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Newest first · UTC+11:00Electrifying your home comes with savings, but conversion costs stopping many
Jean-Marc Spiler transitioned his home in Adelaide to be fully electric. (ABC News: Carl Saville)
· Bethanie Alderson
What we know about the fatal plane crash in Adelaide
Investigations are underway into a light plane crash at an airport in Adelaide's north that claimed the lives of a pilot and their passenger.
· Eva Blandis
Study suggests regional Australians largely support renewable push
The Waubra wind farm has caused controversy in the local community. (ABC News: Charlotte Wilkes)
· Coco Veldkamp
Prioritise payment of US$ 2.5 Mn owed to Australia - Ravi - DailyNews
MP Ravi Karunanayake has urged the Government to prioritise the settlement of US$ 2.5 million owed to the Australian government, asserting that doing so would position Sri Lanka to seek Australia’s assistance in navigating the ongoing financial difficulties.
· Gayan Abeykoon
Rain tank scheme aims to save threatened platypus population
Along Monbulk Creek in Melbourne’s south-east, a platypus forages for prey. It’s busy business, being a platypus.
· Bianca Hall
'Expectation gap': The Aussie workers most likely to gain a pay rise
Auto news: Public electric car charging cables cut and stolen at shopping centre
· Richard Wood
CFMEU training arm cut from government funding after audit
A CFMEU training organisation that received millions of dollars in government grants over the past five years has been cut off from the scheme.
· Kieran Rooney
Full Steene ahead: Rule change jump-starts Magpie’s career
Oscar Steene was in his hometown of Adelaide when he heard the AFL had changed the ruck rules.
· Peter Ryan
'Free Palestine' party plans to funnel votes to Victorian conservatives
Victoria has a history of electing micro party candidates to the state's upper house. (ABC News: Trent Murphy)
· Leanne Wong
'Free Palestine' party plans to funnel votes to Victorian conservatives
Victoria has a history of electing micro party candidates to the state's upper house. (ABC News: Trent Murphy)
· Leanne Wong
‘Just the beginning’: Sydney house prices fall as buyers step back
Sydney’s median house price has slipped back from an all-time high as poor affordability and deteriorating consumer confidence weigh on the market.
· Dan F Stapleton
Hamish’s bosses preached safety. Then he was diagnosed with a deadly disease
For Hamish Studholme, a tunneller across some of Sydney’s biggest transport infrastructure projects for about 20 years, an uncomfortable truth became impossible to ignore. Even as contracting companies slowly introduced measures to mitigate the threat of silicosis, an incurable lung disease caused by inhaling tiny p…
· Max Maddison
Melbourne house prices fall as ‘unnerved’ buyers hold back
Melbourne’s median house price has fallen more than $6000 from its peak, as two interest rate rises, global economic uncertainty and a cost-of-living crisis deter unnerved buyers from making big purchases.
· Caroline Zielinski
Premier and ministers keep little Joe’s picture on their desks: The tragedy that changed NSW
April 30, 2026 — 5:00am
· Michael McGowan
‘A failure of imagination’: The Sydney train station at risk of losing its prized roof
With its vast glass-vaulted roof that sent rays of sun onto platforms below, Sydney’s Olympic Park station won every major architecture award including the prize for enduring architecture in 2023.
· Julie Power, Ellie Busby
Brisbane house prices jump $200,000 in a year to hit record high
The cost of the typical Brisbane unit has jumped almost $40,000 in three months, smashing through the $800,000 barrier.
· Sarah Webb
‘Spirited bidding’: Australian art treasures go under the hammer for more than $20m
The eyes of prestige art collectors were firmly fixed on an extraordinary offering of artworks, including prized pieces by Brett Whiteley, Arthur Boyd, Jeffrey Smart, Charles Blackman, William Dobell, Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton and Albert Namatjira, that fetched a combined total of more than $20m at auction on Tue…
· Fiona Byrne, John Buckley
Just nine rentals across Brisbane deemed affordable, study finds
Queensland families are skipping meals and working multiple jobs to make ends meet as new research shows there are next to zero affordable homes in Brisbane for those on income support.
· William Davis
Perth’s house prices are on hot streak not seen in 20 years. Are we reaching a ‘tipping point’?
Perth’s house prices have risen for another quarter in the longest uninterrupted stretch of growth since 2000-07, but there are warnings buyers could be hitting an “affordability ceiling” as looming tax changes take the shine off WA’s market for investors.
· Cameron Myles
Police make disturbing find as search continues for missing 5-year-old girl in Australia
Sharon Granites’ grandmother has made a desperate plea for the five-year-old girl to “come back” after she was believed to have been snatched from her Alice Springs home.
· News.com.au
Viral breakdancer Raygun suffers devastating professional setback after Olympic debacle
Australia’s most infamous breakdancer Raygun has lost her job at one of the nation’s top universities.
· News.com.au
How Prince Harry’s ‘quasi royal tour’ through Australia deepened ‘strain’ with estranged brother William
The battle of the brothers continues.
· Alexandra Bellusci
Australia no repatriará a familias presuntamente vinculadas al grupo Estado Islámico, dice Siria
Miembros de familias australianas en el Campamento Roj, en el este de Siria, que alberga personas con presuntos vínculos con milicianos del grupo Estado Islámico, se preparan para salir a Damasco como parte de un segundo esfuerzo de repatriación realizado por autoridades sirias, en el Campamento Roj, en el este de S…
· Abby Sewell
Australia to require Google, Meta, TikTok to pay for local news — or face new tax
Australia’s government announced draft legislation on Tuesday that would require Meta, Google and TikTok to pay local news outlets for use of their articles – or face a significant tax.
