
Artists impression of the white dwarf in GPM J1839-10 interacting with its companion star, producing a powerful radio beam. Danielle FutselaarCosmic radio pulses repeating every few minutes or hours, known as long-period transients, have puzzled astronomers since their discovery in 2022. Our new study, published in Nature Astronomy today, might

The battle over the Liberal leadership took a dramatic turn late on Friday when Andrew Hastie announced he was pulling out. His surprise announcement came just a day after a meeting between Hastie and the other aspirant – defence spokesman Angus Taylor – over who should challenge Sussan Ley,

Former Australian prime minister Scott Morrison gave a speech in Al-Quds–Jerusalem in Israel on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 27 January 2026, in which he lamented the ISIS-inspired Bondi Beach massacre and then went on to explain his proposal to establish an accreditation scheme to monitor Islamic preachers, which in turn, would tend to ...

Sydney Criminal Lawyers received a text message on the evening of Monday, 26 January 2026, querying whether a linked article was referring to Theo: the Botany man at the centre of a disturbing 2024 incident involving a homemade bomb left in his carport that wasn’t taken seriously by authorities. And as it was him in the article, it seems the New South ...

With the rise and rise in support for Pauline Hanson’s One Nation, the polls have created one of the most extraordinary moments in Australian politics. In December, across seven polls, support for One Nation ranged from 14 to 20 per cent. The week before the Coalition split, on 22 January

Why is support for Palestine so often seen as “antisemitism”? And why so few mentions of “Islamophobia”? read now...

Federal and state governments have finally resolved their long-running standoff on public hospital funding. The deal struck at National Cabinet on Friday includes a A$25 billion boost to hospital funding, and state government commitments on disability services for children. But while public hospitals will get more money, there’s no

Opposition Leader Sussan Ley on Friday allocated responsibilities formerly held by the Nationals to existing Liberal shadow ministers on a temporary basis. This will get the opposition through the next parliamentary week, starting Tuesday. It also gives the Nationals a chance to rethink their split of the Coalition, if

A 31-year-old white man threw a homemade bomb into a crowd of 2,500 people at a Boorloo-Perth Invasion Day protest on 26 January 2026. The authorities then labelled the incident a “potential mass casualty event”. However, the targeted attack against First Nations peoples and their allies was subsequently treated like a trifle matter, until public ...

Gold and silver prices are skyrocketing right now. But the rise in precious metals is a bit of a bad sign, really. The post What the hell is happening

Victoria has put out notice that it plans to be Australia’s capital for digital infrastructure, data capacity, and adoption of artificial intelligence. The state has released a plan to develop and adopt AI “responsibly and ethically,” in a move that comes as the government recognises the rapid uptake of advanced

Nguyen Minh/unsplash , CC BYThe Paris End is a weekly Substack email newsletter featuring long-form literary journalism and Melbourne-centric content. Founded in 2023 by Cameron Hurst, Sally Olds and Oscar Schwartz, it was envisioned as an outlet for writing about Melbourne culture, akin to The New Yorker’s treatment of its

Artists impression of the white dwarf in GPM J1839-10 interacting with its companion star, producing a powerful radio beam. Danielle FutselaarCosmic radio pulses repeating every few minutes or hours, known as long-period transients, have puzzled astronomers since their discovery in 2022. Our new study, published in Nature Astronomy today, might

The battle over the Liberal leadership took a dramatic turn late on Friday when Andrew Hastie announced he was pulling out. His surprise announcement came just a day after a meeting between Hastie and the other aspirant – defence spokesman Angus Taylor – over who should challenge Sussan Ley,

Former Australian prime minister Scott Morrison gave a speech in Al-Quds–Jerusalem in Israel on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 27 January 2026, in which he lamented the ISIS-inspired Bondi Beach massacre and then went on to explain his proposal to establish an accreditation scheme to monitor Islamic preachers, which in turn, would tend to ...

Sydney Criminal Lawyers received a text message on the evening of Monday, 26 January 2026, querying whether a linked article was referring to Theo: the Botany man at the centre of a disturbing 2024 incident involving a homemade bomb left in his carport that wasn’t taken seriously by authorities. And as it was him in the article, it seems the New South ...

With the rise and rise in support for Pauline Hanson’s One Nation, the polls have created one of the most extraordinary moments in Australian politics. In December, across seven polls, support for One Nation ranged from 14 to 20 per cent. The week before the Coalition split, on 22 January

Why is support for Palestine so often seen as “antisemitism”? And why so few mentions of “Islamophobia”? read now...

Federal and state governments have finally resolved their long-running standoff on public hospital funding. The deal struck at National Cabinet on Friday includes a A$25 billion boost to hospital funding, and state government commitments on disability services for children. But while public hospitals will get more money, there’s no

Opposition Leader Sussan Ley on Friday allocated responsibilities formerly held by the Nationals to existing Liberal shadow ministers on a temporary basis. This will get the opposition through the next parliamentary week, starting Tuesday. It also gives the Nationals a chance to rethink their split of the Coalition, if

A 31-year-old white man threw a homemade bomb into a crowd of 2,500 people at a Boorloo-Perth Invasion Day protest on 26 January 2026. The authorities then labelled the incident a “potential mass casualty event”. However, the targeted attack against First Nations peoples and their allies was subsequently treated like a trifle matter, until public ...

Gold and silver prices are skyrocketing right now. But the rise in precious metals is a bit of a bad sign, really. The post What the hell is happening

Victoria has put out notice that it plans to be Australia’s capital for digital infrastructure, data capacity, and adoption of artificial intelligence. The state has released a plan to develop and adopt AI “responsibly and ethically,” in a move that comes as the government recognises the rapid uptake of advanced

Nguyen Minh/unsplash , CC BYThe Paris End is a weekly Substack email newsletter featuring long-form literary journalism and Melbourne-centric content. Founded in 2023 by Cameron Hurst, Sally Olds and Oscar Schwartz, it was envisioned as an outlet for writing about Melbourne culture, akin to The New Yorker’s treatment of its
