Liberals push for ‘discipline’ after party rebrand call
Senior Liberals have rejected a frontbencher’s call for the party to rebrand in the face of rising support for One Nation as the opposition leader urges members to remain disciplined.…
Alarm sounded on radioactive risk from deep sea mining
Plucking minerals from the ocean floor risks disturbed radioactive material entering the marine food chain, an anti-deep sea mining group warns. The Deep Sea Mining Campaign says the emerging industry…
Rex misled market with big talk before $31.7m loss
A regional airline has been found to have misled the stock market when it claimed it would deliver a strong financial result months before it posted an eight-figure loss. The…
Chilling effect. A million health workers at risk if they criticise Israel
The Australian regulator of health practitioners has been hijacked by a lobby group agitating on behalf of a foreign country adopting a controversial definition of antisemitism. Andrew Brown reports. Two…
Aussie shares flat as gold falls to fresh 8-month low
The local share market is treading water after the gold price dropped to a fresh eight-month low and traders digested the latest minutes from Australia’s central bank. At noon on…
Asian stocks set for record-breaking quarter
Asian stocks have wobbled towards the end of a sparkling quarter, while a resurgent dollar has pushed the yen to a four-decade low and is headed for a fourth straight…
Fill up now: driver warning before fuel excise slashed
Holidaymakers are being urged to fill up their cars now in order to cash in on cheaper petrol before the fuel excise rises. Victorian Automotive Chamber of Commerce chief Peter…
‘We were lost’: Jewish MP revisits office arson attack
When Josh Burns was awoken in the dead of night and told his workplace had been violently attacked, his first concern was his community. “I felt almost guilty,” the Macnamara…
I had fallen out of love with fiction. Now I’m back in its arms – and relishing every minute | Zoe Williams
Novels were starting to seem like a thing of the past for me, until I found a book I couldn’t put down. Is there anything better? I never decided to…
Inside the Liberal party’s efforts to rebrand | Fiona Katauskas
What do they actually stand for? See more of Fiona Katauskas’s cartoons here Continue reading…