Leach pad re-crush ramps as Pacgold stacks SA gold hits
Resource drilling at Pacgold Limited’s Vertigo pit, part of the company’s South Australian White Dam project, 80km east of Broken Hill, is now 95 per cent complete.
· Doug Bright
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Kyle Sandilands says he's considering "many options" when asked about his future with ARN outside his home in Sydney. (ABC News)
Medicide. Australian healthcare’s tight links Israel, despite Gaza
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· Wendy Bacon
NAB and Westpac act quickly as big banks respond to another interest rate rise
Auto news: Public electric car charging cables cut and stolen at shopping centre
· Patrick Brischetto
Airline warns against customer service scam targeting travellers on social media
Property News: Australia's most popular suburbs in every capital city.
· Eleanor Wilson
AFL Victoria drops investigation into ‘gender weirdness’ comment
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· Hannah Kennelly
Why dozens of clowns showed up to an ordinary council meeting
A colourful array of clown-costumed protesters filled the typically vacant Brisbane council gallery on Tuesday to patiently mock the city’s elected figures.
· William Davis
Woman, 34, charged with murder after body discovered in home
A woman has been charged with the murder of another woman, whose body police say was found after being in an Ipswich home for two weeks.
· Catherine Strohfeldt
Man, 59, jailed for Molotov cocktail attack on his former high school
Steele Wilson has been sentenced after firebombing his former high school in Eden on the NSW South Coast. (ABC South East NSW: Adriane Reardon)
· Alasdair Mcdonald
NSW Police rescue crew on board boat linked to $1b cocaine shipment
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NAB first to respond to Reserve Bank cash rate increase
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· Brianna Morris Grant
US Embassy in Iraq targeted, UAE oil fields struck as war nears three-week mark
Property News: Australia's most expensive streets, and how much it costs to live in them.
· April Glover
Ex Iranian footballer says regime officials are 'mafia-like' as players return home
The Iranian women's soccer team have begun making their way home to Iran after five players withdrew their claims for asylum in Australia.
· Nassim Khadem
Man jailed for 'senseless' killing of Perth lawyer at luxury hotel
Perth barrister Alice Rose McShera was found dead in a hotel room at Crown Towers on October 30, 2023. (Supplied)
· David Weber
RBA hikes cash rate for second straight month; Trump seeks to delay China summit amid Iran war; and the 6.30pm rule
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· Kris Swales
‘We have seen such hatred and division’: The case for a NSW human rights act
NSW Labor is facing pressure from crossbench MPs and 120 groups, including the Bar Association, to investigate whether the state needs a human rights act, amid concerns tinkering to antisemitism and LGBTQ hate laws are “Band-Aid solutions”.
· Jessica McSweeney
‘Removing flags doesn’t stop racism’: regional NSW council abandons plan to stop flying Aboriginal flag
The Federation Council in Corowa received 266 submissions from ratepayers opposed to a plan to remove Indigenous flags, and only 44 in favour
· Douglas Smith
Police hunting for gunman accused of threatening a woman in Sydney’s west
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Australia’s biggest arts festival reported to police as supporter withdraws
NSW Police have been asked to “urgently” investigate incendiary comments allegedly made by a US electronic music producer at the opening night party at White Bay Power Station, which prompted the withdrawal of a leading corporate supporter.
· Linda Morris
Emergency meeting with major fuel companies held as petrol crisis continues
Property News: Suburbs where house values rose most in the past 12 months.
· Patrick Brischetto
Pauline Hanson fails to properly declare more free flights from Gina Rinehart
Exclusive: One Nation leader updates register after questions from the Guardian to include multiple flights courtesy of Rinehart’s company
· Sarah Martin
Alice represented her boyfriend in court. Then he murdered her
As a prominent Perth lawyer, Alice McShera specialised in family law and restraining orders.
· Rebecca Peppiatt
Queensland government backflips on plan to contest all native title claims
The policy reversal came after a federal court judge asked the government to explain why it had stopped negotiating with Cape York traditional owners
· Andrew Messenger
Doncic guía a los Lakers a vencer 100-92 a los Rockets para su 6ta victoria seguida
Luka Doncic (77), de los Lakers de Los Ángeles, dispara mientras Amen Thompson (1), de los Rockets de Houston, defiende durante la primera mitad del juego de baloncesto de la NBA, el lunes 16 de marzo de 2026, en Houston. (AP Foto/David J. Phillip)
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Queensland’s Indian community ‘very distressed’ by ‘racist’ police remarks revealed in court documents, race discrimination commissioner says
Officer caught on body-worn camera making comments, according to lawsuit filed in federal court
· Andrew Messenger
How a Taiwanese chemist built an Australian tofu empire
Eric Hsu put his chemistry degree to good use, turning his garage-based business into one of Australia’s biggest makers of soy products
· Andrew Sun
Chris Bowen declares rush on jerry cans ‘un-Australian’ as he urges end to panic buying of petrol
Energy minister says country’s fuel supply has yet to be affected by war after meeting with suppliers and retailers
· Catie Mcleod, Benita Kolovos
NSW community's class action against goldminer for alleged contamination begins
Members of the Cadia community class action group and supporters outside the NSW Supreme Court. (ABC News)
· Micaela Hambrett
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WA mulls fuel market shake-up as ‘cheap Tuesday’ doesn’t live up to its name
Energy Minister Amber-Jade Sanderson has flagged a shake-up of Western Australia’s fuel market as she lamented the drying-up of the spot market smaller petrol operators used to buy from.
