Health star rating to become mandatory on all packaged food in Australia
Food and health ministers vote to mandate the ratings system after years of urging from peak health bodies Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking…
NSW police say agreement to allow Muslims to finish prayer at Sydney protest didn’t reach officers
Men praying were grabbed at Sydney town hall rally against Israeli president Isaac Herzog’s visit Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free…
NSW police watchdog to investigate alleged police brutality at Sydney protest against Isaac Herzog
Despite premier Chris Minns’s objection to an inquiry, Law Enforcement Conduct Commission says it is in public interest to investigate ‘alleged misconduct’ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest…
Sussan Ley to quit politics after being deposed as Liberal leader, triggering contentious byelection
Ley says she will step away ‘completely and comprehensively from public life’ after losing Liberal leadership ballot to Angus Taylor Taylor becomes opposition leader after defeating Ley in Liberal leadership…
Australia politics live: Malcolm Turnbull says some call Angus Taylor ‘the best-qualified idiot they’ve ever met’; One Nation to contest Farrer byelection
Ley to quit politics after Taylor wins leadership ballot 34 votes to 17. Follow today’s news live Angus Taylor becomes opposition leader after defeating Sussan Ley in Liberal party leadership…
The end of the paper trail? Australia’s largest garment pattern supplier, Simplicity McCall’s, is closing and sewers are worried – but pragmatic
For many sewers, choosing paper patterns from one of Simplicity McCall’s ‘big four’ brands was an in-store ritual. But others say digital patterns are the way of the future Decades…
The scandals clouding ‘sinister’ French ice dancers who beat Chock and Bates for gold
Fournier Beaudry and Cizeron’s Olympic competition is set against backdrop of assault and abuse allegations involving their former partners The American duo of Madison Chock and Evan Bates, the reigning…
The Normal Heart review – Larry Kramer’s devastating play about Aids continues to galvanise
Drama theatre, Sydney Opera House The 1985 play’s first run took place off-Broadway in the middle of the Aids crisis. Much has changed – but Dean Bryant’s production speaks to…
‘Inhaled with my groin’: The Australian’s Wuthering Heights review makes a splash | Weekly Beast
Reviewer Nikki Gemmell gives an enthusiastic five stars, meanwhile job cuts at the Oz are starting to show. Plus: Asio’s email fail Want to get this in your inbox every…
Shares in world-leading hearing implant firm hit a low
Cochlear shares have dropped to a three-year low after the hearing implant company delivered weaker-than-expected earnings after its next-generation implant took longer to roll out than anticipated. Cochlear’s statutory net…