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Auto news: These are Australia's safest roads.
· Maddison Leach
Labor’s news levy for tech giants is much needed – but leaves too much bargaining power with platforms | Rod Sims
We need the news bargaining incentive to be operational by mid-year – but more work is needed to ensure scheme is equitable and addresses rise of AI
· Rod Sims
'A rom-com until it isn't': Australian Open-set show tackles big issues
"I am the romantic lead of my own life, and I've got a big Blak heart," Megan Wilding, writer and star of Game. Set. Match., says. (Supplied: Malthouse/Giulia McGauran)
· Rudi Bremer
Flirtation turns to something much darker in show set at Australian Open
"I am the romantic lead of my own life, and I've got a big Blak heart," Megan Wilding, writer and star of Game. Set. Match., says. (Supplied: Malthouse/Giulia McGauran)
· Rudi Bremer
More signs El Niño is coming to Australia over winter
Auto news: Public electric car charging cables cut and stolen at shopping centre
· Richard Wood
Video captures moment Pilates studio set alight in brazen arson attack
Police have released video of the moment a Pilates studio was set alight on the NSW Central Coast.
· Mary Louise Vince
Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Forbidden Fruits’ on VOD, a Ramshackle Satire Tackling Witchcraft and Girlboss Cliches
Forbidden Fruits (now streaming on VOD platforms like Amazon Prime Video) is absolutely loaded with promise: An amusing premise involving a witch coven operating within a mall clothing store. Kitschy-campy horror-comedy vibes. A new voice in first-time feature director Meredith Alloway, who adapts Lily Houghton’s im…
· John Serba
Port Arthur gun reform was swift. Bondi is proving a different challenge
Port Arthur survivor Carolyn Loughton is urging Australia to push ahead with the stronger gun laws proposed after last year's Bondi terror attack.. (ABC News: Monty Jacka)
· Adam Holmes
Concert to benefit Bondi Beach victims canceled after Greek choir refuses to sing with Jews
A concert to raise money for the victims of the shooting attack on a Hanukkah party on Sydney’s Bondi Beach has been canceled after the Greek choir that was to take part voted not to sing with a Jewish choir.
· PHILISSA CRAMER/JTA
Family claims grandmother's death after weight-loss surgery preventable
Joanne Downie underwent an elective gastric bypass surgery so she could live a healthier life for her grandchildren, but she died six days later in a regional Queensland hospital.
· Johanna Marie
Star Lions recruit facing three months on sidelines
Oscar Allen sustained a foot injury during the Lions' win over the Crows. (Getty Images/AFL Photos: Chris Hyde)
Hundreds of jobs to go at Home Affairs amid 'financial pressures'
The Australian Border Force is included in the voluntary redundancy round. (ABC: Avani Dias)
· Tom Crowley
Cafe makes appeal after CCTV shows woman smashing plate in waitress' face
Property News: Suburbs where house values rose most in the past 12 months.
· Richard Wood
Experts offer theories on why WA is 'wild west' for ADHD prescriptions
Western Australia has seven of the top-10 highest areas for ADHD medication prescriptions. (ABC News: Adam Kennedy)
· Daryna Zadvirna
Plans for new Australian oil refinery
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Instagram ad led Sydney dad to pour $77k into fake investment firm
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· Tamsyn Buckle
Questions loom over LIV Golf's future, but a multi-million dollar course upgrade is playing through
Premier Peter Malinauskas announces LIV Golf coming to Adelaide in 2022 with golfing great Greg Norman. (Supplied)
· Thomas Kelsall
Outlaw motorcycle gang member accused of posing as ADF soldier
Property News: Australia's most expensive streets, and how much it costs to live in them.
· Richard Wood
El Niño one step closer as Pacific transition now fastest in 50 years
Thankfully for Australia, a record El Niño does not also suggest record drought or heat is on the cards. (ABC News: Che Chorley)
· Tom Saunders
The Vampire index: where Australia’s fuel crisis is biting the hardest
Jaksha Singh and her husband bought their house on a promise. Mount Atkinson, a greenfield development about 30km west of Melbourne’s city centre, was meant to be walkable, complete with a Westfield, playgrounds and a train station.
Melbourne to Queensland exodus 'starting to see reversal' amid housing unaffordability
Siddharth Nagar is leaving the Gold Coast for Melbourne after a prolonged house hunt. (ABC News: Glenn Mullane)
· Heloise Vyas
Cost of becoming a doctor 'contributing to the healthcare crisis'
Australia's regional and rural healthcare system is facing a critical shortage of GPs.Regional and remote communities consistently face healthcare shortages, including an incredibly high demand for GPs and other medical professionals, according to Healthcare Australia.However, the Australian Medical Student Associa…
· Mikala Theocharous
Aussie team developing clean energy from most unlikely source
An Australian research team is exploring a potential way of tackling two of the world's most pressing environmental issues at once: dealing with plastic waste and reducing our fossil fuel footprint.The answer? Transforming plastic waste into valuable fuels like hydrogen using solar power.The new technology would th…
· Lara Pearce
Byron was found dead in a Bali villa. His parents want to solve the mystery
Property News: Australia's most popular suburbs in every capital city.
· April Glover
The link between viral hepatitis and one of Australia's deadliest cancers
A new report has revealed Queensland liver cancer deaths have risen from 1.6 deaths per 100,000 population in the 1980s to 5.1 in 2018–2022.
