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After-hours work emails should mean Australians get a four-day work week, union tells government

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Pauline Hanson secured taxpayer-funded solar rebate despite calling for subsidies to large-scale renewables to end

4h ago

Richest super balances to be taxed at higher rates after Greens agree to back Labor plan

4h ago

Five members of Iranian women’s football team reportedly seeking to remain in Australia

4h ago

Australia would be signed up to Iran war ‘by deception and stealth’ if military support sent, Shoebridge says

10h ago

A new start after 60: I’d had several careers but no degree – then I became a palaeontologist at 62

11h ago

Alleged Bondi terror attack gunman Naveed Akram seeks order suppressing identities of family members

12h ago

Ex-Liberal MP Rory Amon found not guilty of most charges after being accused of raping 13-year-old boy in Sydney

14h ago

‘A saltwater crocodile on the AFL oval’: worst flooding in decades inundates NT as residents urged to avoid water

14h ago

VPN apps rocket up download charts in Australia as porn websites begin blocking users

16h ago

ASX plunges as spike in oil prices over Middle East crisis sparks global inflation fears

16h ago

Chris Minns’ own security expert warned that tougher police powers after Bondi could ‘increase radicalisation’

16h ago

Twelve Apostles visitors to be charged entry fee to see natural wonder

19h ago

News live: families of Australian officials told to leave UAE amid ‘deteriorating security situation’; Northern Territory floods could last a week

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Woolworths trumpeted eight consecutive quarters of price declines. Here’s why that claim doesn’t pass the pub test

Sun

NSW Health continues to use machine known to produce inaccurate results to test child blood lead levels

Sun

Outsourced call centre sweeps Centrelink customer privacy breaches ‘under the rug’, staff allege

Sun

‘There are crocs absolutely everywhere’: NT residents warned to stay out of flood waters as hundreds evacuated

Sun

One Nation candidate contesting Sussan Ley’s seat likened Julia Gillard to ‘non-productive old cow’

Sun

Australia may offer military support to Gulf nations facing Iran strikes but won’t participate in ground war, Wong says

Sat

Three teenagers charged with murder after man stabbed while trying to intervene in Melbourne train station fight

Sat

Australia news live: two repatriation flights from UAE expected to land; heavy rainfall warning for swathes of Queensland

Sat

Radio personality and Agro puppeteer Jamie Dunn dies aged 76

Sat

At Perth’s CPAC conference, Liberal party faithful speak of ‘the lost Australians’ – with no sign of One Nation

Sat

Canadian PM Mark Carney says former prince Andrew should be removed from royal line of succession

Sat

Investors are expecting Donald Trump to back down in the war with Iran – but what if he doesn’t?

Fri

Ex-Liberal MP says the party must introduce gender quotas to start winning elections

Fri

Jillian Segal’s office hand-picked candidate to assess controversial university antisemitism report card

Fri

Jackie O says she ‘did not quit or resign’ from hit radio show after on-air bust with Kyle Sandilands

Fri

NSW coroner ‘very troubled’ by health policy change after Stolen Generations member dies in custody

Fri

Paul Keating savages Nine on anniversary of ‘irresponsible prediction’ Australia faced looming China war

Fri

NSW police admit to making ‘very unfortunate’ wrong claim after officer shot man dead

Fri

NSW’s top prosecutor scores legal win in bias claim against senior judge

Fri

Porn websites begin blocking Australian users as deadline for age verification compliance looms

Fri

Three Australians were onboard US submarine that sank Iranian warship, PM says

Fri

Removing homeless encampment from local park breached human rights, Queensland supreme court rules

Fri

Canadian backpacker Piper James died ‘as a result of drowning’ following a dingo attack at K’gari, coroner says

Thu

One Nation senator for NSW still lived in Queensland four months after his appointment, expense reports show

Thu

Far north Queensland residents told to seek higher ground as tropical low heads for coast

Thu

Australia news live: luxury car tax change could seal EU trade deal; flights from Dubai land in Sydney and Melbourne

Thu

She helped design Australia’s aged care assessment tool – but now Lynda Henderson is too scared to use it

Thu

Penny Wong refuses to say if any Australian crew onboard US submarine that sank Iranian warship

Thu

Can you watch without wincing? Seven times Australian politicians burst into song

Thu

Pro-Palestine protest organisers ‘a pack of communists’ intent on confrontation with police, Minns tells budget estimates

Thu

Woolworths shoppers concerned new anti-theft gates may trap them and hit their children

Thu

NSW wellness guru charged over man’s death during ayahuasca and frog toxin ceremony

Thu

‘Massive underfunding’ blamed as students enrolled in Australian public schools falls to new low

Thu

Police told Kelly Wilkinson to ‘cool off’ and give estranged husband ‘a break’ days before he burned her to death, inquest hears

Thu

Pauline Hanson charged taxpayers almost $9,000 for private plane to event honouring Gina Rinehart donation

Thu

Australian PM Anthony Albanese gave Donald Trump model nuclear submarine on golden plate at White House

Thu

‘A win for democracy’: Labor abandons freedom of information law changes that would have reduced transparency

