Typhoon Narra: record flood waters submerge homes and force mass evacuations in China
Heavy rain expected in parts of Vietnam and southern China, as another storm system, Typhoon Saudel, heads for Japan and Taiwan Widespread flooding triggered by Typhoon Narra has submerged homes…
Trump threatens to demolish Kennedy Center if $250m renovation not done
US president’s lawyers in court filing say Washington arts complex must undergo repairs or risk demolition The John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts could be demolished if repairs…
Australia news live: inflation eases less than expected, making rate rise likelier; NT MP Luke Gosling stands aside as envoy
Follow updates live Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Angela Jackson, the commissioner of the Productivity Commission, said the body stands by the interim report…
One Nation’s Malcolm Roberts ‘in two minds’ about whether gay people should be equal
Footage shows senator on stage at the Church and State conference responding to question about party’s director James Ashby Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our…
Suburban Rail Loop: Victorian government secretly increased public transport fares to help pay for controversial SRL
Labor put ‘levy on all public transport fares in metropolitan Melbourne and regional Victoria’ since January 2025, auditor-general says The Victorian government secretly increased public transport fares to raise money…
Tributes pour in after country music legend Dolly Parton, 80, dies following ‘brief battle with cancer’ – latest updates
Reba McEntire, Lily Tomlin, Dionne Warwick, Kacey Musgraves, Donald Trump and others mourn star’s death Dolly Parton dies aged 80 | Celebrity tributes | A life in pictures Parton’s peerless…
Productivity Commission says ‘line was crossed’ when WA premier labelled them ‘east coast clowns’ over GST
Commissioner Angela Jackson also said it was ‘disappointing’ that Anthony Albanese had ruled out changes to Western Australia’s GST arrangements Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get…
The Sydney Swans scandal has left many outraged. But what happens if no police charges are laid? | Rana Hussain
Behaviour we once might have shrugged off now makes us deeply uncomfortable. But discomfort alone cannot define the standard The public response to the Sydney Swans scandal has been fascinating.…
I’m not usually patriotic. But Pauline Hanson’s cheap nationalism has me rooting for multicultural Australia | Paul Daley
Patriotism can be angry and stridently militaristic – or it can be a gentle pride in the success of an experiment like multiculturalism Patriotism is always stubbornly absent in me…
‘The whole world is becoming rightwing and anti-gay’: William Yang on 60 years of capturing LGBTQ+ life
Yang has taken more than 500,000 photographs since he first moved to Sydney in the late 1960s and now devotes most of his time to untangling the past As a…