· Thomas Barrabi
Mitch Brown on the AFL’s homophobia problem – podcast
The AFL has again found itself embroiled in allegations of on-field homophobia. St Kilda’s Lance Collard was handed a nine-week suspension for using a homophobic slur. His penalty was reduced on appeal, but the reasoning given by the appeals board has angered many.
Guardian Essential poll: Australians want higher tax on gas exports and extension of petrol excise cut
The fuel crisis is seeing more voters keen to shift to renewable energy rather than stick with fossil fuels
· Josh Butler
Another RBA rate rise won’t fix inflation – it will just smash households already hit by soaring fuel costs | Greg Jericho
The latest ABS consumer price index figures show just how pointless hiking interest rates would be at dealing with inflation. But raising rates is baked into the Reserve Bank’s DNA
· Greg Jericho
Poached: could a video of tree-climbing egg thieves help save Australia’s vulnerable honeyeaters?
Researchers found the loss of just a few eggs to opportunistic predators could greatly increase the songbird’s risk of extinction within 20 years
· Graham Readfearn
A man and a woman meet at the tennis. What happens next in this new play will have everyone talking
Writer and actor Megan Wilding describes her play Game. Set. Match. as ‘a romcom, until it isn’t’. And at every stage of its development, someone has told her, ‘Maybe this is too much’
· Dee Jefferson
Australia’s best photos of the month – April 2026
View image in fullscreenTeenage sprinter Gout Gout comes to terms with breaking the world junior record and national record to win the men’s 200m final in 19.67sec at the 2026 Australian Athletics Championships in Sydney on 12 April.Photograph: Cameron Spencer/Getty ImagesShareView image in fullscreenFormer soldier …
It’s years late and millions over budget, now one of Australia’s most beautiful pools is close to reopening
Olympians – including Michael Klim and Ian Thorpe – were given a first look at the heritage-listed North Sydney pool after its mammoth renovation
· Penry Buckley
Blobs of fat and the smell of rotting garbage: at an idyllic Sydney beach, a 25-tonne sperm whale slowly disintegrates
Authorities are yet to decide how they will move the body of the massive creature, which is attracting humans, eagles – and plenty of sharks
· Ima Caldwell
Revamped Maroons undergo radical reset to take 2026 State of Origin fight to Blues | Jack Snape
Queensland have a new coach, a new-look halves pairing and five debutants itching to test NSW’s hold of the women’s shield
· Jack Snape
Hot weather and hungry datacentres lift Australia’s energy demand to record highs but batteries quell prices
Rise in electricity demand in first quarter of 2026 was moderated by record output from rooftop solar
· Petra Stock
Australia’s battery boom has doubled in a year – and is rewiring the energy grid
A boom in battery installations across Australia is outstripping the most optimistic industry forecasts, smoothing out volatile electricity price swings and making the grid more resilient to the threat of global shocks as the Iran war pushes up the cost of energy in other countries.
· Mike Foley, Nick Toscano
China to help Australia with jet fuel supplies, Wong says
Foreign Minister Penny Wong speaks to the media after a meeting with her Chinese counterpart in Beijing. (REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov)
APRA Music Awards winners for 2026 announced
Punk rockers Amyl and The Sniffers have bagged three top gongs at the Australian music industry's APRA awards. (Supplied: John Angus Stewart)
Amyl and the Sniffers win Apra award for song of the year for second year in a row
Melbourne punk quartet wins for Jerkin’, while Guy Sebastian wins most performed Australian work and most performed pop work
· Michael Sun
Australian women and children stranded in Syria after leaving Roj camp
Members of Australian families at Roj Camp in eastern Syria, housing people with alleged ties to Islamic State militants, prepare to leave for Damascus as part of a second repatriation effort by Syrian authorities, at Roj Camp in eastern Syria, Friday, April 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad)
· Abby Sewell
Australia becomes second largest consumer of methamphetamine globally, wastewater monitoring reveals
Cocaine use also reaches record highs, Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission figures show
· Caitlin Cassidy
Toxic tide: Queensland’s cocaine and meth use hits all-time high
Queenslanders are consuming the illicit drug ice in record amounts – 720 kilograms more than the previous year – according to the latest analysis of wastewater.
· Courtney Kruk
Notorious Sydney killer wants to stay behind bars despite potential release
Property News: Australia's most expensive streets, and how much it costs to live in them.
· Tiffiny Genders
Brisbane to welcome major riverside seafood festival
South Bank’s first-ever seafood festival? Really?
· Matt Shea
Refusal to work with CFMEU cost contractor major work, inquiry told
A since-ousted Queensland CFMEU leader told major contractor CPB that its bid for a significant state hospital expansion job failed because it did not work with the union.
· Matt Dennien
Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for April 30-May 2
Mandarin Oriental The Landmark opens a new champagne bar, Artifact brings us the best of Rome, and Cruise at Hyatt Centric Victoria Harbour transports us to Mexico
· Josiah Ng
Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for April 30-May 2
Mandarin Oriental The Landmark opens a new champagne bar, Artifact brings us the best of Rome, and Cruise at Hyatt Centric Victoria Harbour transports us to Mexico
· Josiah Ng
India pips England to become Australia’s top overseas country of birth
India has overtaken England to become Australia’s top overseas country of birth as the overseas-born share of the national population climbed to 32 per cent, the highest since 1891.
· Matt Wade
One is a drug trafficker, the other was shot by police, but they were running an NDIS business
A drug trafficker and her partner, who was shot five times by police after charging at them with a knife, have been banned from providing National Disability Insurance Scheme services due to concerns over their chequered histories.
· Grant McArthur