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Victorian senator Bridget McKenzie claimed taxpayer-funded flights to Tasmania on the weekend of her son’s engagement party, 10 months before she billed taxpayers to travel to his Tamar Valley wedding, according to expenditure records.
In the final interview that secured his appointment as coach of the Melbourne Football Club in late 1997, Neale Daniher faced a pointed question from the Demons’ then president and financial white knight Joseph Gutnick.
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It’s a chilly Wednesday night in May, but the temperature inside Sydney’s Metro Theatre couldn’t be higher as a hush falls over the crowd.
Back in the late 𝄒90s, I spent a few years working the overnight shift at Pancakes on the Rocks, turning and burning racks of ribs, flipping pancakes and deep-frying potato wedges.
As residents moved into the 966 new lots of Campbelltown housing development Macarthur Heights from 2013, it felt like their new suburb had it all.
Serious safety incidents revealed in leaked images from the Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro scheme show an out-of-control excavator and a dump truck hanging off a cliff, compounding the problems plaguing a project that faces further multibillion-dollar cost blowouts and years of delays.
A decade ago, former Sydney psychiatrist Ong Ming Tan walked out of prison after serving time for sexually assaulting four of his patients.
Public confidence in the police and the criminal justice system has plunged to its lowest level in more than a decade after backlash over pandemic restrictions, media scrutiny on policing and a spotlight on domestic violence and youth crime.
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The climber had been scaling the Horn on Mount Buffalo when their equipment failed, causing them to fall onto a “precarious ledge” several metres below.
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Alex De Minaur of Australia attends a break during the first round men’s singles tennis match against Toby Samuel of Britain at the French Open tennis tournament in Paris, Monday, May 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
Changes to political funding and the need for crossbenchers to remain relevant are driving discussions but some independents are opposed
Stretching 1,365km across the remote Australian outback, the unique challenge of the Nullarbor Links takes a week to complete and inspires devotion among the players
Damning NSW auditor general’s report finds $100m scheme has not delivered a single home or lot since devastating 2022 floods
La polaca Iga Swiatek celebra su victoria en la primera ronda del Abierto de Francia ante la australiana Emerson Jones el lunes 25 de mayo del 2026. (AP Foto/Thibault Camus)
Australian activists detained by Israel while on a flotilla trying to deliver aid to Gaza have returned home, and organisers allege abuse, sexual assaults and beatings that put some detainees in hospital.
The now 88-year-old is urging Australian governments to throw their support behind a new national plan for Stolen Generations survivors as they enter their final years
The number of teachers in Queensland state schools grew by more than 1000 last year, with almost half of the growth in one region that covers the surging population centres in Brisbane’s south, Logan and Ipswich.
It is one of the seven natural wonders of the world and features on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. Why then, critics ask, does Australia allow up to 190 tonnes of corals from the Great Barrier Reef to be chopped off and sold for use in aquariums around the world?
Investment in renewable projects collapsed by 50 per cent over the past year, wiping out $4 billion in spending on the rollout, compromising the Albanese government’s clean energy targets and spurring industry warnings that the delays could raise electricity bills.
US equity futures jumped and global stocks rose to record highs as crude oil fell after officials signaled - once again - that the US was nearing a deal with Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and restore oil flows. The dollar weakened while precious metals and crypto bounced from Friday's drop. While the US and Ir…
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Australian activists who were detained by Israel as part of the Global Sumud Flotilla that intended to deliver aid to Gaza have said they were raped and tortured while being held by Israeli security forces.
Australian activists who were detained by Israel as part of the Global Sumud Flotilla that intended to deliver aid to Gaza have said they were raped and tortured while being held by Israeli security forces.
Iga Swiatek of Poland returns to Emerson Jones of Australia during their first round women’s singles tennis match at the French Open tennis tournament in Paris, Monday, May 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
The acquisition is one of the investment company’s largest in recent years and follows its Mandarin Oriental buyout in January
The acquisition is one of the investment company’s largest in recent years and follows its Mandarin Oriental buyout in January
China’s ex-world No 4 bagelled as she struggles to regain form that saw her win Olympic gold, reach quarter-finals last year at same venue
The Coalition has used speedy timelines in the charging of former Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith to suggest authorities may have rushed the final stages of prosecuting the veteran.
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Patricia Reed of Mosman observes that “Graeme Finn heard ‘sunbeams’ (C8) referred to as unused plates. In our house they’re called ‘shiners’ but have no relationship to a black eye.” Suzanne Saunders of Wadeville adds: “The term for ‘sunbeams’ that has stuck with me is ‘washtheseupaswell’.”
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Nour Haydar speaks with Christopher Knaus about the BHP files – the cache of internal documents leaked to the Guardian and the ABC’s Four Corners – which show that the world’s biggest miner has war-gamed ways to massively delay decarbonisation
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The world’s biggest miner has halted or delayed projects to cut vast amounts of emissions and has quietly war-gamed options to stall major climate investments in its Western Australian iron ore operations into the next two decades, according to documents leaked to the Guardian and ABC’s Four Corners. In a statement,…
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SYDNEY, Australia — Australia's spy agency was "stretched" by threats on many fronts in the lead-up to an antisemitic mass shooting at Bondi in December, the nation's intelligence chief said Monday.
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Welcome to Brisbane Times’ Queensland public sector column, Public Circus. This week: a funding funeral march, who wants to be an Ombudsman heir, the teacher helming a new political party, and more.
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It was the same courtroom, same day and same coroner, but there were huge differences between the twin coronial hearings for murdered police officers Neal Thompson and Vadim de Waart-Hottart and, later, that of their killer Dezi Freeman.
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