Up, up and you pay: tourists to be slugged extra tax
Australians heading overseas will be hit with increased exit fees in a move that has incensed some travel groups and travellers alike. A price hike of $10 from January 1…
Labor faces parliament challenge to budget tax reform
The future of the government’s signature policies in the federal budget remain unclear, with no guarantee of support through the parliament. Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ fifth budget included plans to limit…
‘These geniuses’: PM’s generational housing gamble
Anthony Albanese is playing “gutsy” politics with sweeping changes to tax concessions for landlords but risks offending established investors who may not have expected the overhaul, an expert in politics…
Up in smoke: budget loses $8b more to illicit tobacco
Australia’s growing tobacco black market has slashed billions more dollars from the federal budget bottom line as the treasurer remains steadfast against calls to lower the excise fuelling the illicit…
Rinehart legal saga reignites, Hancock lodges appeal
Australia’s richest person, Gina Rinehart, will fight elements of a complex court ruling that found two rival mining dynasties were entitled to a share of the spoils from some of…
In Stella Prize first, a graphic novel draws the win
The $60,000 Stella Prize has gone to a graphic novel for the first time, with Lee Lai taking out the award for her book Cannon. “This feels like quite a…
Labor’s budget resembled a seven-course degustation. It was welcome, but why don’t voters feel sated? | Nicki Hutley
None of the budget measures will change the outcome for most would-be home buyers in the short term, but Jim Chalmers’ reforms go well beyond one electoral cycle Explore all…
Tomorrow, When the War Began: a film made in a lab for 2010s Australian teens
It has heart-throbs and a classic soundtrack, but the true resonance of this John Marsden adaptation is its portrayal of growing up in a world rapidly destroyed before your eyes…
Auschwitz survivor who returned to live in Germany dies aged 101
Albrecht Weinberg spent years teaching students about Nazi atrocities after being imprisoned at Auschwitz and Belsen Three Auschwitz survivors tell their stories Albrecht Weinberg, who survived a series of Nazi…
Sound baths are supposed to help relax and ‘soothe’ your nervous system. But do any of these claims ring true? | Antiviral
Social media is awash with clips of people paying to be ‘bathed’ in sound. But what’s the science behind the practice? Read more in the Antiviral series I, for one,…