In 2024, 38 Australian women were murdered by a partner or ex-partner. Thankfully, new data show the number of women killed by intimate partners has reduced to 32 over the most recent reporting period. The annual rate to June 2025 was among the lowest on record. Nonetheless, more needs
Peros Banhos, Chagos Islands
On Monday at 08.52 local time, 02.52 GMT, I waded ashore to the Chagos archipelago alongside four islanders who had come to establish a permanent settlement – which they hope will make it impossible for the Starmer government to hand the territory to Mauritius.
We had managed to come this far in absolute secrecy. We worried ...
Britain seems to be turning a corner. Figures just released by the Office for National Statistics show the rate of inflation fell to 3 per cent in January, having risen to 3.4 per cent at the end of last year.
Figures from 2020
Figures from 2015
This downward trend is in line with forecasts from the Bank of England which expect inflation to hit its ...
Reform has topped every national poll for a good long while – benefitting, as the Greens also have and the Lib Dems haven’t (because there are limits), from a combination of public fatigue and disgust with the two old main parties. But there are other new kids on the right-wing block, both fronted by ex-associates of Nigel Farage and former Reformers. ...
ArtistGNDPhotography/Getty ImagesAround 15 million Australians with private health insurance will pay more from April 1, after the federal government approved a 4.41% average premium increase, the largest in nine years. For a typical family, that means several hundred dollars more a year, on top of a household budget already
Maybe, just maybe, we owe Sussan Ley a small apology. For her ‘out there’ views on numerology, if nothing else. After all, she was rolled as leader on Friday the 13th. I have no idea if she also foolishly walked under an upright ladder, then kicked a black cat while gazing into a broken mirror before heading to the partyroom spill vote. But come on ...
Thomas Barwick/Getty ImagesBowel cancer has been making headlines around the world, following the death last week of actor James Van Der Beek. The former Dawson’s Creek actor was diagnosed with colorectal cancer at age 45. Bowel cancer, also known as colorectal cancer, develops when cells in any part of the
Noam Chomsky’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein force the Left to confront the dangers of hero-worship, moral blind spots and selective accountability. read now...
Frederick Wiseman, who died yesterday at the age of 96, was an American filmmaker whose carefully observed works changed documentary cinema forever, shedding light on institutions, individuals and everyday life. Born into a Jewish family in Boston in 1930, Wiseman studied law at Yale and then taught law at
Figures released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) show that over the year to December, wages grew by 3.4%. For households, however, the number that really matters is what happened to wages after inflation. Over the same period, the consumer price index (CPI) rose by 3.8%. This
While the world is focused on the fate of a ruined Gaza, Israel has accelerated its creeping annexation of the West Bank. Israeli legislative moves, security operations, settlement expansion and support of settlers’ violence are forcing the Palestinians out of their lands at an unprecedented rate. US President
When I was growing up there was always a copy of our local morning paper — the Hobart Mercury — fresh every day in our house. I can’t remember if we had it delivered, or if someone fetched it early from the local shop, or if my father picked it
In 2024, 38 Australian women were murdered by a partner or ex-partner. Thankfully, new data show the number of women killed by intimate partners has reduced to 32 over the most recent reporting period. The annual rate to June 2025 was among the lowest on record. Nonetheless, more needs
Peros Banhos, Chagos Islands
On Monday at 08.52 local time, 02.52 GMT, I waded ashore to the Chagos archipelago alongside four islanders who had come to establish a permanent settlement – which they hope will make it impossible for the Starmer government to hand the territory to Mauritius.
We had managed to come this far in absolute secrecy. We worried ...
Britain seems to be turning a corner. Figures just released by the Office for National Statistics show the rate of inflation fell to 3 per cent in January, having risen to 3.4 per cent at the end of last year.
Figures from 2020
Figures from 2015
This downward trend is in line with forecasts from the Bank of England which expect inflation to hit its ...
Reform has topped every national poll for a good long while – benefitting, as the Greens also have and the Lib Dems haven’t (because there are limits), from a combination of public fatigue and disgust with the two old main parties. But there are other new kids on the right-wing block, both fronted by ex-associates of Nigel Farage and former Reformers. ...
ArtistGNDPhotography/Getty ImagesAround 15 million Australians with private health insurance will pay more from April 1, after the federal government approved a 4.41% average premium increase, the largest in nine years. For a typical family, that means several hundred dollars more a year, on top of a household budget already
Maybe, just maybe, we owe Sussan Ley a small apology. For her ‘out there’ views on numerology, if nothing else. After all, she was rolled as leader on Friday the 13th. I have no idea if she also foolishly walked under an upright ladder, then kicked a black cat while gazing into a broken mirror before heading to the partyroom spill vote. But come on ...
Thomas Barwick/Getty ImagesBowel cancer has been making headlines around the world, following the death last week of actor James Van Der Beek. The former Dawson’s Creek actor was diagnosed with colorectal cancer at age 45. Bowel cancer, also known as colorectal cancer, develops when cells in any part of the
Noam Chomsky’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein force the Left to confront the dangers of hero-worship, moral blind spots and selective accountability. read now...
Frederick Wiseman, who died yesterday at the age of 96, was an American filmmaker whose carefully observed works changed documentary cinema forever, shedding light on institutions, individuals and everyday life. Born into a Jewish family in Boston in 1930, Wiseman studied law at Yale and then taught law at
Figures released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) show that over the year to December, wages grew by 3.4%. For households, however, the number that really matters is what happened to wages after inflation. Over the same period, the consumer price index (CPI) rose by 3.8%. This
While the world is focused on the fate of a ruined Gaza, Israel has accelerated its creeping annexation of the West Bank. Israeli legislative moves, security operations, settlement expansion and support of settlers’ violence are forcing the Palestinians out of their lands at an unprecedented rate. US President
When I was growing up there was always a copy of our local morning paper — the Hobart Mercury — fresh every day in our house. I can’t remember if we had it delivered, or if someone fetched it early from the local shop, or if my father picked it
