According to the Times, the BBC – strapped for cash as millions more stop paying the TV licence, and struggling to compete in a world dominated by high-gloss American ‘content’ – is brainstorming a portfolio of wizard wheezes to replenish its bank account. One of these, quite incredibly, could be the return of the radio licence. ‘BBC bosses are ...
English cricket, in its joyless pursuit of moral purity, has banned naughty jokes. There can be no other explanation for its punishment of Phillip Hodson, a man who has given his life to the summer game as player, administrator, and benefactor, and now finds himself fined £1,000.
Hodson, a former president of Marylebone Cricket Club, which owns Lord’s, ...
When US president Donald Trump hurled abuse at Colombia’s president Gustavo Petro last month, branding him a ‘sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States’, it was strikingly audacious. Trump leant into bombastic provocation: there is no evidence to suggest Petro himself makes cocaine. And yet, Trump’s claim didn’t come as a ...
It’s been a pretty terrible start to the week for the government. Amid mounting revelations from the Epstein files, the police are now probing claims that the former British ambassador Lord Mandelson committed misconduct in public office. Despite Mandy’s links to the disgraced sexual predator being already well-known in late 2024, Keir Starmer ...
One Nation Senator Pauline Hanson with former Senator Cory Bernardi One Nation Handout ImageAs Sussan Ley and David Littleproud are at a standoff in their attempts to mend the federal Coalition, Pauline Hanson has set up a real-time test for One Nation at the March 21 South Australian election.
NurPhoto / Getty ImagesIf you’re following AI on social media, even lightly, you will likely have come across OpenClaw. If not, you will have heard one of its previous names, Clawdbot or Moltbot. Despite its technical limitations, this tool has seen adoption at remarkable speeds, drawn its share of
Richard Pan/Pexels, CC BY-NC-NDTen years ago, if a heatwave as intense as last week’s record-breaker had hit the east coast, Australia’s power supply may well have buckled. But this time, the system largely operated as we needed, despite some outages. On Australia’s main grid last quarter, renewables and energy
Far-right white nationalists and neo-Nazis were spitballing ideas around kidnapping Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese, as well as blowing up mosques, in an online chatgroup in the immediate wake of the Bondi Beach terrorist attack that saw fifteen murdered. And these discussions took place in a chatroom run by organisers of the antiimmigration ...
Today, in a stark contrast to ‘expert’ predictions six months ago, the Reserve Bank of Australia has raised the cash rate by 25 basis points to 3.85 per cent, marking the start of a fresh hiking cycle.
It’s a sucker punch to those who fell for Labor’s election campaign carrot 5 per cent Deposit Scheme.
The Scheme promised to help first-time buyers by ...
Year after year, Broome Prison remains overcrowded, degrading and overwhelmingly Indigenous — not through oversight, but through sustained political indifference. read now...
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has lifted the cash rate by 25 basis points to 3.85%, adding to pressure on households and businesses. While the move was widely expected by markets and most economists, the Reserve Bank says inflation risks remain too high to be comfortable. The RBA said
From the Press Gallery: Below my seat in the press gallery, the Liberal Party sits in Parliament as a shadow government and a shadow of its former self. Sussan Ley’s first question was:
When will the government’s reckless spending end?
Albo rose to his feet to answer as the Opposition called a point of order. Government MPs were shouting ‘time’ in ...
According to the Times, the BBC – strapped for cash as millions more stop paying the TV licence, and struggling to compete in a world dominated by high-gloss American ‘content’ – is brainstorming a portfolio of wizard wheezes to replenish its bank account. One of these, quite incredibly, could be the return of the radio licence. ‘BBC bosses are ...
English cricket, in its joyless pursuit of moral purity, has banned naughty jokes. There can be no other explanation for its punishment of Phillip Hodson, a man who has given his life to the summer game as player, administrator, and benefactor, and now finds himself fined £1,000.
Hodson, a former president of Marylebone Cricket Club, which owns Lord’s, ...
When US president Donald Trump hurled abuse at Colombia’s president Gustavo Petro last month, branding him a ‘sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States’, it was strikingly audacious. Trump leant into bombastic provocation: there is no evidence to suggest Petro himself makes cocaine. And yet, Trump’s claim didn’t come as a ...
It’s been a pretty terrible start to the week for the government. Amid mounting revelations from the Epstein files, the police are now probing claims that the former British ambassador Lord Mandelson committed misconduct in public office. Despite Mandy’s links to the disgraced sexual predator being already well-known in late 2024, Keir Starmer ...
One Nation Senator Pauline Hanson with former Senator Cory Bernardi One Nation Handout ImageAs Sussan Ley and David Littleproud are at a standoff in their attempts to mend the federal Coalition, Pauline Hanson has set up a real-time test for One Nation at the March 21 South Australian election.
NurPhoto / Getty ImagesIf you’re following AI on social media, even lightly, you will likely have come across OpenClaw. If not, you will have heard one of its previous names, Clawdbot or Moltbot. Despite its technical limitations, this tool has seen adoption at remarkable speeds, drawn its share of
Richard Pan/Pexels, CC BY-NC-NDTen years ago, if a heatwave as intense as last week’s record-breaker had hit the east coast, Australia’s power supply may well have buckled. But this time, the system largely operated as we needed, despite some outages. On Australia’s main grid last quarter, renewables and energy
Far-right white nationalists and neo-Nazis were spitballing ideas around kidnapping Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese, as well as blowing up mosques, in an online chatgroup in the immediate wake of the Bondi Beach terrorist attack that saw fifteen murdered. And these discussions took place in a chatroom run by organisers of the antiimmigration ...
Today, in a stark contrast to ‘expert’ predictions six months ago, the Reserve Bank of Australia has raised the cash rate by 25 basis points to 3.85 per cent, marking the start of a fresh hiking cycle.
It’s a sucker punch to those who fell for Labor’s election campaign carrot 5 per cent Deposit Scheme.
The Scheme promised to help first-time buyers by ...
Year after year, Broome Prison remains overcrowded, degrading and overwhelmingly Indigenous — not through oversight, but through sustained political indifference. read now...
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has lifted the cash rate by 25 basis points to 3.85%, adding to pressure on households and businesses. While the move was widely expected by markets and most economists, the Reserve Bank says inflation risks remain too high to be comfortable. The RBA said
From the Press Gallery: Below my seat in the press gallery, the Liberal Party sits in Parliament as a shadow government and a shadow of its former self. Sussan Ley’s first question was:
When will the government’s reckless spending end?
Albo rose to his feet to answer as the Opposition called a point of order. Government MPs were shouting ‘time’ in ...