Mortgage holders brace for hundreds more in repayments
Borrowers are running out of time to lock in a mortgage rate below five per cent, as lenders prepare for a Reserve Bank interest rate hike. As the RBA rate-setting…
Political donations. Money doesn’t buy you happiness!
Political donations data from AEC returns show a huge increase in political party funding did not translate into seats won at last year’s election. Stephanie Tran reports. Nine months after…
Global grain glut pushes growers toward self-storage
Australian grain growers are storing their product on farms rather than shipping it offshore via handlers as falling commodity prices cut into already thin margins. Shares in GrainCorp, one of…
Founder of scandal-hit travel firm gone, shares stuck
The founder and head of a stock exchange-listed travel company reeling from an overbilling scandal by its British subsidiary is retiring, effective immediately. Jamie Pherous will transition to a six-month-long…
The Guardian view on risks from biodiversity collapse: warnings must be heeded before it’s too late | Editorial
Inadequate food supplies and collapsing rainforests must be recognised as national security threats – not pigeonholed as green issues Ecosystems and national security used not to be mentioned in the…
China is leading the charge to nuclear Armageddon – and Starmer barely noticed | Simon Tisdall
The Doomsday Clock is ticking ever more loudly as arms-control mechanisms fail and leaders become more reckless. The time to be alarmed is now Keir Starmer’s tentative pivot to the…
Fearless train passenger wrangles snake on suburban platform in Sydney – video
CCTV cameras at a Sydney train station capture the moment a passenger wrangled a snake near a suburban platform. The reptile was found on the entrance ramp to platform two…
‘Adjustments must be made’: how to live well after mid-life
We are living longer and longer, but many of us are unprepared for the challenges age brings, says the novelist and psychotherapist Frank Tallis We have never lived so long,…
How the left can win back the internet – and rise again | Robert Topinka
In the final part of this series, we look at how infighting has ripped the left apart online while the right has flourished – and how some progressives are turning…