What are we here for? Anthony Albanese’s Labor government faces the defining test of its appetite for reform
In the first of a two-part series, Labor insiders weigh up the competing stresses on the government in what was meant to be its central year to deliver change Follow…
Relay team grab bronze at worlds on another red letter day for Australian athletics
Men’s 4x400m time of 2:55.20 breaks national record set day earlier Time would have won gold at every Olympics apart from Paris 2024 Australia secured a thrilling bronze and ran…
Ukraine war briefing: Strikes on Russia’s Primorsk oil port and ships
Zelenskyy says three ‘shadow fleet’ vessels hit along with guided missile corvette; Ukrainian drones menace Moscow and surrounds. What we know on day 1,531 Ukraine on Sunday launched a wave…
Three passengers dead after suspected hantavirus outbreak on cruise ship
Dutch husband and wife and third unidentified person reported to have died, with three further people taken ill A suspected outbreak of the rare hantavirus infection on a cruise ship…
Leading tennis players including Djokovic and Sabalenka unhappy with French Open prize money
Group release joint statement over pay concerns Players also call for greater say in tennis schedule A group of the world’s top 20 male and female players, including Novak Djokovic,…
Fashion’s Faustian pact: the high cost of Jeff Bezos’s Met Gala patronage
Billionaire’s role as honorary chair and main source of funding has led to boycotts and criticism event has lost its cachet The Met Gala in New York is the grandest…
Rudy Giuliani hospitalised in ‘critical but stable’ condition
Spokesperson calls former New York City mayor ‘a fighter’ but does not say cause of his hospitalization Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York City, has been hospitalised and is…
‘Increasingly unsafe’: Australia’s in-home childcare program under threat from rising costs, advocate warns
The little-known publicly funded scheme is used by about 800 families with children who cannot access mainstream care Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Rebecca…
‘This is just disarray’: alarm inside Pentagon after Hegseth staff purges
Insiders portray defense secretary as increasingly isolated after officers with impeccable reputations forced out Since Donald Trump’s first term, they have been viewed comfortingly as the “adults in the room,”…
News live: Bell says royal commission will look at ‘ugly displays of hostility’ towards Jewish Australians as hearings begin
Meanwhile treasurer says next week’s budget will save more than it spends. Follow today’s news live Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Jim Chalmers says…