Thu

Canadian PM Mark Carney offers to team up with Australia as ‘strategic cousins’ to push back against dominant superpowers

Wed

Australia politics live: stranded Australians return from Middle East; new inquiry into racism towards Indigenous Australians

Wed

Liberal senator breaks with party to urge ‘mercy for the children’ of IS-linked Australian women in Syria

Wed

Tim Wilson claims he has sold out of his bet against the share market for ‘modest profit’

Wed

Adelaide University cancels literary festival event with UN Gaza investigator Francesca Albanese

Wed

Jordanian arrested for visa offences after alleged Bondi attackers visited his coffee shop during Philippines stay

Wed

Plibersek accuses Mafs of platforming ‘coercive control’ after contestant wanted a woman ‘obedient’ like a dog

Wed

Queensland police missed two opportunities to prevent Kelly Wilkinson’s murder, inquest hears

Wed

Eight-year-old Australian schoolgirl dies in snowmobile accident in Japan

Tue

Politics live: PM talks to UAE leader about stranded Australians; Allan reveals start date for legal right to work from home

Tue

Australian energy bills could surge as Iran conflict drives up global gas prices

Tue

Wild-born birds recruited to teach critically endangered regent honeyeaters their lost songs

Tue

Officer ‘didn’t have time’ to turn on body-worn camera before shooting Sydney man having psychotic episode, inquest hears

Tue

Ralph Babet refuses to accept sanction over ‘offensive’ and ‘disrespectful’ comments on social media

Tue

Albanese government rejected advice on Tasmanian salmon farming impact before passing pro-industry laws

Tue

Isaac Herzog held secret meeting with Asio boss during Australia trip, intelligence agency confirms

Tue

Australia just experienced its wettest summer in nearly a decade – and the eighth-hottest on record

Tue

Police improperly granted Kelly Wilkinson’s estranged husband bail days before he murdered her, inquest hears

Tue

Potts Point shooting: man shot dead by police in Sydney after allegedly assaulting two women

Tue

‘Fantasyland’: Hastie says rules-based order is dead as Australian troops declared safe after UAE base drone strike

Tue

International students accuse Australia of treating them like ATMs after fees for one visa double without warning

Tue

‘Live’ chance of interest rate hike at March RBA meeting amid oil price spikes affecting inflation, governor says

Tue

Total lunar eclipse March 2026: what time, where and when to see the full ‘blood moon’ tonight over North America, Australia and New Zealand

Tue

Man charged with alleged axe murder of friend after dispute at remote NSW campground

Mon

Politics live: Albanese says US won’t need Australian military help against Iran; Mark Carney to arrive in Australia

Mon

‘Degrading and humiliating’ strip-searches should be banned in Australian prisons, advocates say

Mon

Jacinta Allan says planned work-from-home law would affect all Victorian businesses

Mon

Pauline Hanson claimed taxpayer-funded trips around Australia that coincided with One Nation fundraisers

Mon

Australian wildlife in ‘harm’s way’ with volunteers left to ‘pick up the pieces’ amid climate crisis, fires and floods

Mon

What disrupting the strait of Hormuz could mean for global cost-of-living pressures

Mon

Men almost twice as likely as women to earn high salaries in ‘reality check’ on Australia’s gender pay gap

Mon

Free-roaming lobbyists in Australian parliament face tighter restrictions, Albanese says

Mon

Sydney to get its first new inner-city suburb in decades as Glebe Island becomes Bays West

Mon

Former NSW Liberal premier Nick Greiner warned executive of internal backlash over burying of election defeat review

Mon

Taylor snaps at journalist as Liberals ramp up rhetoric against Australian children in Syrian camp

Mon

Desperate first home buyers are fuelling price ‘up-crash’ at lower end of market, experts say

Mon

Concerns for ‘declining’ fur seal spotted at Cooks River in inner Sydney

Mon

Disbelief as crocodile captured in Newcastle creek thousands of kilometres from natural habitat

Mon

Pauline Hanson expected to face censure motion in Senate over ‘inflammatory’ comments about Australian Muslims

Mon

Rare ‘blood moon’ total lunar eclipse to loom over North America, Australia and New Zealand

Mon

Possums, asbestos and pigeons: snap review into NSW hospitals highlights serious maintenance issues

Mon

Iran conflict to cause ‘serious’ travel disruptions as 115,000 Australians remain in region amid cancelled flights

Sun

Politics live: Penny Wong warns Australians of ‘serious travel disruptions’ due to Iran conflict; NSW to review hospital maintenance after outbreaks of mould and bird lice

Sun

‘Less lethal’ deaths: courts examine role of controversial police weapons before three Australians died

Mar 1

Supporting ‘illegal aggression’ against Iran ‘the worst thing’ Australia could do, international law experts say

Mar 1

Penny Wong backs Israeli and US strikes on Iran as Labor group decries ‘sycophantic capitulation to militarism’

Mar 1

Australia news live: cabinet’s national security committee to meet as US and Israel strike Iran

Feb 28

Australia’s broken aged care home support system is ensuring that loved ones live and die without dignity

Feb 28

Jeremy Webb died of a meat allergy triggered by a tick bite. How do you avoid ticks and safely remove them?

Feb 28