Australia axes quick as Women's T20 World Cup squad is named
Darcie Brown has been left out of Australia's Women's T20 Cricket World Cup squad. (AAP: Photosport/Andrew Cornaga)
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· Australian Associated Press
Star quick omitted with Lucy Hamilton called into Australia’s T20 World Cup squad
Darcie Brown omission based on expected conditions in UK
· Australian Associated Press
E-scooter rider dies after being hit by car while crossing Perth highway
Topic:Road Accidents and Incidents
· Callum Liddelow
‘Never easy to select’: The conundrums facing Australia’s T20 World Cup campaign
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· Daniel Brettig
Shaun Micallef has dissected gambling’s dark arts – and it will leave you shattered
If you’ve watched a footy game on TV, flicked through a newspaper, listened to a radio or glimpsed the games and social channels that contemporary adolescents are glued to, you’ll know how pervasive and inescapable gambling has become in Australia today. The statistics around the $32 billion industry are alarming. J…
· Paul Kalina
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The AFL has lost a second member of this year’s All-Australian selection panel after Luke Hodge joined Kane Cornes in stepping down to maintain his commercial arrangement with a bookmaker.
· Scott Spits
Plans for $1.5b luxury Trump Tower on Gold Coast axed, developer confirms
Controversial plans for a $1.5 billion Trump Tower on the Gold Coast have been scrapped less than three months after a deal was signed.
· Marissa Calligeros, William Davis
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· Nicki Hutley
Finland, Greece set up clash with Delta Goodrem in Eurovision final
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· Michael Idato
Man injured while allegedly blowing up ATM at Queen Victoria Market
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Police called for family violence 160 times in a week in Melbourne's south-east
Police in Dandenong responded to 160 call outs in a single week related to family violence last month. (ABC News)
Hansi Flick seguirá como técnico del Barcelona al menos hasta 2028
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Live: ASX set to edge lower in first session after budget, Wall Street mixed
As the nation digests last night's budget, Australian shares are set for another day of losses, with the SPI futures pointing to 0.1 per cent fall by the ASX 200.
· Jason Dasey
Midnight Oil's Peter Garrett 'closes the circle' to chair Landcare
Topic:Environmental Management
Budget 2026 live updates: Coalition pledges to repeal Chalmers’ tax reforms amid mixed reception for ‘difficult’ budget
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· Martinfarrer
In pictures: The federal budget newspaper front pages
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· Tiffanie Turnbull
LIV Golf has triggered a turf war in Adelaide's park lands — here are the battlelines
Topic:Environmental Policy
· Daniel Keane
Australian-born MP at centre of 'palace coup' plot to knife British PM
Catherine West was born country Victoria, but has served as an MP in north London for more than a decade. (BBC: Jeff Overs via Reuters)
· Riley Stuart
How Melbourne United’s new multimillionaire owners are going to court success
Melbourne United’s new multimillionaire owners have backed the governance and leadership of National Basketball League boss Larry Kestelman, declaring the burgeoning competition is on the right trajectory.
· Jon Pierik
Native duck species at risk of disappearing, conservationists warn
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· Mackenzie Heard
It’s been a household staple in Melbourne for decades. Now the iconic Green Guide is 50
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· Debi Enker
Political war erupts over holes dotting Coalition’s path to cash surplus
The Coalition’s promised cash surplus could only be achieved through major infrastructure or service cuts, a leading economist has warned, as government modelling claims Opposition Leader Jess Wilson faces a budget black hole in the tens of billions of dollars.
· Daniella White, Kieran Rooney
Australia insists support for UAE does not involve action against Iran
Australia's E-7A Wedgetail aircraft have a radar with a range of 400 kilometres. (Supplied: Department of Defence)
· Laura Tingle
The shock number of family violence cases police went to in just one week
A man is armed with a hammer, strangles his ex-partner, douses his home in petrol and threatens to set it alight. Another robs his former partner at gunpoint while a third slaughters his family dog.
· Carla Jaeger
PNG Chiefs target Australian rugby’s hottest teenage star
Australian rugby is in danger of losing its hottest rising star to the PNG Chiefs, with teenage sensation Treyvon Pritchard a priority target for the NRL’s cashed-up new club.
· Iain Payten
The ABC and One Nation were never close. But this year, things broke down
It was a line straight out of US President Donald Trump’s playbook. “Bye bye to the ABC,” Pauline Hanson’s chief of staff, James Ashby, said as he ejected two journalists working for the public broadcaster’s rural service from a media event on Friday, less than 24 hours before polls opened in the NSW byelection for …
· Calum Jaspan
Three of the city’s brightest female chefs team up for World’s Longest Lunch spin-off
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· Erina Starkey
Victoria Bridge shade secured, but Metro expansion hits Games hurdle
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· Felicity Caldwell
Which props will feature in NSW’s pack? One name might surprise you
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· Christian Nicolussi
After his recital was canned, Jayson Gillham took an orchestra to court
Topic:Classical Music
· Hannah Story
The Perth council set to spend $50,000 to review its planning department
A Perth council is set to spend $50,000 to launch an independent review of its planning department after ongoing complaints from residents.
· Indigo Lemay-Conway
The WA region where house prices are growing faster than Perth
With property values surging across the country, it turns out even regional towns aren’t exempt from the housing price boom.
· Indigo Lemay-Conway
Sinner avanza en Roma e iguala récord de Djokovic con su 31ra victoria seguida en un torneo Masters
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· Andrew Dampf
El italiano Ciccone toma el liderato del Giro y el ecuatoriano Narváez gana la etapa 4
El ecuatoriano Jhonatan Narváez celebra su victoria en la cuarta etapa del Giro de Italia, el martes 12 de mayo de 2026, en Cosenza, Italia. (Gian Mattia d’Alberto/LaPresse vía AP)
Cool new addition to Sydney’s hotel scene is relentlessly quirky
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· Craig Platt
Budget 2026: Labor’s ambitious and politically risky changes, explained by Matilda Boseley – video
Abolishing negative gearing for new investors, overhauling the capital gains tax discount and major cuts to the NDIS were were all expected in Tuesday night's budget. But what else was in there, and what does Jim Chalmers' 2026 budget mean for Australians? Guardian Australia's Matilda Boseley explains this year's wi…
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Tomorrow, When the War Began: a film made in a lab for 2010s Australian teens
It has heartthrobs and a classic soundtrack, but the true resonance of this John Marsden adaptation is its portrayal of growing up in a world rapidly destroyed before your eyes
· Lucille MacKellar
‘Holiday dressing in black’ – why Australian gothic is back in fashion
Corsetry, frills and floor-length gowns are firm favourites for a new wave of female designers showing at Australian fashion week
Budget earmarks more than $600m for Bondi attack response, with half going to Australia’s Jewish community
Funds flow to charities and other organisations, with Executive Council of Australian Jewry getting $124m for extra security
· Luca Ittimani
Rugby league, bird flu and drones: things you may have missed in the 2026 budget
Buried in the Australian budget papers are a multitude of decisions that don’t make the headlines. Here are a few of this year’s
· Dan Jervis Bardy, Josh Butler
Budget reveals shock jump in immigration
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· Jorge Branco