On Monday afternoon, 13 April 2026, the US Trump administration was hours away from blocking the Strait of Hormuz, while a week prior, Washington’s focus had been opening it, and with the cost of oil soaring to over $100 a barrel again, so too are those prices rising at the local bowser.
But New South Wales premier Chris Minns continues to refuse to ...
Liberal candidate Raissa Butkowski has drawn top position on the ballot paper for the May 9 Farrer byelection, in a field of a dozen candidates. While she will be at the top of the ballot paper Butkowski, a lawyer with a community legal service and an Albury councillor, has
Total stolen wages across Australia's university sector could be as high as $300 million, the NTEU estimates. The post ‘Immense relief’: Sydney University tutor claws back $142,000 in stolen wages
Vesnaandjic/GettyAustralia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) has grown too big, too fast. The NDIS is a government-funded program providing support to more than 760,000 disabled Australians. It launched in 2013 as a way to make disability support more accessible and equitable. But public support for the NDIS is faltering. It’s
Dalibor Despotovic/Getty ImagesBeing a single woman isn’t the social taboo it once was. Singlehood seems to be on the rise, with more single person households, and more women choosing to marry later in life, or not at all. It could even be viewed as trendy, among growing online movements to
The landslide victory of Péter Magyar’s Tisza Party in Hungary’s parliamentary election represents much more than a routine change of government. It marks the fall of an “electoral autocracy”, a regime that used elections to shroud and legitimise a system designed to keep the ruling Fidesz party and its leader,
Job lay-offs could be coming to Australia’s sovereign wealth fund as the latest round of tech-related cost-cutting hits the finance sector. The Future Fund expects to save $10-15 million in costs in the 2026/27 financial year by “maximising the benefits of improved data and technology systems” and renegotiating externally provided
Even by global standards, the rapid unplanned disassembly of Australian National University has been disturbing. And, yes, occasionally even funny. The post Rot, rancour and redundancy: Genevieve Bell’s ANU tenure
We can see why Angus Taylor is worried — look at all these attacks on the Australian way of life in just the past few years. The post Australian Values,
A Taylor government would make conformity with Australian values legally binding for immigrants, and make non-citizens wait longer for access to the social security system. Outlining the first instalment of the Coalition’s long-awaited tougher approach to immigration, Opposition Leader Angus Taylor on Tuesday also said the 1,700 who came
Tom Parkin, CC BY-NDHidden among the red sandstone escarpments of Mutawintji National Park in western New South Wales lives a rare lizard, long isolated in this arid landscape. Known to Wiimpatja Aboriginal Owners as kungaka – “the hidden one” – we have now scientifically described it as a new
Plus the world’s most powerful man does some casual free advertising for an Australian-run crypto gambling platform that doesn't legally operate in here — or in the US. The post ABC
On Monday afternoon, 13 April 2026, the US Trump administration was hours away from blocking the Strait of Hormuz, while a week prior, Washington’s focus had been opening it, and with the cost of oil soaring to over $100 a barrel again, so too are those prices rising at the local bowser.
But New South Wales premier Chris Minns continues to refuse to ...
Liberal candidate Raissa Butkowski has drawn top position on the ballot paper for the May 9 Farrer byelection, in a field of a dozen candidates. While she will be at the top of the ballot paper Butkowski, a lawyer with a community legal service and an Albury councillor, has
Total stolen wages across Australia's university sector could be as high as $300 million, the NTEU estimates. The post ‘Immense relief’: Sydney University tutor claws back $142,000 in stolen wages
Vesnaandjic/GettyAustralia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) has grown too big, too fast. The NDIS is a government-funded program providing support to more than 760,000 disabled Australians. It launched in 2013 as a way to make disability support more accessible and equitable. But public support for the NDIS is faltering. It’s
Dalibor Despotovic/Getty ImagesBeing a single woman isn’t the social taboo it once was. Singlehood seems to be on the rise, with more single person households, and more women choosing to marry later in life, or not at all. It could even be viewed as trendy, among growing online movements to
The landslide victory of Péter Magyar’s Tisza Party in Hungary’s parliamentary election represents much more than a routine change of government. It marks the fall of an “electoral autocracy”, a regime that used elections to shroud and legitimise a system designed to keep the ruling Fidesz party and its leader,
Job lay-offs could be coming to Australia’s sovereign wealth fund as the latest round of tech-related cost-cutting hits the finance sector. The Future Fund expects to save $10-15 million in costs in the 2026/27 financial year by “maximising the benefits of improved data and technology systems” and renegotiating externally provided
Even by global standards, the rapid unplanned disassembly of Australian National University has been disturbing. And, yes, occasionally even funny. The post Rot, rancour and redundancy: Genevieve Bell’s ANU tenure
We can see why Angus Taylor is worried — look at all these attacks on the Australian way of life in just the past few years. The post Australian Values,
A Taylor government would make conformity with Australian values legally binding for immigrants, and make non-citizens wait longer for access to the social security system. Outlining the first instalment of the Coalition’s long-awaited tougher approach to immigration, Opposition Leader Angus Taylor on Tuesday also said the 1,700 who came
Tom Parkin, CC BY-NDHidden among the red sandstone escarpments of Mutawintji National Park in western New South Wales lives a rare lizard, long isolated in this arid landscape. Known to Wiimpatja Aboriginal Owners as kungaka – “the hidden one” – we have now scientifically described it as a new
Plus the world’s most powerful man does some casual free advertising for an Australian-run crypto gambling platform that doesn't legally operate in here — or in the US. The post ABC
