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Newest first · UTC+11:00'We need more plastic': Australian recyclers call to stop waste exports
Topic:Recycling and Waste Management
· Margaret Paul
‘Tool for the future’: AI chatbots in every Queensland state school by next month
Every Queensland state school will have access to a homegrown artificial intelligence program by the start of June, the government has announced, as an expert warned there was a right and wrong way to roll out the technology.
· Catherine Strohfeldt
‘Living in a caravan park’: Not all Baby Boomers are retiring rich
In 2008, Carmel Bell was on top of the world. She was a 47-year-old mother of five healthy kids, ran a successful medical diagnostic business and lived in a beautiful home in Melbourne’s leafy east.
· Caroline Zielinski
Ten years in the making, Australia’s epic new hike is more than just a walk
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· Jane Reddy
WA’s shot-hole borer response labelled ‘deeply concerning’
Local governments across Perth are calling for better investment from the state government to help mitigate the spread of the polyphagous shot-hole borer, which has wreaked havoc on the city’s tree canopy.
· Holly Thompson
Claire had a ‘voice’ in her parents’ court fight. Many kids will miss out
Claire* spent years of her childhood in the middle of a family law fight.
· Michaela Whitbourn
Love the pancakes at Happyfield? Try the waffles with fried chicken at its retro spin-off
While on leave over the past five weeks, I watched four series of Columbo, got really into English cheddars and welcomed a baby into the world. She looks like the Smith’s Chips Gobbledok and my wife and I are chuffed. We’re also determined that our first child won’t mean the end of adult-focused restaurants, but pra…
· Callan Boys
It’s located in Melbourne’s Little Saigon, but the ‘balls of joy’ will transport you elsewhere
It’s the kind of wacky transition you might encounter in a Bollywood movie. I pop a pani puri in my mouth on Victoria Street, crunching into a thin pastry sphere (the puri), enjoying the rush of sour tamarind dressing (pani, or “spiced water”), and I’m transported to the steamy streets of Mumbai, standing in front o…
· Dani Valent
A family feud, a hospital murder claim and the body left in a freezer for a year
For the past year, the body of John Thomas Morgan has remained refrigerated in a funeral home as his wife accused their daughter of forging her husband’s will and Prince of Wales Hospital of killing him and then covering it up.
· Kate McClymont
The hidden codes and Aussie influence in Harry Connick Jr’s new symphony
Fri 22 May 2026 at 4:30am
· Megan Burslem
Drone show extravaganza to return to Vivid Sydney after year hiatus
Topic:Arts, Culture and Entertainment
· Phoebe Pin
Man allegedly stole, pawned camera from photographer killed in Bondi beach mass shooting
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Perth real estate agency cites fuel crisis for handballing inspections to tenant
A Perth real estate agency has cited the unfolding fuel crisis as a reason for requesting tenants conduct their own property inspections, in what Western Australia’s consumer watchdog has flagged as a potential breach of consumer law.
· Hannah Murphy
‘No payment, no consent’: Perth man accused of rape after failing to pay a sex worker
A Perth bricklayer has been extradited to Queensland over allegations he used the services of a sex worker but did not pay her.
· Rebecca Peppiatt
Segaert sorprende con fuga tardía para su 1ra victoria de etapa en una gran vuelta del Giro
El belga Alec Segaert, del Bahrain Victorious, cruza la línea de meta para ganar la 12ª etapa de la carrera ciclista del Giro de Italia, de Imperia a Novi Ligure, Italia, el jueves 21 de mayo de 2026. (Massimo Paolone/LaPresse vía AP)
WiseTech begins redundancies – but omits ‘AI’ from emails to Chinese employees, workers say
ASX-listed company announced in February it would lay off almost 30% of its 7,000-strong workforce across 40 countries
· Josh Taylor
One Nation’s rapid national expansion in disarray as ‘significant risks’ force dissolution of new branches
Exclusive: Documents seen by Guardian Australia also show new branches and members will be subject to strict gag orders
· Sarah Martin
One Nation says it’s the only party in Australia to question climate science. It should ask itself why | Temperature Check
Climate change denial has become untenable yet Hanson’s party digs in – with conspiracy theories, cherrypicking and claims that are easy to refute
· Graham Readfearn
From a waterfall cube to a field of mushrooms: Vivid Sydney 2026 – in pictures
View image in fullscreenThe interactive installation As Water Falls by Studio Iregular at First Fleet Park in the Rocks.Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAPShareView image in fullscreenTime:Warped by Neon Dynamo is seen projected in the Argyle Cut at the Rocks.Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAPShareView image in fullscreenThe…
Back to Back Barries Live: How long will Angus Taylor survive as Liberal leader? - podcast
In this special recording of the Barries in front of a live audience of 600 at the Sydney Writers’ festival, Barrie Cassidy and Tony Barry discuss why budget criticism is hurting Labor more than many anticipated. They also examine the Coalition’s many leadership changes and ask who could take the reins next
MPs urged to ignore fearmongering and pass Labor’s ‘long overdue’ negative gearing and CGT changes
Exclusive: Any attempt to use the budget measures as an excuse to raise rent is opportunistic profiteering, housing advocates say
· Josh Butler
The Coalition has dubbed the trust changes in Labor’s budget a ‘death tax’. Experts say that’s wrong
The opposition has dusted off an old scare campaign and repackaged it. What is the truth behind Labor’s changes to trusts in the budget?