· Janelle Miles
Are you ready for Australia’s $5 trillion wealth transfer?
With an estimated $5 trillion dollars set to be passed onto the next generation in coming decades, Australians are being urged to think seriously about estate planning.
· Cameron Bayley
Last-ditch bid to revise huge golf course housing development
A controversial housing development in Melbourne’s south-east is so flawed that rubbish trucks will not be able to fit in driveways, residents will be drowned out by aircraft passing overhead and existing neighbourhoods will be at risk of flooding, a council report warns.
· Rachael Dexter
Australia risks repeating social media mistakes with AI in workplace: report
The study warns unchecked AI could intensify worker surveillance, unsafe workloads and job insecurity. (ABC News)
· Bronwyn Herbert
The Enforcement. The lobby that bought Australian democracy
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· Andrew Brown
Everything you need to know about this year's winter vaccine rollout
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· Lauren Roberts
The ‘sadistic’ form of coercive abuse becoming increasingly common
At first glance, the entries in *Ashley’s calendar blended in with the usual work shifts, appointments and personal events expected to fill a 21-year-old’s time.
· Clare Sibthorpe
These controversial ‘pop-up’ Sydney cycleways are here to stay
Sydney’s COVID-era “pop-up” bike lanes linking the inner east to the CBD are set to remain, as the City of Sydney pushes ahead with plans to make the once-temporary infrastructure permanent despite mounting opposition from residents.
· David Barwell
These Brisbane toll roads are still failing to meet expectations
Brisbane’s toll roads, tunnels and bridges delivered almost $600 million in revenue last financial year for Transurban Queensland.
· Felicity Caldwell
Wallabies veterans eyeing Super swansong in World Cup year
Veteran Wallabies playmakers Bernard Foley and James O’Connor are both considering a potential swansong season in Australia next year ahead of the Rugby World Cup, and have had contact with several Super Rugby teams about potential roles.
· Iain Payten, Tom Decent
This new CBD Italian wine bar does spicy martinis and snack-sized sandwiches
Flinders Lane’s new tucked-away wine bar The Florence combines the traditions of the Tuscan region home to its namesake with a look that riffs on ’70s Italian style.
· Tomas Telegramma
‘It was Joe’s love’: The campaign to bring Northern Beaches Hospital into public hands
Health Minister Ryan Park says he is “reasonably confident” private health services will continue at Northern Beaches Hospital, while conceding high demand for out-of-pocket care has been an added complexity to the $190 million public takeover of the scandal-plagued hospital.
· Michael McGowan
‘Spirit of Australia’? The idea of the national carrier is long dead
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· Ben Groundwater
Grim warning for workers with inflation set to hit a three-year high
Inflation is set to reach a three-year high as the war against Iran drives up prices on everyday goods, with warnings that the Australian economy could be in the grip of a stagflation slowdown that would drive more than 100,000 people out of work within months.
· Shane Wright
Alemania retrasa 9 días el anuncio de su selección del Mundial para dar más tiempo a lesionados
El alemán Deniz Undav celebra tras anotar en la victoria de un juego de fútbol amistoso internacional entre Alemania y Ghana en Stuttgart, Alemania, el lunes 30 de marzo de 2026. (Foto AP/Matthias Schrader)
Is ‘APEX’ Based on a True Story?
The new Charlize Theron Netflix movie APEX delivers on exactly what it promises viewers: Theron—looking amazing as always—battling the Australian wilderness while fleeing from a deranged serial killer (Taron Egerton).
· Anna Menta
Australia eyes taxing tech giants unless they pay news outlets
SYDNEY, Australia — Australia on Tuesday unveiled draft laws that would tax Meta, Google and TikTok unless they voluntarily strike deals to pay local outlets for news.
· Agence France-Presse
Thunder arrasa en la primera ronda por tercer año consecutivo
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)
Trump thrills in 'royal ties' as he welcomes King to White House on historic day
Property News: Australia's most expensive streets, and how much it costs to live in them.
· Karishma Sarkari
Evacuees from flooded remote Indigenous areas in NT housed in compound likened to ‘a prison camp’
Residents must sign in and out at a security gate, and vehicles and bags are routinely searched
· Reporting and photography by (A)manda Parkinson in Darwin
Lebanese citizens with Australian partners being denied visitor visas amid concerns over unofficial ‘blacklists’
Rejection letters for those applying to enter Australia while they wait for their partner visas read like ‘cut-and-paste’ refusals, migration agents say
· Ben Doherty, Adeshola Ore
A dead person’s fat pumped into your body? Why the ‘zombie filler’ trend has some experts spooked | Antiviral
While not approved in Australia, the procedure is on the rise in the US. But there are questions of safety – and the ethics of using donated tissue to plump up the living
· Melissa Davey
Guardian Essential poll: more Australians approve of Hanson’s party leadership than Albanese or Taylor’s
One Nation outperforms the Coalition for the first time, while the rightwing populist party’s leader has a positive rating among all age groups
· Josh Butler
Brittany Higgins criticises federal inaction as Victoria moves to protect victim-survivors’ counselling records
Exclusive: State government commits to strengthening laws as Higgins labels Albanese government’s response to women’s safety issues ‘disheartening’
· Benita Kolovos
Deborah Mailman: ‘There’s almost a permission now – people can just be incredibly cruel and racist’
The actor, who reunites with Warwick Thornton in his frontier western Wolfram, reflects on her late parents, the failed voice referendum and her obsession with space
· Steve Dow