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Consumers should pay a tax on concert tickets at major stadiums in NSW to fund the state’s struggling local live music scene, three peak industry associations say.
When restaurant, bar and live music venue The Hideaway opens at Bondi Junction next week, a caviar trolley will lap the room, bombe Alaska will be served tableside and a two-pronged chefs’ hatted act will grace its kitchen. RJ Lines, the chef and co-owner at Petersham’s now closed One Penny Red, and former Cirrus an…
A steel mill on the industrial edge of Melbourne has become the first in Australia to draw more than half of its power from renewable energy sources, marking a step forward in the push to clean up one of the world’s most carbon-intensive industries.
Mon 18 May 2026 at 4:58am
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El base del Thunder de Oklahoma City Shai Gilgeous-Alexander celebra con los aficionados la victoria en el juego 4 de la primera ronda de los playoffs de la NBA ante los Suns de Phoenix el lunes 27 de abril del 2026. (AP Foto/Ross D. Franklin)
This isn’t the dead cat bounce of a new coach. They smashed Hawthorn in every facet of the game to show they are a serious AFL team
Cigarettes kill 66 Australians every day, coalition says, criticising MPs who heard evidence from Philip Morris in secret
Analysis shows in some cases the switch from promotional to full price happens almost simultaneously in Australia’s two biggest supermarkets
Underquoting is rife across the country with Melbourne the only capital where more properties sell below the guide than above
At the turn of last century, an ambitious young solicitor caused a scandal in a high-profile murder case. Years later he was a political leader in a new nation. How did he do it?
Amid soaring fuel prices, the government announced $3.2bn to store a billion more litres of diesel and jet fuel. What about just using less of it?
Australian retailers are on notice after the federal court handed down a landmark judgment against the nation’s second-largest supermarket chain. Coles was found to have misled shoppers by promoting discounts that were not real after the Australian consumer watchdog launched legal action in 2024.
Labor moves to overturn moratorium on fracking in groundwater-dependent region two years earlier than planned and just weeks after state election
He saved her life — now her mission is to save his legacy. Nikki Goldstein doesn’t remember the first time she met Rabbi Eli Schlanger in September 2022. She was comatose in a Sydney, Australia, ICU, battling pneumonia and failing lungs. Doctors didn’t think the 57-year-old would live to see the next day.
HGTV star Alison Victoria thinks a single slip of the tongue may have cost her a return to Battle on the Beach.
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Previous slideNext slide Singer Delta Goodrem, representing Australia with the song 'Eclipse', performs during the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 at Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna, Austria. AFPInfo Protesters clash with police during an operation to clear a roadblock in Achica Arriba, Bolivia. EPAInfo People…
The roundabout conundrum (C8) is far-reaching. Bill Leigh of West Pennant Hills recalls: “Travelling into London with my parents, we approached a massive roundabout at a Thames tunnel entrance where the traffic was swirling around in a virtual vortex. With gritted teeth dad clenched the wheel, and we entered the vor…
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Six people stuck in a Perth quarantine centre after a deadly hantavirus outbreak on their cruise ship have discovered they're not infected.The four Australian citizens, one permanent resident and a New Zealand national quarantining for three weeks in Western Australia's Bullsbrook Centre for National Resilience rece…
Midway through the last quarter and Blake Howes ran for a ball punted forward without a plan by Josh Battle. Connor McDonald, head swinging faster than his legs, ran after Howes who appeared to consider the idea that McDonald would catch him as unlikely as McDonald did.
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Peter Robertson is studying his second year of medicine for a second time.
One of Australia’s top former medical advisers has called for tobacco tax cuts, labelling the emergence of a multibillion-dollar black market controlled by organised crime a “whole of government policy failure”.
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At almost $2000, it is comfortably the most expensive single ticket in Australian footy history.
‘He’s having a great time with his new 47% equity,’ one entrepreneur jokes, warning that some startups may leave Australia behind
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Steven Mattaboni, 38, was a ‘one-of-a-kind gentleman’ and devoted father of two young daughters, his wife Shirene said
Sun 17 May 2026 at 4:45pm
On the tenth floor of a building in the Chinese port city of Tianjin sits the City of Melbourne’s most far-flung outpost.
Queensland Labor figures say they’re humbled by a sharp decline in the party’s primary support in a heartland seat, but leader Steven Miles has the backing of the party room and will not face an imminent challenge.
Outcry follows release of previously secret documents naming Wollongong suburb as preferred east coast Aukus base
The man killed in a shark attack while spearfishing off Rottnest Island has been identified as father-of-two Steven Mattaboni.The 38-year-old died on Saturday after he was attacked by what's believed to be a white shark near Horseshoe Reef, off the island near Perth.Mattaboni, from Perth, had been in the water with …
When Carl’s father Sverre Benjaminsen passed away, he left behind a folder on his desk. Inside, yellowing with age, were stacks of old newspaper clippings from the brazen armed robbery that had defined much of his life.
Flight from Melbourne to Dallas forced to land in Tahiti due to man’s alleged disruptive behaviour
Soaring into the sky in a shower of fire and golden sunlight, Australian singer-songwriter Delta Goodrem delivered a career-defining performance that became the talk of Eurovision. To be fair, it was a tough field, but even competition-hardened Eurovision expert Graham Norton tipped it as this year’s competition-win…
The 70th Eurovision Song Contest has come to a close with a resounding Bangaranga. Bulgaria took home the win, thus squashing Australia’s hopes that Delta Goodrem would eclipse the competition.
A Kalgoorlie barber shop is the first store in the state to be ordered to close under tough new laws aimed at cracking down on illegal tobacco and vapes came into effect.
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Norway’s Princess Ingrid Alexandra has shed her anonymous student life to make her first official public appearance in Australia since becoming a University of Sydney student last year.
Andrew Williams is a multi-platform journalist based in Esperance, Western Australia.He started with the ABC South West WA team in 2024 while he finished his journalism degree at Curtin University.
With help from InvestHK, ClearVue and mainland partner choose city as base for effort to make power-producing glass for building facades
With help from InvestHK, ClearVue and mainland partner choose city as base for effort to make power-producing glass for building facades
For years, I polished the brass plaques in front of my apartment dedicated to a Jewish mother and daughter who were murdered by the Nazis. Then a message out of the blue connected me to a surviving child …