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Woolworths is facing court after Coles made its defence against the allegations earlier this year. Source: AAP / Joel Carrett
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Several challenges mean Australia can no longer take its food security for granted. Source: Getty / picture alliance/dpa
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Construction of an apartment block will begin in the middle of this year on the site of a former flower shop in a booming pocket of West End.
Los jugadores del Real Madrid tras la victoria ante Club Brujas para coronarse campeones de la Youth League de la UEFA, el lunes 20 de abril de 2026, en Lausana, Suiza. (Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone vía AP)
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Commissioner Virginia Bell is leading the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion, which is set to deliver an interim report. Source: AAP / Sarah Wilson
Thousands of students across Queensland are writing to veterans ahead of Anzac Day. (ABC News: Luke Bowden)
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Perhaps you have seen it before: a serene Bikkhu, hand resting in a bowl, rendered in soft pastel tones. The print often hangs slightly off-centre at the family shrine in an ancestral home. That familiar image is Sivali Maha Thera painted by Master M. Sarlis. Today it is remembered as a devotional icon, reproduced e…
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Opener Sanjana Kavindi and leg spinner Limansa Thillekaratne were the top batter and bowler in the recently concluded T-20 tri series which was won by Sri Lanka Under 19’ women’s played at Brisbane and Gold Coast in Australia recently .
The phrase 'kitty flipping' might conjour up playful furballs or racy sex acts, depending on your turn of mind, but the reality is far more perilous.The term refers to combining the party drugs ketamine and MDMA (ecstasy) - and new research shows it's on the rise in Australia.A new Australia-wide study of our wast…
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In the days after Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over Ukraine, Stephen Dametto grappled with the scale of the tragedy. By then a seasoned organised crime and counter-terrorism investigator with the Australian Federal Police, Dametto had spent years preparing for worst-case scenarios.
A Sydney council has come under fire for its long-delayed plans to replace an upper north shore grass oval with a synthetic sports field as new figures show that project costs have blown out from $3.3 million to $20.2 million.
Zoos Victoria welcomes a lot of babies each year – from elephant calves to meerkat litters and hordes of butterflies. Two months ago, two lion cubs born at Werribee Open Range Zoo also joined the list.
The most popular peptides being bought illegally in Australia are yet to attract serious attention from big pharmaceutical companies, who believe they would not be lucrative or safe enough products to bring to the legitimate market.
It has been more than 60 years since Antonio Colosi first laid eyes on the Sydney Harbour Bridge. He arrived in Australia on a passenger liner transporting post-war migrants from Italy, and went on to open a restaurant in Leichhardt in 1999 with son Charlie Colosi. They named it Grappa, after the pressed grapeskin d…
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A new report has found cash use has increased in Australia for the first time in decades. (ABC News: Giulio Saggin)
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It appears the export giants are going to great lengths to avoid a repeat of the price gouging from three years ago. (AAP: Lukas Coch)
Amber Davis speaks through tears as she describes the overwhelming emotion of being diagnosed with ADHD as an adult.
Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico gestures during joint statements with Romanian counterpart Ilie Bolojan, at the Victoria Palace, the Romanian government headquarters in Bucharest, Romania, Friday, March 27, 2026. (AP Photo/ Vadim Ghirda)
McLaren driver Oscar Piastri of Australia leads the field at the start of the Japanese Formula One Grand Prix at Suzuka in central Japan, Sunday, March 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
An Australian woman, dubbed the “unbothered queen” by fans on social media, has gone viral after ignoring Prince Harry and Meghan Markle during their surprise visit to Bondi Beach last Friday.
Exclusive: Insurance complaints are at record levels as Australian industry struggles with delays on ‘everyday’ claims
The strange and lonely death of Bikram Lama exposes a glaring gap in homelessness services. Reged Ahmad speaks with Guardian Australia’s chief investigations correspondent, Christopher Knaus, about what hopes and dreams brought Lama to Australia, and what went wrong
Review recommends better use of NDIS data to identify repeat rorters and a requirement for providers to register with the government
River ecologist says ‘classic bureaucratic tangle’ led to government agency stopping flows to Gwydir wetlands region in March
Vinegar, Tim Tams and baby rice are among the products to be scrutinised in the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s case
Kerbside wheelie bins have been used in Australia since the 1980s but the recycling rate is stuck at 44%. Will another recycling bin make a difference?
Shaky watermarked footage from inside a shipping container doesn't normally produce this sort of reaction.But when that metal box is the last known hiding place of Australia's most wanted man, who was killed just outside in a hail of bullets following months on the run, there's an audience for every little detail.Th…
Ex-Mattel boss behind Barbiemania pivots retailer towards more premium fashion after reopening UK stores
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been pressed on his relationship with the United States and President Donald Trump on 7.30.
An expansion of youth crime laws, the scrapping of the state’s drug diversion program and new police powers to crack down on “anti-social behaviour” are among changes set out in a bill to be debated when parliament returns this week.
Claims by Rebel Wilson that a young Australian actress was sexually harassed by a producer but then hid it to better her career are "malicious concoctions", a Sydney court has heard on the first day of a defamation case against the Hollywood star.
Sitting on a dusty wooden table inside a shipping container are two vitamin bottles – one of odourless wild fish oil, the other magnesium.
Queensland has secured four huge machines worth hundreds of millions of dollars to keep the state’s power system stable when it transitions to renewable energy and avoid the chaotic delays forced on the planned shutdown of the Eraring generator in NSW.
Welcome to Brisbane Times’ Queensland public sector column, Public Circus. This week: department boss disclosures, a CFMEU probe doc of interest, appointment watch, and a bureaucrat only bar.