1+ hour, 15+ min ago   (861+ words) September 15, 2026 — 5:10am Artificial-intelligence stocks are sliding worldwide after leaders of the industry warned a slowdown is needed for the safety of humanity. Another jump in oil prices, meanwhile, briefly sent the bond market to its latest pressure-raising milestone as the yield…...

1+ hour, 26+ min ago   (645+ words) September 15, 2026 — 5:00am Victoria is spending more than any other state on cost-of-living relief, but some of the government’s biggest schemes are delivering more than twice the savings to high-income households as the state’s lowest earners, a new analysis has found. New…...

1+ hour, 26+ min ago   (517+ words) September 15, 2026 — 5:00am Thousands of Queenslanders in social housing will have access to new insulation, fans, solar power and electric stoves to make energy bills cheaper under an almost $100 million funding injection. The Albanese government will announce the $97.1 million investment for Queensland…...

1+ hour, 26+ min ago   (900+ words) September 15, 2026 — 5:00am A years-long fight for control of the owners’ corporation of a Carlton apartment block has left residents scrambling for cash to fund urgent maintenance for ageing lifts, cracked concrete and broken windows. Owners at the 18-storey Vic Apartments tower,…...

11+ hour, 41+ min ago   (431+ words) September 14, 2026 — 6:44pm Hundreds of workers at the collapsed Whyalla steelworks will lose their jobs after the site’s administrators abandoned efforts to restart its ageing blast furnace, despite more than $1 billion in taxpayer support being on the table for a potential buyer....

16+ hour, 45+ min ago   (473+ words) September 14, 2026 — 1:40pm Forrestania Resources has secured a significant ore supply stream for its Western Australian gold processing hubs, executing a deal that gives it the right to purchase and process up to two million tonnes of ore over the next two…...

15+ hour, 26+ min ago   (762+ words) September 14, 2026 — 3:00pm It’s been a ridiculous week for artificial intelligence. On Monday, OpenAI reported an incident to the European Commission in which its agents hijacked a German website and turned it into a message board for other agents. On Tuesday, Anthropic…...

17+ hour, 27+ min ago   (373+ words) September 14, 2026 — 12:58pm Testwork on a 24-tonne bulk sample from its massive deposit in Central Kazakhstan has delivered a hefty 97.7 per cent yield, towering over the typical industry range of 50 to 60 per cent. A high yield is crucial to production economics, putting…...

18+ hour, 14+ min ago   (447+ words) September 14, 2026 — 12:12pm The Queensland transport minister says neither a credit rating cut nor a potential slashing of overseas migration will get in the way of his government delivering the infrastructure it has promised. The state will spend $55.9 billion on transport projects…...

18+ hour, 27+ min ago   (1074+ words) September 14, 2026 — 11:58am Could the US artificial intelligence industry heed the call from the leaders of three of its leading companies to slow development of AI? The problem for them, the rest of the sector and financial markets is that the entire…...