· Hamish Hastie
FinVolution Group Announces Strategic Entry into Australia
SYDNEY, March 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- FinVolution Group (NYSE: FINV), a leading fintech company, announced its entry into the Australian market, following the acquisition of local lending platform Fundo. This move marks the Company's significant strategic expansion into a high-value developed market.
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A bottle shop spat could lead to a much-needed women’s refuge in this booming suburb
What began as a local controversy over the opening of a new bottle shop near a home for vulnerable men in Melbourne’s north has triggered a multimillion-dollar quest to build the first women’s shelter in the same community. But many hurdles remain before the booming suburb will be able to offer safe refuge for women…
· Adam Carey
What Rankine learned after AFL ban, Swans back their new 'focal point'
Izak Rankine is set to play his first match of the 2026 season. (Getty images/AFL Photos: James Elsby)
Close but no cigar: Meet the Aussies who can almost claim an Oscar
It wasn’t Australia’s night at the 98th Academy Awards. Not even our top hopefuls Rose Byrne and Jacob Elordi took home a golden statuette. So, naturally, all that was left for us to do was milk any adjacent Oscar glory for all it was worth.
· Nell Geraets
RBA lifts interest rates by 0.25pc for second time this year
The Reserve Bank of Australia has lifted that cash rate target from 3.85 per cent to 4.1 per cent. (AAP: Brendan Esposito)
· Gareth Hutchens
Australia central bank raises rates to a near 1-year high as inflation stays elevated
Australia's central bank on Tuesday raised benchmark policy rates for a second straight time, pushing them to their highest since April 2025 at 4.1%, amid sticky inflation.
· Lim Hui Jie
Will the strait of Hormuz torpedo Trump's war? - podcast
Events in the narrow waterway are causing chaos around the globe. The Guardian’s energy correspondent, Jillian Ambrose, explains why
2 Iran players granted protection visas in Australia practice with a Brisbane club team
Iranian soccer player Atefeh Ramezanisadeh kicks a ball at a Brisbane Roar club training session in Brisbane, Australia, Monday, March 16, 2026. (Brisbane Roar via AP)
· John Pye
True North eyes more Queensland gold-copper growth
Copper-gold focused explorer True North Copper is looking to up the exploration ante in the Cloncurry district of northwest Queensland by bolstering the company’s gold inventory from a suite of promising regional targets.
· Craig Nolan
Digital birth certificates now available in one Aussie state
Property News: Suburbs where house values rose most in the past 12 months.
· Yashee Sharma
QUT student killed after driver ‘didn’t see red light for seven seconds’
A woman who fatally struck a QUT PhD student on a Brisbane road after failing to see the traffic light was red for seven seconds will spend four months behind bars.
· Cloe Read
‘Bondi terrorist’ hangs head as vigilante threats against family revealed
Accused Bondi Beach terrorist Naveed Akram has hung his head after learning his mother and siblings are “under siege” and “living in fear” having been targeted with vigilante death threats and harassment after he allegedly murdered 15 people in Australia’s worst terror attack.
· Perry Duffin
Baby's finger tip 'severed' at Queensland early childhood centre
Property News: Suburbs where house values rose most in the past 12 months.
· Rebecca Masters
Let the games begin: Victorian Liberals fail at sport but surprise with teamwork in viral video
Jess Wilson’s party has made a splash on social media but will they work together in the state election race?
· Benita Kolovos
Naveed Akram’s family members could be killed if their identities aren’t suppressed, court told
Lawyer acting for alleged Bondi beach terror attack shooter says 24-year-old’s mother and siblings have received death threats since December antisemitic shootings
· Jordyn Beazley
Catalano’s newspapers not for sale, says ‘pissed off’ company boss
The managing director of Antony Catalano’s Australian Community Media has told staff he was “pissed off” after first hearing about the proprietor’s assault charges via the ABC on Saturday morning, while insisting the company is not up for sale.
· Calum Jaspan, Kishor Napier-Raman
Farmers urged to increase security amid spike in fuel thefts
Farmers are reporting extended wait periods for deliveries of bulk fuel. (ABC Central West: Hamish Cole)
· Xanthe Gregory
Beachgoers warned to keep their distance after cliff collapse
A cliff crumbled at Port Willunga beach on the weekend. (Supplied: Barbara Martin)
· Jenae Madden
Queen Mary speaks about Australian return
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Allan told to ‘step up or step away’ over Big Build corruption
Premier Jacinta Allan has conceded the government’s infrastructure tsar privately warned her about serious wrongdoing on Labor’s $100 billion Big Build, but said it was not found to be “systemic”.
· Rachel Eddie, Nick McKenzie