Inflation running too hot for comfort ahead of snapshot
The first economic snapshot of the year could show a slowdown in inflation but perhaps not enough to prevent the Reserve Bank hiking interest rates. Hopes of further rate relief…
‘Bad news for renters’: prices rise as shortage deepens
Renters received no relief in 2025 as tightening vacancy rates drove prices ever higher. Rents rose 5.2 per cent over the year, pushing the national median to $681 a week,…
UK urges Musk’s X to address intimate Grok ‘deepfakes’
Britain has urged Elon Musk’s X platform to urgently address a proliferation of intimate ‘deepfake’ images created on demand via its built-in AI chatbot Grok, joining a European outcry over…
Australians feel the heat as bushfire threat flares up
Severe to extreme heatwaves will grip swathes of Australia, bringing conditions not seen since the Black Summer bushfires. For some areas across South Australia, Victoria, the ACT and NSW, temperatures…
To comfort a nation. We have the tools, do we have the will?
They came to Bondi to murder as many Jews as possible, but also shattered a political consensus and an often-unacknowledged sense of national coherence. How are we to cope, Julie…
One-in-five solar panels degrading faster than expected
Most solar panels gradually lose their energy-generating powers over time, but roughly a fifth have been found to degrade much more quickly than expected. Tiny hairline cracks and other minor…
The King’s School headmaster controversy spills into court
Controversial headmaster of The King’s School, Tony George, is suing the school over his termination with the claim rumoured to be in the range of $4-$6m. What’s the scam? The…
Lehrmann escalates ‘compromised’ rape finding fight
Bruce Lehrmann has made a last-ditch effort to clear his name of findings he sexually assaulted an intoxicated Brittany Higgins in Parliament House. The disgraced ex-Liberal staffer has taken his…
Shares in nation’s biggest steel maker hit 17-year high
BlueScope Steel shares have surged to the highest level in 17 years after Australia’s largest steelmaker received a takeover offer by a consortium that includes a Kerry Stokes-controlled entity. SGH,…
Australia ignoring spin forgets that good bowlers are good bowlers | Geoff Lemon
Why is a middling back-up seamer suddenly better than a quality spinner, whatever the conditions? When Shane Warne called his biography No Spin, it wasn’t a recommendation. Speaking for the…