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Newest first · UTC+11:00'No-one is feeling it more': New measures to protect truckies from fuel price spikes
Service stations in Australia are grappling with oil shortage and spike of fuel prices. Source: AAP / Lukas Coch
· Sbsaustralia
'Designed by youth': Service to offer free trauma support for Canberra teens
Uniting head of mental health Chantal Nagib says the service has been "designed by young people, for young people". (ABC News: Stuart Carnegie)
· Lois Maskiell
Cyclone Narelle could reach Perth in rare southward charge
Auto news: These are Australia's safest roads.
· Emily McPherson
Music meets maths in Australian Youth Orchestra show at World Science Festival
Topic:Classical Music
· Ria Andriani
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Bec Pridham is a multi-platform reporter for ABC News, based in Launceston. She joined in 2022, after working at The Examiner and Australian Community Media’s national team.
Morning Mail: Trump claims ‘productive’ peace talks with Iran, ‘unacceptable’ Legal Aid move, Easter chocolate shrinkflation
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· Martinfarrer
E-bike and e-scooter riders to require a licence in Qld under proposed laws
Topic:State and Territory Government
· Jack Mckay
Australia politics live: NSW reveals laws to crush illegal ebikes; Kate Chaney pushes for action 1,000 days after gambling ad ban report
State legislation due to be introduced on Tuesday will give authorities powers to seize high-powered e-motorbikes. Follow today’s news live
· Martinfarrer, Josh Butler, Penry Buckley
Sri Lanka–Australia discuss strengthening bilateral relations - DailyNews
Discussions between President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s Chief of Staff Prabath Chandrakeerthi and the Australian High Commissioner Matthew Duckworth focused on the long-standing and strong bilateral relations between Sri Lanka and Australia.
· Gayan Abeykoon
Teenagers die after motorbike crash with bus on restricted Sydney transitway
Topic:Road Accidents and Incidents
· Jean Kennedy
Teenagers die after trail bike crash with bus on restricted Sydney transitway
Topic:Road Accidents and Incidents
· Jean Kennedy
Brutal truth in Sydney mum's video as cost of living bites
Property News: Australia's most expensive streets, and how much it costs to live in them.
· Maddison Leach
Australia and European Union to sign free trade agreement decades in the making
Trade Minister Don Farrell with EU Trade Commissioner Maros Sefcovic. (Supplied)
· Stephen Dziedzic
Mayor sold farm to developer, then gave crucial support to billion-dollar project
Former Redlands mayor Karen Williams did not step out of the council meeting as it voted on a developer’s billion-dollar housing project less than two years after she sold her family farm to the same developer, instead casting the crucial final vote.
· Julius Dennis
Victorian teacher strike live updates: School closures, rally updates and parent guide during the state’s first government-school strike in 13 years
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· Caroline Schelle, Ashleigh McMillan
Fuel costs forcing potential 'life and death' decisions for rural patients
The Rural Doctors Association says some regional patients may be forced to make "life and death" decisions due to rising fuel costs. (ABC North West Queensland: Kelly Butterworth)
· Caitlyn Gribbin
'I literally have no choice': The workers bearing the brunt of Australia's fuel crisis
Carpentry apprentice Jordan Mulvaney says the government's advice to work from home to curb Australia's fuel crisis has missed the mark for workers like him. Source: Supplied
· Sbsaustralia
This fuel costs as little at 80c a litre in Australia. So why isn't everyone using it?
The price of LPG has been hovering around $1.17 a litre in Sydney, according to NRMA. Source: Getty / James D. Morgan
· Sbsaustralia
New push for four-day work week to solve growing fuel crisis
Property News: Australia's most expensive streets, and how much it costs to live in them.
· Maddison Leach
Thousands of Victorian teachers and support staff strike amid pay dispute
Topic:Industrial Action
· Sacha Payne
Alarm raised on trouble-plagued Swanston Centre years before hospital homicide
A psychiatrist attacked by a patient on her second day working at the troubled Swanston Centre pushed for changes at the psychiatric hospital, but believes staff and patients have been let down by years of inaction.
· Grant McArthur
This idea would save apartment owners $333m. Strata managers took ‘high offence’
A lucrative system of payments that has driven up the cost of apartment living in NSW is facing an overhaul as the state government considers becoming the first in Australia to outlaw commissions to strata managers.
· David Barwell
Ho Jiak’s Fish Market spin-off embraces the kitsch with a subversive take on surf-and-turf
The Sydney Fish Market, in with the throng of auctions, live tanks and the diversity of its species, has always harboured elements of culinary conservatism. Fixed onto the building like a limpet is an obsession with value and a mild 𝄒60s scepticism about the quality of fresh seafood. Your biggest, cheapest lobster …
· David Matthews
WA first-home buyers are relying on the bank of mum and dad. Are there expectations in return?
Rapidly rising house prices across Western Australia, and a lack of wage growth to match, means first-home buyers are increasingly relying on the bank of mum and dad to overcome those barriers.
· Holly Thompson
Why the battle for NSW bowlos and surf clubs just got bigger
The Minns government is facing a major battle with Aboriginal councils as it overhauls the management of land claims after a series of high-profile disputes, including a High Court ruling on an abandoned bowling club which was handed to an eastern suburbs Indigenous group.