· Josh Butler, Patrick Commins
Starmer’s party is dying, and hallucinating mad political gambits in its death throes
By Graham Hryce, an Australian journalist and former media lawyer, whose work has been published in The Australian, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age, the Sunday Mail, the Spectator and Quadrant.
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Starmer’s party is dying, and hallucinating mad political gambits in its death throes
By Graham Hryce, an Australian journalist and former media lawyer, whose work has been published in The Australian, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age, the Sunday Mail, the Spectator and Quadrant.
· RT
Breaking: Another group of Australians with IS-links leave camp in Syria for Australia
Fri 22 May 2026 at 12:09am
· Matthew Doran
Olympics minister quits cabinet position after AFP referral
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· 9News Staff
Afghanistan women's refugee team to tour England
An Afghanistan women's XI played its first competitive match in Melbourne in January 2025
· Bbcsport
TUI ends sponsorship of Channel 4's Married at First Sight
Europe's leading travel operator Tui has ended its sponsorship of three versions Married at First Sight Australia on Channel Four - the UK, Australia and US versions.
· Noor Nanji
Children’s cancer and epilepsy research get a boost with long-awaited funding
Children’s cancer and epilepsy research will be prioritised in a long-awaited release from the nation’s unspent medical research fund, as the government moves to correct a chronic shortfall of investment in Australian research.
· Brittany Busch
Three charged with murder over balcony death in Sydney’s north-west
Two men and a woman have been charged with the alleged murder of a Sydney man who fell to his death from the balcony of his apartment in the city’s north-west suburbs on Sunday.
· Daniel Lo Surdo
Eleven Australian Gaza flotilla activists detained by Israel expected to be deported to Turkey
The Global Sumud flotilla participants will likely be met by Australian consular officials at Israel’s Ramon airport
· Josh Taylor, Ben Doherty
Nampijinpa Price: 'Extremist ideology' destroying Australian culture
Topic:Government and Politics
· Clare Armstrong
English is tough. Can’t you C?
“As my Ukrainian sons continue to improve their English, one of the main sticking points is the letter ‘C’ and its various pronunciations,” says Chris Keane of Seattle, USA. “Including reading eye charts for a perplexed optometrist, where they both said ‘S’ every time there was a ‘C’. Paula Gard’s mention of Cedar C…
Queensland Olympics minister stands down
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Neo-Nazi group secures high court hearing over hate listing as it seeks to become a political party
White Australia party, also known as National Socialist Network, is challenging the government’s power to list it as a hate group
· Jordyn Beazley, Krishani Dhanji
Suspected meteor lights up Sydney sky, delivering ‘quite the show’ for shocked onlookers
A suspected meteor has been captured shining above the Sydney skyline on Thursday night, shocking onlookers who watched the unexpected cosmic show unfold from their vehicles and verandahs.
· Daniel Lo Surdo
First Maroons, then Wallabies? Origin debutant hints at future defection
Queensland Maroons debutant Jojo Fifita has revealed he has not ruled out a return to rugby union to pursue the Wallabies ambitions he held before making the jump to the NRL.
· Nick Wright
Meteor lights up the sky over Sydney, seen in Canberra and across NSW
Property News: Suburbs where house values rose most in the past 12 months.
· Emily Bennett
Budget changes will benefit young generations
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The Sydney school oval, the two-metre fence and the $585,000 demand
Residents in Sydney’s east have been shut out of a school oval they have freely used for more than six decades after the NSW Department of Education demanded almost $600,000 from ratepayers to restore public access.
· David Barwell
Half the battle: What Australian rugby can learn from Matt the Bat and Mr Cricket
Waratahs coach Dan McKellar says long apprenticeships served by Mike Hussey and Matt Hayden before they stepped up and dominated Test cricket are a good example for Australian rugby when it comes to the patience needed to build ready-to-go Wallabies.
· Iain Payten
Seven Herald reporters named finalists in Mid-Year Walkley Awards
Seven Herald reporters have been nominated as finalists for this year’s Mid-Year Walkley Prizes for journalism spanning investigations, crime, education, health, the arts and local government affairs, the highest of any masthead in Australia.
Cricket, NRL investigate staffer amid CA redundancies
Cricket Australia is concluding an investigation following whistleblower allegations that a senior staffer, formerly employed by the NRL, commissioned contracts totalling more than $600,000 to a company they were personally associated with.
· Daniel Brettig, Chris Barrett
Pauline Hanson announces Norway-inspired gas policy as she decries 25% export tax as ‘economic vandalism’
One Nation proposal would abolish offshore gas profits tax and acquire 30% equity in new projects in a move the Coalition says is ‘borrowed from Venezuela’
· Dan Jervis Bardy
Adelaide lawyer loses appeal to overturn conviction
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The road to 2,000 wins: champion jockey Zac Purton’s journey to greatness
As the superstar Australian approaches a historic milestone, the SCMP takes a look back at his rise in Hong Kong
· Jay Rooney
The road to 2,000 wins: champion jockey Zac Purton’s journey to greatness
As the superstar Australian approaches a historic milestone, the SCMP takes a look back at his rise in Hong Kong
· Jay Rooney