Australia and New Zealand embrace in ‘uncertain world’
Australia and New Zealand are promising to strengthen trade and security ties in an “increasingly fractious and uncertain” world. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has crossed the Tasman for annual talks…
Rates take back seat to affordability for home buyers
Affordability has overtaken interest rates as the greatest obstacle impacting Australians buying and selling homes. Property tech company InfoTrack has found the cash rate, currently sitting at 3.85 per cent,…
‘More gruelling, precarious’: climate biting workforce
Closed roads and long detours have become increasingly common for veteran truckie Frank Black. As an owner-driver, one of the downsides of his flexible work is that he generally picks…
A tragic anniversary, while the effects of nuclear bomb testing still linger
Today marks 80 years since a second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. The arms race it started, exposed thousands to radiation from testing. Sue Rabbitt Roff on the history…
Mexico accuses Adidas of cultural appropriation
Mexican authorities are accusing sportswear company Adidas of plagiarising artisans in southern Mexico, alleging that a new sandal design is strikingly similar to the traditional indigenous footwear known as huaraches.…
Albanese to travel across the ditch for leaders meeting
Defence, economic partnerships and security will be on the agenda for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese when he meets his New Zealand counterpart. Mr Albanese will spend the weekend in Queenstown…
JD Vance mixes diplomacy and fishing on UK trip
US Vice President JD Vance has held official talks and gone fishing with UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy at a stately home south of London. Global economics, Israel’s war in…
Folbigg review push as $2m ‘plucked out of the air’
A $2 million offer to a woman wrongfully imprisoned for two decades will face further scrutiny as decision-makers blame budget constraints for a figure critics say was “plucked out of…
India pauses plans to buy US arms after Trump’s tariffs
New Delhi has put on hold its plans to procure new US weapons and aircraft, according to three officials familiar with the matter, in India’s first concrete sign of discontent…
Parliament Hill cover-up still afoot as DPS stonewalls
Bureaucrats from the Department of Parliamentary Services (DPS) continue to evade questions by Senator David Shoebridge in relation to the cover-up in the Parliamentary Library. What’s the scam? The scam…