· Alexandra Smith
Empire under pressure: Catalano’s son scrambles for new lender to save luxury Byron project
Antony Catalano’s hold on his property empire is looking increasingly tenuous after the financing behind his latest Byron Bay project was withdrawn following his alleged violent attack on his wife, Stefanie Catalano.
· Lucy Macken
‘Brilliant’: Husic puts space between himself and PM on Grace Tame
Unlike the PM, dumped cabinet minister Ed Husic smartly navigated the notorious one-word description trap during a recent podcast appearance.
· Fiona Byrne, John Buckley
Prosecco, feta, luxury cars: Long-delayed Europe trade deal finally a reality
Australian red meat exports to Europe are set to rise tenfold under a historic free trade pact that has been eight years in the making, while producers will be able to use names such as prosecco, feta and halloumi despite a longstanding European push to restrict the use of these so-called “geographic indicators”.
· Matthew Knott
Inside One Nation's orange wave in SA and what it means for the nation – podcast
Pauline Hanson’s One Nation surged ahead of the Liberal party and secured seats in both sides of the South Australian parliament in the recent state election.
AI will tell you Australia’s fuel reserve is in the US. But is that even true?
Australia does not have a government-backed stockpile, experts say, and even if we did still store oil in the US, it would not be much
· Catie Mcleod
Queensland government criticised over ‘absurd’ decision to appoint former police officer to Legal Aid board
Barrister who represented Indigenous Palm Island community says appointing Darren Robinson to the Legal Aid board is a ‘slap in the face to the family of Mulrunji Doomadgee’
· Andrew Messenger, Ben Smee
Australia’s generation Alpha faces $185k bill over lifetime without urgent action on climate crisis, report finds
Global heating consistent with current projections would cost average millennial $130,000 and $165,000 for gen Z, according to Deloitte modelling
· Patrick Commins
Fewer eggs, higher prices: Cadbury ‘doubled down’ on Easter chocolate shrinkflation, Choice finds
Customers are set to shell out almost 73% more per 100g for Cadbury hollow Easter eggs, according to the consumer advocacy group
· Alyx Gorman
Pauline Hanson keeps forgetting to declare gifts from Gina Rinehart. Please explain | Sarah Martin
Five undeclared flights in under six months. Whether deliberate or absent-minded, the One Nation leader has concealed the extent of support for her from Gina Rinehart, Australia’s richest person
· Sarah Martin
Landmark EU-Mercosur free trade deal will start May 1 to ease dependency on US and China
EU Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security Maros Sefcovic visits Admiralty House in Sydney, Monday, March 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)
· Sam Mcneil
Two teens on motorbike killed in crash with bus in Sydney's west
Auto news: Public electric car charging cables cut and stolen at shopping centre
· Jorge Branco
Two teenage boys killed in collision with bus in western Sydney
Two teenage boys died when the bike they were riding collided with a bus in Sydney’s west on Monday night.
A note on the typo
“The prospect of Ron Montague’s old compositor mate falling off his chair at something he read (C8) does intrigue me,” reckons Julian Neylan of Dulwich Hill. “There must be a wealth of delicious compositor errors that have floored readers for centuries. Right back to the 1631 version of the King James Bible, which i…
World Rowing throws weight behind Moreton Bay Olympic proposal
World Rowing has backed a proposal for a new purpose-built facility just north of Brisbane, but has stopped short of picking a side in the Olympic venue dispute that has pitted central Queensland against the south-east.
· Cameron Atfield
‘Morale’s terrible’: When does a vacancy management plan become a hiring freeze?
Welcome to Brisbane Times’ Queensland public sector column, Public Circus, where we aim to deliver frank and fearless titbits – from the bowels of the state bureaucracy to the top of One William Street and beyond. This week: A hiring freeze, events at Government House, and calls for a four-day workweek to alleviate …
· James Hall, Matt Dennien, Julius Dennis
Netballer explains absence after being separated from daughter at birth
Emily Mannix poses with her daughter Mabel in their Vixens kit. (Supplied: Melbourne Vixens / Matthew Smith)
· Brittany Carter
One Nation should be welcomed into anti-Labor alliance, Kennett tells Coalition
One Nation’s stunning result in the South Australian election has convinced Jeff Kennett that Pauline Hanson’s party should be welcomed into a broad “coalition for Victoria” to ensure Labor is defeated at the November state election.
· Chip Le Grand
Asian women’s football champions Japan need ‘different tools’ to win World Cup, coach says
Nils Nielsen says Japan, the only team from Asia to have won the world title, will need to keep improving if they want to do it again
· Agence France-Presse
Hanson’s party is a policy-free zone
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Miami Open: Korda sends world No 1 Alcaraz to another early exit; Sabalenka to face Zheng
Spaniard crashes out for second year running from same event, while Aryna Sabalenka sets up meeting with China’s Zheng Qinwen
· Agence France-Presse
War-induced interest rate shocks unlikely to upset Asia’s property markets
While monetary tightening would add to affordability pressures, it would have little bearing on the forces driving up prices and rents
· Nicholas Spiro