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Newest first · UTC+11:00One Nation didn't just win — Australian politics is deeply disrupted
Topic:Australian Federal Elections
· Patricia Karvelas
Fashion designers are experimenting with AI, but not everyone is a fan
Melbourne-based designer Karla Špetić, whose works are seen here at this year's Melbourne Fashion Festival, had mixed results using AI to create clothing. (Supplied)
· Jane Rocca
Australia's conservatives reel from by-election loss to far right
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· Agence France-Presse
The kindness of strangers: ‘That quilt serves as a daily reminder of all the goodness in this world’
I was secretly devastated to have missed out on the quilt. To my surprise, the woman who’d won it wanted me to have it
· Katie Cunningham
Iran war to make Trump's big China trip very different
Property News: Australia's most popular suburbs in every capital city.
· Associated Press
Property, a visa and a university job: the Australian links forged by a powerful Iranian politician’s son in Melbourne
The son of Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf – now leading Iran’s peace negotiations with US – lived and worked in Melbourne, raising questions about national security and sanctions
· Adeshola Ore, Mark Schliebs
How One Nation won in Farrer: the maps that show the big swings across the seat
The swing played out throughout the electorate – even in places like Albury – although the gains were largest in rural areas
· Josh Nicholas, Nick Evershed, Andy Ball
One Nation’s historic win in Farrer – podcast
On Saturday, the rightwing party won a lower-house seat for the first time as voters registered their fury in the Farrer byelection.
These are the stories of Australian kids navigating the justice system right now
A playwright spent a year talking to kids in youth centres and juvenile detention. Her new work brings their stories – and their inner lives – to life
· Dee Jefferson
One Nation’s Farrer win is just the latest example of regional NSW voters putting a stick in the eye of the major parties | Julianne Schultz
Before independents reshaped urban politics, country electorates in the state had long elected outsiders and defectors
· Julianne Schultz
Died Pretty’s Doughboy Hollow: can Australia’s most overlooked album finally find the audience it deserves?
Thirty-five years after release, the Australian classic is finally getting a vinyl reissue
· Andrew Stafford
Woeful rabble v flag contenders: a tale of two AFL clubs in Western Australia
The once-mighty Eagles are a shadow of their former selves while the Dockers are flying high; the contrast between them could not be more stark
· Brendan Foster
Australia's right-wing One Nation party scores historic parliamentary win
Australia's One Nation party has won its first-ever lower-house seat in what is being seen as an important test for the right-wing populist party.
· Katy Watson
Rusia acusa a Ucrania de violar una tregua de 3 días mediada por EEUU
Militares rusos marchan durante el desfile del Día de la Victoria en Moscú, el sábado 9 de mayo de 2026, en la conmemoración del 81er aniversario de la victoria de la Unión Soviética sobre la Alemania nazi en la II Guerra Mundial. (AP Foto/Pavel Bednyakov, Pool)
· The Associated Press
Bluster is one thing One Nation, delivering is another
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A 38-year-old is still so important to Collingwood. Who are the other players demanding his place?
When they were belted by Brisbane only weeks ago Collingwood were without their previous captain, current captain and future one: Scott Pendlebury, Darcy Moore and Nick Daicos. That loss could be explained. This one, against the other grand finalist, couldn’t.
· Michael Gleeson
Incoming Wallabies coach faces scrutiny as Reds lodge ref complaint after loss
The Queensland Reds have lodged a formal complaint with Super Rugby Pacific over the standard of refereeing in their controversial loss to the Chiefs on Friday, which ended with the match officials being booed off Suncorp Stadium.
· Iain Payten
The top 160 high schools for maths and literacy growth
Every lesson at Ingleburn High runs on a two-minute clock. Teachers deliver a new instruction roughly every two minutes. They check for student understanding every two minutes. And then they provide feedback. How often? Every two minutes.
· Christopher Harris, Nigel Gladstone
A ‘degree-factory move’: University charging law students $48,000 cuts tutorials
Monash University has cut law tutorials, reducing some students’ contact with teaching staff by up to six hours a semester in what has been described as a “cost-cutting, degree-factory move”.
· Bridie Smith, Jackson Graham
Mother fighting for life after Melbourne e-scooter hit and run
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Tensions flare at NDIS rally in Melbourne
Property News: Suburbs where house values rose most in the past 12 months.
· Sarah Swain
Fugitives fired at bystanders in chaotic cross-border chase
Property News: Australia's most popular suburbs in every capital city.
· 9News Staff
‘That’s unfair’: Cleary produces dropout of the year to seal Panthers’ win
The Canberra fans did not know whether to cry or stand and applaud.
· Christian Nicolussi
Richmond fall short in gallant attempt at back-to-back wins
Richmond’s bid to end an MCG win drought dating to July last year has fallen short, unable to hang on to a slender half-time lead over an unimpressive Adelaide in a 37-point defeat.
