Rewatching the 1974 version of Murder on the Orient Express the other night, I was struck by the incredible organisational skills of Mrs Harriet Hubbard, played by Lauren Bacall. (Spoilers on the line ahead – anybody that somehow doesn’t know the incredibly audacious and ingenious solution to this particular whodunnit, disembark now.)
Mrs Hubbard ...
If Sussan Ley cannot organise the demise of Communications Minister, Anika Wells, we might as well admit the Liberals are finished.
Wells has arrived at the Coalition’s office like a Christmas hamper.
The story will endure for a while, as Wells initiated an audit of her expenses by referring herself to the independent watchdog.
No doubt Labor is hoping ...
On 10 May this year a 15-year-old girl was with friends near parkland on the outskirts of Leamington Spa. Shortly after 9 p.m. she was separated from those friends and abducted by Jan Jahanzeb, a 17 year old Afghan asylum seeker who arrived in the UK in January. The victim had the quick thinking to record the start and aftermath on her phone, so ...
In a move that will enable her to avoid detailed media questioning about her use of entitlements, embattled minister Anika Wells has referred herself to the authority that oversees parliamentarians’ expenses. Wells, the Minister for Communications, who is also the Minister for Sport, said in a statement late Tuesday,
As universally expected, today’s Reserve Bank monetary policy board meeting decided (unanimously) to leave the cash rate unchanged at 3.60 per cent, where it has been since August. But the Board’s post-meeting statement was less “hawkish” than many other economists had anticipated. In particular, it doesn’t give any indication it
When the history books reflect on the commissionership of the Metropolitan Police Chief Sir Mark Rowley, there is a risk – with less than two years of his five-year term to go – that the headline will be ‘an opportunity wasted’.
Appointed in the midst of too many crises to recount, late 2022 was the chance for the force’s new leadership team to turn ...
Banks knew their systems were flawed but refused to act, leaving scam victims to bear the cost. read now...
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has ended the year with a steady hand, keeping the cash rate at 3.6% at its final meeting of 2025. The decision was widely expected, but the real story is in the statement by the monetary policy board and what it reveals about the
Despite the government making a mental health argument for the teen social media ban, leading experts have grave concerns about its impact — a case that's been bolstered by new
A flag with a history reaching back more than eight thousand years still stands as a symbol of unity among the lands that once formed the vast realm of Iran-shahr and the imperial monarchies of ancient Persia.
The Derafsh-e Kaviani rises from the oldest stories of this land, an emblem that even many politicians, diplomats, and artists do not fully ...
New South Wales Police Sex Crime Squad detectives from Strike Force Constantine executed six search warrants across Gadigal land in the Sydney suburbs of Waterloo, Ultimo and Malabar at 7am on Thursday, 25 November 2025, in respect of an ongoing State Crime Command Child Exploitation Internet Unit investigation into an alleged international satanic ...
Dozens of bushfires raged over the weekend as far afield as the mid-north coast of New South Wales and Tasmania’s east coast. A NSW firefighter tragically lost his life, 16 homes burned down in the NSW town of Koolewong and four in Bulahdelah, and another 19 burned down in Tasmania’s
Rewatching the 1974 version of Murder on the Orient Express the other night, I was struck by the incredible organisational skills of Mrs Harriet Hubbard, played by Lauren Bacall. (Spoilers on the line ahead – anybody that somehow doesn’t know the incredibly audacious and ingenious solution to this particular whodunnit, disembark now.)
Mrs Hubbard ...
If Sussan Ley cannot organise the demise of Communications Minister, Anika Wells, we might as well admit the Liberals are finished.
Wells has arrived at the Coalition’s office like a Christmas hamper.
The story will endure for a while, as Wells initiated an audit of her expenses by referring herself to the independent watchdog.
No doubt Labor is hoping ...
On 10 May this year a 15-year-old girl was with friends near parkland on the outskirts of Leamington Spa. Shortly after 9 p.m. she was separated from those friends and abducted by Jan Jahanzeb, a 17 year old Afghan asylum seeker who arrived in the UK in January. The victim had the quick thinking to record the start and aftermath on her phone, so ...
In a move that will enable her to avoid detailed media questioning about her use of entitlements, embattled minister Anika Wells has referred herself to the authority that oversees parliamentarians’ expenses. Wells, the Minister for Communications, who is also the Minister for Sport, said in a statement late Tuesday,
As universally expected, today’s Reserve Bank monetary policy board meeting decided (unanimously) to leave the cash rate unchanged at 3.60 per cent, where it has been since August. But the Board’s post-meeting statement was less “hawkish” than many other economists had anticipated. In particular, it doesn’t give any indication it
When the history books reflect on the commissionership of the Metropolitan Police Chief Sir Mark Rowley, there is a risk – with less than two years of his five-year term to go – that the headline will be ‘an opportunity wasted’.
Appointed in the midst of too many crises to recount, late 2022 was the chance for the force’s new leadership team to turn ...
Banks knew their systems were flawed but refused to act, leaving scam victims to bear the cost. read now...
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has ended the year with a steady hand, keeping the cash rate at 3.6% at its final meeting of 2025. The decision was widely expected, but the real story is in the statement by the monetary policy board and what it reveals about the
Despite the government making a mental health argument for the teen social media ban, leading experts have grave concerns about its impact — a case that's been bolstered by new
A flag with a history reaching back more than eight thousand years still stands as a symbol of unity among the lands that once formed the vast realm of Iran-shahr and the imperial monarchies of ancient Persia.
The Derafsh-e Kaviani rises from the oldest stories of this land, an emblem that even many politicians, diplomats, and artists do not fully ...
New South Wales Police Sex Crime Squad detectives from Strike Force Constantine executed six search warrants across Gadigal land in the Sydney suburbs of Waterloo, Ultimo and Malabar at 7am on Thursday, 25 November 2025, in respect of an ongoing State Crime Command Child Exploitation Internet Unit investigation into an alleged international satanic ...
Dozens of bushfires raged over the weekend as far afield as the mid-north coast of New South Wales and Tasmania’s east coast. A NSW firefighter tragically lost his life, 16 homes burned down in the NSW town of Koolewong and four in Bulahdelah, and another 19 burned down in Tasmania’s