaying in my grandmother’s cupboard. Now I’m beginning to
· Megan Holbeck
The Sunday read: what the NDIS cuts reveal about Australia’s ‘warped’ priorities - podcast
It’s been more than two weeks since the Albanese government handed down the federal budget and the criticism has not stopped.
Forming a party wouldn’t make independents less independent. It would strengthen a centrist bloc
A party structure could help independents better work together on common ground, while retaining the very thing that made them attractive in the first place
· Zoe Daniel
He was making a film about our shameful Nazi past – then the present intervened
Dan Goldberg was close to finishing his SBS documentary The Hunt For Australia’s Last Nazis – which he had thought was a story about “Australia’s shameful past” – when the massacre at Bondi Beach happened. Suddenly and horrifically, he says, “the present and the past collided”.
· Karl Quinn
Dr Jeni Haynes has 2682 people in her mind. She’s now telling how she lives with her ‘alters’
Dr Jeni Haynes has spent her life trying to make people believe what is, to many, unbelievable: that she has 2682 people inside her mind. Haynes was diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder (DID), formerly known as multiple personality disorder (MPD), a decade before she took the stand in a 2019 trial in a Sydn…
· Bridget McManus
Major parties face having to repay millions of dollars in donations
Labor and the Coalition face having to pay back millions of dollars in donations they received from their legacy investment funds after the High Court ruled their use was in effect illegal.
· Kieran Rooney
Why 'irresponsible' dumping of mercury caused evacuations in outback town
Topic:Chemical Spills
· Lachlan Ford
Minhas’ five-wicket haul on ODI debut earns Pakistan five-wicket win over Australia
Arafat Minhas took five wickets on debut and hit the winning runs for Pakistan to beat an under-strength Australia by five wickets in a one-day international on Saturday.
· Rizwan Ali
Police beat a woman in a Sydney street. Their own camera captured their cruelty
Sun 31 May 2026 at 5:06am
· Amy Greenbank
Pakistan ease to victory in first ODI as Arafat Minhas puts Australia in a spin
First ODI: Pakistan (5-202) beat Australia (200) by 5wkts
· AAP and Associated Press
University entry was the hardest it’s ever been this year. Next year will be worse
Getting into university in Sydney next year will be the toughest it’s ever been under a controversial new funding arrangement that critics say will severely limit places in the city, kneecap institutions and fail to increase access for poor students.
· Sally Rawsthorne
Leaked audio reveals strata giant caught asking contractor for kickbacks
For nearly 30 years, James* had operated under a simple assumption about the building services game: you pitch a competitive price, you deliver high-quality work, and the best quote wins.
· Rachael Dexter
I took a bucket-list trip with my lifelong best friend. Here’s why everyone should do it
It’s a sizzling June day in Rome and I’m pacing the lobby of Hotel Palazzo Montemartini, waiting for my best friend Tracey to arrive from London. We’ve known each other since we were two – sisters, really – and while we see each other every year, we haven’t had 12 days “just us” since I made a career move to Sydney …
· Sue Wheeler
Dumpling restaurateur to sell ‘redundant’ $15m Point Piper mansion
Andy Zhou, the owner of two dumpling restaurants in Sydney’s Haymarket, has put his Point Piper mansion on the market with a price guide of $15 million, local sources revealed.
· Kristy Johnson
‘This can’t just keep happening’: The family taking a retail giant to court
Indigenous teens Kanye Jarrett and Russell Edwards are accustomed to racial profiling. When the Coffs Harbour cousins visit Sydney, they say they are followed by security or questioned by police.
· Amber Schultz
‘Part of the propaganda’: Canberra urged to block Russian athletes over ties to sanctioned oligarchs
Russian athletes set to controversially compete in Australia within weeks have direct links to sanctioned organisations and oligarchs, which threatens to pose legal and diplomatic dilemmas for the federal government under its sanctions laws.
· Rob Harris
Dead certain. The ledger showing how Australia fails its women
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· Andrew Brown
Australia continues petrol, diesel releases
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· Reuters
Vingegaard arrasa en Piancavallo y acaricia el título del Giro de Italia
Jonas Vingegaard celebra su victoria en la 20ma etapa del Giro de Italia, el sábado 30 de mayo de 2026, en Piancavallo. (Massimo Paolone/LaPresse vía AP)
Kasatkina overpowered by Sabalenka to end Australia’s French Open hopes
Last Australian player in singles draw is defeated
· Australian Associated Press
Miserable Waratahs season ends with another defeat and serious injury to star
A miserable year for the Waratahs somehow found new depths of despair in the last game, with a season-ending Achilles tendon injury to Wallabies captain Jake Gordon adding to the pain of another defeat to the Force in Perth.
· Iain Payten
US, UK and Australia to develop underwater drone technology
The US, UK and Australia say they will develop underwater drone technology to protect undersea cables and boost defence, under their military alliance known as Aukus.
· Tessa Wong
Pakistan wins toss, elects to field in first ODI against Australia
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan won the toss and elected to field in the first one-day international of the three-match series against Australia on Saturday.
Once-in-five-year storm due to hit Perth in coming hours
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Dynasty in tatters? Lions’ third-quarter crisis rears again in Dockers demolition
Any hopes the Brisbane Lions had of emulating their famous triple-premiership side of the early 2000s are in tatters as the high-flying Fremantle compound their woes in a 15.13 (103) to 10.18 (78) Gabba demolition.
· Nick Wright
AUKUS unveils undersea drone project to deepen defense partnership
The military alliance of Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States will jointly develop new undersea drones, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Saturday.
· Max Griera
Is Abbott the way forward for the Liberals?
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Monster fish caught off South Australia
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Man hit twice by car during alleged wild brawl on Melbourne footpath caught on CCTV
Auto news: Public electric car charging cables cut and stolen at shopping centre
· 9News Staff
Young motorbike rider critical after crash at motocross event
Sat 30 May 2026 at 7:20pm
Children’s disability workers to be axed as NDIS changes loom
Children’s disability workers are set to lose their jobs a year before the new Thriving Kids disability program even starts, as providers struggle to get clarity around changes to the NDIS.
· Grant McArthur
Man beaten and left for dead after asking partiers to turn down music
Property News: Suburbs where house values rose most in the past 12 months.
· Sarah Swain
Taylor fires up party faithful after Abbott's presidency
Property News: Australia's most popular suburbs in every capital city.
· 9News Staff
Writing’s on the wall for the bond market – for those who can read it
Unlike stock markets, bond markets are signalling a more cognisant and mature appreciation of the state of government finances
· Anthony Rowley
Queensland unit fire claims woman's life
Property News: Australia's most popular suburbs in every capital city.
· Emily Bennett
Portland ends frustrating run in Australia to open up spring potential
Matthew Smith just needed a win to turn a frustrating preparation with Portland into a good one.
· Craig Kerry
‘Crazy mistake’ undermines historic koala chlamydia vaccine, researcher says
A whistleblowing vaccine expert says researchers claiming to have found a jab for koalas with deadly chlamydia made a dumbfounding mistake that completely undermines their findings.
· Julius Dennis
The battle for AI sovereignty. Has Australia already lost?
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· Kim Wingerei
Trucking in a fuel crisis: the Australian driver sacrificing his paycheck for diesel – video
Frank is a truck owner-driver, meaning he owns his own truck, picks up contracts wherever he happens to be in Australia and pays for his own fuel. He can spend up to two months at a time on the road, and lives by the rule-of-thumb that one third of a job's pay should go to fuel, one third should go to truck maintena…