· Marc McGowan
Phoenix makes A-League history with semifinal triumph over Brisbane
Woods's double fired Wellington into the grand final. (Getty Images: Hagen Hopkins)
Woman charged after alleged antisemitic slur at Sydney kids netball game
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· Victoria Pengilley
It took Pauline Hanson 30 years, and she’s only just getting started
Thirty years after Pauline Hanson first exploded onto the national stage railing against immigration, globalisation and a political class she said had abandoned ordinary Australians, her party has finally broken through. It forces a sharper question inside the Coalition about whether Farrer is simply a protest vote …
· Rob Harris
The beat goes on: How a small lab behind The Alfred became a world-leading research hub
A scientist’s work is never done, and staff at the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute have usually got quite enough on their (microscope) plates – like developing an mRNA vaccine to prevent heart attacks, or devising implantable artificial hearts.
· Carolyn Webb
‘Rotten odour’ and fly swarms: Council seeks eviction order against former start-up darling
An embattled start-up could be forced to find a new home within 28 days after facing persistent complaints that smell and insect problems at its factory in Melbourne’s west are severely affecting trading and the wellbeing of workers in the area.
· Gemma Grant
Depleted Tigers slump to sixth place as Storm snap losing streak
Most NRL teams will struggle to compete without a handful of their best players and so it proved for Wests Tigers in Melbourne on Sunday.
· Chris Barrett
Ingrid gets the most precious gift of all on Mother’s Day
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· Emily Kowal
When Nicole started checking her breasts, she never expected to find a lump
More than 4,500 people took part in the Mother's Day Classic in Canberra this morning. (ABC News: Simon Beardsell)
· Penny Travers
Kysaiah Pickett has nervous MRO wait as Demons make light work of West Coast
Melbourne have recorded their first win since their controversial decision to sack CEO Paul Guerra just seven months into the job as the team’s spirited performances continue full steam ahead under rookie coach Steven King.
· Peter Ryan
18-year-old man dies falling from sixth floor balcony while fleeing police
The 18-year-old Annerley man was wanted over a series of crimes in north and south Brisbane. (ABC News: Melissa Maddison)
True crime podcast fuels probe into student's murder
Property News: Australia's most expensive streets, and how much it costs to live in them.
· Associated Press
Pressure mounts on Angus Taylor as Pauline Hanson declares One Nation ‘here for the long haul’
Historic Farrer byelection win ignites internal rumblings about Coalition leadership
· Dan Jervis Bardy
Nationals MP Colin Boyce says he’s considering move to One Nation after ‘wake-up call’ in Farrer byelection
Exclusive: Queensland MP says ‘I think everybody should be thinking about their political future’ after devastating result for Coalition
· Sarah Martin
Sunwater chair labels costly dam rebuild 'grossly disproportionate'
Sunwater chair Jeff Seeney has written to the Queensland government recommending against rebuilding the troubled Paradise Dam. (ABC News: Johanna Marie)
· Stephen Clarke
Police investigate woman for allegedly hurling antisemitic slur during netball game
Property News: Australia's most expensive streets, and how much it costs to live in them.
· Richard Wood
$6b betting giant had 500 problem-gambling breaches, but the regulator took too long to fine it
Australia’s gambling regulator took so long to investigate the $6 billion multinational betting giant behind Ladbrokes that it could not fine the company despite finding it had breached laws protecting problem gamblers 500 times over three years.
· Elias Visontay
Israeli Defence Forces volunteer to face court over alleged western Sydney assault
Jihad El Cheikh was sitting with his wife sipping his coffee at the food court in Stocklands Merrylands when he was allegedly slapped in the back of the head by an Israeli Defence Force volunteer.
· Mostafa Rachwani
BP secures 35-year Brisbane lease as state moves to secure fuel pipeline
The state is rushing approvals for a decades-long lease of prime land near the Port of Brisbane for a global oil giant as part of the government’s plan to create a self-contained Queensland oil industry.
· Catherine Strohfeldt
Waking up in One Nation country: after the Coalition demolition, voters wait to see if Pauline Hanson’s party can deliver
A disaffected constituency that delivered a historic victory to the minor party also dashed ambitions of independent Michelle Milthorpe
· Sarah Basford Canales
Rock fisherman dies after being swept into water north of Sydney
Property News: Suburbs where house values rose most in the past 12 months.
· Sarah Swain
From plain noodles to paella, this school is converting fussy eaters one lunch at a time
In a small school kitchen in Melbourne’s outer west, the smell of macaroni and cheese and steaming plates of paella fills the room as hungry students pile in. The children laugh at each other and dance; a typical scene of any canteen lunch line.
· Jackson Graham
For James Reyne, a 1983 Australian film is a memory of past love. Now it’s getting a second life
Before James Reyne became famous in Australian Crawl, he was studying to be an actor at the Victorian College of the Arts. He met a wildly talented student from the year above, Vera Plevnik, and they became a couple.
· Garry Maddox
Demons out for top six against Eagles
Melbourne seeks to close in on the top six with a win over West Coast at Docklands, before the Tigers and the Crows close out round nine at the MCG.
· Luke Pentony
Australian-born MP threatens to topple British prime minister
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· Richard Wood
Mother who allegedly aimed antisemitic slur at Jewish team confronted
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